All IDH 3035 Courses - Honors College

Entrepreneurship, Technology, and Ethics

Daniela Cadena

Tuesday, 12:30 - 3:00 PM

This course teaches entrepreneurship and innovation focused on startups. During the duration of the course students will be exposed to entrepreneurship skills and mindsets that enhance the student's ability to be effective in startups and the corporate world.

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Challenges in Healthcare 2

Barbra Roller

Monday, Wednesday 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

Tuesday, 3:30 - 4:45 PM (Online Live)

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 Writing: Oral History

Elizabeth Hanly

Tuesday, 2:00 - 3:15 PM

"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

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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'Your sloppy, fragile heart': Disability Across Disciplines

Mark Kelley

Online

Disability is at the heart of law, medicine, technology, education, and art. That is, both the meaning of "disability" and the actions of disabled people have shaped these fields to the present. This seminar will explore this fact to showcase the methods and value of the intersectional turn in Disability Studies.

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Art Medical History to date

Amilcar Castellano Sanchez

Monday, 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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Impact: How Israel Creates Technology to Improve the World

Andi Wolfer and Aaron Kaplowitz

Monday, 9:00 AM-11:30 AM (Yearlong)

This interdisciplinary course will shine a light on Israel’s cultural commitment to repairing the world and the social impact technology that is shaping the planet’s future.

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Innovation, Sustainability, and Startups

Barbara Cotto Jimenez

Tuesday, 10:00AM – 12:30PM

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

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21st Century Media

Robert Hacker

Tuesday, 9:00AM - 11:45AM

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

Tuesday, 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

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

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 Alvarez

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

Wednesday, 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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If You Could, Would You? Exploring the ethical and moral questions of new technologies on the self

Gabriela Alvarez

Tuesday, 12:00PM-1:15PM (Hybrid)

In our pursuit of maximizing human potential, the implications of new technologies are often ill-conceived and can have dire ramifications. This course will use the British television science-fiction anthology Black Mirror to explore these ethical dilemmas centered around human enhancement. Furthermore, students will be challenged to consider if and how to mitigate these modern-day crises.

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Digital Legacies

Maikel Alendy

Online (Summer B)

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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Psychedelic Renaissance

Joseph Lichter

Monday, Wednesday, 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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Essential Analytics in the 21st Century

Kiesha Moodie

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

Students will learn to leverage data-driven digital media and marketing to be competitive in the space that influences the world today. From understanding the basics of Google Analytics from planning and principals; implementation and data collection; configuration and administration; reports, matrics, and dimensions.

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Behind the Lens: Race and Ethnicity in the Media

Aisha Hamid

Tuesday, 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

Thursday 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM (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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The Language Phenomenon: Instinct or Artifact?

Lergia Olivo

Online

Language is an essential element in the lives of all humans, independent of social, environmental, or personal setting. But even after so many years of research, there is still much debate about how humans acquire language.

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Culture And Expression: Censorship, Suppression, And Propaganda Today

Jason Calloway

Wednesday, 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

Tuesday, 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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The Moral Point of View

Daniel Alvarez

Monday, Wednesday, Friday 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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Civil/Criminal Legal Internship

Michelle Mason

Wednesday, 12:00PM - 1:15PM (Online Live)

The Civil and Criminal Internship Placement is a one-semester field assignment for three (3) credits. (NOTE: Students must complete a minimum of 120 hours at placement; 10 to 11 hours for at least twelve weeks). An internship placement provides students with an opportunity to explore legally-related career interests while applying knowledge and skills learned in the classroom to "real life" situations, working with clients under the supervision of an experienced attorney.

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Power of Play

Maikel Alendy

Online (Summer B)

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

Tuesday, Thursday, 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

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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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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