Mini University
2008 Class Listing
- The Arts
- Business and Technology
- Domestic Issues
- Health, Fitness, and Leisure
- Human Growth and Development
- Humanities
- International
- Science
* = Limited Enrollment Class
THE ARTS
* The Ancient American World: Pre-Columbian Treasures at the IU Art Museum
Diane Pelrine, IU Art Museum
Choral Conducting – The Process
Michael Schwartzkopf, Music
Cole Porter, Hoagy Carmichael, & Paul Dresser: Three Indiana Songwriters and the Modernist Experience
David Hertz, Comparative Literature
Creative Attachments: A Look into the Private Lives of Artists
Heidi Gealt, IU Art Museum
Highlights from the IU Jacobs School of Music
Charles Webb, Dean Emeritus
The History of Blues Music
Andrew Hollinden, Music
Improv and Invention: Graffiti Art and Its Makers
Malcolm Smith, Fine Arts
Jazz: Where’s the Melody?
Patrick Harbison, Music
Keeping on Your Toes: The Art of Teaching Ballet
Violette Verdy, Music-Ballet
La Bohème from Beginning to End: A Peak Behind the Scenes of the Musical Arts Center
David Higgins, Music-Opera Studies
Mini University Choir: Building a New Tradition
James Mumford, African Amer. Arts Institute
Music and World Health
Judah Cohen, Folklore & Ethnomusicology
SUDS: The Making of a Musical
George Pinney, Theatre & Drama
* Campus Art: Treasures at the IU School of Law
Sherry Rouse, IU Art Museum
Profiles in Music
Peter Jacobi, Journalism
* Seeking Beauty and an Informed Ecology: Plant Portraits of A. R. Valentien at the Indiana University Art Museum
Anita Bracalente, IU Art Museum
* Thomas Hart Benton’s Indiana Murals at 75
Nanette Brewer, IU Art Museum
Totem: An Orchestration With Light
Robert Shakespeare, Theatre & Drama
* Tricksters, Troublemakers, and Teachers
Edward Maxedon, IU Art Museum
* The Use of Visual Analogy as a Navigation Tool in Virtual Environments
Margaret Dolinsky, Fine Arts
* = Limited Enrollment Class
BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY
Communicating Across Generations
Judy Steiner-Williams, Business
* Correcting and managing Digital photographs on the Computer with Google Picasa
Carol Rhodes, Information Technology
Economics and the Elections of ’08: I’ve Learned to Live with the Lies of the Past and How I’ll Live With New Lies
Morton Marcus, Business
The Electronic Alphabet: A Primer
Mehmet Dalkilic, Informatics
* Getting Started with Podcasting
Amy Neymeyr, University Information Technology System
The Good, The Bad, and The Difference: Making Difficult Ethical Choices
Timothy Baldwin, Business
How We Measure and Manage the Customer Experience
Ray Burke, Business
Is the Dollar a Dead Duck?
Andreas Hauskrect, Business
Lead Paint from China
Greg Kitzmiller, Business
Legal Challenges of State and Local Government
Kevin Robling, Law
Let’s Go on an Email Diet
Martin Siegel, Informatics/Education
Sports and Math
Wayne Winston, Business
Networking in the 21st Century: MySpace, Facebook, Privacy, and Hiring
Amy Kinser, Business
The U.S. Economic Outlook in an Election Year
Bill Witte, Economics
The World is Not Flat: Regional Multinationals Contradict Thomas Friedman
Alan Rugman, Business
* = Limited Enrollment Class
DOMESTIC ISSUES
Are the Federal and the State Accountability Systems Driving Higher K-12 Achievement?
Terry Spradlin, Center for Eval & Ed Policy
Data Surveillance & National Security: Is Privacy Dead?
Fred Cate, Law
Digital TV: Why Did the FCC Force Me to Buy a New TV? What’s Next?
Perry Metz, Radio & TV Services, and Herbert Terry, Dept. of Telecommunications
Election 2008: A Preview
Marjorie Hershey, Political Science
The Framing of News Coverage: A Question of Responsibility
Lesa Major, Journalism
The Future of Neoconservatism
Leslie Lenkowski, SPEA
If You Are What You Eat, Who Are You? A Conversation About Where Our Food Comes From and Why That Matters
Christine Barbour, Political Science
The Impact of Newcomers on Racial Politics in America
Yvette Alex-Assensoh, Political Science
Interrogations, Psychology, and Policy
Sharon Brehm, Psychology
Is There a History of Sexuality?
Colin Johnson, Gender Studies
Mexican Immigration to the U.S.: Policy and Experience
Peter Guardino, History
Politics and Values: The Fight for Health System Reform
Nicole Quon, SPEA
The Second Amendment and the D.C. Handgun Ban: What Does the Constitutional Right to Bear Arms Mean?
Beth Cate, University Counsel
The Serious and the Humorous Sides of World War II Espionage
Gene Coyle, Arts & Sciences
Shielding Reporters from Subpoenas
Anthony Fargo, Journalism
* = Limited Enrollment Class
HEALTH, FITNESS AND LEISURE
Ancient Diets & Modern Lives: Health Tips from our Evolutionary Past
Jeanne Sept, Dean of the Faculties (Anthropology)
* A Renaissance at Hilltop Garden on Its 60th Anniversary
Greg Speichert, Hill Top Garden & Nature Center
Food for Thought: Food Advertising on Television
Walter Gantz, Radio & TV
Gadgets, Gizmos, and You: Keeping Up with New Technologies
Lesa Lorenzen-Huber, Center On Aging And Aged
Global Health Crises in the 21st Century
Lloyd Kolbe, HPER-Applied Health Science
Human Balance: Practical Concerns as We Age
David Koceja, Kinesiology
* You Are What You Eat: Using the Computer to Evaluate Your Diet
Alyce Fly, Applied Health Science
* = Limited Enrollment Class
HUMAN GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
21st Century Information & Communication Skills for Lifelong Learners
Daniel Callison, School of Continuing Studies
Implications of Violence in Sports and Leisure
Rasul Mowatt, Recreation, Park & Tourism Studies
* The Interdisciplinary World of Sex Research at the Kinsey Institute
Jennifer Bass, Kinsey Institute, and Catherine Johnson-Roehr, Kinsey Institute
Stress, Communication, Humor, and Happiness
Jim Weigand, Continuing Studies
Teaching Today’s Medical Students How to Better Communicate with Patients
Frank DiSilvestro, Continuing Studies
We All Multi-task, But Is It Good for Us?
Sharlene Newman, Psychology
* = Limited Enrollment Class
HUMANITIES
A Backward Glance: The Poetry of James Whitcomb Riley
Kim Manlove, State of Indiana-Family & Social Services Admin.
An American Woman in World War II
James Madison, History
Becoming an Ancestor: the Isthmus Zapotec Way of Death
Anya Royce, Anthropology
The Closing of the Academy? Philosophy and Christianity in the Later Roman Empire
Ed Watts, History
Clothing Makes the Child: A Treasure Trove from the Sage Collection
Kelly Richardson, AMID
Captain Kidd to Columbus: Establishing Marine Protected Areas in the Dominican Republic
Charles Beeker, Recreation, Park & Tourism Studies
* Drawn From Nature: John James Audubon as a Painter & Writer
Christoph Irmscher, English
The Face that Launched a Thousand Clips: Helen Goes to Hollywood
Betty Rose Nagle, Classical Studies
"Dancing at Lughnasa" and Visions of the Celtic Tiger
Stephen Watt, English
The Germany of Tacitus and the Tradition of the Noble Savage
Tim Long, Classical Studies
* Gilding Time: Illuminated Books of Hours
Rebecca Cape, Lilly Library
Hamlet, Hollywood, and the Romance of Revenge
Linda Charnes, English
Harry Potter as Social Critique
Paul Gutjahr, English
The History and Symbolism of the Statue of Liberty
Barbara Truesdell, Ctr. for Study of History & Memory
* IU Past and Present: Historical Slide Show and Walking Tour
Phillip Bantin, Libraries/Archives
Most Often-Married Hoosier Civil War Widow Tells All: Annie Redding & the 19th Century Pension System
Keith Buckley, Law
Museums as Temples, Forums, Tribunals: The Enola Gay Controversy at the National Air & Space Museum
Edward Linenthal, Journal of American History
Muslims in America: Engaging the American Culture
James Wood, Sociology
Open With Care: Trick Locks, Hidden Compartments, and Puzzle Boxes Through the Ages
Jillian Hinchliffe, Lilly Library
Patriotism in Tudor England: Jingoism in the Historical Dramas of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
Raymond Smith, Education
Scientology and Celebrity: The Religious Secret of American Success
Kathryn Lofton, Religious Studies
Searching for Happiness: The History of the Concept and Its Dilemmas
Aurelian Craiutu, Political Science
What is Race?
Matthew Guterl, African American/African Diaspora
* = Limited Enrollment Class
INTERNATIONAL
Afghanistan: Rebuilding Higher Education Amidst Conflict
Terence Mason, Education
An Insider’s Perspective on Iraq
Feisal Istrabadi, Law
Globalizing China, Sinifying the World
Scott Kennedy, East Asian Languages & Cultures
Could the World Health Organization Be Wrong?: The Cross-National View of the Stigma of Mental Health
Bernice Pescosolido, Sociology
Immigration in Europe: Lessons for the U.S.?
Patricia McManus, Sociology
A Historian’s Perspective on Iraq
Nick Cullather, History
Is an Israeli-Palestinian Peace Possible? A Pessimistic Note of Optimism
Dror Wharman, History
Islam and Africa: the Greater and the Lesser Jihad in Contemporary Times
John Hanson, History
Japan: A Rare and Special Treat
Jim Bright, Journalism
Learning from Elders in Ethnographic Encounters: Ukrainian Folk Healers Decipher "Shapes in the Wax" to Soothe Body and Soul
Sarah Phillips, Anthropology
Pakistan: Coping with a Fraught Legacy
Sumit Ganguly, Political Science
What Is Globalization?
William Scheuerman, Political Science
* = Limited Enrollment Class
SCIENCE
Aging and Sleep
Bruce Martin, Medical Sciences
Close Encounters of the Avian Kind: Social Relations in Songbirds
Meredith West, Psychology
The CSI Effect: The Influence of TV on the Legal System
Federika Kaestle, Anthropology
Human Cloning & Embryonal Stem Cells: Should We Get Our Hopes Up?
George Malacinski, Biology
* Local Biodiversity: A Walk in the IU Nature Preserve at Lake Monroe-1
Keith Clay, Biology
* Local Biodiversity: A Walk in the IU Nature Preserve at Lake Monroe-2
Keith Clay, Biology
Planet of the Apes Monkeys
Kevin Hunt, Anthropology
Neuroethics and the Pursuit of Health
David Smith, Poynter Center/Religious Studies
The Power of Plants
Roger Hangarter, Biology
The Rock: Michaelangelo’s Marble
Abhijit Basu, Geological Sciences
Surveying the Red Planet
Catherine Pilachowski, Astronomy
Turning Big Red Green: The Campus Sustainability Movement
Michael Hamburger, Geological Sciences
* = Limited Enrollment Class