CHE
109 General Chemistry/Honors
3 credits
Honors Lec M001: MWF 9:30-10:25,
#11576
Professor Karin Ruhlandt-Senge
This is the first half of a general
chemistry course for students with strong science interests. The emphasis
is on quantitative, physical and inorganic chemistry, with reference to application
in current research. Students should register for this Honors course and an Honors lab. The course is worth four credits including lab.
High-school courses in chemistry and introductory calculus recommended,
but not required.
CHE 129
General Chemistry Lab/Honors
1 credit
Honors lab M001: W 12:45-3:30, #11577
or Honors lab M002: Th 12:30-3:15,
#11578
Professor Karin Ruhlandt-Senge
An introduction to chemical laboratory
techniques. Experiments are designed to provide an understanding of
physical measurements of chemical systems. Topics include surface tension
and viscosity, molecular weight determination, polymer synthesis, thermodynamics
of gases and solutions, chemical equilibrium, biochemical isolation and molecular
absorption spectroscopy. General principles underlying the experiments
are emphasized.
ECN
203 Economic Ideas and Issues/Honors
3 credits
Register for Honors lab M018: WF 10:35-11:30, #18361;
Professor Donald Dutkowsky
You will be auto-enrolled in: Lecture M003: MWF 12:45-1:40 #18344
This course focuses on the foundation
of modern Western economic thought, and a model economists have built on this
foundation as applied to current issues facing individuals and society. Emphasis
in the honors course will be given to applications of the economic model,
related behavioral concepts, institutional features, and economic data to
current or recent developments in the US or world. The course will feature
regular written individual or group assignments for students to apply this
framework to analyze actual problems and issues.
ETS 107/Honors Living Writers
3 credits
Honors section M002: W 3:45 - 6:30 #11706
Professor Charles Martin
On the first day of class the section meets in Gifford Auditorium in H.B.C. Thereafter it will meet in the assigned classroom.
Freshmen only
This class gives students the rare opportunity to hear visiting writers read and discuss their work. The class is centered on the six readings and question-and-answer sessions. Students will be responsible for careful readings of the writers' work. Critical writing and detailed class discussions are required to prepare for the question-and-answer sessions with the visiting writers.
ETS
116 U.S. Literary History
3 credits
Honors section M001: T-TH 12:30 - 1:50 #17372
Professor Amy Lang
From the middle of the nineteenth century into the early years of the twentieth, the U.S. was shaken by popular demands for racial, sexual, ethnic, and economic justice: slaves, free blacks, and white abolitionists challenged the moral and economic underpinnings of Southern slavery and Northern racism; women demanded civic, familial, and economic rights; workers rallied, paraded, and unionized; utopian communities were built and imagined. This course explores the complicated interaction between movements for social reform and literary representation, imagination, and form. Beginning with the most famous-certainly the best-selling-nineteenth-century American novel of social reform, Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, our task will be to consider the role of popular and literary fictions in bringing about new modes of social thinking, in introducing new human subjects, in envisioning new forms of political action. Readings will range widely, from the works of "classic" mid-nineteenth-century authors to works written by free blacks, labor crusaders, feminists, socialists, and utopian thinkers. The closing project for this course will require that you carry what you have learned into the present and consider its implications for current social and literary story-telling.
ETS
152 Interpretation of Drama/Honors
3 credits
Honors section M002: T-TH 2:00 - 3:20 #16547
Professor Sanford Sternlicht
Tragedy is about dying and death. Comedy is about living and life. Surely, Thalia, the muse of comedy, is equal to her sister, Melpomene, the muse of tragedy. Like tragedy, comedy is basically a literary form. Although it is about life, it is not a direct replication of life. Nevertheless, the world of comedy is a real place (except in the Theater of the Absurd), but its characters are generally eccentric. That is why we laugh, and laughter is as cathartic as crying. British playwrights from Shakespeare's time on have written many fine comedies of romance and satire, the two basic forms. This course will concentrate on modern British playwrights as it also discusses general theories of comedy from Aristotle to Freud.
FIA
105 Arts and Ideas/Honors
3 credits
Honors section M018: T-TH 2:00-3:45, # 11748
Professor Sandra Chai
This course is primarily a survey
of the visual arts from the Prehistoric period through the High Renaissance
and Mannerist periods. Emphasis is on art as a reflection of its historical
context. Art as aesthetic object will also be considered. Parallel
phenomena in music and literature may be briefly discussed. The course
requirements include three equally weighted exams, occasional short writing
assignments, and one paper that may be revised for additional credit. There
will be at least one excursion on or near campus.
FRE
201 French III/Honors
4 credits
Honors section M002: M-W 12:45-2:05 and TTh 1:00-2:20, 306A Bowne, #11808
Instructor: TBA
This is an advanced intermediate-level
intensive language course for students who have completed the basic skills
requirement in French or students placed into this level. In addition
to providing intense conversation practice and grammar review, it also serves
as a transitional course between language and introductory literature courses.
The use of films, video, and guest speakers will augment regular assignments.
GEO
219 American Diversity and Unity/Honors
3 credits
M001: M/W 12:45 - 2:05, # 14827
Professor John Western
How do you get a country to tick along, if everyone -- apart from those whose land this was before you came uninvited and dispossessed them -- is from somewhere else? In what were dubbed the "New Worlds" of the Americas and Australia/Oceania, no country has a more diverse set of peoples from various "somewhere elses" than the U.S.A. . So what can hold us together, especially in these times when academic fashion embraces "diversity" and "multiculturalism"? With a perspective of three and a half centuries or more, we shall delve into the cultural making of the U.S.A. Various broad-sweep (and flawed) theories such as "Anglo-conformity", "Environmental Determinism", "Social Darwinism", the "Melting Pot", and "Cultural Pluralism" will be encountered. We shall also meet, at the scale of the individual migrant, what it means to have come to America and to have left a mother country behind: this is something in the experience of all your families (and about which I may directly ask), perhaps in some of your own experience, and certainly that of your instructor. Indeed, my European-ness has been somewhat re-energized by having spent the six months from January through June 2004 in Strasbourg , on the border of France and Germany . Expect some impressions from a different perspective!
As this is a geography course, we shall look at the places America has created here, and how our past and present culture(s) are to be read in the very landscape of those places. As well as an overview of various patterns of the U.S.A. as a whole, we shall look at certain regions of strong characteristics, particularly meaningful in any apprehension of American culture: The Frontier/The West; Southern California ; and the South. Finally, Syracuse itself has much to tell us that is typical of America . You will write a considerable term-paper based on your own fieldwork observations of a tract of this city chosen by yourself.
HNR
240 Metamorphosis in Modern Fiction/Honors
3 credits
M001 T - TH 3:30 - 4:50 #19918
Professor Charles Martin
Metamorphosis---the sudden, inexplicable, and often irreversible transformation from one state of being to another---has fascinated writers and artists from Ovid to Kafka and beyond. Focusing on the nearer end of the spectrum, we will read modern novelists concerned with metamorphosis, including Kafka, Woolf, Calvino, Lem, and Rushdie.
HNR
250 The History and Natural History of Medicinal Plants/Honors
3 credits
Honors section M002: MW 12:45 - 1:40 and F 12:45-5:00, #18886
Professor Ernest Hemphill
Virtually all societies use plants
for medicinal purposes. Moreover, many naturalists and physicians well into
the twentieth century at least dabbled in herbal medicine, and medical plants
and the search for new ones have spurred exploration and commerce from ancient
times to the present. This course will begin with a discussion of how illness
and wellness have been viewed in the past and in other societies, the history
of herbal medicine, and the origin of the modern explanation of diseases.
These issues help define what is meant by a medicinal plant, and delineate
the criteria scientists use to determine whether a medicine is efficacious.
Plants produce a vast array of chemicals (phytochemicals) which affect animals:
some are poisons, others attract pollinators or repel insects, still others
modify animal behavior in other ways, and a few, presumably without the intent
of the plant, are of clear medical benefit. The class will examine some of
these chemicals from the standpoint of the natural history of plants, chemical
ecology, and the evolution of plants and animals. In addition, animals such
as ourselves must avoid being poisoned by the plants we eat, and this has
interesting ramifications in human physiology, choice of foods during pregnancy,
and even how we spice our foods. In a few instances such as digitalis, the
precise mode of action of a phyto-chemical is known at the molecular level.
Examining these allows us to learn something about cell physiology, and to
close the circle between ancient medical healing and the modern understanding
of diseases and drug therapy.
A note on meeting times: The extended three-hour class on Friday will be used as needed for field trips and special classes requiring more than an hour. Most Friday classes will meet 12:45 - 3:00. However, students must be able to attend class at all indicated times.
Topics will include: What is an
illness? What is wellness? The definition of a medicinal plant. The language
of herbal medicine, does language define illness? Cures in search of a disease.
Medical plants and history; voyages of discovery, the Doctrine of Signatures,
herbs and astrology. Ague and the Jesuit cure. Dropsy and the foxglove. The
germ theory of disease and the rise of Western medicine. How do we determine
if a drug is effective? The structure of a plant: the view of the worm, the
view of butterfly, the survival strategy of the plant. The chemical armamentarium
of plants: chemicals that kill, chemicals that modify animal behavior, antimicrobials.
Nutrients, antioxidants, spices. Preventative herbal medicine. The taste of
poison, the liver and detoxification, the value of morning sickness. How we
elude the killer plants. Medicine or poison? The matter of dosage. The mode
of action of ouabain, curare, atropine, scopolamine, opiates, capasaicin:
herbal medicine meets molecular biology.
Texts are likely to include: Judith
Sumner: The Natural History of Medicinal Plants; Mark Plotkin: Tales of a
Shaman's Apprentice. Grading will be based largely on class participation,
class presentations, and written papers. There may be a few quizzes to determine
whether students are learning terminology and mastering important concepts.
Attendance at field trips is required.
Prerequisites: High school biology
and chemistry or permission of the instructor.
HNR 250 Linked Lenses: Science, Philosophy, and the Pursuit of Knowledge
3 credits
M003 T - TH 11:00 - 12:20 #20070
Professors Cathryn Newton & Samuel Gorovitz
Science and philosophy each pursue knowledge, by apparently different approaches. What are the philosophical underpinnings of scientific thought? What are the scientific contributions to philosophical thought? We will consider such questions, with readings by philosophers (e.g., Plato, Hume, and Popper), scientists (e.g., Darwin, Curie, and Einstein), and some contemporary authors (e.g., Richard Feynman, Oliver Sachs, Simon Winchester).
HNR 250 Seminar in Forensic Science
3 credits
M004 MW 12:45 - 2:05 #20102
Professor James Spencer
This Course is designed to explore selected topics of forensic science and their place in the criminal justice system. The students will study case histories and present these studies to the class for discussion. The students will also design and oversee a culminating forensic science experience by working in small groups.
HNR 260 Constitutional Democracy in America
3 credits
M003 T-TH 12:30 - 1:50 #20515
Professor Keith Bybee
This writing-intensive course examines principles and practices fundamental to the American constitutional regime. Readings include primary documents from the American founding; debates from the Civil War era; landmark Supreme Court decisions; and the work of Locke, Tocqueville, and Mill. Special attention will be paid to the ways in which theories of politics have informed the concrete controversies of American politics.
HNR 260 Ethics in the 21st Century: Personal and Social Responsibility
3 credits
M001 T - TH 9:30 - 10:50, #19915
Professor Sandra Hurd
Why be ethical? In this course, we will explore the value of taking responsibility and acting ethically in our personal relationships and professional lives. We will also examine our roles and responsibilities in creating ethical organizations and communities.
HNR 260 Minding Your Brain
3 credits
M002 T-TH 9:30 - 10:50, #20458
Professor Charles Kutscher
Prerequisite: PSY 205 or 209
This course will explore the physiology of the brain and its relationship to human behavior. After providing students with an overview of brain physiology, the class will examine social/psychological issues like stem cell research, drug use and abuse; obesity, and sexual orientation. Students will investigate what we know about brain functioning regarding those issues, then ask whether and how that knowledge might be of use in forming policies regarding them.
HNR 350 Water for Gotham
3 credits
M001 T - TH 12:30 - 1:50 #19920
Professor Chris Johnson
Each day, more than one billion gallons of water flow from watersheds in the Catskills and Taconic Mountains to quench the thirst of New York City . The story of the development of a safe water supply for America 's largest city is a tale of engineering marvel and political intrigue involving some surprising figures from US history. In this course, we will discuss the major historical, political, and engineering issues in the development of water resources for New York City in particular, and learn how engineers plan and develop major water resources projects in general.
HNR 360 Examining Mass Media: Watching the Watchdogs
3 credits
M002 M-W 2:15 - 3:35 #20107
Professor Hubert Brown
This course looks at the functions and practices of the mass media, and an examination of its current challenges. The course examines the social impact of media activities, and the part enlightened consumers of media play in their interaction with mass communications organizations.
HNR 440/ARC 500-07 Le Corbusier
3 credits
M001 T - TH 2:00 - 3:20 # 19756
Professor Bruce Abbey
The Swiss/French architect Le Corbusier (Charles Edouard Jeanneret, 1887-1965) was the most important architect of the 20th century. Painter, poet, architect, urbanist, editor, and much else, his creative work and thought help create and influence Modernism as it is understood today. This course will look at all aspects of his extraordinary range of production and discuss his continuing influence.
HNR 440 Artist as Icon: Media Image & The Creative Spirit
3 credits
M002 Friday 2:15-5:05 #19978
Professor Johanna Keller
How do we think of artists and their art? Are the artists revolutionaries or reactionaries? Celebrities or nonconformists? How do the media interpret creative work and present an artist to the public? And how do artists respond to their media image and participate in its creation? This course examines the lives, creative work and media images of eight 20th century artists: Frida Kahlo, Jackson Pollock, Frank Lloyd Wright, Maria Callas, Glenn Gould, Andy Warhol, Ray Charles and Maya Lin. We will read biographies and journalistic accounts, listen to sound recordings, and view photographs and films in order to analyze the relationship between the artist, creative work, and media coverage.
HST 210 The Ancient World/Honors
Register for Honors discussion section M002: MW 2:15-3:10, #15983
You will be auto-enrolled for Lecture: M001: MW 12:45-1:40, #15981
Professor Michael Gaddis
This course surveys the history of the ancient Mediterranean and Near East , and explores the classical roots of modern civilization. We will begin with the first civilizations of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, the roots of western religion in ancient Israel; then proceed through Bronze Age, archaic and classical Greece, the Persian wars, the trial of Socrates, the conquests of Alexander the Great, the Hellenistic world, the rise of Rome, and end with the fall of the Roman Empire and the coming of Christianity. The course will treat political, social, cultural, religious and intellectual history. We will focus on issues that the ancients themselves considered important - good and bad government, the duties of citizens and the powers of kings and tyrants - but we will also examine those who were marginalized by the Greeks and Romans: women, slaves, so-called "barbarians." The course will emphasize reading and discussion of primary sources, in order to provide a window into the thought-worlds and value systems of past societies. Likely requirements: two or three short papers, midterm exam, participation in discussion sections.
ITA
101 Italian I/Honors
4 credits
Honors Lec M008: TTh 11:00-12:20 and W 10:35-11:30, #15163
Instructor: Jacquelyn Sorci
This is an introductory course
for students with no functional ability in Italian, recommended for students
who have previously studied a foreign language other than Italian.
In this proficiency-based course, there will be ample opportunity to accelerate
the acquisition of listening, reading, writing, and speaking skills.
Class activities are communicative and interactive and conducted in Italian.
Video and multi-media computer work are an integral part of this course.
The course is highly structured. Class attendance is obligatory, and there is a two-hours per week lab
requirement. Testing consists of unannounced quizzes, chapter tests,
a written and oral midterm, and a final.
LIT
226 Dostoevsky and Tolstoy/Honors
3 credits
Honors Lec M002: TTh 7:00-8:20 pm, #18898
Professor Patricia Burak
"The truth. I care a great
deal." Tolstoy's last words set the tone for the depth and breadth
of study in this honors section. Two of the greatest writers in the
world provide material for critical thinking, analysis and increased understanding
of life's greatest questions. Dostoevsky asked, "What is it man fears
most?" In this weekly seminar, we will study this question, among others:
man's search for the meaning of life, the essence of truth in life
and the significance of suffering. Readings include those in the regular
syllabus of LIT 226 plus several other works of both authors. Reviews
of film (video) versions of Anna Karenina , War and Peace and The Brothers
Karamazov further supplement discussion and inspire term paper themes. This will present challenging material for students of literature who are
interested in the philosophical, sociological, spiritual, historical and psychological
dimensions of man's existence as portrayed in great works of literature.
MAX
123 Critical Issues for the United States/Honors
3 credits
Lecture: M001 M 9:30-10:25 #15702
Honors Section M004: W/F 2:15 - 3:10 #12204
Professor Craige Champion
This is an interdisciplinary, team-taught course that focuses on fundamental questions in American democracy. What is fair in a society dedicated to the equality of citizens? How can we effectively achieve the greatest good for the greatest number? How do we understand the relations between equality, liberty, and freedom? How do we adjust traditional concerns to accommodate for changing imperatives? How do we preserve the inheritance of the future while enjoying the present? In other words, what does it mean to be a citizen, both in terms of rights and responsibilities, and the creation of good public policy? These questions press upon us today, but they also rest on deep historical traditions that demand our attention.
Our method of engagement will rely in part on case studies, a well-established tool for learning and policy exploration. Civic participation, education, and the economy are the central topics we will explore. Our primary resources will consist of readings of three major types: those that delineate the cases and their issues; more general explorations of the policy areas; and broader theoretical and philosophical reflections.
MAX 123 and MAX 132 may be counted toward the Arts and Sciences Core Curriculum divisional requirement in the Social Sciences. These courses may be taken in sequence (either course may be taken first), or with other courses as listed in the Core Guidebook under Interdepartmental Sequences in the Social Sciences. Both courses also meet the Writing Intensive and Critical Reflections requirements.
MAX
132 Global Community/Honors
3 credits
Lecture: M001 W 9:30-10:25 #15703
Honors Sec M003: M/W 9:30 - 10:25 #14612
Professor Mark Rupert
The four-unit course is designed to help students become informed about globalization and its consequences. The first begins with a general look at globalization and how it seems to be reshaping our world, then continues with an examination of the free trade notion that is so much at the center of disputes surrounding globalization. The other three units vary each year. They may include globalization's impacts on everyday life, as represented by the workplace, domestic arrangements, and consumption habits; how globalization has generated responses that favor both wider political unity and disunity; and why globalization has spawned protest movements and how they in turn use it to their advantage.
MAX 123 and MAX 132 may be counted toward the Arts and Sciences Core Curriculum divisional requirement in the Social Sciences. These courses may be taken in sequence (either course may be taken first), or with other courses as listed in the Core Guidebook under Interdepartmental Sequences in the Social Sciences. Both courses also meet the Writing Intensive and Critical Reflections requirements.
NEU
211 Introduction to Neuroscience/Honors
3 credits
Lec M002: TTh 2:00-3:20 and TTh 3:30-4:50 #16230
Professor Steven Chamberlain
This course will explore foundations of neurobiology beginning with cellular neurobiology, moving on to integrative systems and ending with higher brain functions. Emphasis will be on understanding of nervous system operation through lectures, discussion and demonstrations. We will explore such questions as: Can dogs see color? Is there a cure for jet lag? Can computers replace brains? What causes a migraine headache? Why are more men color blind than women? Can you view the inside of the human brain as it works? Do cats see better than you do? Why does a bird change its song? Is your eye like a camera? Prerequisite: high school biology and chemistry.
PAF
101 Introduction to Analysis of Public Policy/Honors
3 credits
Lec M002: MWF 12:45-1:40, #16514
Honors discussion section M003:
M 1:55-3:55, #16515
Professor William Coplin
Register for section M002 and discussion
M003 will auto-enroll.
Develop research and problem solving skills to create government policies that address current social and economic problems facing the United States. Students study policy problems of their choice.
PHI
109 Introduction to Philosophy/Honors
3 credits
Honors lecture M001: TTh 11:00-12:20, #12287
Professor Ernesto Garcia
This will be a topical introduction
to philosophy: we will learn what a philosophical problem is, and what
methods philosophers use to solve such problems, by attempting to answer several
(three or four) philosophical questions. The approach will be analytical
rather than historical: we'll be focused more on the truth of the matter
than on what X, Y, or Z said about it. Possible topics include: personal identity over time, the mind-body problem, the existence of God,
skepticism about the external world, and time-travel.
PHY 215 General Physics / Honors and Majors
3 credits
Honors lecture M001: TTh 11:00-12:20, #20306
Professor Gianfranco Vidali
YOU MUST ALSO TAKE PHY 221, General Physics I Lab.
This is an enhanced version of General Physics
I, a calculus-based introduction to physics
emphasizing topics important in modern
research and technology, for students with
strong science interests. Among the topics
typically addressed are Newtonian mechanics,
chaos, sounds, and fluids. Coreq: Mat 285
or 295, PHY 221.
PSY
209 Foundations of Human Behavior/Honors
3 credits
Honors section M001: T-Th 8:00 - 9:20 #12493
Professor Max Malikow
Honors section M002: TTh 11:00 - 12:20 #18891
Professor Anne Fontana
This course fulfills the introductory requirements for all additional coursework in psychology. It is designed to give the student a comprehensive overview of the field of psychology, and will cover some of the following topics: history of psychology, the human nervous system, learning and conditioning, emotion and motivation, developmental psychology, social psychology, perception, personality, and diagnosis and treatment of behavior disorders. Course will include discussion and field-based observation.
REL 191
Religion, Meaning and Knowledge/Honors
3 credits
Honors discussion section M002: MW 11:40-12:35 and TTh 9:30 - 10:50 #18940
Professor Edward Mooney
We will take religion to be a search
for ways to answer our need for meaning, our need for self-knowledge, and
our need to find a place in the vast history of the earth and cosmos. If religion
is this search for meaning, self-knowledge, and place it might be fulfilled
in whole or in part, or it might seem to end in futility. If we have faith
or trust or hope that this search is not futile, this can be the core of religious
faith.
The books we read are texts that
over time have helped people define what this search for religion, meaning,
and knowledge, is all about: how things fit together for us -- and how things
so often fall apart. These texts will likely include: The Stranger, Camus;
The Book of Job, from the Old (First) Testament; The Narrow Road to the Deep
North, Basho; The Tao Te Ching, Lao Tsu; Fear and Trembling, Kierkegaard;
The Life of St. Teresa; War Music from Homer's Illiad; The Inward Morning,
Bugbee; On Religion, Caputo; Love's Work, Rose.
We will see some films, including:
The French Lieutenant's Woman, Babette's Feast, and The Apostle. (You may
want to see these early, on your own, on home video. Only portions will be
viewed in class.)
SPA
101 Intensive Spanish I/Honors
4 credits
Honors sec M004: MW 10:35 - 11:30, and TTh 9:30 - 10:50, #12594
Instructor: Professor Sorci
This is an introductory course
for students with no functional ability in Spanish, recommended for students
who have previously studied a foreign language, other than Spanish.
In this proficiency based course, there will be ample opportunity to accelerate
the acquisition of listening, reading, writing and speaking skills.
Class activities are communicative and interactive and conducted in Spanish.
Video and multi-media computer work are an integral part of this course.
SPA
102 Intensive Spanish II/Honors
4 credits
Honors sec M001: MW 10:35-11:30 and TTh 11:00-12:20, #12603
Instructor: Professor Sorci
This is a continuing course for
students who have successfully completed SPA 101 or students with several
years of high school study of Spanish. Small class size provides for
ample opportunity to develop and reinforce listening, reading, writing and
speaking skills at the Intermediate level. Class activities are communicative
and interactive and conducted in Spanish. Video and multi-media computer
work are an integral part of this course.
SPA
201 Intensive Spanish III/Honors
4 credits
Honors sec M001: MW 10:35-11:30 and TTh 9:30-10:50 #12615
Instructor: Dennis Harrod
This is an intermediate level class
which reinforces intermediate level skills in listening, reading, writing
and speaking while moving students towards the Advanced level of proficiency. All essential language structures are reviewed and recycled.
Authentic texts, both literary and informational, and sophisticated cultural
materials serve as the context. Class activities are communicative
and interactive and conducted in Spanish. Video and multi-media computer
work are an integral part of this course.
SPA 202
Intensive Spanish IV/Honors
4 credits
Honors section M004: TTh 9:30 - 10:50 and W 10:35-11:30, #12628
Instructor: Dennis Harrod
This course links the language-intensive
lower division courses with the literature, culture and/or content-intensive
upper-division courses of the Spanish curriculum. SPA 202 focuses on the systematic
development of advanced level skills and prepares students for the increasingly
diversified upper division courses. Students deal with authentic readings,
both literary and informational, and with sophisticated cultural materials.
SPA 202 is a pre-requisite for courses numbered 300 and above and is the first
course that counts toward the major and minor.
WRT
109 Writing Studio I/Honors
3 credits
Sec M060: MWF 11:40-12:35, 304C Bowne, #12859
Sec M080: MWF 12:45-1:40, #12860
Sec M200: TTh 8:00-9:20, #12861
Sec M240: TTh 11:00-12:20, #12862 Service Learning Section
Sec M260: TTh 12:30-1:50, #12863
Sec M300: TTh 3:30-4:50, #12864 Service Learning Section
Student writers investigate and design writing processes and practice an array of informal writing strategies that strengthen learning and composing. They sharpen their critical edges as readers, writers, and thinkers. The studio classroom forms an active intellectual community collaboratively pursuing a common topic of inquiry by unraveling complex texts, arguing relevant issues, and researching key problems. Born out of this work is students' keen sense of themselves as developing writers within the University, writers who are skilled at assessing and revising their writing both in and outside the studio classroom.
Two sections, M240 and M300, will include service learning opportunities. Service learning sections require 20-25 hours of community work at local not-for-profit agencies, many of which are located on or near campus (a car is not a requirement for community service). The Writing Program works with the University's Mary Ann Shaw Center for Public and Community Service to provide placements that are both interesting to the students and meaningful to the work of the writing course. The community work students do is part of the course work, not "extra work," and is fully integrated into reading assignments and class discussions, as well as the writing that students do for the course.
