Fall 2024 COURSES

• FWIS 105 - Media, Politics, and the 2024 Election
• FWIS 107 - In the Matrix: On Human Bondage & Liberation
• FWIS 108 - From The China Desk: China Analysis and Reporting on China
• FWIS 112 - Writing About Video Games: Approaching Videogames as Literature Through Critical Reading and Writing
• FWIS 115 - Exploring Biological Research Challenges
• FWIS 119 - The Beauty of the Beast: Telling and Re-telling the Tale as Old as Time
• FWIS 124 - Witnessing the Holocaust
• FWIS 125 - Writing with Artificial Intelligence
• FWIS 128 - “Space, Speed, Cinema”: The Automobile in American Film
• FWIS 134 - Religion, Technology, and Magic
• FWIS 135 - What is a Book? The Material Foundations of Reading and Writing
• FWIS 136 - Cowboys and Cornfields: (Un)Making the American West in Film, T.V., and Literature
• FWIS 137 - Pop Music and American Culture
• FWIS 138 - Plotting Marriage: Romance, Inheritance, Jurisprudence
• FWIS 139 - Shakespeare in Adaptation
• FWIS 144 - The 2024 U.S. Presidential and Congressional Elections
• FWIS 146 - Apartheid in South Africa
• FWIS 151 - Think of the Children - Histories of 20th Century American Childhood
• FWIS 153 - Body Politics in Francophone Fictions
• FWIS 160 - Gender, Race, and the Carceral State: Incarceration Through an Intersectional Lens
• FWIS 161 - Australian Culture and History
• FWIS 163 - Sex, Death, and Spiritual Writing
• FWIS 166 - Exploring the World Through International Education
• FWIS 171 - The Devil and the World: The Image of the Devil in Western Culture
• FWIS 173 - Gender and Race in U.S. Popular Music
• FWIS 176 - Dramatic Pauses: Introduction to East Asian Performance Studies
• FWIS 179 - Medicine and Disease in Transnational Asia: A Historical Perspective
• FWIS 180 - Race in the 20th Century United States
• FWIS 181 - Graphic Blackness: The African-American Comic Book Tradition
• FWIS 182 - Border Politics: Migrations and the Meaning of the Nation
• FWIS 183 - Utopia or Dystopia? The Politics of Space
• FWIS 193 - The Rule of Law and the Pursuit of Justice
• FWIS 194 - Latin American Dictatorships Thorugh Film
• FWIS 196 - Business in the American Imagination
• FWIS 198 - The Essay as Literature: Montaigne and His Legacy