UF Quest

Spring 2025 UF Quest 1 Courses

About UF Quest

UF Quest invites students to consider why the world is the way it is and what they can do about it. Students examine questions that are difficult to answer and hard to ignore in a world that is swiftly changing and becoming increasingly more complex. What makes life worth living? What makes a society a fair one? How do we manage conflicts? Who are we in relation to other people or to the natural world?

The UF Quest 1 Requirement

UF Quest 1 courses fulfill the UF Quest 1 requirement and 3 credits of the General Education requirement in the Humanities (see the UF Quest Requirement page for more information). Some UF Quest 1 courses may also fulfill the International (N) requirement and/or count toward the Writing requirement. 

UF Quest 1 Courses

Click on the links below to learn more about the individual courses and to access course syllabi, which will be posted at least 3 days before the semester begins. Click the Campus, Honors, or UF Online button to filter by program or type in the search field to look for a particular subject, topic, instructor, etc. For the day and periods that the classes meet, please consult the Schedule of Courses.

Campus
Honors
UF Online
Course Themes Culture Built Environment Literature Music Society Art Theater Dance
General Education Requirements Diversity International 2000 words 4000 words

Campus

AMH 1094: Fight For Your Rights: The Long Civil Rights Movement
  • Instructor: Paige Glotzer, History
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, Diversity, 2000 Words
  • The Essential Question: "How does one change what is not just?" 2). "Who has the power to make change?" 3). "What is powerful about social justice?"
ANT 1215: Indigenous Values
  • Instructor: Kenneth Sassaman, Anthropology
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, 4,000 Words
  • The Essential Question: How can Indigenous values about the relationship between nature and culture help us address the challenges of climate change, food insecurity, public health, and social justice?
CLA 1011: Democracy in Theory and Action
  • Instructor: Ifigeneia Giannadaki, Classics
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, 2000 Words
  • The Essential Question: What is democracy and in what ways has this form of government changed since its birth in ancient Athens? This course offers a comparative approach to democracy (ancient and modern), tackling some of the most pressing issues of our times, illustrating political history and political theory: political thought in action.
CLA 1530: Gardens to Read and Visit
  • Instructor: Victoria Pagan, Classics
  • Format: 100 % Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities
  • The Essential Question: To what extent do representations of gardens in literature and art increase our enjoyment of the gardens we visit in real life?
DAN 1391: Dance, Race, Gender
  • Instructor:  Rachel Carrico, Theater & Dance
  • Format: Hybrid
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, Diversity
  • The Essential Question: When we see dance - from ballet to Beyoncé – how does it inform our ideas about race, ethnicity, and/or gender?
IDS 1114: Ethics and the Public Sphere
  • Instructor: Jamie Ahlberg, Arina Pismenny, Philosophy
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, 2,000 Words
  • The Essential Question: How can we engage ethical issues in public life?
IDS 2935: 1950s Domesticity and UF Life
  • Instructor: Marsha Bryant, English
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, 2000 Words
  • The Essential Question: How would your life change if you lived during the American 1950s, and how would that shape your UF experience?
IDS 2935: Acting for Change
  • Instructor: Theater & Dance
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, Diversity, 2000 Words
  • The Essential Question: How can we use performance to uncover and highlight hidden histories?
IDS 2935: Ancients and Moderns
  • Instructor: Thomas Vozar, Humanities
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, 2000 Words 
  • The Essential Question: Are we better than the Ancient Greeks and Romans? What do we owe them, and how have we surpassed their achievements? What does it mean to define ourselves as “modern” in contrast to classical antiquity?  
IDS 2935: Art Crime
  • Instructor: Maya Stanfield-Mazzi, Art & Art History
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, International, 2000 Words
  • The Essential Question: Why is it important to safeguard humanity's tangible cultural heritage, and who are its rightful owners?
IDS 2935: Artificial Intelligence & Art/Science/Fiction
  • Instructor: Amelia Winger-Bearskin, Digital Worlds
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, 2000 Words
  • The Essential Question: Artificial Intelligence: What is it? What is it used for? What is at stake? Each week we will explore AI core concepts from three perspectives: Art, Science, and Fiction. By the end of this course, you will be able to separate the facts from the hype and learn how to leverage fiction to prototype the future.
IDS 2935: Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy, & Society
  • Instructor: Amber Ross, Philosophy
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities
  • The Big Question: How AI is changing society, and how should we, as citizens, respond? Is AI generated art truly "art"? Is there a difference between AI-generated text and ideas generated by human thought? In a world of extraordinarily competent AI, is there anything uniquely valuable about our humanity?
IDS 2935: Artistic Revelation
  • Instructor: Colleen Beucher, Music
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities
  • The Essential Question: What power does music have over us and how does it shape our world?
IDS 2935: Brazil's Greatest Hits
  • Instructor: Mariana Oliveira, SPS
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, International, 2000 Words
  • The Essential Question: How might learning about Brazilian society help us improve our own?
IDS 2935: Compassion and the Arts
  • Instructor: Whitney Wilson, Arts in Medicine
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities
  • The Essential Question: What is the nature of compassion? How does compassion contribute to quality of life? and What role do the arts play in understanding compassion and in people acting
    compassionately?
IDS 2935: Cultures of Landscapes in the American South
  • Instructor: Nicholas Serrano, Landscape Architecture
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, 2,000 Words
  • The Essential Question: How do landscapes mediate culture, frame everyday life, and shape identities in the American South?
IDS 2935: Design & Identity in Everyday
  • Instructor: Art & Art History
  • Format: Hybrid
  • Gen Ed: Humanities
  • The Essential Question: How does design work as a tool for shaping, understanding, and communicating identity—“the fact of being who or what a person is”—in everyday life?  
IDS 2935: Faith and Reason in Jewish Thought
  • Instructor: Alex Green, Humanities
  • Format: 100% Classroom, 
  • Gen Ed: Humanities,  2000 Words
  • The Essential Question: What is the relationship between religious belief and human reason? How much of life do we attribute to divine providence, and to what extent do we rely on human initiative, effort and creativity? Are the positions of faith and reason reconcilable, or are they in perennial conflict? 
IDS 2935: Globalization Cities in Film
  • Instructor: Vandana Baweja, Architecture
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, International, 2000 Words
  • The Essential Question: How is the transformation of architecture and urbanism by globalization processes such as - movement of capital, goods, knowledge, urban paradigms, and people - represented in popular films? 
IDS 2935: God and Science
  • Instructor:  James Hooks, Hamilton Center
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, 2,000 Words
  • The Essential Question: How does belief in God shape the way one views the natural world?
IDS 2935: Humans-Oil-Plants-Energy?
  • Instructor: Katerie Gladdys, Art & Art History
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, International, 4000 Words
  • The Essential Question: Thinking systemically and individually, how do phenomena like car culture, agriculture, and productivity impact your quest for a just and equitable society?
IDS 2935: Immortality
  • Instructor: Mattias Gassman, Hamilton Center
  • Format: 100% Online  
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, 2000 Words
  • The Essential Question: What is immortality? Can we live forever? What would it mean to live forever, and should we want to? What part of us would live on—and who, after all, are we?
IDS 2935: Is there Culture in Architecture?
  • Instructor: Kole Odutola, Languages, Literatures and Cultures
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, 2000 Words
  • The Essential Question: How do learners conceptualize the various spaces they
    operate in?
IDS 2935: Just War
  • Instructor: Michael Leggiere, English
  • Format: 100% In-Person
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, 2,000 Words
  • The Essential Question: Can war be just? What is a 'just cause'?
IDS 2935: Mathematics in the Arts and Architecture of Renaissance Italy
  • Instructor: Carol Demas, Math
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, 2000 Words
  • The Essential Question: What makes life worth living? How do we or should we examine a life? What is valuable in life? How is mathematics used in the arts to improve our lives?

     

IDS 2935: Music, Robots, Lawyers, and You!
  • Instructor: Imani Mosley, English
  • Format: 100% In-Person
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, 2,000 Words
  • The Essential Question: Who makes tomorrow's music? Who controls tomorrow's music? Who owns tomorrow's music?
IDS 2935: Music: The Ultimate Time Capsule
  • Instructor: Tiffany Lu, Music
  • Format: 100% Online
  • Gen Ed: Humanities
  • The Essential Question: How does music crystallize moments in our history, memory, and collective experience as humans?
IDS 2935: Passing: Black, White, and Jewish
  • Instructor: Roy Holler, Jewish Studies
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, Diversity, 2000 Words
  • The Essential Question: In what ways does the phenomenon of racial passing challenge and shape traditional understandings of identity, privilege, and social constructs, and how does literature and film, particularly within the context of Jewish and African American cultures, serve as a lens through which we can critically examine these complex dynamics of race and ethnicity?
IDS 2935: Pirates and Power: A Global History
  • Instructor: Anton Matytsin, History
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, 2000 Words
  • The Essential Question: Were pirates pariahs, or were they vigilantes seeking justice against tyrant monarchs, and what does this tell us about the motivations of people for engaging in piracy?
IDS 2935: Romanticism: The Storm of Feeling
  • Instructor: David Dusenbury, Hamilton Center
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities
  • The Essential Question: What is the place of feeling in modern life? What is the value of desiring things we can never have, or mourning things we have already lost? Can even positive experiences of love, longing, and awe create a “storm”? And can negative emotions like fear, dread, and confusion have a positive meaning?
IDS 2935: Social Impact: Music Entrepreneurship
  • Instructor: Jose Ruiz-Resto, Music
  • Format: 100% Online
  • Gen Ed: Humanities
  • The Essential Question: What role do music entrepreneurs play in empowering various sectors of society, encompassing philanthropy, digital commerce, and for-profit industries, through the convergence of music, technology, missions, and entrepreneurship?
IDS 2935: Speaking American: Language and Identity
  • Instructor: Paula Golombek, Linguistics 
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, Diversity
  • The Essential Question: How does language inform and express our identities as individuals and members of distinct speech communities?
IDS 2935: The End of Empires: Imperialism to Decolonization
  • Instructor: Barnaby Crowcroft, Hamilton Center
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, 2000 Words
  • The Essential Question: Today, we live in a world which, for perhaps the first time in human history contains – officially at least – no empires. How can we explain this transformation? What is the nature of the political world in which we now live? How is it different to those that have come before – and why? What does it mean for a political community to be independent?
IDS 2935: The Horror, The Horror
  • Instructor: Eric Kligerman, LLC
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, International, 2000 Words
  • The Essential Question: How is political violence represented, conceptualized and memorialized across shifting literary and visual texts? What ethical questions arise in our engagement with representations of traumatic limit events and the experience of horror these events entail?
IDS 2935: The Politics of Nature
  • Instructor: Amy Chandran, Hamilton Center 
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, 2000 Words
  • The Essential Question: How does our conception of nature shape our political realities and fortunes?
IDS 2935: Urban Nature and Society
  • Instructor: Daniel Manley, Landscape Architecture
  • Format: 100% Classroom 
  • Gen Ed: Humanities
  • The Essential Question: What is nature? How can we incorporate nature into urbanized areas to provide societal benefits and allow people to connect with nature and place in everyday urban life? How can we use this knowledge across multiple professions to improve quality of life and affect positive change in our urban communities?
IDS 2935: Utopias and Dystopias
  • Instructor: Eloise Davies, Hamilton Center 
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, 2000 Words
  • The Essential Question: What would the ideal society look like? Should we try to imagine a perfect world?
IDS 2935: What Is America For?
  • Instructor: Aaron Zubia, Hamilton Center
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities
  • The Essential Question: What is America For?
IDS 2935: What is Democracy?
  • Instructor: Adam Lebovitz, Hamilton Center 
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, 2000 Words
  • The Essential Question: Perhaps the greatest complication in invoking democracy today is that few theorists can agree on the word’s meaning - what is democracy?
IDS 2935: What is the Common Good?
  • Instructor: Carlos Casanova, Hamilton Center
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities
  • The Essential Question: What is the common good and how is it harmonized with individual rights?
IDS 2935: Why Spy?
  • Instructor: Meghan Herwig, Hamilton Center 
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, 2000 Words
  • The Essential Question: Why spy? Spying has long been an important part of how countries relate to each other and defend themselves, but why do they do it?
IDS 2935: Women Changing Society
  • Instructor: Danielle VanTuinen, Music
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities
  • The Essential Question: How have women expressed their agency, authorship, worldview, and their power through their contribution to various movements in music and how have women transformed the production and consumption of music?
JPT 1311: The Anim(E)ted World
  • Instructor: Christopher Smith, Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, International, 2000 Words
  • The Essential Question: How can pop culture from a foreign culture inform our conversation on what makes a fair and just society and how we can manage conflict?
MUS 1610: Music and Spirituality
  • Instructor: Charles Pickeral, Music
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, International 
  • The Essential Question: How does music move us spiritually? Or, to put it another way: Why do organized sounds have the power to catalyze spiritual experiences? How does music shape our spiritual experience and how do our spiritual beliefs and practices shape our musical taste and aesthetic experiences?
PRT 1515: Soccer Explains the World
  • Instructor: Quinn Hansen, Spanish and Portuguese Studies
  • Format: 100% Classroom 
  • Gen Ed: Humanities
  • The Essential Question: How does soccer exemplify the dynamics of justice and power both on and off the field of play?  
THE 1431: Autobiography in Literature & Performance
  • Instructor: Manuel Simons, Theater and Dance
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, 2000 Words
  • The Essential Question: Why do writers and performers tell stories about themselves? And what do these 'stories of the self' reveal about our human condition and the societies in which we live?

Honors

IDS 1468: Why Tell Stories?
  • Instructor: Alison Reynolds, University Writing Program
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, 4000 Words
  • The Essential Question: How can stories teach us about the human condition?
IDS 2935: Magic and Method in Science
  • Instructor: Patrick Scanlon, University Writing Program
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, 2000 Words 
  • The Essential Question: What effect does the magical have on our thinking and research pursuits?
IDS 2935: Musical Elements of Emotion
  • Instructor: Margaret Clifford, Arts in Medicine
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, 2,000 Words
  • The Essential Question: What is music and how can understanding the musical elements of emotion deepen our appreciation for music and its influence on individual and collective experiences? 
IDS 2935: Rhetoric and Leadership
  • Instructor: Robert Stone, Hamilton Center
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, 2,000 Words
  • The Essential Question: How do leaders use rhetoric to persuade others? What role does the art of rhetoric have in the making of politics, art, and community?
IDS 2935: Wisdom and Heroism
  • Instructor: Karl Gunther, Hamilton Center
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities
  • The Essential Question: What does it mean to be wise and what does it mean to live heroically?

UF Online

DAN 1391: Dance, Race, Gender
  • Instructor:  Rachel Carrico, Theater & Dance
  • Format: 100% Online, Asynchronous 
  • Gen Ed: Humanities
  • The Essential Question: When we see dance - from ballet to Beyoncé - how does it inform our ideas about race, ethnicity, and/or gender?
IDS 2935: Music: The Ultimate Time Capsule
  • Instructor: Tiffany Lu, Music
  • Format: 100% Online
  • Gen Ed: Humanities
  • The Essential Question: How does music crystallize moments in our history, memory, and collective experience as humans?
IDS 2935: Social Impact: Music Entrepreneurship
  • Instructor: Jose Ruiz-Resto, Music
  • Format: 100% Online, Asynchronous
  • Gen Ed: Humanities
  • The Essential Question: What role do music entrepreneurs play in empowering various sectors of society, encompassing philanthropy, digital commerce, and for-profit industries, through the convergence of music, technology, missions, and entrepreneurship?
JPT 1311: The Anim(E)ted World
  • Instructor: Christopher Smith, Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
  • Format: 100% Online
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, International, 2000 Words
  • The Essential Question: How can the medium of Japanese animation (anime) be used to explore social, political, cultural, and economic issues of global relevance today?
IDS 2935: Brazil's Greatest Hits
  • Instructor: Mariana Oliveira, SPS
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, International, 2000 Words
  • The Essential Question: How might learning about Brazilian society help us improve our own?
IDS 1468: Why Tell Stories?
  • Instructor: Alison Reynolds, University Writing Program
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, 4000 Words
  • The Essential Question: How can stories teach us about the human condition?
IDS 2935: God and Science
  • Instructor:  James Hooks, Hamilton Center
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, 2,000 Words
  • The Essential Question: How does belief in God shape the way one views the natural world?
IDS 2935: Humans-Oil-Plants-Energy?
  • Instructor: Katerie Gladdys, Art & Art History
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, International, 4000 Words
  • The Essential Question: Thinking systemically and individually, how do phenomena like car culture, agriculture, and productivity impact your quest for a just and equitable society?
IDS 2935: Pirates and Power: A Global History
  • Instructor: Anton Matytsin, History
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, 2000 Words
  • The Essential Question: Were pirates pariahs, or were they vigilantes seeking justice against tyrant monarchs, and what does this tell us about the motivations of people for engaging in piracy?
IDS 2935: Design & Identity in Everyday
  • Instructor: Art & Art History
  • Format: Hybrid
  • Gen Ed: Humanities
  • The Essential Question: How does design work as a tool for shaping, understanding, and communicating identity—“the fact of being who or what a person is”—in everyday life?  
IDS 2935: Social Impact: Music Entrepreneurship
  • Instructor: Jose Ruiz-Resto, Music
  • Format: 100% Online
  • Gen Ed: Humanities
  • The Essential Question: What role do music entrepreneurs play in empowering various sectors of society, encompassing philanthropy, digital commerce, and for-profit industries, through the convergence of music, technology, missions, and entrepreneurship?
PRT 1515: Soccer Explains the World
  • Instructor: Quinn Hansen, Spanish and Portuguese Studies
  • Format: 100% Classroom 
  • Gen Ed: Humanities
  • The Essential Question: How does soccer exemplify the dynamics of justice and power both on and off the field of play?  
IDS 2935: Romanticism: The Storm of Feeling
  • Instructor: David Dusenbury, Hamilton Center
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities
  • The Essential Question: What is the place of feeling in modern life? What is the value of desiring things we can never have, or mourning things we have already lost? Can even positive experiences of love, longing, and awe create a “storm”? And can negative emotions like fear, dread, and confusion have a positive meaning?
IDS 2935: The Horror, The Horror
  • Instructor: Eric Kligerman, LLC
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, International, 2000 Words
  • The Essential Question: How is political violence represented, conceptualized and memorialized across shifting literary and visual texts? What ethical questions arise in our engagement with representations of traumatic limit events and the experience of horror these events entail?
MUS 1610: Music and Spirituality
  • Instructor: Charles Pickeral, Music
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, International 
  • The Essential Question: How does music move us spiritually? Or, to put it another way: Why do organized sounds have the power to catalyze spiritual experiences? How does music shape our spiritual experience and how do our spiritual beliefs and practices shape our musical taste and aesthetic experiences?
IDS 2935: Women Changing Society
  • Instructor: Danielle VanTuinen, Music
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities
  • The Essential Question: How have women expressed their agency, authorship, worldview, and their power through their contribution to various movements in music and how have women transformed the production and consumption of music?
DAN 1391: Dance, Race, Gender
  • Instructor:  Rachel Carrico, Theater & Dance
  • Format: Hybrid
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, Diversity
  • The Essential Question: When we see dance - from ballet to Beyoncé – how does it inform our ideas about race, ethnicity, and/or gender?
THE 1431: Autobiography in Literature & Performance
  • Instructor: Manuel Simons, Theater and Dance
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, 2000 Words
  • The Essential Question: Why do writers and performers tell stories about themselves? And what do these 'stories of the self' reveal about our human condition and the societies in which we live?
IDS 2935: Artificial Intelligence & Art/Science/Fiction
  • Instructor: Amelia Winger-Bearskin, Digital Worlds
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, 2000 Words
  • The Essential Question: Artificial Intelligence: What is it? What is it used for? What is at stake? Each week we will explore AI core concepts from three perspectives: Art, Science, and Fiction. By the end of this course, you will be able to separate the facts from the hype and learn how to leverage fiction to prototype the future.
CLA 1011: Democracy in Theory and Action
  • Instructor: Ifigeneia Giannadaki, Classics
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, 2000 Words
  • The Essential Question: What is democracy and in what ways has this form of government changed since its birth in ancient Athens? This course offers a comparative approach to democracy (ancient and modern), tackling some of the most pressing issues of our times, illustrating political history and political theory: political thought in action.
CLA 1530: Gardens to Read and Visit
  • Instructor: Victoria Pagan, Classics
  • Format: 100 % Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities
  • The Essential Question: To what extent do representations of gardens in literature and art increase our enjoyment of the gardens we visit in real life?
IDS 2935: Mathematics in the Arts and Architecture of Renaissance Italy
  • Instructor: Carol Demas, Math
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, 2000 Words
  • The Essential Question: What makes life worth living? How do we or should we examine a life? What is valuable in life? How is mathematics used in the arts to improve our lives?

     

IDS 2935: Art Crime
  • Instructor: Maya Stanfield-Mazzi, Art & Art History
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, International, 2000 Words
  • The Essential Question: Why is it important to safeguard humanity's tangible cultural heritage, and who are its rightful owners?
JPT 1311: The Anim(E)ted World
  • Instructor: Christopher Smith, Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
  • Format: 100% Online
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, International, 2000 Words
  • The Essential Question: How can the medium of Japanese animation (anime) be used to explore social, political, cultural, and economic issues of global relevance today?
IDS 2935: Compassion and the Arts
  • Instructor: Whitney Wilson, Arts in Medicine
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities
  • The Essential Question: What is the nature of compassion? How does compassion contribute to quality of life? and What role do the arts play in understanding compassion and in people acting
    compassionately?
IDS 2935: Cultures of Landscapes in the American South
  • Instructor: Nicholas Serrano, Landscape Architecture
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, 2,000 Words
  • The Essential Question: How do landscapes mediate culture, frame everyday life, and shape identities in the American South?
IDS 2935: Just War
  • Instructor: Michael Leggiere, English
  • Format: 100% In-Person
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, 2,000 Words
  • The Essential Question: Can war be just? What is a 'just cause'?
IDS 2935: Music, Robots, Lawyers, and You!
  • Instructor: Imani Mosley, English
  • Format: 100% In-Person
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, 2,000 Words
  • The Essential Question: Who makes tomorrow's music? Who controls tomorrow's music? Who owns tomorrow's music?
IDS 2935: What Is America For?
  • Instructor: Aaron Zubia, Hamilton Center
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities
  • The Essential Question: What is America For?
IDS 2935: What is the Common Good?
  • Instructor: Carlos Casanova, Hamilton Center
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities
  • The Essential Question: What is the common good and how is it harmonized with individual rights?
IDS 2935: Wisdom and Heroism
  • Instructor: Karl Gunther, Hamilton Center
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities
  • The Essential Question: What does it mean to be wise and what does it mean to live heroically?
IDS 2935: Music: The Ultimate Time Capsule
  • Instructor: Tiffany Lu, Music
  • Format: 100% Online
  • Gen Ed: Humanities
  • The Essential Question: How does music crystallize moments in our history, memory, and collective experience as humans?
IDS 2935: Immortality
  • Instructor: Mattias Gassman, Hamilton Center
  • Format: 100% Online  
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, 2000 Words
  • The Essential Question: What is immortality? Can we live forever? What would it mean to live forever, and should we want to? What part of us would live on—and who, after all, are we?
IDS 2935: 1950s Domesticity and UF Life
  • Instructor: Marsha Bryant, English
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, 2000 Words
  • The Essential Question: How would your life change if you lived during the American 1950s, and how would that shape your UF experience?
IDS 2935: Globalization Cities in Film
  • Instructor: Vandana Baweja, Architecture
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, International, 2000 Words
  • The Essential Question: How is the transformation of architecture and urbanism by globalization processes such as - movement of capital, goods, knowledge, urban paradigms, and people - represented in popular films? 
IDS 2935: Rhetoric and Leadership
  • Instructor: Robert Stone, Hamilton Center
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, 2,000 Words
  • The Essential Question: How do leaders use rhetoric to persuade others? What role does the art of rhetoric have in the making of politics, art, and community?
IDS 2935: The End of Empires: Imperialism to Decolonization
  • Instructor: Barnaby Crowcroft, Hamilton Center
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, 2000 Words
  • The Essential Question: Today, we live in a world which, for perhaps the first time in human history contains – officially at least – no empires. How can we explain this transformation? What is the nature of the political world in which we now live? How is it different to those that have come before – and why? What does it mean for a political community to be independent?
IDS 2935: Utopias and Dystopias
  • Instructor: Eloise Davies, Hamilton Center 
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, 2000 Words
  • The Essential Question: What would the ideal society look like? Should we try to imagine a perfect world?
IDS 2935: What is Democracy?
  • Instructor: Adam Lebovitz, Hamilton Center 
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, 2000 Words
  • The Essential Question: Perhaps the greatest complication in invoking democracy today is that few theorists can agree on the word’s meaning - what is democracy?
IDS 2935: The Politics of Nature
  • Instructor: Amy Chandran, Hamilton Center 
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, 2000 Words
  • The Essential Question: How does our conception of nature shape our political realities and fortunes?
IDS 2935: Why Spy?
  • Instructor: Meghan Herwig, Hamilton Center 
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, 2000 Words
  • The Essential Question: Why spy? Spying has long been an important part of how countries relate to each other and defend themselves, but why do they do it?
IDS 2935: Urban Nature and Society
  • Instructor: Daniel Manley, Landscape Architecture
  • Format: 100% Classroom 
  • Gen Ed: Humanities
  • The Essential Question: What is nature? How can we incorporate nature into urbanized areas to provide societal benefits and allow people to connect with nature and place in everyday urban life? How can we use this knowledge across multiple professions to improve quality of life and affect positive change in our urban communities?
IDS 2935: Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy, & Society
  • Instructor: Amber Ross, Philosophy
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities
  • The Big Question: How AI is changing society, and how should we, as citizens, respond? Is AI generated art truly "art"? Is there a difference between AI-generated text and ideas generated by human thought? In a world of extraordinarily competent AI, is there anything uniquely valuable about our humanity?
IDS 2935: Musical Elements of Emotion
  • Instructor: Margaret Clifford, Arts in Medicine
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, 2,000 Words
  • The Essential Question: What is music and how can understanding the musical elements of emotion deepen our appreciation for music and its influence on individual and collective experiences? 
IDS 2935: Magic and Method in Science
  • Instructor: Patrick Scanlon, University Writing Program
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, 2000 Words 
  • The Essential Question: What effect does the magical have on our thinking and research pursuits?
IDS 2935: Artistic Revelation
  • Instructor: Colleen Beucher, Music
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities
  • The Essential Question: What power does music have over us and how does it shape our world?
IDS 2935: Faith and Reason in Jewish Thought
  • Instructor: Alex Green, Humanities
  • Format: 100% Classroom, 
  • Gen Ed: Humanities,  2000 Words
  • The Essential Question: What is the relationship between religious belief and human reason? How much of life do we attribute to divine providence, and to what extent do we rely on human initiative, effort and creativity? Are the positions of faith and reason reconcilable, or are they in perennial conflict? 
IDS 2935: Acting for Change
  • Instructor: Theater & Dance
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, Diversity, 2000 Words
  • The Essential Question: How can we use performance to uncover and highlight hidden histories?
IDS 2935: Ancients and Moderns
  • Instructor: Thomas Vozar, Humanities
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, 2000 Words 
  • The Essential Question: Are we better than the Ancient Greeks and Romans? What do we owe them, and how have we surpassed their achievements? What does it mean to define ourselves as “modern” in contrast to classical antiquity?  
ANT 1215: Indigenous Values
  • Instructor: Kenneth Sassaman, Anthropology
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, 4,000 Words
  • The Essential Question: How can Indigenous values about the relationship between nature and culture help us address the challenges of climate change, food insecurity, public health, and social justice?
IDS 1114: Ethics and the Public Sphere
  • Instructor: Jamie Ahlberg, Arina Pismenny, Philosophy
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, 2,000 Words
  • The Essential Question: How can we engage ethical issues in public life?
DAN 1391: Dance, Race, Gender
  • Instructor:  Rachel Carrico, Theater & Dance
  • Format: 100% Online, Asynchronous 
  • Gen Ed: Humanities
  • The Essential Question: When we see dance - from ballet to Beyoncé - how does it inform our ideas about race, ethnicity, and/or gender?
IDS 2935: Music: The Ultimate Time Capsule
  • Instructor: Tiffany Lu, Music
  • Format: 100% Online
  • Gen Ed: Humanities
  • The Essential Question: How does music crystallize moments in our history, memory, and collective experience as humans?
IDS 2935: Social Impact: Music Entrepreneurship
  • Instructor: Jose Ruiz-Resto, Music
  • Format: 100% Online, Asynchronous
  • Gen Ed: Humanities
  • The Essential Question: What role do music entrepreneurs play in empowering various sectors of society, encompassing philanthropy, digital commerce, and for-profit industries, through the convergence of music, technology, missions, and entrepreneurship?
AMH 1094: Fight For Your Rights: The Long Civil Rights Movement
  • Instructor: Paige Glotzer, History
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, Diversity, 2000 Words
  • The Essential Question: "How does one change what is not just?" 2). "Who has the power to make change?" 3). "What is powerful about social justice?"
IDS 2935: Speaking American: Language and Identity
  • Instructor: Paula Golombek, Linguistics 
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, Diversity
  • The Essential Question: How does language inform and express our identities as individuals and members of distinct speech communities?
JPT 1311: The Anim(E)ted World
  • Instructor: Christopher Smith, Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, International, 2000 Words
  • The Essential Question: How can pop culture from a foreign culture inform our conversation on what makes a fair and just society and how we can manage conflict?
IDS 2935: Passing: Black, White, and Jewish
  • Instructor: Roy Holler, Jewish Studies
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, Diversity, 2000 Words
  • The Essential Question: In what ways does the phenomenon of racial passing challenge and shape traditional understandings of identity, privilege, and social constructs, and how does literature and film, particularly within the context of Jewish and African American cultures, serve as a lens through which we can critically examine these complex dynamics of race and ethnicity?
IDS 2935: Is there Culture in Architecture?
  • Instructor: Kole Odutola, Languages, Literatures and Cultures
  • Format: 100% Classroom
  • Gen Ed: Humanities, 2000 Words
  • The Essential Question: How do learners conceptualize the various spaces they
    operate in?

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