All IDH 3035 Courses - Honors College

Myth and Ritual in Film, Part 2

Adam Gorelick

Tues.,Thurs., 12:30P - 1:45P

This course applies theoretical discussions of myth and ritual to the contemporary medium of film.

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Honoring the Ocean

Gretchen Scharnagl

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An interdisciplinary experience exploring humankind's relationship with the ocean. A six-week online pre-course taught by Honors faculty across the State University System prepares students for a short adventure at sea on a Florida Institute of Oceanography vessel. No background in marine science is required - this program is accessible to a diverse student population.

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Material Culture of the Viking Age

Erika Kern

Tues., Thurs., 9:30A - 10:45A

The Minnesota Vikings. MARVEL’s Thor. Vikings on the History Channel. Norse mythology adopted by Neo-Pagans and Neo-Nazis alike. Viking Metal. The Viking Age ended centuries ago, and still, the Vikings and their world continue to tickle our imagination. This semester we will explore Viking society and culture from the seventh century to the end of the thirteenth century.

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Workers Without Borders: Negotiating Family & Identity

Jeanette Smith

Thurs., 11:00P - 12:15P

In this course, we will examine the conditions that drive migrant workers to the United States as well as their experience in the country and how it informs their concepts of identity and self. The course is intentionally interdisciplinary and will incorporate debates from history, sociology, anthropology, public policy, and more. We will not be limiting our explorations to the United States as this class will incorporate a collaborative online international learning (COIL) component. Students will work directly with their peers at a university in another country on a project related to the class content.

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Other Worlds and the Age of Wonder: Required Readings for Future I

Ruben Garrote

Tues., Thurs., 12:30P -1:45P

In Future Shock, Alvin Toffler argued for the study of science fiction as a means of leading “young minds through an imaginative exploration of the jungle of political, social, psychological, and ethical issues that will confront” them in the future. This course explores the ways in which alternate worlds and futuristic times are imagined, and how these visions at once radically transform our models of reality and identity and prepare us to confront such radical transformations.

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The Environment and Society: Emerging Solutions

Camilo Rosales

Mon. 11:00A - 1:45P (Yearlong)

This course takes a comprehensive view of human relationships with the natural environment. The severity of environmental degradation in modern times has forced nations to reconsider the manner in which societies live and produce.

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Exilic Journeys

Asher Milbauer

Wed., 2:00P- 4:45P

Through reading fine works of art, this course will give students a nuanced understanding of how the unique status of exile, issues of displacement, complexities of cultural identity formation, the state of in-betweenness (liminality), and alienation shape fundamental human experiences.

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Is eSports for All?

Evangelia Prevolis

Thurs., 12:00P - 3:45P (Hybrid)

In this course, students will not only learn about the esports industry, they will also engage in the play experience and get a deeper insight into the esports ecosystem. In the course, students will play esports games as gamers but will also look at the experience as designers and critical thinkers.Students will explore financial, legal & ethical, philosophical, marketing, and operational issues surrounding the eSports industry and answer two question: 1) Is eSports for all? And 2) What can they do to ensure it is?

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Martí's Route: José Martí and Cuban Émigré Communities

Jorge Duany

Tues., Thurs., 2:00P - 3:15P

The poet, journalist, and politician José Martí (1853–1895) was one of the founding figures of the Cuban nation. Yet Martí spent much of his adult life living in exile in New York and interacted closely with other Cuban settlements in Florida. This course provides an overview of Martí’s thought about national identity, race, and class within the context of Cuban migration to the United States, especially New York, Key West, and Tampa.

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Every Species is a Masterpiece

Gretchen Scharnagl

Mon., Wed., 2:00PM - 3:15PM

This class considers how we look at ourselves, and how we look at animals, plants, and fungi, and how this influences how we think of all. What are our varying relationships? We will discover how ancient, ubiquitous, and complicated - the truths, abstractions, and symbology - of our fellow earth dwellers can be.

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Deconstructing Race Power & White Privilege in America

Trina Sanders

Online (Spring)

This course will explore the phenomena of race, class, oppression, power, and privilege. Students will critically analyze their own identities within the context of power, privilege, and inequity. Through the course lectures, required readings, films/clips, and discussions, students will also critically examine and describe the social, political, and historical construction of inequality while recognizing structures of power and privilege in the U.S.

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Mindfulness in the Law

Andrej Milic

Online (Spring)

The course explores the tools that help bring the role of mindfulness into the lives of the students so that they have what it takes to deal with the challenges that come with entering the legal profession. Students will gain the ability to utilize tools to integrate mindfulness in an intentional manner in learning the law and analyzing the creative aspects of the legal profession. Guest speakers and practical exercises will be integrated in the semester to show what effective attorneys do to be successful.

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Music Cognition: An Exploration of the Mental Processes Underlying Musical Behaviors

Ernesto Fernandez

Online (Spring)

This course examines human development regarding how and when musical behaviors emerge and what methods improve musical practice. It takes a close look at how musicians’ brains process audio signals differently from non-musicians. It also explores arguments for and against the notion that music-making is an evolutionary adaptation in humans.

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The American Dream: Cubans in the US

Veronica Diaz

Online (Spring)

In, The Cuban-American Dream: Cubans in the US, students will examine prevalent theories of immigrant incorporation and identify factors that either facilitate or hinder upward mobility. Students will then apply an interdisciplinary lens to examine how Cubans have adapted to US society and compare their experiences to that of other immigrant groups.

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Miami in Miami 786

John Bailly

Wed., 10:00A-3:45P (Yearlong)

This is a seminar that explores the history, culture, and people of Miami.

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Marketing for the Future: A Harvard Business Simulations

A Harvard Business Simulation Approach to Sustainable Development

Hortensia Sampedro

Wed., 2:00P-3:15P (Online Live)

This course is suitable for Honors students from all disciplines interested in applying interdisciplinary, practical solutions to global problems. We will study practical approaches to the second nine (9) United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We will use Harvard Business Simulations to gain experiential learning.

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The Conservative Tradition

Ruben Garrote

Tues., Thurs., 11:00A-12:15P

This course will involve readings in Conservative political philosophy, but politics is not all that Conservatism encompasses.

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Mythopoeia and the Secret Fire

Ruben Garrote

Tues., Thurs., 11:00A-12:15P

In this course you will read and discuss Tolkien's essays, poems, and stories, tracing the origins of his invented worlds and uncovering the great themes he wove throughout them.

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Thriving in the Law 2

Kioceaia Stenson

Mon., 5:00PM - 7:45PM

*This is the second half of a year-long course* Students will leave this course with a tangible understanding of what it means to practice law, the path to entering the field, and how to thrive once they have joined the legal profession.

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Challenges in Healthcare 2

Barbra Roller

Mon., Wed., 5:30 - 6:45 PM (Yearlong)

This course is intended primarily for premedical students or those planning to enter other graduate health professions. It provides a comprehensive overview of the US healthcare system, discusses public health issues, gender and health, end of life issues, and the role of technology in medicine, among other contemporary topics It provides clinical case studies and the opportunity for discussion and critical thinking.

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Identity Consciousness and Performance: Liminality

Niurca Marquez

Wed., 3:30 - 4:45 PM (Hybrid)

This course analyzes the root and development of three of the most common terms used to describe cultural and/or racial mixing or blending and uses them as a starting point to examine the performance and literature about the experience of the "third" or liminal spaces. You will learn about these three distinct terms for mixed cultural expressions and what they mean in a series of fields like sociology, psychology, religion, gender studies, ethnography, performance and the arts, to name a few.

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Creative Nonfiction: Oral Histories

Elizabeth Hanly

Tues., 2:00P-3:15P (Online Live)

"To survive we tell stories," says Umberto Eco, philosopher, medieval scholar and novelist. This is a course in storytelling, in writing and reading creative nonfiction. It is a course in finding the stories that are all around us all the time. This course is as much about developing one's skills in listening and reflection as it is about writing.

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The Top of Your Game: Exploring Paths to Personal Excellence & Power Skills

Amber Webber

Online (Spring)

What separates the top professionals, athletes, musicians, innovators, creators, analysts, and thinkers from others in their disciplines? What are the habits that allow them to perform at the top of their games again and again? Explore cases from diverse fields and interdisciplinary research to build a personalized plan for performing at the top of your game and striving for personal excellence in your career.

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Art Medical History to date

Amilcar Castellano Sanchez

Mon., 1:00PM – 3:30PM (Yearlong)

This course encompasses the study of medical world history in the period that extends after the industrial revolution to current times.

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The Miami-Israel Impact Lab

Andi Wolfer and Aaron Kaplowitz

Mon., 1:00P-3:30P

The Impact Lab will volunteer at three leading non-profit organizations in Miami and analyze each one's operations. Students will gain real-world experience working together as "consultants" and devise actionable plans that bring value to the organizations and innovative solutions to the community.

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21st Century Media, the Metaverse and Web 3.0

Robert Hacker

Tues., 9:00A - 11:45A

In each form and in the totality, media is best understood in a 3-part context that integrates economics, technology and culture. According to the international consulting firm McKinsey, information doubles every eighteen months. Much of this information now comes to us through digital media—social media, video, art, music and advertising. This course provides the opportunity to develop the multidisciplinary skills required to succeed in the current century using media topics as a subject matter familiar to all of us. Each week this course explores a different form of media in order to understand the insights that shape the business model, technology platform and cultural changes brought about by the particular media.

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Sustainable Development: Framework, Goals and Implementation

Maria Ilcheva

Online

This course will examine the relationship between Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), community problems and current sustainable and social solutions. The course will explore how various societal actors are responding to and implementing the SDGs.

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Pediatric Experiences in Narrative Medicine

Amilcar Castellano-Sanchez

Tues., 1:00PM-3:30PM

This course continues to explore the unbreakable -- yet not well-valued and sparsely characterized -- connection between the worlds of text (narrative, poetry, short stories, memoirs, interviews, imagery and film adaptations) to the worlds of medical ailments and medical practice focused to the pediatric experiences.

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One Health: Of the People, By the People, For the People

Alok Deoraj

Online (Spring)

The course, "One Health: Of the People, By the People, For the People" enables students to examine the historical influence of demographic, epidemiological and socio-cultural transitions at the intersection of environment, health, and wellbeing.

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Turn My Mic Up! Beyond the Lyrics of Hip Hop from A to Z

Trina Sanders

Online (Spring)

This course will deconstruct rap lyrics to uncover the multilayered/dynamic meanings to reframe the dominant narrative that this music genre is all about violence. We will examine hip hop in America, its historical, racial, and political journey, tracing this movement's creation and evolution from the early 1970s and beyond.

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Classic Banned Lit Club

Gabriela Icabalceta

Thurs., 10:00A-11:15A (Hybrid)

Book bans are the removal, suppression, or restricted circulation of literary, artistic, or educational material – of images, ideas, and information – that these are morally or otherwise objectionable in the light of standards applied by the censor.

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Radical Female Voices

Niurca Marquez

Wed., 2:00PM-3:15PM (Hybrid)

n this course, we will explore themes around place-making and positioning (in arts, humanities and sciences) from a feminist perspective. We will engage with the writings of Audre Lourde, Gloria Anzaldúa, Simone de Beauvoir, bell hooks, Adriana Cavarero, Hannah Arendt, and adrienne maree brown, among others.

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Digital Legacies

Maikel Alendy

Online (Spring)

Digital Legacies, is a course dedicated to evaluating the disruption the “Smart-phone Era” and the Internet of Things have had on our holistic living experience. Students will regularly look to the value of design and the art of digital manipulation. They will then construct a digital campaign of their own promoting either a Topic, Idea, Movement, Object, or Business of their choosing.

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Creative Digital Media in the 21st Century

Kiesha Moodie

Online

Learn to leverage data-driven digital media and marketing to be competitive in the space that influences the world today. Students will learn in-demand topics such as programmatic and direct deal campaign setup, including assigning inventory, goals, budgets, targeting, and creatives.

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Psychedelic Renaissance

Joseph Lichter

Mon., Wed., 12:30AM - 1:45PM

The course will have us look at the history and chemistry of psychedelics, serotonin receptors, neuronal activity and the glutamatergic system, psychedelics and gene expression, research methodologies used with such molecules, why the criminalization, why the continued research and the recent resurgence of interest in the last decade specifically towards therapeutic uses.

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What's Going On: Frontline --- America and the World

Elizabeth Hanly

Online (Fall and Spring)

This course sets out to untie the knot we are living. It presumes that we can agree that Frontline, a documentary series aired on the Public Broadcasting Network, is a reliable source, or at least a place to begin.

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Innovation, Sustainability, and Startups

Barbara Cotto Jimenez

Tues., 10:00A - 12:30P

This course focuses on the practices and processes that innovators use to ideate, test, and implement innovation effectively.

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Essential Analytics in the 21st Century

Kiesha Moodie

Wednesday, 6:25 - 7:40 PM (Online Live)

Students will learn to utilize analytics best practices in a data-driven digital media world . From understanding the basics of website design through designing an e-commerce story to launching Google Analytics including planning and principals; implementation and data collection; configuration and administration; reports, metrics, and dimensions.

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Graphic Voices

Gretchen Scharnagl

Mon., Wed., 11:00AM - 12:15 PM

We will read and discuss graphic works ranging from the graphic novel, to outsider artist comics, and including coloring books, to discover the potential of this language to disseminate important stories and historic, social, psychological, artistic or scientific content.

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Behind the Lens: Race and Ethnicity in the Media

Aisha Hamid

Tues., 9:30 - 10:45 AM (Hybrid)

Many are unaware of the extent to which media shapes their lives. Mass media has the capacity to influence thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. It also has the capacity to influence our social and political culture.

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Cultures of the Anthropocene

Amy Huseby

Thurs., 2:00P-3:15P (Online Live)

The Anthropocene is recognized as a geological age in which human activity has become the dominant influence on climate and the environment. In this course, we will study the relationship between literature, art, film, and the environment.

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Culture And Expression: Censorship, Suppression, And Propaganda Today

Jason Calloway

Wed., 9:00AM - 11:45AM (Yearlong)

For as long as humankind has gathered in groups, we have sought to express ourselves through various means: music, visual art, dance, speech, literature, and now digital media.

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Practice Philanthropy: A Call to Action

Fang Shu

Tues., 2:00PM-4:30PM (Hybrid)

This course has been designed for students who intend to make an impact and make the world a better place using their own philanthropic resources.

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Third World Cinema: The Middle East

Elizabeth Hanly

Online (Spring)

This course leaves Hollywood film-making behind in the dust. Instead, it explores film from the so-called Third World, focusing in particular on work from Africa and the Middle East.

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Creativity and Innovation via Design Thinking

Gustavo Roque

Online (Spring)

This course will introduce you to the Design Thinking methodology for creating and innovating. However, the only way to learn Design Thinking is by doing Design Thinking. Therefore, this course will be light on theory and heavy in practice.

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The Moral Point of View

Daniel Alvarez

Mon., Wed., Fri., 1:00 PM - 1:50PM

Have you ever wondered if there is an objective right and wrong? In IDH 3035 we will look at the four ethical (actually, metaethical, but more about this later) theories that are considered the most influential today: NATURALISM, KANTIANISM, CONSEQUENTIALISM, and DIVINE COMMAND.

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Washington Seminar

Charlyn Stanberry

FIU in DC, Mon., 6:00P- 7:15P (HyFlex)

A course designed to help students get the most of their Washington, D.C. semester experience by providing access to elected officials and their teams, government agencies, advocacy organizations, private sector businesses, etc.

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Power of Play

Maikel Alendy

Wed., 11:00A - 12:15P (Hybrid)

This course analyzes the anthropological, biological, and business implications and significance of play throughout the human experience.

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The Political Cycle (IDH 3035)

Anthony Rionda

Mon., Wed., 11:00AM - 12:15PM

The organization of this course leverages a unique interdisciplinary approach to politics, government, civic engagement, policy analysis, and advocacy.

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Miami in Miami 305

John Bailly

Wed., 10:00A-3:45P (Yearlong)

This is a seminar that explores the history, culture, and people of Miami.

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Lessons in Life and Leadership

Modesto Maidique

Wed., 2:00P - 4:45P

This course provides you with the tools to examine your own leadership profile and help build upon your innate talents.

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Law School in a Nutshell

Angie Puentes-Leon

Wed., 10:00A-12:30P (Yearlong)

The course is designed to introduce students to a learning experience mirroring the 1st year of law school.

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Diplomacy Lab

Brian Fonseca

Tues., Thurs., 5:00P-6:15P(Yearlong)

The U.S. Department of State's Diplomacy Lab at FIU's Honors College affords students the opportunity to explore real-world challenges identified by State Department officials.

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Treating the Person, Not Only the Disease

Jose Rodriguez

Tues., Thurs. 11:00A - 12:15P

This course will attempt to provide students with a primer for the recent changes in the MCAT that deal with the psychological and social foundations of behavior.

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Unseen Voices/Unheard Faces

Pioneer Winter

Tuesdays 12:30 - 3:15 PM

Unseen Voices/Unheard Faces examines the public and private lives (and deaths) of individuals marginalized within and across our vibrant, shared histories.

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