Spring 2026
Renewal of the Demoralized Schoolhouse LO2/LO9 (Yontz 鈥� EDUC)
- Contemporary research suggests that American educators have moved from a feeling of deprofessionalization to being demoralized. The course provides an exploration of, and an opportunity to, analyze the professional dissatisfaction in our nation's schoolhouses. Readings will be focused on contemporary educational policy, teacher career trajectory, science of teacher selection, and how teachers' moral centers intersect with life in the schoolhouse. Recognizing a relationship between education and social progress, students will examine the influences policy, economics, and history have on opportunities for renewal of our demoralized schoolhouses.
Fall 2025
- Chronic Illness & the Healthcare System 鈥� Pederson, C. (Syllabus)
- Take Me Out to the Ball Game 鈥� Hill, E. (Syllabus)
2023/24
- Monstrous Mirrors 鈥� Richards, C. (Syllabus)
- Relationships & Technology 鈥� Warber, K. (Syllabus)
- When Bad Words Happen to Good People 鈥� Mattison, M. (Syllabus)
- Chronic Illness and the Healthcare System 鈥� Pederson, C. (Syllabus)
2022/23
- Religion, Animals & Being 鈥淗uman鈥� 鈥� Proctor, T. (FA) (Syllabus)
- Art of Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica 鈥� Gimenez-Berger, A. (FA) (Syllabus)
- International Business 鈥� Jeong, S. (SP) (Syllabus)
- Orphans! Adoption & Foster Care in US History, Literature & Public Policy 鈥� Askeland, L. (SP) (Syllabus)
2021/22
- Language & Gender 鈥� Moskowitz, N. (SP) (Syllabus)
- Mobilizing Public Memory: Race in the U.S. 鈥� Waggoner, C. (SP) (Syllabus)
- 9/11 in History and Memory: Twenty Years Later 鈥� Wood, M. (FA) (Syllabus)
- Take Me Out to the Ballgame: The Narrative of Sport 鈥� Hill, E. (FA) (Syllabus)
2020/21
- The Psychology of Happiness 鈥� Davis, W. (FA) (Syllabus)
- Chronic Illness & the Healthcare System 鈥� Pederson, C. (FA) (Syllabus)
- Hitchcock's Cinema - Inboden, R. (SP) (Syllabus)
- The Psychology of Happiness - Davis, W. (SP) (Syllabus)
2019/20
- American Democracy: Problems & Prospects 鈥� Baker, J. R. (SP) (Syllabus)
- Orphans! Adoption & Foster Care in US History, Literature, Law & Public Policy 鈥� Askeland, L. (SP) (Syllabus)
- International Business - Jeong, S. (FA) (Syllabus)
- American Art - Gimenez-Berger, A. (FA) (Syllabus)
2018/19
- Renewal of the Demoralized Schoolhouse - Yontz, B. (FA) (Syllabus)
- Kings, Power, and Medieval Empire - Raffensberger, C. (FA) (Syllabus)
- Apocalyptic Vision in Ancient & Modern Literature - Kaiser, B. (FA) (Syllabus)
- From Birth to Conception - McWhorter, M. (SP) (Syllabus)
- Monstrous Mirrors (formerly "The Darkness Within") - Richards, C. (SP) (Syllabus)