HYSA STEM Lecture Series

Every year, Mrs. Toupin puts together a lecture series of three or four ASU professors to speak to students during an evening lecture series.

The first of these speakers has been scheduled for Friday, September 8th, from 6-8pm. The official flyer can be viewed here.

If you have any questions, please contacted Mrs. Toupin directly.

Additional Lecturer information:

Friday, Sept. 8th- Anne Stone- Genetic Anthropologist, Associate Director of ASU’s Center for Evolution & Medicine (CEM), Director of the Center for Bioarchaeological Research and Professor in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change (SHESC): Fulbright Fellow (1992-93) and a Kavli Scholar (2007), (2011) elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, (2016) elected into the National Academy of Science

Friday, Nov 3rd- Jacob Kashiwagi- Industrial Engineer, and construction specialist, program manager at PBSRG and a lecturer at ASU. He is the developer of the no-influence leadership theory, the theoretical basis for the Performance Information Procurement System (PIPS) model. Jacob is also the lead researcher for the information environment model implemented at United States Army Medical Command. Currently working with the State of Oklahoma, Alaska, and Idaho, and is also the lead for ASU Network, Helpdesk, and TV projects. 

Friday, Dec 8th- Beverly Brandt- A professor emerita in The Design School at ASU, where she has taught courses on design history, theory, and criticism since 1987. Her recent monograph, The Craftsman and The Critic: Defining Usefulness and Beauty in Arts and Crafts-Era Boston, was dubbed one of the “50 must- have, must-read books” on architecture and design by Canada’s International Federation of Interior Architects/Designers. An expert on the history of interior architecture, furniture, decorative arts, and textiles, Dr. Brandt also paints watercolor journals and publishes short essays and memoirs about life in Northwestern Lower Michigan. She has published extensively on the Arts & Crafts movement, and is branching into creative writing. Her work has been featured in the Bay View Literary Magazine and the Bear River Review. She is just finishing the first of a series of murder mysteries, starring Professor Ferradeen Warde, who is also a design historian.

Course Syllabi

Course Syllabi will be coming home today to be signed and returned.

You can view the syllabi by clicking the links below.


History Syllabus

English Syllabus

Graphic Design Syllabus (Elective)


If you have any questions, or need to contact me, email is the best option. You can reach me at eamonn.obrien@asu.edu.

Below is the list of texts that are scheduled to be read this year in IGSCE Literature 0486 (English), most likely in this order.

Depending on timing, there is the possibility that we may add additional texts.

The Secret River

By: Kate Grenville

ISBN-13: 978-1841959146

Inherit the Wind

Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee

ISBN-13: 978-0345466273

No Longer at Ease

Chinua Echebe

ISBN-13: 978-0385474559

Henry V (Folger Edition)

William Shakespeare

ISBN-13: 978-0743484879

If you have any questions, or need to contact me, email is the best option. You can reach me at eamonn.obrien@asu.edu.

Book Trailer Videos

The Book Trailer videos are complete and are now available to be viewed online.

Adrian - Pendragon

Angelina - Ready Player One

Carly - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 

James - Slaughterhouse-Five

Matthew - Cannery Row

Jane - Goodbye Rebel Blue

Pierre - The Variant Series

If you have any questions, or need to contact me, email is the best option. You can reach me at eamonn.obrien@asu.edu.

The first week is almost over and Humanities has been busy.

We generally start each day with some writing, sometimes on a specific topic or question, other times as a free write, just to get students writing and putting thoughts onto "paper."

To begin the week, students completed a video project where they made a movie trailer to advertise a book they had read recently, requiring them to identify key information, develop a plan of how they were going to communicate with their audience, and then actually identifying images, video clips and audio in order to present their thinking, as well revision and editing for effectiveness. (Once we have viewed the videos in class and critiqued them for learning opportunities, I will post them to the internet and provide links for viewing.)

Currently, we are enjoying having our Irish guests from the DCU program in class each morning, where they are working together with Humanities students on our second project: an exploration of the causes of the American Civil War. This project will not only help students learn about a key point in American history, but also develop skills in communicating complex ideas to an audience they are not speaking with, skills that will be utilized when we begin to write essays, papers and fiction pieces designed to stand alone without spoken explanation.

I look forward to seeing and meeting you next Tuesday at Back to School Night.

If you have any questions, or need to contact me, email is the best option. You can reach me at eamonn.obrien@asu.edu