• LEAP 1215: Soc and Behav Science

  3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  What does it mean to be h/Human in the face of life-altering technological change? From reanimation to cyborgs to artificial intelligence, this course focuses on creative imaginings of what it means to be h/Human in connection with technology and technological advancement. Creative analytics will be used to consider the ethics and realities of h/Humanness and the human experience. Literature, art, music, and film that re/present humanness are explored in depth through reading, listening, viewing, and creating.
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• LEAP 1220: Sustainable Foods

  3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  Sustainable and Equitable Food Systems LEAP takes a close look at interconnected food and water systems as well as global and grassroots efforts to ensure sustainable, broad access to fresh, nutritious, affordable, culturally-appropriate food and adequate clean water.
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• LEAP 1225: Sustainable Food System

  3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  Take a close look at food and water systems, and grassroots efforts to ensure sustainable, broad access to fresh, nutritious, affordable, culturally-appropriate food, and adequate clean water. Through dynamic community engaged learning, you will connect with groups across the U campus and in the Salt Lake Valley whose missions align with food justice. We will discuss how disparate access to food and water drives the plot of literature, films, music, and art. Chances are, you love a movie whose central conflict includes the search for food or water - think The Hunger Games, Avengers: Endgame, etc. What would YOU do for food if you had to...? This course also includes the opportunity for a visit to the U's own Bonderman Field Station at Rio Mesa (riomesa.utah.edu).
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• LEAP 1230: Human Boundaries

  3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  This course confronts a core question: What does it really mean to say that we are human beings? By considering key thinkers in the realms of biology, psychology, anthropology, philosophy, spirituality, and literature we can begin to map this hotly contested intellectual terrain. How if at all must we adjust what it means to be human - that oh-so rarified category - to accommodate, say, the complex social patterns of non-human organisms, or perhaps to bring on board machines that can "think" and "learn" and even "feel"? Finally, we will want to consider how people over time and across cultures have connected human experience to cultural expressions of the divine - to God, or gods, or the spirit world - and here we find that religion and ecology often go hand-in-hand.
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• LEAP 1235: Human Hierarchies

  3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  The course focuses on ways modern Western society has been constructed around the ordering principle of inclusion and exclusion. This dividing line may involve race, gender, class, ethnicity, religion, and other markers of difference. We will be especially interested in how social hierarchies (rankings, pecking orders) develop and are perpetuated across time. More optimistically, we will also consider alternative models of social organization and inclusivity. Texts for the course will include fiction, non-fiction, prose poetry, scientific, economic, and socio-philosophical works, as well as popular and documentary film.
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• LEAP 1240: Humans and Nature

  3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  In this course we will seek to gain an appreciation of how nature has been understood in America, from the exploratory period of Lewis and Clark, through the scientific advances and social upheavals of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, all the way to the present day. Texts for the course will include scholarly articles, first-person narratives, fiction, poetry, and documentary film. The course aims to provide both a sense of historical scope and cultural breadth.
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• LEAP 1245: Humans and Society

  3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  Drawing primarily upon fiction, creative nonfiction, personal essays, and film, the course focuses upon human interactions in society. We begin by reading two classic nineteenth century works that will provoke us to examine some foundational questions about human identity. What makes a being human? Do humans possess a single, unified self, or might we be composed of multiple, and perhaps conflicting selves? How might changing social circumstances impact human development and self-consciousness? From there, we will explore more specific forms of individual and group identity, allowing us to reflect upon race, gender, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation - and the myriad "crossings" that complicate identity formation, both within individuals and within communities.
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• LEAP 1250: Reasoning & Ratl Decisn

  3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  Analyzing and evaluating arguments, basic logical framework, Aristotelian logic and beginning logic of sentences, fallacies, fundamentals of probability, decision theory, and game theory. Prerequisite: LEAP 2700.
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• LEAP 1260: Art & Social Issues

  3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  "How do artists respond to social and political changes and challenges within their communities." This course will explore pressing social issues within communities, as well as the very idea of what makes a community. The course will consider and discuss how artists examine concerns that also engage scholars and researchers in psychology, sociology, economics, anthropology, public health, and political science. The approach to these questions and issues will be interdisciplinary. Topics such as inequality, urban spaces, race and justice, outsider experiences, as well as others of the group's choosing, will allow us to think deeply about communities, both locally, nationally, and trans-nationally. We consider how we create our own community through engaging dialogue and collaborative research projects and presentations.
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• LEAP 1265: Invisible Histories

  3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  Students will consider both the visible and invisible stories of people and events and places through the study of writers and artists. The class will use literature, film, music, dance, as well other forms of entertainment and media, to think about some of the most complex problems and questions of American society. A special focus of the class will be on diverse American experiences and communities.
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