Courses

Honors coseminars are designed to combine an honors seminar experience with the shared experience of an organized lecture course. Designed typically for 10--15 students, coseminars are taken for an additional 1 credit hour. Coseminars provide honors students with an opportunity to extend their common experience in the course lecture into an enriched interactive, critical thinking opportunity. May be repeated up to 4 total credit hours. Prerequisites: A minimum 3.3 cum GPA is required for this Honors class or you must be part of the first year student group.

Students will develop an appreciation for, and experience with, diverse perspectives. In particular this includes: racial/ethnic, gender, sexual orientation, and class perspectives, for constructing knowledge as they proceed through their undergraduate studies. Three themes provide the framework for the course: education for the next century, the 21st century citizen, and the modern individual in a diverse society. Topics explored include privilege, stigmatization, targeted and nontargeted grouping, and oppression. Engaging in independent research and experiential, empathetic experiences is required. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: human diversity. Prerequisites: A minimum 3.3 cum GPA is required for this Honors class or you must be part of the first year student group.

Through selected readings in classical literature on ethics and through more contemporary readings and films, examines critical ethical issues relating to the competition of ambitions and the alternative styles of choosing between courses of action in a dangerous world. Uses biographies of those whose lives illustrate both the complexities of the struggles and the profundity of possibilities. Considers the unconscious metaphors of national visions and ambitions, the competing ethics of ends and means, the conflicting ambitions in a pluralistic society, and the transcendent ambitions of visionaries. Same as FARR 2660. Approved for arts and sciences CORE curriculum: ideals and values. Prerequisites: A minimum 3.3 cum GPA is required for this Honors class or you must be part of the first year student group.

Studies the major works, figures, and genres of the Bible and attempts to understand what they meant to their own time and why they became so important to Western civilization and contemporary America. Approved for arts and sciences CORE curriculum: historical content. Prerequisites: A minimum 3.3 cum GPA is required for this Honors class or you must be part of the first year student group.

Variety of new courses at the 2000 level. See honors program announcements for specific contents. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Prereq., GPA 3.30 or higher. Prerequisites: A minimum 3.3 cum GPA is required for this Honors class or you must be part of the first year student group.

Required for students who are selected as flock leaders for the Kittredge honors residence program. Teaches skills and techniques to enable them to lead a small group in the unique environment of a residential honors program. May be repeated up to 2 total credit hours. Prereq., consent of Kittredge honors program associate director.

Investigates why Socrates intrigued great writers like Aristophanes, Plato, Xenophon, and Aristotle and why, through his life and execution by the Athenian democracy, he still influences Western ethics, politics, and education and is central to cultural literacy. Approved for arts and sciences CORE curriculum: literature and the arts.

Honors coseminars are designed to combine an honors seminar experience with the shared experience of a lecture course. Designed typically for 10--15 students, coseminars are taken either for an additional 1 credit hour or in place of a recitation. Coseminars are designed to provide honors students with an opportunity to extend their common experience in the course lecture into an enriched interactive, critical thinking opportunity.

Honors women in education and their legacy. Introduces women educators, beginning in the late 19th century, whose significant theories of education and work inteaching have had an impact on all of our lives, in history, and in society. Explores the educational theories and methods of several representative women educators and analyzes them through an investigation of their professional and personal lives. Same as WMST 3004. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: human diversity.

Major historical, psychological, philosophical and personal perspectives on education in general and university education in particular will be developed. Participants will be encouraged to consider how the issues discussed and the ideas developed in the seminar bear on the choices they face in planning their own educations. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomore, Junior or Senior) only.

Intensive practice of expository writing skills, particularly argumentation in longer forms. Course includes extensive practice in researching secondary sources, synthesizing large bodies of information, structuring cogent arguments for diverse sources,etc. Restricted for juniors/seniors or instructor consent required. Approved for arts and sciences CORE curriculum: written communication. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Junior or Senior).

Investigates the application of the theme of the journey to developmental narratives by analyzing modern British and American writings by women. Applies methods from psychology, feminist studies, gay studies, cultural studies to concepts of development, regression, progress, escape. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: human diversity. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomore, Junior or Senior) only.

Investigates special topics in humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Topics vary from semester to semester and from course to course. See Honors program announcements for specific contents. Open to Honors-qualified students beyond the freshman year. May be repeated for up to six credit hours for different topics.

Has modern science proven or validated the mystical religious experience? Or does a basic conflict remain between these diverse human endeavors? The similarities and differences between science and mysticism will be investigated through readings, discussions and practical, experiential exercises. Discussions and exercises will be designed to encourage both an intellectual and a non-intellectual understanding of the course material. Prerequisites: A minimum 3.3 cum GPA is required for this Honors class or you must be part of the first year student group.

This course examines social constructions that lead to productive interactions between and among American social communities. Using case studies and humanistic accounts, students analyze the lived experiences of a unique group or successful citizens who routinely evidence productive practices of multicultural engagement. Through interactions with policy makers and community practitioners, students design and enact activities that allow them to reconstruct their personal patterns of privilege practices of their peer groups in various settings. Prereq., HONR 1810 or demonstrated academic study of race, class, and gender. Prerequisites: A minimum 3.3 cum GPA is required for this Honors class or you must be part of the first year student group.

Variety of new courses at the 4000 level, see Honors Program announcements for specific contents. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Restricted to juniors/seniors or instructor consent required. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Junior or Senior).

Given recent controversies about the roles of women in power, this course re-evaluates heroic traditions as the stories that ground our sense of public endeavor. What do we mean by heroic? What is a heroine? Are heroines different from heroes? Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: human diversity. Prerequisites: A minimum 3.3 cum GPA is required for this Honors class or you must be part of the first year student group.

Discourse analysis critically investigates the founding assumptions by which systems of meaning operate. Its practice is aimed at a rigorous, systematic analysis of both specific cultural issues and the dynamics by which structures of meaning may be maintained or transformed. Coreq., HONR 4056. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomore, Junior or Senior) only.

Help communities in need, with credit hours varying according to time commitment. The practicum provides experiential and intellectual understanding of the discourses and dynamics that maintain major cultural hierarchies of values and of resource distribution. Coreq., HONR 4055. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomore, Junior or Senior) only.

May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Requires approval of Honors Program.