Spring 2026 COURSES

• FWIS 201 - 'Their Own Mysterious Stardom': Filming Environments; Viewing Environments
• FWIS 206 - Subversive Children's Literature to Make the World More Beautiful
• FWIS 207 - US Cultures of the Sixties
• FWIS 211 - The Impact and Meaning of Quantum Mechanics
• FWIS 216 - What’s So Funny? Theories of Humor and Histories of Comedy in the United States
• FWIS 218 - Happily Ever Afterlives
• FWIS 219 - Life Writing: Our Stories, Our Selves
• FWIS 222 - Jane Austenland
• FWIS 225 - Writing with Artificial Intelligence
• FWIS 230 - Posthumanism: Literary Warnings and, Maybe, Some Hope for the Human
• FWIS 231 - The War on Drugs
• FWIS 233 - Mathematics as Metaphors
• FWIS 234 - Meiji Japanese Women’s Literature: Then and Now
• FWIS 235 - Moral and Political Authority in premodern Europe and China
• FWIS 237 - Popular Music and American Culture
• FWIS 242 - Water and Cities
• FWIS 243 - Learning to Observe Through A Tour of the Natural History of Texas
• FWIS 244 - Snake Venoms: Biological Weapons, Global Health Crisis, and Source of Novel Therapeutics
• FWIS 246 - Apartheid South Africa
• FWIS 250 - The World of Medieval Medicine
• FWIS 253 - Socrates
• FWIS 255 - Writing Asian Food
• FWIS 256 - Gossip
• FWIS 258 - Climate Crises, Environmental Justices
• FWIS 261 - Australian Culture and History
• FWIS 265 - Mediation, "Fake News" and Democracy
• FWIS 268 - Case Studies of Building Design Problems
• FWIS 269 - Memory Wars : Reckoning with Historical Trauma
• FWIS 270 - Whodunnit? The Golden Age of Detective Fiction
• FWIS 271 - The Devil and the World
• FWIS 276 - Dramatic Pauses : Introducation to East Asian Performance Studies
• FWIS 278 - Debating the Philosophy of Religion: God, Suffering, Rationality, and Morality
• FWIS 279 - Across the Story-verse: Adaption and Storytelling
• FWIS 280 - Relationship Structures: Monogomy, Multiamory, and Beyond
• FWIS 287 - Country Music
• FWIS 288 - How To Be Human
• FWIS 289 - Fembots : Women and AI
• FWIS 291 - The Art of the Short Story
• FWIS 295 - On Nothing: Nihilism and After
• FWIS 297 - Science, Pseudoscience and Skepticism: How to tell Good Science from Junk Science