Spring 2025 COURSES

• FWIS 201 - 'Their Own Mysterious Stardom': Filming Environments; Viewing Environments
• FWIS 207 - US Cultures of the Sixties
• FWIS 210 - Jews on Film: Cinematic Representations of Jewish Life
• FWIS 211 - The Impact and Meaning of Quantum Mechanics
• FWIS 213 - The Supernatural South: Haunted Plantations, Confederate Vampires, and Creatures in the Bayou
• FWIS 214 - A History of the African Diaspora in the Americas in 12 Objects
• FWIS 217 - Cultural Diplomacy in the American Century: "The Americanization of the World" in the Twentieth Century
• FWIS 219 - The Beauty of the Beast: Telling and Re-telling the Tale as Old as Time
• FWIS 220 - Fiction and Empathy
• FWIS 225 - Writing with Artificial Intelligence
• FWIS 229 - Heavy Metal and Society
• FWIS 231 - The War on Drugs
• FWIS 232 - Responsible Use of AI for Research and Writing in STEM
• FWIS 234 - Plotting Marriage: Romance, Inheritance, Jurisprudence
• FWIS 236 - Cowboys and Cornfields: (Un)making the American West in Film, T.V., and Literature
• FWIS 237 - Popular Music and American Culture
• FWIS 242 - Water and Cities
• FWIS 244 - Religion, Technology & Magic
• FWIS 251 - Think of the Children: Histories of 20th Century American Childhood
• FWIS 254 - Gene Manipulation: An Evaluation of Gene-Based Modifications to Animals and Plants
• FWIS 260 - Global Indigenous Environmentalism
• FWIS 261 - Australian Culture and History
• FWIS 262 - How to Write Essays About Love
• FWIS 263 - Sex, Death, and Spiritual Writing
• FWIS 268 - Case Studies of Building Design Problems
• FWIS 271 - The Devil and the World
• FWIS 273 - The Rhetoric of Star Trek
• FWIS 280 - Race in the 20th Century United States
• FWIS 282 - Border Politics: Migrations and the Meaning of the Nation
• FWIS 283 - Gender and Race in U.S. Popular Music
• FWIS 284 - The Cultural Imagination of Texas
• FWIS 291 - The Art of the Short Story
• FWIS 292 - The Roaring Twenties
• FWIS 293 - The Rule of Law and the Pursuit of Justice
• FWIS 295 - On Nothing: Nihilism and After
• FWIS 296 - Business in the American Imagination
• FWIS 297 - Science, Pseudoscience and Skepticism: How to tell Good Science from Junk Science
• FWIS 298 - The Essay as Literature : Montaigne and His Legacy