115-1 Honors Courses Pre-Register
【Thriving, Not Just Surviving: Flourishing in a Distracted World】
Tuesday 1:10-3:00
Annie Tsai
What does it truly mean to live well today? In an age of distraction, uncertainty, and constant pressure, how can individuals cultivate a life of depth, resilience, and meaning? This interdisciplinary course explores the science and psychology of human flourishing across cultures and contexts. Integrating ancient wisdom with modern research, students examine relationships, suffering, attention, digital life, meaningful work, awe, creativity, and physical well-being. Designed as a discussion-centered, reverse classroom experience, the course invites students not only to understand flourishing intellectually, but to critically reflect on how they themselves might thrive in a complex world.
【Becoming the Monster: Queering Gender, Desire, and Sexuality】
Tuesday 10:20-12:10
Ying-Hsiu Lu
This course explores how cinematic monsters reimagine gender and sexuality. Through films such as Psycho, Alien, The Shape of Water, and The Substance, students examine reproduction, hybridity, and bodily autonomy. Monstrosity emerges as a site of desire and resistance, challenging binaries and rethinking the limits of the human.
【Is the World Fair? Understanding International Rules and Institutions】
Friday 3:20-5:10
Han Wei Chung
This course explores the theme of the international community and international rules, examining the foundations and development of the modern international order. Students will study the origins of internationalism and trace the evolution of the concept of sovereignty, particularly in the context of secularization and the emergence of the modern state system. The course aims to provide a solid understanding of the structure and function of contemporary international institutions, as well as the legal frameworks that regulate their actions.
【Cosmopolitanism and Global Justice】
Friday 1:10-3:00
Shu-An Tsai & Michael Hemmingsen
This course explores major debates about cosmopolitanism and global justice. Students examine the ethical challenges raised by globalization, including tensions between cosmopolitan ideals and patriotic obligations, the foundations and implementation of human rights, global poverty and inequality, environmental justice, international peace, and global governance.
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