Course Offerings
Spring 2012 Courses
General Education Courses
HON 100 Honors Introduction to Human Communication
Gen. Ed. Category: Required Skills and Competencies
TR 2:00 p.m.-3:15 p.m.
This course is designed with two primary goals. First, it introduces you to the field of human communication and provides you with the background to pursue upper-level courses in communication. Accordingly, this course focuses on communication contexts, vocabulary, and basic theories of the discipline to provide you with a foundation for advanced study. In addition to public speaking, we survey important features in the study of all human communication, including language, conflict, climates, culture, and gender, and we locate specific study within the contexts of interpersonal and group communication. Second, as an introduction to a humanistic field of study, this course seeks to provide application of theory in order to further your skills as communicators and abilities as critical thinkers. Consequently, this course focuses on experiential learning in order to demonstrate the purpose and practicality of academic inquiry.
HON 123 Honors World History II (2 sections)
Gen. Ed. Category: Required Skills and Competencies
Dr. Chandrika Paul
MWF 9:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
MWF 10:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
HON 130 Honors Introduction to Philosophy
Gen. Ed. Category: A
Dr. Douglas Birsch
TR 9:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
HON 244 Honors Introduction to Geology
Gen. Ed. Category: C
Dr. Thomas Feeney
MWF 10:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
HON 279 Honors U.S. Government and Politics
Gen. Ed. Category: D
Dr. Steven Lichtman
MW 2:00 p.m.-3:15 p.m.
HON 102 Honors Introduction to Women's Studies
Gen. Ed. Category: E
Dr. Rebecca Ward
TR 11:00 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Upper Division Courses
HON 392 Honors Seminar: Heroines and History
Dr. Christine Senecal
T 6:30 p.m.-9:15 p.m.
Counts as one of the required Honors seminars. Open to Honors sophomores, juniors, and seniors and other students by permission of the instructor. Counts as major credit for History majors and minor credit for Women's Studies minors. Please contact Dr. Klein for more information regarding how the course will count in your specific program of study.
Heroines and History is an interdisciplinary course examining these two categories. In it we will examine women in historical and literary context, and address questions such as "How does our understanding of a heroine change according to the time, place, culture, or society in which she lived? What difference does it make if the heroine is fictional or historical? What happens when a heroine (or any woman) transgresses her prescribed gender roles? How or why is she praised or condemned for such transgression? How do the attributes of a heroine reflect the historical circumstances of womanhood in a given time or place? What difference does genre make? How do fictional and historical texts either complement or contradict one another? What about biography? Can we ever get a "true" picture of a historical woman? Should we try?" Students will complete research papers of their own formation addressing some of these issues.
PLS 393 Model Organization of American States
Dr. Mark Sachleben
MW 3:30 p.m.-4:45 p.m.
Counts as one of the required Honors seminars. Open to Honors sophomores, juniors, and seniors and other students by permission of the instructor. Counts as major credit for Political Science majors and minor credit for International Studies minors. Please note that there is a required application process for this course.
The Model Organization of American States (MOAS) is a simulation that allows students from several universities from the Western Hemisphere to come together and discuss problems and topics that affect countries in the Americas. In order to prepare for the simulation, students spend the semester researching the country that they will represent, the OAS, and the issues that confront the region.
Prior to the beginning of the simulation, students receive a briefing at the embassy or mission of their country. Oftentimes this briefing is from a high-level representative of their country and affords students the opportunity to engage in a question and answer session with a person who is actually working on the issues that the students are researching. Work sessions occur in a hotel conference center and at OAS headquarters in Washington, D.C. The students work on topics as diverse as economic development and planning, security, international law, human rights, education, social issues, labor practices, and environmental protection.
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Fall 2012 Courses
General Education Courses
HON 100 Honors Introduction to Human Communication
Gen. Ed. Category: Required Skills and Competencies
This course is designed with two primary goals. First, it introduces you to the field of human communication and provides you with the background to pursue upper-level courses in communication. Accordingly, this course focuses on communication contexts, vocabulary, and basic theories of the discipline to provide you with a foundation for advanced study. In addition to public speaking, we survey important features in the study of all human communication, including language, conflict, climates, culture, and gender, and we locate specific study within the contexts of interpersonal and group communication. Second, as an introduction to a humanistic field of study, this course seeks to provide application of theory in order to further your skills as communicators and abilities as critical thinkers. Consequently, this course focuses on experiential learning in order to demonstrate the purpose and practicality of academic inquiry.
HON 106 Honors WIFYS (2 sections)
Gen. Ed. Category: Required Skills and Competencies
Dr. Sharon Harrow
MW 2:00 p.m.-3:15 p.m.
MW 3:30 p.m.-4:45 p.m.
Honors Writing Intensive First Year Seminar focuses on preparing Honors students to be effective writers in their own disciplines and in the Honors Program. Students will be introduced to the elements of professional discourse in their own discipline so they are prepared to participate in that discourse as undergraduates.
Students will research and write an exemplary essay in their discipline and will learn about academic venues for disseminating their research, including undergraduate academic conferences and journals. Students will also practice becoming public intellectuals--scholars who understand the importance of civic engagement. They will be able to translate and share their disciplinary findings with a wider audience by communicating the results of their research in a public forum.
HON 122 Honors World History I (2 sections)
Gen. Ed. Category: Required Skills and Competencies
Dr. Christine Senecal
MWF 10:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
MWF 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
History is the study of the past, but it is certainly not immutable. What college freshmen were required to learn in their courses a few generations ago has changed considerably. Obviously, the past has not changed, but what historians have thought is important for you to study certainly has. To illustrate, in this course we will focus on important trends in the history of the world, beginning with humanity's earliest origins and ending around 1500 of the Common Era (C.E.). In other times and places, the stress of undergraduate history has been on Western Europe. Thus, we can see that even though the past might not change, history--the study of the past--does, depending on who tells the story.
HON 111 Honors Introduction to Interdisciplinary Arts
Gen. Ed. Category: B
Dr. Ted Carlin
TR 11:00 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
HON 145 Honors Environmental Biology
Gen. Ed. Category: C
Dr. Heather Sahli
TR 2:00 p.m.-3:15 p.m.
HON 141 Honors World Geography
Gen Ed. Category: D
Dr. Alison Feeney
R 6:30 p.m.-9:15 p.m.
Honors Intro to Psychology
Gen Ed. Category: E
Dr. Ronald Mehiel
MW 3:30 p.m.-4:45 p.m.
Upper Division Courses
HON 274: Honors Selected Topics: Election 2012
Dr. Alison Dagnes
T 6:30 p.m.-9:15 p.m.
Counts as one of the required Honors seminars. Open to sophomores, juniors, and seniors.
HON 440: Seminar in Business and Society
Dr. Wendy Becker
MW 2:00 p.m.-3:15 p.m.
Counts as one of the required Honors seminars. Open to all Honors juniors and seniors. Should be taken by all Honors juniors and seniors who are majoring or minoring in business.
This course focuses on the management of ethical conduct
and social responsibility in business organizations. You will learn how to
think about and manage your own ethical conduct, the conduct of the people who
work for you, and the social responsibility of the organization. Learning will
take place through reading, lectures, audiovisual presentations, guest
speakers, class discussion, case studies and written exercises, including a
research project.