All courses listed here will count towards students’ Honors coursework requirements for Global and International Honors. Please double-check the course attributes before registering and talk with your primary advisor to ensure your course selections best meet your needs.
Students in Global Honors have the option of completing Honors Course Contracts to enhance courses to the Honors level if they wish to earn Honors in the spring but are not interested in/unable to fit the below-listed courses. You will get more information about this in January 2024.
Students in Disciplinary Honors interested in taking one of these courses should check with their Honors Liaison, major advisor, and Honors advisor to ensure the course will count toward degree/Honors requirements.
Note: We are updating course descriptions as we receive them from faculty. Be sure to check this page periodically if you don’t see a description for a course you are interested in taking!
MAC Oral Communication (MOC)
MW 2:00 p.m. — 3:15 p.m.
Instructor: Bottenberg, Frances
CRN: 83254
Seats: 20
Across cultures and histories, making and sharing art help define what it means to be human. Why is that? What is art’s power? More broadly, what makes aesthetic experience so special in the flow of our lives? These are some of the philosophical questions we will explore together in this course, alongside hands-on experiences with artistic creativity and attendance at arts events on and off campus. As a MAC Oral Communication course, we will pay special attention to how verbal and nonverbal expression are used to create and share artistic and aesthetic meaning. As we discuss intriguing questions in the philosophy of art, we will also practice communicative strategies that can be applied to a variety of contexts.
Dr. Frances Bottenberg is an Assistant Dean in the Honors College and holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Stony Brook University. Dr. Bottenberg has designed and taught over a dozen courses in topics as wide-ranging as education, art, aging, theories of consciousness, sustainability, logic and critical thinking, ethical theory and political philosophy. Her research is interdisciplinary, focusing on the nature and meaning of intelligence and its bearing on concepts such as personhood and sentience. She also publishes in the scholarship of teaching and learning and is especially interested in learner-centered classrooms that authentically connect curricular objectives with students’ personal and professional development.
MAC Health and Wellness (MHW)
TR 11:00 a.m. — 12:15 p.m.
Instructor: Colonna, Sarah
CRN: 83255
Seats: 20
This class intends to ask the question, “What if our health systems kept us healthy?” All institutions, including our health institutions, have been created and can thus be recreated. With an eye toward creativity and the optimism of the human spirit, what happens when we (re)imagine health and wellness differently?
Dr. Sarah E. Colonna (Pronouns: She/Her) has degrees in nursing, women’s and gender studies, and educational leadership. She has worked in hospitals and outpatient clinics and taught at the community college and university levels. Teaching in this program is a unique way to combine her nursing and educational experience. Her research interests include feminist thought and pedagogy, equity and diversity, leadership, and young adult literature/ science fiction. Sarah is a voracious basketball fan, goes to the beach whenever possible, has two spoiled pups, and reads as much as she can. Giving book recommendations is one of her favorite pastimes!
MAC CritThink Hum and Fine Art (MHFA)
TR 11:00 a.m. — 12:15 p.m.
Instructor: Flood, Christine
CRN: 83256
Seats: 20
Architecture can convey powerful images—look at the Supreme Court Building—Visitors, lawyers, plaintiffs and defendants have to mount 44 massive and imposing steps and pass through eight towering columns to enter the structure, meant by the architect to be a central, symbolic representation of the long march to justice. However, most of us have little to no idea what goes on in this temple to Justice. In this course, we will explore how the Supreme Court works, and moreover, how the Court’s decisions affect your daily life in the modern world. In the first half of the course, we will examine the monumental decisions of the court, from Marbury v. Madison to Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, and in the second half we will follow and track the cases before the Court this year, which will be begin its session on the first Monday in October, 2024. This course will encourage students to discuss issues, exercise logic, track current events, and analyze the Constitution with a lens on how the Justices have interpreted it over time.
MAC CritThink Hum and Fine Art (MHFA)
MW 2:00 p.m. — 3:15 p.m.
Instructor: Bolte, Angela
CRN: 83257
Seats: 20
The interplay between the role of the individual within society and the role of government within society is critical to a number of subjects: what makes governments and their laws legitimate, the social contract, what rights do citizens possess and what duties do citizens owe each other and their (legitimate) governments. We will draw on competing social and political philosophies, both classic and contemporary, to explore these questions and beyond. Critical to this exploration will be the inclusion of challengers to traditional perspectives and the discussion of controversial government laws and policies that form our current political discourse.
Dr. Angela Bolte is an Assistant Dean in Lloyd International Honors College. She earned her PhD in Philosophy and Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies from Washington University in Saint Louis. She also earned a MA in Philosophy from the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee and an Honors BA in Philosophy from Kansas State University. Her research interests include issues in ethical theory such as autonomy, philosophy of emotions, philosophy of law, applied ethics, and feminist philosophy.
MAC CritThink Hum and Fine Art (MHFA)
MW 3:30 p.m. — 4:45 p.m.
Instructor: Dodson, William
CRN: 83258
Seats: 20
The historical development of media is a confluence of factors, most fundamentally the human impulses toward creative expression (art), inventing new tools (technology), and trading (economics). This course studies the historical interaction of these impulses from the advent of writing to the proliferation of personal media devices. In many ways, humans have gone from scribes to cyborgs, from the logography of hieroglyphics to the infinite potential of alphabets, to a logo-alphabetical hybrid of emojis and texting dialects. This course explores some of the ramifications of our mass media in the unfolding present.
Dr. Will Dodson (he/him/his) has taught courses in rhetoric & composition, media studies, and literature at UNC Greensboro since 2006. He is the co-editor of American Twilight: The Cinema of Tobe Hooper (2021) and co-editor of The Anthem Series on Exploitation and Industry in Global Cinema. His essays have appeared in Quarterly Review of Film & Video, Film International, and many edited collections. His research interests include neurological memory and interactionism, film and new media, and literary theory. Prior to teaching, Dodson worked in non-profit rural advocacy organizations.
MAC Global and Intercultural (MGIL)
TR 12:30 p.m. — 1:45 p.m.
Instructor: Williams, Kaitlyn
CRN: 83259
Seats: 20
The history of law and human rights is a vibrant tapestry woven through the fabric of civilizations across time and geography. This course provides an in-depth exploration of how legal systems developed over time and the evolution of what is considered a human right from the ancient world to the present. In an ever-evolving global landscape, understanding how laws and rights developed and changed is paramount for understanding current political, social, and cultural systems.
TR 9:30 a.m. — 10:45 a.m.
Instructor: Toler, Eric
CRN: 84175
Seats: 15
Creating a new vision of our world takes time, thought, and effort. As we navigate broken systems, disconnected communities, and systemic disenfranchisement, it also takes tremendous courage to imagine what could be different about the ways we engage each other and the earth. In this course, we will read texts that invite us to be brave and think through new possibilities for our lives and the social systems in which we find ourselves embedded. From meditations on the unique lessons marine mammals can offer us about connection, to explorations of the anti-capitalist possibilities that mushrooms represent, to arguments for new models of justice, the authors we will read in this course show us how to stretch our imaginations to dream the world differently. As we engage with these readings, students will explore current events, issues, or questions through written work that explores new ways of thinking and engaging the world around us.
Eric B. Toler (he/him/his) is Coordinator of Data and Student Records and Senior Academic Advisor for Lloyd International Honors College. Eric has worked with the Honors College since 2018, and his current work includes advising students in all Honors programs, coordinating data and student records, and other miscellaneous projects. Eric has his B.A. (2018) and M.A. (2020) in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from UNCG. He is passionate about LGBTQIA+ issues, critical community building, and empowering students to dream big about how to change the world for the better. Outside of work, Eric enjoys drinking tea, spending time in nature, and cuddling with his cat, Augustus.
MAC Health and Wellness (MHW)
TR 2:00 p.m. — 3:15 p.m.
Instructor: Bolte, Angela
CRN: 83267
Seats: 20
Issues within Biomedical Ethics are some of the most hotly debated topics within American society today: the nature of the Doctor-Patient Relationship, arguments for Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide, Reproductive Issues (including abortion, contraception, and artificial reproductive technologies), principles of Patient Decision-Making (including informed consent), and Research Ethics. The aim of this course is to carefully explore a variety of issues within Biomedical Ethics, working through the ethical dilemmas that are inherent within health care. While this course will be valuable for those considering a career in the health professions who will be regularly confronted with these dilemmas, it should also be valuable for those who are not, because it will foster a critical awareness with respect to health, sickness, and death, events that impact everyone.
Dr. Angela Bolte is an Assistant Dean in Lloyd International Honors College. She earned her PhD in Philosophy and Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies from Washington University in Saint Louis. She also earned a MA in Philosophy from the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee and an Honors BA in Philosophy from Kansas State University. Her research interests include issues in ethical theory such as autonomy, philosophy of emotions, philosophy of law, applied ethics, and feminist philosophy.
MAC Health and Wellness (MHW)
Online, asynchronous
Instructor: Wheat, Laura
CRN: 84200
Seats: 20
Pop culture loves to use the five stages of grief as a template for how to get over someone who died. But is that really all there is to it? Does everyone’s experience boil down to a sequential order, nice and simple? For that matter, what is grief really – do we grieve experiences other than death? Is it really just a matter of getting over it? How do we actually help people we know who are grieving? How do we help ourselves? This course will help answer these questions as we begin to explore the nature of loss, the socially and culturally constructed practices of mourning, barriers to mourning, and how to be helpful to those who are grieving, beyond greeting cards and awkward silence. We will also experiment with creative methods for expressing grief, including ritual design. This course is for the brave and open-hearted, those of any major willing to engage with a topic others may seek to avoid at all costs.
Dr. Laura S. Wheat is a professional counselor in private practice with Knoxville Counseling Services in Knoxville, TN, working with children, adolescents, and adults grieving death and nondeath-related losses as well as those challenged by depression, anxiety, trauma, and life transitions. She has a special interest in clients identifying as queer and trans as well as older adults. In her past life, Dr. Wheat was a counselor educator, most recently as an Assistant Professor of Counseling at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. In that role, she served as interim program chair for School Counseling as well as faculty director of UTK’s Grief Outreach Initiative, a service learning project partnering graduate and undergraduate students of any major with a grieving child or adolescent in the local school system to provide mentorship and support. Dr. Wheat holds a PhD in Counselor Education from The University of Virginia.
MAC CritThink Hum and Fine Art (MHFA)
TR 9:30 a.m. — 10:45 a.m.
Instructor: Ross, Joseph
CRN: 83268
Seats: 20
Do you like role-playing games? Do you enjoy arguing? Are you a logical person who is considering law school? Do you hate Nazis?
Then this is the course for you!
Justice at Nuremberg is an immersive experience about an historical event that took place after World War II. Students spend the first half of the course examining arguments, breaking them down into premises and conclusions, and identifying logical fallacies. Once students have mastered the art of logic and rhetoric, they spend the second half of the course simulating a legal trial. Each student is part of a team (e.g. Prosecution, Defense, Tribunal, or Press) and must achieve a set of (secret) objectives. Play continues outside of class, with members of the press interviewing participants and writing news stories about the latest scoop. Surprises lurk around every corner, as players compete to win the game.
Will the Nazi defendants be found guilty? Or will justice be denied?
The choice is up to YOU!
Joseph A. Ross began teaching in 2007 and has led a variety of introductory and advanced-level college courses and research seminars. He has also developed interdisciplinary courses on conspiracy theories and “fake news,” the debate between gun rights and gun regulations in America, the development of international law and global justice, and the philosophical and moral justifications for going to war. His favorite area to research and teach concerns human rights and the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial, and he previously served as a Road Scholar for the North Carolina Humanities Council where he presented a program entitled, “Judging Nazis: John Parker’s Nuremberg Journey.” Currently, Ross is developing an immersive role-playing simulation of this historic event.
When not teaching or researching, Ross enjoys hiking, playing basketball, and spending time with his family.
MAC CritThink Hum and Fine Art (MHFA)
Online, asynchronous
Instructor: Friedman, Dan
CRN: 84194
Seats: 20
Performance Activism: How Play, Performance, and the Arts are Transforming How We Fight for Social Justice is designed to introduce performance activism, a new, non-violent, creative, performance-based approach to the struggle for social justice and human development. As distinct from theatrical or ritual performance, performance activism approaches performance as a creative activity—primarily done by non-actors—intentionally entered as a means of engaging social issues and conflicts and through which we can begin to re-construct/transform social reality.
Performance Activism will combine an historical study of the processes by which, over the course of the 20th Century, performance has been loosened from the institutional constraints of the theatre with a mosaic-like overview of the diverse work/play of contemporary performance activists around the world. Through this combination, the class will provide a global overview of the growing interface of performance with education, therapy, conflict resolution, civic engagement, community development and social justice activism.
The primary text for the course will be Performance Activism: Precursors and Contemporary Pioneers, each week supplemented by other relevant readings and videos. In addition to the readings and participation in class conversations, students will engage in primary source research, that is, each student (or team of students) will be expected to find and research—through interviews, attendance and participation in workshops, etc.—an organization or individual engaged in performance (or other arts) activism in North Carolina. This research will be presented as a final report either in writing, on video or through live performance at the end of the semester.
Dan Friedman, Ph.D. holds a doctorate in Theatre History from the University of Wisconsin and has taught at various colleges of the City University of New York, the Fashion Institute of Technology, the University of Texas, El Paso, and Harvard University. However, he has spent most of his professional life as a playwright and director at the Castillo Theatre in New York City, which produced progressive, community-based political plays for 30 years, and as grassroots educator and community organizer.
He is currently on the faculty of the East Side Institute (ESI), an international training and research center focused on innovative approaches to social justice and development, and managing producer of the ESI’s podcast, “All Power to the Developing.” He also is the project manager of Let’s Learn! a free Zoom-enabled global learning community, which is a joint project of the East Side Institute and Lloyd International Honors College of the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.
MAC CritThink Hum and Fine Art (MHFA)
TR 11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Instructor: Jovanovic, Spoma
CRN: 84199
Seats: 20
Conversation is the Starting Point for Local and Global Change is a course specifically designed to help you learn about and practice creating vibrant, engaging, public conversations that are hopeful and constructive. Together we will explore a variety of discourse models and a range of contemporary sustainability topics that are already prompting discussions worldwide. We’ll engage in a variety of active learning strategies designed to manage any discomfort while also building and sustaining the courage you need to speak, listen, and interact with greater ease. By the end of the course, you will be able to thoughtfully consider competing perspectives while at the same time demonstrating independent judgment and critical questioning, informed by solid reasoning, personal storytelling, and constructive visioning.
MAC CritThink Hum and Fine Art (MHFA)
TR 11:00 a.m. – 12: 15 p.m.
Instructor: Mena, Nodia
CRN: 84198
Seats: 20
In this course learners are invited to engage in challenging discussions and activities around the understanding of cultural heritage. As a learning community we will take up a critical analysis of the interconnected and multidimensional aspects of social positions and relations in Latin America and the United States. We will focus on the heritage and culture of Afro-descendants in and from Latin America. Our goal is to make connections between these and global societies as we examine their intellectual traditions.
MAC CritThink Nat Sci (MNTS)
MW 3:30 p.m. — 4:45 p.m.
Instructor: Haddy, Alice
CRN: 83269
Seats: 20
One of the biggest challenges of today’s society is the shift from fossil-based fuels to alternative fuel sources. For more than a century, the industrialized world has depended on coal and petroleum energy and our way of life is deeply tied to these high-energy resources. Now the world faces declining fossil fuel resources and environmental repercussions from their past use. Meanwhile, alternative sources of energy such as solar and wind are struggling to advance sufficiently to fill the energy needs of developed countries and to support the growing demands of still-developing countries. What will the profile of our energy resources be in the future? Can future energy sources support the high-energy demand we have become used to? In this course, we will study the science of how we produce and use energy. We will develop an understanding of our past and current dependence on fossil fuels and evaluate how alternative energy resources may serve society in the future.
MAC Global and Intercultural (MGIL)
TR 2:00 p.m. — 3:15 p.m.
Instructor: Ali, Omar
CRN: 83270
Seats: 20
The sciences that led to sending a probe to Mars, developing an mRNA vaccine, and creating AI are the innovations of millennia of trial and error and global cultural exchange. Science (the activity of making observations, asking questions, hypothesizing, experimenting, verifying, and predicting), like all human endeavors, is collective and cumulative—that is, one discovery building on another, conceptually or in terms of tools or methods (from the domestication of animals to the development of telescopes). The seminar will explore these histories across the world (inclusive of Africa, Eurasia, and the Americas) through a combination of primary sources, discussion of documentaries, conversation with invited guest speakers, and experiential learning opportunities, including fieldtrips.
Omar H. Ali is Dean of Lloyd International Honors College. A graduate of the London School of Economics and Political Science, he received his Ph.D. in History from Columbia University, and was named Carnegie Foundation North Carolina Professor of the Year.
MAC Diversity and Equity (MDEQ)
TR 9:30 a.m. — 10:45 p.m.
Instructor: Dad-Van Veldhuizen, Aisha
CRN: 83271
Seats: 20
MAC Diversity and Equity (MDEQ)
MWF 1000—1050
Instructor: Gunn, Joel
CRN: 83272
Seats: 20
Africa is the homeland of the human species. It is composed of a dozen distinct ecological zones from the sea level tropical Congo River watershed to the source of the Blue Nile in the 4000m Ethiopian Highland. Over the last two million years human species have evolved cultural and physiological adaptations to each zone that are manifest as unique cultures and peoples. This course explores these precolonial adaptations through the arts of ethnohistory and ethnology to understand regional differences to each of these zones before they encountered the world economic system, and to which they may return as colonial empires dissolve.
Dr. Gunn is an anthropologist who compares cultural histories of peoples and civilizations around the North Atlantic Basin including west Africa and Mesoamerica.
MAC Diversity and Equity (MDEQ)
TR 11:00 a.m. — 12:15 p.m.
Instructor: Hand, Dominick
CRN: 80021
Seats: 5
Prof. Dominick Hand, Lecturer in AADS, graduated with a B.A. in African American & African Diaspora Studies and an M.A. in Criminology and Sociology from UNC Greensboro. He has served as a trainer and consultant for the Racial Equity Institute LLC, training companies to advocate for racial equity. He is also the founder and lead consultant for the Intellectual Actionaire, an educational and digital marketing consulting company which strives to help young teachers, entrepreneurs, and other business consultants build business brands that innovate a new paradigm of leadership, education, and social impact. Prof. Hand is part of the Afro-Latin American/Latinx Studies Project. His research interests include: Race, Racism and Race Relations, Urban and Poverty Research, Sociology of Economics/Entrepreneurialism, Media Theory, Cinema, Gender Construction of Black Masculinity, Family Studies, and Africana Theory.
T 6:00 p.m. — 8:50 p.m.
Instructor: Noble, Demetrius
CRN: 80022
Seats: 5
TR 12:30 p.m. — 1:45 p.m.
Instructor: Cervenak, Sarah
CRN: 80023
Seats: 5
R 6:00 p.m. —8:50 p.m.
Instructor: Noble, Demetrius
CRN: 80024
Seats: 5
TR 3:30 p.m. — 4:45 p.m.
Instructor: Girma, Hewan
CRN: 80025
Seats: 5
TR 2:00 p.m. — 3:15 p.m.
Instructor: Eyssallenne, Jazmin
CRN: 80026
Seats: 5
MAC CritThink Nat Sci (MNTS)
MW 2:00 p.m. — 3:15 p.m.
Instructor: Hens, Mark
CRN: 82172
Seats: 20
MAC CritThink Nat Sci (MNTS)
TR 12:30 p.m. — 1:45 p.m.
Instructor: Hens, Mark
CRN: 82173
Seats: 20
R 1:00 p.m. — 3:50 p.m.
Instructor: Komatsu, Kimberly
CRN: 82292
Seats: 5
MW 2:00 p.m. — 3:15 p.m.
Instructor: Koerner, Sarah
CRN: 82294
Seats: 5
MAC Global and Intercultural (MGIL)
TR 2:00 p.m. — 3:15 p.m.
Instructor: Doudalis, Georgios
CRN: 80365
Seats: 10
Georgios Doudalis is a Lecturer at UNCG (2023-2024), He did My masters in Aegean Archeology at the University of Sheffield, and his PhD at the Institute of Classical Archaeology at the Heidelberg University. He is a Ceramic Specialist specializing in Minoan Pottery (Bronze Age Crete). He taught Greek Archaeology in 2020-2021 at UNCG and also currently serves as Assistant Director at the Mochlos Archaeological Project (Crete). He has been granted with two Fellowships: 1) Seager Fellowship (Institute for Aegean Prehistory, Crete-2016) and the Kress Research Fellowship (American School of Classical Studies-2022).
MAC CritThink Soc and BehavSci (MSBS)
TR 9:30 a.m. — 10:45 a.m.
Instructor: Bray, Jeremy
CRN: 83327
Seats: 25
MAC CritThink Soc and BehavSci (MSBS)
TR 11:00 a.m. — 12:15 p.m.
Instructor: Sarbaum, Jeffrey
CRN: 83331
Seats: 20
MWF 9:00 a.m. — 9:50 a.m.
Instructor: Van Veldhuizen, Michiel
CRN: 80825
Seats: 5
MWF 10:00 a.m. — 10:50 a.m.
Instructor: LeBlanc, Robyn
CRN: 80368
Seats: 5
MW 2:00 p.m. — 3:15 p.m.
Instructor: Hronek, Richard
CRN: 83712
Seats: 5
I received my BA in German Language from Guilford College here in Greensboro in 2007. After I graduated, I got to spend two years in Austria as a Fulbright language assistant (teaching English). While I was in Austria, my focus turned towards the brewing of beer, which became a profession 3 years later. I started working at Natty Greene’s Brewing by scrubbing the floors and moved up to brewer. After a couple years of that and reading the novels of Hermann Hesse and Thomas Mann, I decided to try my hand at a graduate degree in German. It wasn’t immediately clear to me that my interest would be in literature but that turned out to be the case. My dissertation is about Jakob Arjouni’s hard-boiled detective, Kemal Kayankaya. Among other things, I look at how Kayankaya as a Turkish-born, German-raised person simultaneously possesses insider/outsider status and how Arjouni uses alcohol and drunkenness to construct Kayankaya’s Germanness.
MWF 900—950
Instructor: Hassell, Mary Eloise
CRN: 80444
Seats: 4
MAC CritThink Hum and Fine Art (MHFA)
Online, asynchronous
Instructor: Pryor, Insa
CRN: 83094
Seats: 3
MAC CritThink Hum and Fine Art (MHFA)
TR 9:30 a.m. — 10:45 a.m.
Instructor: Pryor, Insa
CRN: 83095
Seats: 3
MAC Health and Wellness (MHW)
TR 3:30 p.m. — 4:45 p.m.
Instructor: Gert, Heather
CRN: 83101
Seats: 3
MW 3:30 p.m. — 4:45 p.m.
Instructor: Pryor, Insa
CRN: 83114
Seats: 3
Online, asynchronous
Instructor: Hale, Marcia
CRN: 81121
Seats: 10
MW 2:00 p.m. — 3:15 p.m.
Instructor: Holian, David
CRN: 80441
Seats: 5
TR 11:00 a.m. — 12:15 p.m.
Instructor: Glenn Manigault, Cerise
CRN: 83484
Seats: 22
TR 11:00 a.m. — 12:15 p.m.
Instructor: Glenn Manigault, Cerise
CRN: 83501
Seats: 3
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