Honors Course Descriptions:
Wintersession 2007 & Spring 2007

Electronic overrides or consent of Honors College may be received at the DHC front desk. In the case of consent of instructor, the student needs to fill out a paper Registration Overrideform and the instructor needs to sign it. Also, the student needs to take the signed form to Griz Central to have it recorded. In either case, seats must be available for the override to be valid. This is due in part to federal law such as safety fire code regulations.

 

Wintersession Courses 2007 (Register on line at www.umt.edu/wintersession)

HC 395.80 Service Learning: Urban Social Issues/Honors (2 cr) Vernon 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/5 10:00-1:00 pm DHC 120

This course is designed to introduce students to various social issues faced by urban communities and provide students with hands-on community service experience addressing the issues. This service learning course will begin with four seminars on campus intended to prepared and educate students for their volunteer service experience. Students will then travel as a group to an urban area service site out of state where they will volunteer for five days with nonprofit organizations in the city. There will be ample opportunity for students to gain knowledge and skills through their volunteer service that can be used in any local community to address social problems. Free time will be allotted on the service trip. Students are required to attend all pre-trip seminars, maintain a learning journal of their service experience, and submit a 5-6 page paper on a topic of their choice related to the service experience.
**Group travel between 1/07-1/17/2007

 

MCLG 319.90 UM Students in Rome/Honors (1 cr.) Gillison

**Course open to students accepted in the Wintersession 2007 Study Abroad Program in Rome, Italy.

MCLG 395.80 The Camps Through Russian and Polish Memoir & Film/Honors (3 cr) Renner-Fahey 1/2-1/19 1:00-4:10 pm DHC 117

Students examine Soviet “labor camp: and Nazi “death camp” experiences. Coursework focuses on memoirs and films dedicated to these experiences, and participants analyze and discuss the literature and film in depth. Assessment of student performance will be based on class discussion, tests, and response papers. Russian authors include Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Varlam Shalamov, and Lydia Ginzburg, while Polish authors include Tadeusz Borowski and Gustav Herling-Grudzinkski. All texts are read in translation and films are subtitled.

 

Honors Courses, Spring 2007

HC 121L sections 81-83 Ways of Knowing/Honors (3 cr.) Johnson, Kinch, Fandozzi, Spruell
(Open only to Davidson Honors College students.)

What can we know, and how do we come to know what we think we know? This course will draw from primary texts in literature, religion, philosophy, psychology, and biology to explore a variety of answers to these fundamental questions.

 

HC 195 sec. 80 Ursa Major/Honors (3 cr) Tucknott

Introduction to Student Leadership

This service-learning class provides student with a broad overview of leadership development through readings and experiential activities. Students will learn person leadership styles and become familiar with a variety of leadership models. The student will explore self-discovery, clarify personal values and analyze their own strengths and weaknesses in leadership roles and develop a personal leadership philosophy. Using this understanding of personal leadership and knowledge of theory, the course will progress into the basics of leadership within a community, locally, and globally. Students will utilize their learned skills and individuality to create progressive change in their personal lives as well within affiliate organizations. The course is structured into two distinct sections. Class time will be divided equally between leadership discussion and leadership practice. As a team, students will be required to develop, design, and implement a community project. Students will be required to compare and contrast leadership theories presented in class, clearly articulate a leadership philosophy, and produce a leadership journal reflecting all aspects of the class.

 

HC 195.81 Ireland Study Abroad (1 cr) Pengelly Drake

 

HC 395.80 Advocate Leadership Seminar/Honors (2 cr.) Jed Liston

Obtain consent of instructor.

 

HC 495.80 Research Portfolio Seminar (2 cr.) McCaffrey

This course, taken in conjunction with independent study or thesis credits, will teach you how to structure and focus your research through the creation of a research portfolio. The portfolio will include the kinds of finished and unfinished documents professional researchers normally produce as they work towards a research article: a research prospectus, an annotated bibliography, outlines, reading notes, a process journal, and an abstract of the finished paper. Although each student in the class will pursue a distinct research topic, how to apply the intellectual strategies common to researchers in any discipline will be a central theme of the course. Students will also elect to improve their research capabilities in at least one subarea: writing, computer applications, library technology, or a methodology specific to their project. The final research product will not count toward your grade in this course, although student presentations and multidisciplinary conversations in class will.

 

Free-Standing Honors Courses:

 

ANTH 101H.80 Introduction to Anthropology/Honors (3 cr.) G. Kerr

A survey of anthropology which introduces the fundamental concepts, methods, and perspectives of the field. This will include the description and analysis of human culture, its growth and change, and a study of the nature and functions of various social institutions. Emphasis will be placed upon human cultural and bio-physical development. The honors section will examine the similarities and differences between human societies from a cross-cultural perspective in order to gain a greater understanding of issues of cultural diversity. This course will have a strong hands-on component with in-depth discussions.

 

ASTR 142N The Evolving Universe/Honors (4 cr.) Diane Friend

New technologies and space-based observations have fueled a renaissance in our understanding of the universe. From the discovery of extrasolar planets, to theories postulating the properties of dark matter, dark energy, and accelerated expansion, we will explore many of the exciting, recent advances in the field of astronomy. How has the intricate interplay between theory, observation, and experiment evolved our understanding of the universe? What fundamental questions remain? This class will stress a highly interactive environment where laboratory, computer, and astronomical observing activities are fully integrated into the course. This course satisfies the

natural science with lab requirement and provides a more in-depth alternative to Astronomy

132/135 with a greater emphasis on recent developments in the field.

BADM 257.80 Business Law/Honors (3 cr.) Staff

BIOL 110N.80 Principles of Biology/Honors Lab (4 cr.) Staff

Linked to BIOL 100N.00

BIOL 110N.81 Principles of Biology/Honors Lab (4 cr.) Staff

Linked to BIOL 100N.00

BIOL 223.80 Genetics and Evolution (Discussion)/Honors (4 cr.) P. Spruell

Linked to BIOL 223.01 (Genetics and Evolution Lecture course)

Genetics and Evolution 223 explores the principles and mechanisms of inheritance and evolution. The focus of the class is population genetics, the fossil record, macro evolution, speciation, extinction, systematics and molecular evolution. Honors section 80 will cover assignments at an accelerated rate allowing us to consider the material in greater depth. In addition, we will discuss the application of these techniques and concepts to various fields in the biological sciences using both scientific and popular literature as examples. Prerequisite: BIOL 221, good standing in the Davidson Honors College or permission of the instructor.

 

BIOL 472.80 Teaching Anatomy & PhysiologyII/Honors (3 cr.) K. Westphal

Obtain consent of instructor.

This course is open to students who received an ‘A’ or ‘B’ in their undergraduate anatomy and physiology courses.  This select group of students performs cadaver prosections; assists in the preparation and grading of demonstrations and laboratory teaching materials; and, provides laboratory anatomy and physiology instruction to undergraduate students.  Biology 312 and 313, or equivalent, plus consent of the instructor is required.

 

BIOL 495.80 Tutoring in Anatomy & Physiology/Honors (3 cr.) Westphal

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This course is open to students who received an ‘A’ or ‘B’ in their undergraduate anatomy and physiology courses.  This select group of students performs cadaver prosections; assists in the preparation and grading of demonstrations and laboratory teaching materials; and, provides laboratory anatomy and physiology instruction to undergraduate students.  Biology 312 and 313, or equivalent, plus consent of the instructor is required.

 

BIOL 495.81 Teaching Anatomy & Physiology/Honors (1 cr.) Westphal

Obtain consent of instructor.

This course is open to students who received an ‘A’ or ‘B’ in their undergraduate anatomy and physiology courses.  This select group of students performs cadaver prosections; assists in the preparation and grading of demonstrations and laboratory teaching materials; and, provides laboratory anatomy and physiology instruction to undergraduate students.  Biology 312 and 313, or equivalent, plus consent of the instructor is required.

 

COMM 360.80 Forensics/Honors (1-3 cr.) Morton

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The focus of this class will be instruction in Parliamentary Debate. Parliamentary Debate is an impromptu style of team debate (two on two). Throughout the semester, students will develop skills of argumentation. For example, students will learn and apply skills of rapid question and answer, advocacy, refutation, and procedures of organized debate. Students enrolled in Communication 360 will also participate in short preparation speaking events (e.g. Impromptu & Extemporaneous). These events are designed to increase knowledge on current events, practice speech construction, and improve a persons ability to articulate a stance on a topic. This class will also provide an opportunity for students to compete at Northwest Regional forensic tournaments, as well as organize and participate in on-campus forensic events. Those traveling to tournaments should expect to pay a portion of the travel costs, up to $50 per tournament. Fundraising may offset this charge.

 

Communication 360 is a graded or pass/no pass course that is offered for variable credit (1-3). All students are expected to register for 2 credits unless they can present a compelling need for another arrangement. This course can be repeated for up to nine (9) credits. For further information contact Ryan Morton at ryan.morton@mso.umt.edu

 

COMM 377.80A Rhetoric, Nature, and the Environment/Honors (3 cr.) Schwarze

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COMM 420.80 Advanced Organization Communication: Crisis/Honors (3 cr.) Larson

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COMM 480.80 Rhetorical Construction of Women (3 cr.) Hayden

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In early the nineteenth century United States it was considered inappropriate for women to speak in public. Women were not allowed to vote, they had no access to higher education or the professions, even the right to own property was denied them. Over the course of the century, many women fought to alter women’s situation; their efforts resulted in what arguably has been the longest social movement in our country’s history – U.S. feminism’s “First Wave.” This course is designed to explore the rhetoric of First Wave Feminism, placing particular emphasis on the specific rhetorical action taken by and on behalf of women. We will examine elements of the early women’s rights movement, focusing our attention on women = s rights conventions, justifications for women = s activism, marriage and divorce, suffrage, reproductive rights, the link between gender and race, and femininity in Montana.

The method through which we will explore these issues is rhetorical criticism—the close analysis of primary texts, including speeches, pamphlets, and articles. The course objectives are threefold: 1) to explore the changes women sought; 2) to explore the means through which they attempted to achieve their goals; and 3) to gain an understanding of the intersection between rhetorical theory and social movements. The course will be run as a seminar. Students will be assessed on the basis of class participation and the completion of several papers. This course should be of interest to students interested in women’s and gender studies, feminisms, social movements, and nineteenth century U.S. history, among other topics.

 

COMM 495.80 Special Topics: Practical Issues in Organizations (3 cr.) Bach

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This course is designed to introduce students to the theoretical and practical issues involved in communication training and consultation. Following an introduction and overview of several theoretical models, students will become familiar with the "nuts and bolts" of communication training and consultation. Carrying out a consultation project (e.g., planning, execution, and evaluation) will sharpen both the theoretical and applied issues explored during the semester.

COUN 475.80 Forgiveness and Reconciliation/Honors (3 cr.) Gary W. Hawk

This course explores the process of forgiveness and its potential outcome in reconciliation. During the semester we will learn to recognize and dispel misconceptions about the process of forgiveness while working toward an understanding of what helps people, communities, and nations repair ruptured relationships. We will place emphasis on the role of choice rather than obligation, memory rather than forgetfulness, and the costliness of revenge as a way of dealing with resentment. We will investigate the part that communication plays in both creating grievances and resolving them. We will also develop a sharp eye for inadequate forms of apology and what makes for a satisfying one. In the age of the “War on Terror,” students are required to keep in mind both the interpersonal and global dimensions of forgiveness and reconciliation. We will learn to recognize course themes as they are found in films, essays, poems, and excerpts from fiction, looking at forgiveness and reconciliation from as many angles as possible. This course blends personal reflection, active discussion of course materials, and writing assignments in which the student is expected to demonstrate an ability to recognize and articulate course themes, integrate theory and practice. In the event that the class fills, preference (on the waiting list) must be given to upper division and graduate students.

 

ENEX 101.80 Honors English Composition (3 cr.) Johnson

 

ENLT 222L.80 British Literature 18 th Century/Honors (2 cr.) Browning

This course is a survey of works composed during the first millennium of English literary history. Beginning with Beowulf, we will read our way through a selection of literature representing the Middle Ages, the Renaissance (or early modern period, as we will sometimes consider this and the following two periods), and the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. An important aim of the course will be to learn how the authors we read engage with and respond to the salient political, ecclesiastical, economic, and social conditions of their own times. Intrinsic to this project will be our study of the defining features of different literary genres (epic, lyric, discursive prose, drama, and novel) and modes (heroic, tragic, comedic, satiric, pastoral, and romance), and how authors used, adapted, or outright challenged these conventions. Required texts: The Norton Anthology of Literature, volumes A, B, and C; the Norton Critical Edition of Shakespeare's Hamlet.

 

ENLT 223L.80 British Literature 19 th & 20 th Century/Honors (3 cr.) Economides

The 19 th and 20 th Centuries were periods of profound and increasingly accelerated social change in Britain and in the west more generally. In this course, we will examine how British Literature reflects the exciting (and often traumatic) unfolding of modernity, from the Romantic period right up to the postmodern era. We’ll be focusing on how the Romantics initiated revolutionary social ideas such as “universal” human rights, individualism, marriage based on love and the value of childhood, then explore ways in which such concepts influenced later 19 th-Century reform movements. In the 20 th-Century, we’ll consider the crisis in Romantic ideology as reflected in literary modernism and postmodernism, including the deconstruction of universal notions of selfhood in the work of writers influenced by Marxist, Feminist and Postcolonial theory. We’ll conclude the course by asking to what extent we live in a post-romantic era today, and (if so) what distinguishes postmodernism from modernism. Throughout the course, we’ll discuss how major aesthetic concepts (including the sublime, the gothic, social realism, the avant-garde, surrealism, pastiche) reflect the broader social developments which distinguish modern culture.

 

ENLT 224L.80 American Literature to 1865/Honors (3 cr.) Knight

Representative texts from the pre-colonial period through the Civil War.

 

ENLT 225L.80 American Literature since 1865/Hon. ( 3 cr.) Itagaki

This course will examine a broad spectrum of important literary texts by U.S. writers after 1865.  We will look at how these novelists, poets, playwrights, and essayists use literature to reflect and rework their contemporary historical and literary contexts.  The course introduces students to reading the principal forms of literature (poetry, prose, fiction, and drama) analytically.  By strengthening knowledge of literary interpretation and analysis, this course will encourage students to examine what writers convey through their fictional works and how to analyze the ramifications and influence of these literary texts on their critical thinking. 

ENLT 320.80 Shakespeare/Honors (3 cr.) Hunt

The first three weeks of this course will introduce Shakespeare's language, stagecraft, historical and intellectual contexts, and personal preoccupations, looking at many short passages excerpted from various plays, and some of the sonnets.  Afterwards, we will study three plays very closely, spending approximately one month on each.  Although the total amount of reading in this part of the course will be relatively small, I will expect you to read carefully, imaginatively, and recursively, revisiting the same texts over and over to explore the “infinite variety” that is Shakespeare’s hallmark.  Regular written and oral assignments involving memorization, performance, close reading, and critical and historical research will encourage you to work deeply into the details of the texts, and two mid-length (7-10 pp.) papers will require you to construct a sustained argument about a play, on a topic of your choice.  A final exam will test your knowledge of the three main plays.

 

ENLT 321.80 James Joyce & Ulysses/Honors (3 cr.) Hardy

James Joyce’s Ulysses is considered by many to be the most important literary text of the 20 th century. This is a complex masterpiece of literary art that has fascinated scholars and general readers because of the inexhaustible possibilities of interpretation, the myriad allusions to most of the Western canon, and especially the pleasure that is realized by a close reading.

The eighteen episodes, each written in a different style, are based on corresponding episodes of Homer’s Odyssey, and are loosely applied to one day in the life of an extraordinary yet ordinary Dublin man named Leopold Bloom. It is also a continuation of the story of Stephen Dedalus, the young artist in Joyce’s somewhat autobiographical A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

James Joyce has included in Ulysses allusions and references to virtually all of the Western canon, such as the Old and New Testaments, Plato and Aristotle, Saint Augustine and Saint Thomas Aquinas, Dante, Milton, and Shakespeare.

This is also an important text for anyone interested in Irish Studies, as Joyce tells us much about Irish history, the Irish Literary Revival, and Irish myth. Though Joyce physically left Ireland in his early twenties, his heart and soul remained Irish, and he wrote passionately about his beloved Ireland.

This course will be taught at the Davidson Honors College, though it is open to all interested students. It will be taught as a seminar, with discussion instead of formal lectures. Mostly, we will have a thoroughly enjoyable time exploring the myriad possibilities of the text, described by Joyce himself on page 345 as “…this chaffering all including most farraginous chronicle.”

 

EVST 495.80 Environmental Justice & Sustainable Development: Views from Latin America (3 cr.) Spencer

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A 1-credit reading class to prepare for the EVST-sponsored 2-week Travel Seminar to Nicaragua, May 21 -June 3, 2007.  The primary focus of the travel seminar is to examine first hand Central American views on Environmental Justice, Human Rights and Sustainable Development within the context of Economic Globalization in Nicaragua.  The purpose of this reading course is to prepare ourselves about the issues currently confronting Latin America in general and Nicaragua in particular environmental justice, human rights and sustainable development.  While priority will be given to travel seminar participants, space permitting other students who do not intend to take the travel seminar are welcome to enroll.

 

GEOL 101N.80 General Geology Lab/Honors (1 cr.) Hendrix

Geology 101 is intended to be a companion laboratory for students simultaneously enrolled in the 2-credit Geology 100 lecture class. In the honors section of Geology 101, students will learn to identify and recognize the main materials (rocks and minerals) that compose the Earth and interpret the genesis of common rocks based on analysis of their texture and composition. The course also will examine the Theory of Plate Tectonics, with laboratories that focus on earthquakes, geologic structures, and geologic time. Lastly, the course will focus on the modern and ancient records of Earth’s surficial processes, such as erosion and sediment deposition, and the means by which those records form the basis for understanding the history of the Earth.

 

HIST 108H.80 Honors European Civilization/Modern Europe (4 cr.) Staff

This course examines main currents in European social, economic, political, and cultural history from the mid-eighteenth century to the present.  The approach is topical, focusing on key personalities, events, and problems encountered in both Western and Eastern Europe, including Russia/USSR, during the period under review.  Slides, film, music, and literature complement the lectures.  Maps and overhead lecture outlines are frequently utilized.  Modernization theory will serve as the primary analytical tool in interpreting the history of this period. There will be two Midterm Examinations and a Final Comprehensive Examination.

 

HIST 155H.80 Honors American: 20 th Century (4 cr.) M. Mayer

This course covers the period from 1896 to the present.  It examines the social, cultural, economic, political, and intellectual forces that have shaped the United States since the Industrial Revolution.  General topics include: business and labor in industrializing America; immigration; changes in gender roles and family; the evolution of a consumer society; economic developments; foreign policy; politics and adjustment to change; and changing cultural patterns.  The course focuses on several main themes, including:  the nationalization of culture; the struggle for racial equality; the changing role of women; developments in politics; major trends in foreign policy; the emergence of a consumer society; and the continuing influence of the social, cultural, and political conflicts of the 1960s through today.  In short, students will study the origins of the society in which they live and, through that study, come to understand more fully the society in which they live. 

 

HIST 155H.81 Honors American: 20 th Century (4 cr.) J. Wiltse

 

HIST 495.80 War and Memory/Honors (3 cr.) West

Crosslisted AS 495.80 and MANS 495.80

The course addresses the powerful role that war plays in shaping images of ourselves and national myths.  It will use the humanities—literature, film, and art—to highlight the human dimensions of war, which often contrast with the master narratives found typically in textbooks, diplomatic, and political history.  We will study three wars, the Asia Pacific War (World War II), the Korean War, and the Vietnam War, with resources that reflect the very different American and Asian memories of the war, including some of the classics in literature (Asian classics are in translation).  I will spend some time creating the historical and cultural contexts for each of the wars.  Students are asked to make short formal presentations (power point) and write four papers, each approximately six pages long, based on the readings and films.  No prerequisites, except serious commitment and eagerness to work in a seminar framework—all crew, no passengers—although solid grounding in American history and some previous exposure to Asia would help.

 

JOUR 165.80 Current Events/Honors (2 cr.) M. Downs

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This course will be a weekly review of news events: local, national and international, political, financial, scientific and cultural. From our classroom, we'll travel around the world and through time to explain the history behind current events (i.e. why do Palestinians object to Israeli plans to build a security fence around Israeli settlements), identify the personalities who often fill our news diet, and decipher the language the press uses to talk about news (What is bipartisan legislation? What does "Hamas" mean? What is a hardline theocracy?). The course will be limited to 35, and I'll be using Powerpoint presentations in the lectures ("This is a map of Kashmir. You can see that it is situated between three nuclear powers.") Students will also work in groups to make presentations on issues or hotspots that regularly appear in the news (Hong Kong, the Indian Trust Fund, Northern Ireland's religious conflicts, Cuban-U.S. relations, and Colombia’s civil war).

 

LS 152L.80 Introduction to the Humanities/Honors (4 cr.) Vanita

General Lecture R 11:10-12 ULH 101 or R 7:10-8 pm SS 352

This course focuses on texts and ideas that have informed the Western world from ancient times to the late Roman/early medieval period. Many of our current ideas concerning the privileging of word and text, the importance of reason and logos; the different concepts of the divine, the role of women in hierarchical systems; our ideas of justice and law, what is heroic, what is tragic, who is important in society, who is inside and who is other, and how to construct social and cultural identities all come from these seminal texts that we will discuss together. All the texts are provocative and open to many kinds of interpretation. In this course, we will try to open up these “old” texts to multiple viewpoints by first trying to place them in their own historical milieu and time and then by discussing the myriad ways these texts speak to us, thousands of years later. From the ancient Hebrews, we will read Genesis, some psalms and prophets from the wisdom literature, and Job; from the Greeks, we will read one of the most important epics (Odyssey), the tragic plays of Sophocles’ Oedipus and Antigone, lyrical poetry including some of Sappho’s work; philosophy from the Platonic dialogues; and from the early Christian period, we will read the Gospels of the New Testament and sections of St. Augustine’s famous autobiography Confessions.

Class discussion will be lively, sometimes controversial, and always expected. Your opinions count; this class is fundamentally about you and your encounters with these texts: How do you respond to these important ideas from our own tradition? What parts of them do you value and cherish, which do you reject, which do you think need some serious and thoughtful revision to lead us into the future, a future of hope and possibility and not despair and cynicism? Expect a healthy dose of reading and writing, full engagement with these classic texts, each other, and me; expect your writing and ideas to be subject to critical scrutiny. Expect challenges, questions, and intellectual excitement – all in an atmosphere that will try to engage you with ideas that have resonated with people in the Western world for millennia. Bring to class a sense of curiosity and humor and a spirit of inquiry.

 

MAR 495.80 Documentary Production/Honors (3 cr.) O’Brien

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This is a hands-on production course that will introduce the students to the fundamental principles and practices involved in documentary production.   We will assess various approaches to documentary, and students will learn how to plan, shoot and edit a documentary of their own.   The class will be broken down into production teams, and each team will be required to produce a short documentary to be shown at the “We Did it Ourselves” film festival at the end of the semester.   Those registering for the course must first obtain consent of the instructor.

MATH 153.80 Honors Calculus II (4 cr.) Sriraman

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Co-requisite: Math 294.80 Honors Calculus Seminar (1 cr.) Sriraman

Honors Calculus 2 is the second semester of the Honors Calculus sequence. This course will explore rigorously notions of indefinite and definite intergrals, sequences and series and applications. Emphasis will be laid on understanding the historical and conceptual foundations of Calculus concepts. Students will gain experience with constructing mathematical proofs.

MCLG 170.80 Classical Mythology Honors Seminar (1 cr.) L. Gillison

Crosslisted LS 170.80

Co-requisite: MCLG 160.01L or LS 160.01L

(MCLG 170L.80 AND MCLG 160L.01 or LS 160.01 count as one honors course.)

This one-hour class will follow a seminar model. Each student will choose a topic from the focus area of MCLG 160 and will do independent (but guided) reading on the topic. Throughout the semester, students will report to the class on their research progress and receive suggestions from the members of the class. There will be brief, focused writing assignments and a concluding oral presentation. The course aims to give the interested student a chance to investigate and discuss a chosen topic more deeply than is possible in the large lecture class. This is a one-credit course and the assignment load will reflect that.

 

NAS 100.80 Intro to Native American Studies/Honors (3 cr.) Staff

NAS 303E.80 Ecological Perspectives/Honors (3 cr.) Clow

This is a one-semester course on cultural ecology designed to acquaint the student with tribal environmental ethics. To do so, we will have to understand that farming, hunting, and fishing require more than just empirical skills, there is a belief and philosophy behind these acts of production that require careful understanding an appreciation. That requires knowledge of tribal societies and what they constitute as foundations of ethical behavior. Therefore, we will want to understand Native American tribal views of the physical environment in which they lived and currently live and how their views are tied to acts of production. The course will focus on tribal philosophical views of the land; tribal use of the land, including tribal use of fire, tribal moral concepts of hunting, and tribal horticulture; and the moral tribal rights to continue using resources from the physical environment.

PHYS 141N.80 Einstein's Relativity/Honors (3 cr.) Jacobs

Einstein’s special theory of relativity is one of the greatest scientific discoveries, yet most people have only a vague notion of what relativity is.  In this course, industrious students with a working knowledge of algebra and trigonometry and a modest exposure to calculus will gain insight into the counterintuitive nature of space and time.  Einstein's relativity theory is introduced from a modern, geometrically oriented perspective, using space-time diagrams throughout, and emphasizing the deep connection between time and space. We will carefully develop the Lorentz transformation equations and use them to explore several of the apparent "paradoxes" of the theory.  We then will apply the theory to practical real-world problems of high-energy particle physics, where the use of relativity is essential.

 

PSC 335.80 American Foreign Policy/Honors (3 cr.) Punke

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PSC 467.80 Advanced Non-Profit Management/Honors (3 cr.) Palaia

PSc 467 (Advanced Nonprofit Administration and Social Change) continues the study of nonprofit administration begun in PSc 466. In this class we will concentrate primarily on strategic planning, fundraising, grantwriting and financial management. Students will be required to collaborate with a nonprofit organization to apply, in a real-world situation, what they learn in this class. PSc 466 (or instructor's consent) is a prerequisite.

 

PSYC 301.80/81 Personalized Student Instruction/Honors (3 cr.) L. Conway

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This is course provides proctor (discussion leaders and instructor assistants) experience and training for the PSYC 100 class. It is an excellent initiation to teaching and provides a platform for developing one's skills in public speaking, teaching experience, experience with quiz construction, preparation for the subject version (in psychology) of the graduate record exam (GRE), and an opportunity to work with members of the Psychology Department. It has a prerequisite of PSYC 100 and is by consent of instructor only. Consent is handled by Prof. Luke Conway in the Department of Psychology.
 

WBIO 245.80  Science Writing/Honors  (3 cr.) Staff***

***course substitutes for FOR 220 (technical writing)***

***course counts as a general education writing course***

In this course, we will focus on two things: improving the quality of written work and developing skills so that the process of writing is more comfortable.  Topics to be covered include audience, purpose, tone and formality, word choice, sentence structure, organization of material, abstracts, introductions, discussions and conclusions, how to reference material, and tables and figures. We will discuss writer’s block, the value of rough drafts and early criticism, how to edit, how to offer and respond to criticism, and how to write for a deadline.  Students will be asked to write briefly and often.  Some assignments will be used to practice specific skills, while others will be targeted for University Relations publications, newspapers, and radio spots.  Students will also write a short funding proposal, make oral presentations in class, and tutor high school students in science writing.  There will be regular readings from both the primary scientific literature and texts about science writing.  Lectures will be supplemented with presentations by professional science writers.