These are among the courses Michael Bess teaches: 

• Honors 182-25: How Malleable is Human Nature?  Brains, Genes, Culture, Biotechnology (2012)
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• Honors 182-21: Neuroscience and Emergent Properties: How does a brain beget a mind?  (2010)
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• Honors 182-19: Leonardo da Vinci  (2008)  
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• Honors 181-39: Ethics of Human Biological Enhancement  (2007)  
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• Honors 184-15: Boundaries of the Human in the Age of Robots and Clones  (2004)
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• Honors 184-13: Subhuman, Superhuman, Robot: Humanity in the Age of Machines  (2002)
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• European Studies 201: Twentieth-Century Europe: Society and Culture
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• History 101: Western Civilization Since 1700
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• History 188/History 172: World War II
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• History 200: The History Workshop (Undergraduate seminar on Historical Theory and Methods)
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• History 225: Europe, 1918-1945
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• History 226: Europe Since 1945  
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• History 285a: Human Biological Enhancement
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• History 295: Research Seminar on the History of Environmentalism
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• History 301: The Art and Craft of Teaching History (Graduate seminar and workshop)
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• History 324A: Twentieth-Century Europe (Graduate-Level Historiographical Survey)