Instructor: Meg Brandl Description: Writing about food isn’t just recipes and ingredients. When we write about food, we’re writing about family, culture, identity, love, relationships, community, politics, and history: stories about home and being far from home, about access and systemic oppression, about resilience and making do and living in abundance. In this course, we’ll… [Read More]

Instructor: Ed Richardson Description: This course is the same course I taught in JanTerm 2023. Students will learn generally about wargaming and its application to the real world. Students will study and master a complex gaming system that accounts for units, weather, terrain, politics, supply, historical factors, and luck. They will focus specifically on the… [Read More]

Instructor: Aaron Block Description: The advent of digital photography has fundamentally changed how we express ourselves creatively and how we engage with the content created by others. While many of us are comfortable with taking pictures, most of us treat the creation of these images as magic. In this interactive class, you will learn and… [Read More]

Instructor: Miguel Leal Jr. Description: The objectives of the course are to introduce students to a range of modern scientific topics through the lens of popular culture and to think about how science is portrayed to the general public in media including articles, books, podcasts, TV, and movies. The course will be organized around major… [Read More]

Instructor: Bob Cape Description: “Pulp fiction” refers to the hard-hitting, action-packed, weird, inter-planetary, “Wild-West,” adventurous, and often lurid stories published in cheap, pulp-based paper magazines in the first half of the 20th century. The stories, the artwork, the advertising, and the “Letters to the Editor” columns offer insight into the interests, values, aesthetics, and ambitions… [Read More]

Instructors: Jim Hebda & Jeff Fontana Description: Were those caught in the “Great Experiment” of Prohibition actually inhibited? What does Prohibition have to do with the modern Craft beer movement? This course will discuss these topics while introducing you to the current methods of homebrewing and its history through the lens of the Great (Failed)… [Read More]

Faculty: Danielle Franks Description: This course will explore the connections between physical movement/dance, mindfulness practice, and mental health. Students will become familiar with the psychological literature regarding the benefits of movement on both physical and mental health, the benefits of mindfulness and movement practices, the Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) principles of psychological flexibility and… [Read More]

Instructor: Adriana Alvarez Description: This Spanish immersion course centers on Mexican and Salvadoran immigrant communities in North Texas. We will visit the Multicultural Family Center in Sherman as well as read and view works on the food, art, literature, and history of these communities. Much of this history has not been published, so we will… [Read More]

Instructor: J’Lee Bumpus Description: Students in this course will explore the mathematics, strategy, play and culture of various modern and European board games. In particular students will study the design of modern strategy games. Students will also investigate and implement optimal strategies using mathematical analysis and theory on games emphasizing strategy over luck. Students will… [Read More]

Instructor: John McGinn Description: Listening to Movies is essentially a film score appreciation course. During the first half of each class, one or more new pertinent topics (e.g., source music vs. underscoring) will be approached using examples drawn from across film history. Following a short break, the second half of class will be devoted to… [Read More]