2007 FALL HONORS COURSE OFFERINGS:
LAS 150H SC1
Enduring Questions in an Intercultural World 3 credit hours J. Morris
This course is only open to students formally accepted into the Honors Program starting Fall 2007. This course is a common experience for all students. It investigates cultural differences and explores the influence of culture upon human values and perceptions. Students will read influential texts from the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Honors students will also participate in either a course related study tour, or a service learning project, or a scientific investigation.
LAS 150H S01
Enduring Questions in an Intercultural World 3 credit hours R. Molmen
This course is only open to students formally accepted into the Honors Program starting Fall 2007. This course is a common experience for all students. It investigates cultural differences and explores the influence of culture upon human values and perceptions. Students will read influential texts from the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Honors students will also participate in either a course related study tour, or a service learning project, or a scientific investigation.
LAS 150H S02
Enduring Questions in an Intercultural World 3 credit hours M. Mattern
This course is only open to students formally accepted into the Honors Program starting Fall 2007. This course is a common experience for all students. It investigates cultural differences and explores the influence of culture upon human values and perceptions. Students will read influential texts from the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Honors students will also participate in either a course related study tour, or a service learning project, or a scientific investigation.
LAS 150HS03
Enduring Questions in an Intercultural World 3 credit hours M. Stiner
This course is only open to students formally accepted into the Honors Program starting Fall 2006. This course is a common experience for all students. It investigates cultural differences and explores the influence of culture upon human values and perceptions. Students will read influential texts from the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Honors students will also participate in either a course related study tour, or a service learning project, or a scientific investigation.
HON 200-PSY/NRO/ENG 263H D. Hoyt
Narratives and Neurons: Stories of damaged brains 4 credit hours A. Mickley
Core Academic Skills: Problem Solving, Writing
Students must be enrolled in the Honors Program or have a B-W GPA of at least 3.5. Stories of damaged brains will be an interdisciplinary, team-taught course that examines clinical and cognitive neuroscience through reading, interpreting, and writing clinical case studies. Readings will be selected from a growing literature that documents details about individuals with brains damaged by developmental defects, disease, or trauma. Students will develop interviewing and writing skills by composing their own case studies of people with neurological disorders.
HON 250 S01
Problem Solving 4 credit hours E. Meyer
Core Academic Skills: Problem Solving
Students must be enrolled in the Honors Program or have a B-W GPA of at least 3.5. The student will develop his/her problem solving skills using numerous games and puzzles as well as selected problems from the fields of mathematics, physics, and probability. No previous training in these subject areas is necessary. The purpose of the course is to develop the student’s mental strength and mental stamina and thus prepare the student for success in the 21st century.
HON 250 S02
Portraits of the Artist, Perfecting Life Through Art 4 credit hours J. Feldman
Core Academic Skills: Problem Solving, Writing
Students must be enrolled in the Honors Program or have a B-W GPA of at least 3.5. A study of aesthetics through the minds of artists portrayed in literature and film to discover the significance of the creative impulse in ourselves.
Refer to the Registrar website for complete information on all courses listed.
The courses for Honors Program freshman are:
LAS 150H S01 R.Molmen MACS 147 MWF 10:40-11:30
LAS 150H S02 M.Mattern MC 22 TTh 1:00-2:15
LAS 150H S03 M.Stiner KAMM 216 MWF 2:00-2:50
LAS 150H SC1 J. Morris CLLC 2nd MWF 10:40-11:30
Upperclass student courses:
HON 200-PSY/NRO/ENG 263H Hoyt/Mickley MC 16 MW 1:00-2:40PM
HON 250 S01 E. Meyer MC 22 MWF 8:00-9:05AM
HON 250 S02 J. Feldman KULS M-TH 2:00-2:50PM
2008 SPRING HONORS COURSE OFFERINGS:
HON 151 S01
Enduring Ideas: Conceiving Violence 4 credit hours S. Oldrieve
Prerequisite: LAS 150H
Core Academic Skills: Writing, Critical Thinking
This course is open only to students formally accepted into the Honors Program starting Fall 2006, or Fall 2007, and who have taken LAS 150H. This course explores how studies in the Humanities disciplines can help us answer enduring questions about human violence. Why do humans commit violence against each other? How do humans react to violence among themselves? What efforts have been made to contain violence? What caused those efforts to succeed or fail? We will look at the ways in which literature, history, art, music, philosophy, and religion from Roman times through the Age of Enlightenment address these questions and suggest solutions to the enduring problem of human violence.
HON 151 S02
Enduring Ideas: Service Learning 4 credit hours C.Evans
Prerequisite: LAS 150H
This course is open only to students formally accepted into the Honors Program starting Fall 2006, or Fall 2007, and who have taken LAS 150H. The focus of this course is on service learning, a form of experiential education that allows students to explore the conncections between the theoretical world of classroom learning and the practical needs of the community. You will be able to test skills and facts learned in the classroom.
HON 200 A01
Directed Readings 4 credit hours Staff & K. Durst Prerequisite: LAS 150H
Students must be enrolled in the Honors Program or have a B-W GPA of at least 3.5. This intensive seminar course is intended primarily for seniors and juniors, however, sophomores and freshman with permission of their advisors may enroll. The course will require considerable reading. Heavy emphasis will be placed upon interactive discussion so sections are purposefully small. The specific readings will be selected by the three faculty participants and will therefore vary from semester to semester. The course will be repeatable.
HON 200 B01
Directed Readings 4 credit hours Staff & K. Durst Prerequisite: LAS 150H
Students must be enrolled in the Honors Program or have a B-W GPA of at least 3.5. This intensive seminar course is intended primarily for seniors and juniors, however, sophomores and freshman with permission of their advisors may enroll. The course will require considerable reading. Heavy emphasis will be placed upon interactive discussion so sections are purposefully small. The specific readings will be selected by the three faculty participants and will therefore vary from semester to semester. The course will be repeatable.
HON 200 /PSY 263H / REL 293H 4 credit hours C. Levin J. Gordon
Exploring Meaning and Purpose
Prerequisites: LAS 150H or HON 100
Core Academic Skills: Ethical Impact, Social Interaction
Students must be enrolled in the Honors Program or have a B-W GPA of at least 3.5. It is the intent of this course to tackle the question of meaning through the use of film and readings in Religion, Philosophy and Literature. The topics of consciousness, death, evil, gender and sexuality, friendship, family, and community will be explored as they relate to the question of meaning.
HON 250 S01
Problem Solving 4 credit hours E. Meyer
Core Academic Skills: Problem Solving
Students must be enrolled in the Honors Program or have a B-W GPA of at least 3.5. The student will develop his/her problem solving skills using numerous games and puzzles as well as selected problems from the fields of mathematics, physics, and probability. No previous training in these subject areas is necessary. The purpose of the course is to develop the student’s mental strength and mental stamina and thus prepare the student for success in the 21st century.
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275 Eastland Rd.