Fall 2025 COURSES

• FWIS 102 - Blind Spots: Critical Approaches to Visual Culture
• FWIS 103 - Writing about the Arts: Looking at Historical Art in its Cultural Context
• FWIS 105 - US Politics and the Media
• FWIS 106 - Subversive Children's Literature to Make the World More Beautiful
• FWIS 108 - From The China Desk: China Analysis and Reporting on China
• FWIS 110 - Drawing the Diaspora: Asian Diasporic Graphic Novels and Narratives
• FWIS 111 - Understanding the United States through Baseball
• FWIS 112 - Writing About Video Games: Approaching Videogames as Literature Through Critical Reading and Writing
• FWIS 115 - Exploring Biological Research Challenges
• FWIS 118 - Happily Ever Afterlives: The Enduring Cultural Impact of Fairy Tales
• FWIS 119 - Life Writing: Our Stories, Our Selves
• FWIS 122 - Jane Austenland: Falling in Love with the Past and Its Many Adaptations
• FWIS 124 - Witnessing the Holocaust
• FWIS 125 - Writing with Artificial Intelligence
• FWIS 126 - Black Mirror and Philosophy
• FWIS 127 - King Arthur in Popular Culture
• FWIS 129 - Africa and Globalization
• FWIS 130 - Posthumanism: Literary Warnings and, Maybe, Some Hope for the Human
• FWIS 134 - Meiji Japanese Women’s Literature: Then and Now
• FWIS 137 - Pop Music and American Culture
• FWIS 139 - Shakespeare in Adaptation
• FWIS 141 - Storytelling in the Sciences
• FWIS 149 - Doing Things with Words in the Odyssey
• FWIS 154 - Adapting Horror/Adapting to Horror
• FWIS 159 - On Parents, Friends, and other Kinships: From the Bible to Finding Nemo
• FWIS 165 - Mediation, “Fake News,” and Democracy
• 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 - Learning to View and Interpret Art: Re-Evaluating Classical Art for a Modern Era
• FWIS 175 - What is a Disaster?
• FWIS 176 - Dramatic Pauses: Introduction to East Asian Performance Studies
• FWIS 177 - Storytelling in Buddhism
• FWIS 178 - Debating the Philosophy of Religion: God, Suffering, Rationality, and Morality
• FWIS 181 - Graphic Blackness: The African-American Comic Book Tradition
• FWIS 183 - Utopias and Dystopias
• FWIS 187 - Country Music: An American Sound
• FWIS 188 - How to Be Human: On the Virtues of the Personal Essay