Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: VISITING RESEARCH

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 0

Description: Research conducted by visiting student scholars. Department Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: JETT-MOELLER RESEARCH INTRODUCTION

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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 POSTHUMANISM

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Recent advances in sciences and humanities show that the line between the human and non-human has become blurred. This interdisciplinary course will ready fictional, scientific, and philosophical texts to challenge traditional representations of the human by finding the human already enmeshed in or produced through relationships with technology, the animal, and the environment.

Long Title: 19TH CENTURY PSYCHOLOGICAL FICTION AND MEDICINE

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The Romantic and Victorian periods saw debates among literary and medical authors over the nature, function, and location of consciousness. This course explores these debates to learn the history of a literary and medical movement, critically engage with present-day debates about these texts, and reflect on the changing relationship between sciences and humanities in general.

Long Title: THE DOCTOR IS ON

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Fictionalized characters such as House, Doogie Houser, and Hawkeye Pierce reinforce stereotypes as much as they challenge assumptions and (re)define cultural attitudes toward doctors (and the medical profession in general). This course examines the portrayal of healthcare professionals in television, fiction and film to discuss philosophical and ethical questions as well as the modern medical apparatus from biopolitical and social systems perspectives.

Long Title: ENGLISH LITERATURE AND THE PUBLIC HUMANITIES

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: In this course, students learn to apply critical humanistic methods to issues of public importance, especially in the Houston area. Participants study necessary applications of humanistic inquiry to civic life and contribute to this work themselves. Consult the Humanities Research Center or the English department for more information. Cross-list: ENGL 299.

Long Title: HRC UNDERGRADUATE FELLOWSHIP

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1

Description: The HRC Undergraduate Fellowship requires students to attend a series of workshops and lectures on digital platforms in the humanities. Fellow will also conduct research with HRC faculty. Contact HRC to apply. Department Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: HURC CULTURES OF ENERGY UNDERGRADUATE COURSE

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 3

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 or postdoctoral fellow. Department Permission Required.

Long Title: URBAN SPACES, MAPPED PLACES

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will challenge students to understand what information about a city can be analyzed and conveyed via cartography. Students will acquire mapping skills using CartoDB, Mapbox and Leaflet and will examine historical cartography via Adobe Illustrator and qGIS. Readings will include urban theory, representation in cartography, critical debates on big data and social media, and works of fiction that involve mapping and the city. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HURC 305 if student has credit for HART 405.

Long Title: HEALTH AND HUMANITIES MASTER CLASS

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1

Description: A medical archivist, a current medical student, an epidemiologist, and a hospital case manager will lead class discussions on different aspects of the health industry today. The class will also go on field trips and read a short essay and watch a film to prepare for each discussion. Meets six times during the semester. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HURC 506. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HURC 306 if student has credit for HURC 506. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: CRITICAL HUMANITIES - HEALTH AND BODY

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course comprises six modules co-taught by faculty and medical professionals. Modules will address DNA and genetics, changes in medical education, the pathologization of difference, the process of dying, disability and ability, the doctor-patient relationship, and more.

Long Title: ADVANCED STUDY IN MUSEUMS AND HERITAGE: ARTS OF ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN AT THE MENIL COLLECTION

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An introduction to issues specific to the acquisition, collection maintenance, display and publication of arts from the ancient Mediterranean, and to the civic engagement and operation of a small, important collection, specifically the Menil collection. Undergraduate students will be taught about the practices of research in a museum environment and will develop knowledge about curatorship. Cross-list: HART 312, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HURC 508. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HURC 308 if student has credit for HURC 508.

Long Title: AMERICAN CHRISTIANITY, RACE, AND BIOLOGY, 1700-PRESENT

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course examines the relations between American Christianity, modern conceptions of race, and biological knowledge of human difference. We will explore how American understandings of race have been shaped, justified, and contested by a powerful resonance between two seemingly opposed traditions: religion and science. Cross-list: RELI 355.

Long Title: CINEMATICS: THE ECOLOGICAL PARADIGM

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course introduces the study of film form in relation to ecological experience. Topics include screen space, sound effects, camera movements, and the many ways these can be related to produce meaning. Students explore how film aesthetics "think" through social and species coexistence, life, death, technology, globality, or even "galacticality," with or without environmentalism.

Long Title: MUSEUMS AND HERITAGE: EXHIBITING ART, EXHIBITING CULTURE

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A wide-ranging introduction to museum studies with a particular focus on the collection and exhibition of cultural heritage materials. We will examine how heritage objects are displayed and represented in museums of art, natural historical history, and heritage. Topics include looking and ethics of collecting, policies of display, changing roles for museums; exhibition design and curatorial practice. Cross-list: ANTH 341.

Long Title: MASTERCLASS

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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: SAWYER SEMINAR: PLATFORMS FO KNOWLEDGE IN A WIDE WEB OF WORLDS

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The seminar explores digital knowledge platforms (e-learning, publishing, collaborative research, crowd-sourced) that uphold our academic mission to disseminate knowledge by enabling teachers, students and researchers to discover, analyze, and share information without regard to barriers of space and time. These same platforms, however, raise questions about expertise, access, metrics, power shifts, and academic autonomy. Department Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: THE POET AND THE MUSEUM

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 1

Description: This course considers what it means for poets to seek meaning and inspiration in the world of the visual arts. Students will visit Houston art venues to examine objects of cultural heritage, seek insight about the practice of making, preserving and presenting art with curators and conservators, and will have an opportunity to work with two practicing artists.

Long Title: DIACHRONIC MAPPING: THE RICE UNIVERSITY CAMPUS

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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: MASTERCLASS IN PUBLISHING, EDITING, PRESENTING AND PUBLIC WRITING

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 1

Description: Offers undergraduate and graduate students insight into the public life of writing with particular attention to academic and literary publishing, editing, and presenting. Sessions organized around topics in these areas and visits with experts (agents, editors, authors, presenters, etc.) with experience in publishing, and creating series, festivals, and other forms of presentation. Meets 3 times per semester, helps develop internship possibilities for participants, and develop strategies for increasing the presentation of public writing at Rice. Instructor Permission Required.Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HURC 606. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HURC 406 if student has credit for HURC 606. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will introduce graduate and upper-level undergraduate students to scholarly publishing, exploring its history, functions, processes and possible futures. It will feature guest lectures from those involved in publishing at Rice and discussions of issues such as open access, peer review, authorship, audience, and preservation. Students will be trained in conducting peer review, performing copy editing, and producing and promoting academic publications. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HURC 607. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HURC 407 if student has credit for HURC 607.

Long Title: FUTURES OF THE BOOK

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1

Description: From an ongoing interest in the book as a physical object, to the exploration of its potentials expanding into a four-dimensional digital realm, to rapidly changing demands for the storage and retrieval of knowledge, this master class will provide a platform to engage experts from various disciplines in a debate on the shifting futures of the book. Instructor Permission Required.Cross-list: ARCH 456, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HURC 608. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HURC 408 if student has credit for HURC 608.

Long Title: HRC PRACTICUM IN CULTURAL HERITAGE

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Internship/Practicum

Credit Hours: 1 TO 3

Description: This practice-based course is conducted in partnership with cultural heritage institutions in Houston. Qualified and advanced students work 5-10 hours/week on site with curators, artists, archivists, center directors, and others to develop projects in specific research areas. Students meet regularly with instructor to discuss research and to present work at an end of semester symposium. Department Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: HRC PRACTICUM IN HEALTH HUMANITIES

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Internship/Practicum

Credit Hours: 1 TO 3

Description: This practice-based course is conducted in partnership with health institutions in Houston. Qualified and advanced students work 5-10 hours/week on site with health professionals, archivists, center directors, and others to develop projects in specific research areas. Students meet regularly with instructor to discuss research and to present work at an end of semester symposium. Department Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: MELLON SEMINARS: SEX OF THE SPIRIT

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An advanced graduate seminar treating the history of religions and human sexualities within American culture from the colonial period to the present, with a special focus on how sexuality functions as both a focus of religious experience and expression and the privileged object of moral discipline and institutional anxiety. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: HRC MELLON RESEARCH SEMINAR

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: We live in the era of big data. This seminar will explore how the digital residue of our daily lives is reshaping our understanding of selfhood, social relationships, and human behavior. We will develop critical frameworks for what it means to quantify the self in the 21st century. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: HEALTH AND HUMANITIES MASTER CLASS

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1

Description: A medical archivist, a current medical student, an epidemiologist, and a hospital case manager will lead class discussions on different aspects of the health industry today. The class will also go on field trips and read a short essay and watch a film to prepare for each discussion. Meets six times during the semester. Graduate students will have additional assignments. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HURC 306. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HURC 506 if student has credit for HURC 306. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: ADVANCED STUDY IN MUSEUMS AND HERITAGE: ARTS OF ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN AT THE MENIL COLLECTION

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An introduction to issues specific to the acquisition, collection maintenance, display and publication of arts from the ancient Mediterranean, and to the civic engagement and operation of a small, important collection, specifically the Menil collection. Additionally, graduate students will engage in directed research on artifacts using archival records, library resources and the objects themselves. Cross-list: HART 540, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HURC 308. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HURC 508 if student has credit for HURC 308.

Long Title: MASTER CLASS IN LITERARY STUDIES

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Internship/Practicum

Credit Hours: 1

Description: This course is a discussion of issues and methods associated with HURC 401. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: RICE SEMINARS

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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.

Long Title: MASTERCLASS IN PUBLISHING, EDITING, PRESENTING AND PUBLIC WRITING

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 1

Description: Offers undergraduate and graduate students insight into the public life of writing with particular attention to academic and literary publishing, editing, and presenting. Sessions organized around topics in these areas and visits with experts (agents, editors, authors, presenters, etc.) with experience in publishing, and creating series, festivals, and other forms of presentation. Meets 3 times per semester, helps develop internship possibilities for participants, and develop strategies for increasing the presentation of public writing at Rice. Instructor Permission Required.Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HURC 406. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HURC 606 if student has credit for HURC 406. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will introduce graduate and upper-level undergraduate students to scholarly publishing, exploring its history, functions, processes and possible futures. It will feature guest lectures from those involved in publishing at Rice and discussions of issues such as open access, peer review, authorship, audience, and preservation. Students will be trained in conducting peer review, performing copy editing, and producing and promoting academic publications. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HURC 407. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HURC 607 if student has credit for HURC 407.

Long Title: FUTURES OF THE BOOK

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1

Description: From an ongoing interest in the book as a physical object, to the exploration of its potentials expanding into a four-dimensional digital realm, to rapidly changing demands for the storage and retrieval of knowledge, this master class will provide a platform to engage experts from various disciplines in a debate on the shifting futures of the book. Instructor Permission Required.Cross-list: ARCH 656, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HURC 408. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HURC 608 if student has credit for HURC 408.