Skimming the course catalog, we see that this year students have had the chance to delve into our collective fascination with evil, whether real or imaginary, through a pair of humanities courses examining the heinous and the harrowing.
EALL 410/510: Asian Horror: Now this is a bold claim to make: "Asian Horror deserves recognition as a movement that may be as significant to global cinema as the French New Wave was in the late 1950s and early 60s." That's the possibility explored in this course, which proceeds from the fact that, since the late 1990s, there has been a renaissance of the Asian horror genre. This course asks students to think critically about how the styles, conventions and techniques associated with Asian horror have converged to become an international cinematic movement.
REL 353: Dark Self East & West: How did Buddha conceive of evil and, most particularly, the dark side of our inner lives? How are sin within Christianity, karmic evil and delusion in Buddhism, entanglement in Daoism and the concept of suffering in psychology both similar and different? This class (taught by Mark Unno) integrates films, such as The Color Purple and Jacob's Ladder, with seminal texts examining these topics, giving a religious and philosophical context for examining a number of contemporary and contentious issues, such as racism, gender discrimination and war.
-- Anne Conaway
When the volcano erupted, a UO professor discovered that local residents consoled themselves through song.
Join UO neuroscientists as they bring the host of the PBS series, The Human Spark into their brain research lab. 
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Watch a slideshow about Elena Rodina's journalistic globetrotting, from the Arctic Circle to Cuba.