Have you heard about the thing called the Higgs boson in the news? (You may have also heard it being referred to as "the God particle". But after this class, you will know how it got this name and why physicists do NOT like it.) What about the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)? In this class, I will give an overview-style introduction to the field of particle physics, a field of physics that strives to answer questions like "What are the fundamental constituents of nature?", "What are the fundamental interactions in nature?", and "How do we know about all these?".