Fall 2005 Honors Courses

New Honors Courses for Fall 2005:

HONR 171 Introduction to Urban Forestry
HONR 248N Extinction Risk: Where Biology, Geography and Mathematics Meet
HONR 248P Beyond 9/11: Stories, Survival, and Resilience
HONR 248R Ethical Issues at the Beginning and End of Life
HONR 248T Re-examining the Harlem Renaissance
HONR 248X Let's Talk about Ocean and Marine Ecosystems
HONR 248Y Design Literacy: Decoding Our Visual Culture
HONR 248Z Nature and Symbolic Act: the World as Creator - Readings in Ralph Waldo, Emerson, Robert Frost, and Wallace Stevens
HONR 268A Terrestrial Energy Resources and Policy
HONR 268C War and the American Experience
HONR 268F World Popular/Folk Music and Politics
HONR 268I Neuroethology: From Neurons to Behavior
HONR 268K Beyond the Hype of Medical Miracles: Stem Cells, Gene Therapy, and Other Cutting-Edge Medical Research
HONR 268L Science and Technology as Themes in Literature and Film
HONR 268M The University as a Cultural Institution
HONR 268Q Political Culture in France from the Old Regime to the French Revolution
HONR 268T The Great Gatsby and American Culture: From the Jazz Age to Bill Gates and the Information Age
HONR 268Y Japan's Silk Road Music: Treasured, Transformed, and Transcedent
HONR 288B The Deep(er) History of Our Culture: Exploring Ancient Inner and Outer Worlds
HONR 288C Victorians in the Looking Glass: Issues of Culture, Class, and Gender Roles in 19th Century English Literature
HONR 288D Mind Your Manners: Civility and Social Reform in American Literature and Culture
HONR 288E Unraveling Genomics: Research Implications, Ethics, and the Future
HONR 288F The Physiology of Exercise

Fall 2005 Courses Which Have Been Offered Previously:

HONR 208C Faith, Fiction, and Film
HONR 208E J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century
HONR 208J From Glass Boxes to Bunkers: Architecture, Power, and Public Policy
HONR 209E Attending the Blockbuster: Understanding the Cultural Impact of Temporary Exhibitions
HONR 209O The Science of Sleep and Biological Rhythms
HONR 209T Cities and the World: Globalization and Urban Development
HONR 209W Strategies of Equality
HONR 217 Life, The Multiverse, and Everything: Developing and Individual Cosmovision
HONR 218C Western Intellectual Heritage: The Hero and Society
HONR 218L Language and Mind
HONR 218T Political Ambition: The Pursuit and uses of Political Power
HONR 219P Do Not Enter: Outsiders in 20th Century American Drama
HONR 219S Black Holes and B-Movies: New Physics and Contemporary Culture
HONR 219Z Languages of the World: How It All Happened
HONR 228A Science and Pseudoscience
HONR 228Q People and Particles: Nuclear Physics and Society
HONR 229J The Death Penalty in the U.S.
HONR 229K Ethnobotany and Magical, Medicinal Plants
HONR 229P Mathematics & Art
HONR 229S Terrorism
HONR 238J Making Public Policy in America
HONR 238Z Understanding the World Through Reading
HONR 239C The Creative Process in Dance
HONR 239D The Language of Visual Communication
HONR239D has been cancelled for the Fall '05 semester.
HONR 239P Higher, Faster, Farther: Case Studies from Aerospace History
HONR 239Q True Confessions: Literature, Film, Television
HONR 239T Revolutions in American Family Life
HONR 239X Nanotechnology: Applications and Societal Implications
HONR 239Z The Metaphors of God: The Bible as Literature
HONR 248O The Military and the Media in American History
HONR 248W America in the 1960's
HONR 249I The Examined Life
HONR 258O Kinesiological Bases of Skilled Performance: Golf
HONR 258T Tools of Fiction: Literature and/as Creative Writing
HONR 258V American Attitudes Toward Warfare and the Military
HONR 258W Exploring Homophobia: Demystifying Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Issues
HONR 258Y Economic Well-Being
HONR 259Q The Mosaic of Identity in Contemporary American Literature
HONR 259S The Body and Literature
HONR 268E Gods, Demons, and Mythology in the Ancient Near East and Egypt
HONR 268J Religion and Progress: Islamic Science, Politics, and Economics
HONR 268N The First Amendment on the Line: Religion and the Public Schools
HONR 268Z Masks, Image, Identity: The Mystery of the Face
HONR 269C Mythology
HONR 269D Health Policy
HONR 278Y Really Good Poems: How Reading and Writing them can Transform Lives
HONR 278Z Race, Class, Gender, Geography and Generation: Society's "Fault Lines" in the News
HONR 279A Games, Game Theory, and Theory of Games
HONR 279P Understanding and Coping with Stress
HONR 279V Imagining God: Theological Explorations in Modern Writing
HONR 279W The Solar System
HONR 288L Medical Devices: Applied Ethics and Public Policy
HONR 289Y Novels and Who We Are
HONR 289Z Opera: What's It All About?
HONR 298A Doctrine and Debate in Selected World Religions
HONR 348J Contemporary Social Issues
HONR 359A Writing Workshop
HONR 359B Alternatives to Violence

FALL 2005 100 AND 200 LEVEL H-VERSIONS

AASP 100H Intro to African American Studies
AASP 202H Black Culture in the United States
BMGT190H Intro to Design & Quality
BSCI105H Principles of Biology I
BSCI 106H Principles of Biology II
CCJS 100H Intro to Criminology & Criminal Justice
CHEM 103H General Chemistry I
ENAE 283H Intro to Aerospace Systems
ENES 190H Intro to Design & Quality
ENGL 101H Intro to Writing
ENGL 391H Advanced Composition
ENGL 393H Technical Writing
FREN 250 H Intro to French Lit.
GVPT 100H Principles of Government & Politics
GVPT 241H Political Philosophy: Ancient & Modern
HIST 111H Medieval World
HIST 282H History of the Jewish People I
ITAL 121H Accelerated Italian I
JWST 234H History of the Jewish People I
LASC 234H Latin American Studies I
MATH 140H Calculus I
MATH 141H Calculus II
MATH 241H Calculus III
MATH 246H Differential Equations For Science & Engineering
MUSC 130H Survey of Music Lit
NFSC 100H Elements of Nutrition
PHYS 260H Physics Vibration Waves Heat Electricity
PHYS 272H Intro to Physics: Fields
PHYS 273H Intro to Physics: Waves
PORT 234H Issues in Latin American Studies I
PSYC 100H Introduction to Psychology
SOCY 100H Intro to Sociology
SPAN 234H Issues in Latin American Studies I
WRLD235H The Power of Water

DESCRIPTIONS OF SELECTED H-VERSIONS

CCJS 100H Introduction to Criminal Justice
An introduction to the administration of criminal justice in a democratic society with emphasis on the theoretical and historical development of law enforcement. Focus is on the principles of organization and administration for law enforcement, as well as functions and specific activities, planning and research, public relations, personnel and training, inspection and control, and new directions and policy formation. Students in CCJS 100H will meet twice a week for lecture and then once a week for a special intensive discussion section with Dr. Fisher-Stewart. This special honors section will emphasize independent thought and is designed to foster informed dialogue and the intelligent exchange of ideas. As a result, topics will be explored with a relatively greater degree of complexity than in the other CCJS 100 sections. This course is open to University Honors Program students only.

ENGL 101H Introduction to Writing
"But I'm in Honors. I already know how to write!"

Honors students know how to write well, but there is more to writing than carefully planned and fluent prose. Expert writers have at their command a range of rhetorical skills informed by an understanding of what is involved in persuasion and argumentation. The Honors section of English 101 offers a rigorous, rhetorically based introduction to college level writing. Students study the art of argument using primary rhetorical texts, both ancient and modern. Readings may include selections from Aristotle, Quintilian, Cicero, Erasmus, and others. Students learn to use computer and library facilities on campus for in-depth, field specific research. Students will produce a considerable body of work demonstrating their rhetorical skills not only through formal academic papers, but also through in-class writing, journal entries, and oral presentations. Through the course, students will gain proficiency in analyzing contexts; in making arguments for precisely defined audiences; and in composing for specific occasions.

Satisfies Fundamental Studies, English

GVPT 100H Principles of Government and Politics
This is an Honors seminar in basic political principles. We consider a wide range of arguments about how a liberal democratic political order ought to work. In doing so, we will consider what it means for the people to govern themselves, what it means to say that we have a wide variety of rights, and what it means to say that we ought to be governed by law. The discussion starts with the most important text in American democratic thought, The Federalist papers, and moves through a set of contemporary texts. We then will discuss the problem that private ownership of the means of production--capitalism--presents for liberal democracy, and consider what kinds of changes can be made in our economic life that might make it more consistent with a liberal democracy. Here we will read such a book as Dahl's A Preface to Economic Democracy.

MATH 141H Honors Calculus II
This is an Honors version of the second semester calculus course for science and mathematics majors. Major topics include: natural logarithm and exponentials; techniques of evaluating integrals; using integrals in a variety of applications (other than computing areas); convergence of infinite series, approximation by Taylor polynomials. Supplementary topics vary with instructor, but may touch on mathematical induction, interation, fractals. Emphasis is placed on challenging students to grow conceptually as well as technically.

PSYC 100H Introduction to Psychology
We will use the Third Edition of Gleitman's Psychology, which is by far the best text in the field. The proportion of discussion vs. lecture will depend entirely on the degree to which students read and prepare assigned material before class meetings. Ideally, formal lecturing will be minimal and the class will participate actively as we go over ideas, theories, and facts as they are introduced by Gleitman. This text is designed for a two semester course (over 600 pages) so the students will not be deprived of an opportunity to read extensively in the subject.

There will be two in-class essay exams (a midterm and a final) and a portion of the final grade will be based on the amount and quality of each student's classroom performance.