Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: JETT-MOELLER RESEARCH INTRODUCTION

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1

Description: The course will provide foundational research skills to a select group (7) of freshman students - equivalent of Century Scholars. Instruction will be provided by faculty and Fondren Library staff, under the coordination of the Office of Fellowships & Undergraduate Research and Humanities Research Center. Department Permission Required.Cross-list: UNIV 101. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO MEDICAL HUMANITIES

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Poets, philosophers, artists, and theologians all seek to convey experiences of disease, affliction, and healing this course develops tools for understanding the limits and possibilities of their works, particularly in light of current scientific techniques designed to repair, sustain, and optimize the human body. Readings, films, and short essays. Cross-list: HEAL 200, HUMA 200.

Long Title: HRC UNDERGRADUATE FELLOWSHIP

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1

Description: The HRC Undergraduate Fellowship requires students Department Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: HURC CULTURES OF ENERGY UNDERGRADUATE COURSE

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 1

Description: HRC Cultures of Energy undergraduate course requires students to attend a series of lectures by leading energy humanists and participate in monthly interdisciplinary discussion groups. Department Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: HRC RICE SEMINAR UNDERGRADUATE COURSE

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 1

Description: HURC Rice Seminar undergraduate course requires students to attend a series of lectures by scholars studying the historical and modern day issues of the year's Rice Seminar topic and participate in monthly discussion groups. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: HRC SUPERVISED RESEARCH

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 1

Description: A course designed for students who want to pursue intensive semester-long study of a particular topic that is the specialty of visiting faculty. Department Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: MASTER CLASS IN LITERARY STUDIES

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1

Description: This course consists of a series of sessions with Rice faculty and outside speakers that focus on specific texts to explore important critical questions and debates. There will be 3 Masterclass sessions per term. At the end of the year; the students will present their own work in a symposium. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: DIGITAL HISTORY MASTERCLASS - UNDERGRADUATE PARTICIPANTS

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 1

Description: Introduction to the emerging field of digital history, with hands-on examples and a focus on career and postgraduate opportunities in GIS research, computational text analysis, and new media for scholarly communication. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: DIACHRONIC MAPPING: THE RICE UNIVERSITY CAMPUS

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The objective of this course is to collaboratively design a digital atlas of the Rice Campus where visual archives, locatable in time and space, can be embedded. The evolution of the campus will be presented by historians and training sessions in ArcGIS, Rhino, and Shared Shelf will be conducted by specialists. Instructor Permission Required.Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HURC 605. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HURC 405 if student has credit for HURC 605. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: MELLON SEMINARS: ABOUT TIME: SEMINAR ON THE MEANING OF THE PASSAGE OF TIME

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This graduate seminar will examine the diverse attempts to give meaning to the passage of time, with an emphasis on late antiquity. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: HRC MELLON RESEARCH SEMINAR

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1

Description: This graduate seminar considers sexuality since the dominance of "queer." How do histories, theories, and performance practices that exist before, after, and alongside the historical moment of "queer" incite innovative ways of thinking? Side-lined theories about history, subjectivity, style, desire, and expression and will enable new venues for exploration. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: MASTER CLASS IN LITERARY STUDIES

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Internship/Practicum

Credit Hours: 1

Description: This course is a discussion of issues and methods associated with mentoring as well as a mentoring practicum conducted in concert with HURC 401. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: RICE SEMINARS

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Year long intellectual inquiry during which faculty and grad students develop, present, and discuss original scholarship that explores aspects of the seminar's annual topic. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL HUMANITIES

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course introduces students to current digital humanities projects as well as tools for approaching humanities research in new ways. Faculty from across the humanistic disciplines will address trends in this expanding field and guide hands-on workshops. Sessions will also focus on the job market and grant opportunities. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: DIACHRONIC MAPPING: THE RICE UNIVERSITY CAMPUS

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The objective of this course is to collaboratively design a digital atlas of the Rice Campus where visual archives, locatable in time and space, can be embedded. The evolution of the campus will be presented by historians and training sessions in ArcGIS, Rhino, and Shared Shelf will be conducted by specialists. Instructor Permission Required.Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HURC 405. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HURC 605 if student has credit for HART 405/HURC 405. Repeatable for Credit.