Spring 2006 Registration Information
Spring 2006 Seminars
ANT/HST 145 Historical Anthropology/Honors
CHE 119/139 General Chemistry/Honors & Majors
ECN 203 Economic Ideas and Issues/Honors
ECN 310 Economics in History: Rosie the Riveter/Honors
ETS 153 Interpretation of Fiction/Honors
ETS 154 Interpretation of Film/Honors
FIA 106 Arts and Ideas II/Honors
HNR 260/WSP 200 History of Women's Suffrage Movement/Honors
HNR 340 Introduction to Acting/Honors
HNR 340 Evolving Law and Contemporary Society/Honors
HNR 340 Folk Arts & Oral Epic of India /Honors
HNR 360 Building w/Conscience/Honors
ITA 102 Italian II/Honors
LIT 227 Pasternak and Solzhenitsyn/Honors
MAX 123 Critical Issues for the U.S./Honors
MAX 132 Global Community/Honors
NEU 211 Introduction to Neuroscience/Honors
PAF 101 Introduction to Analysis of Public Policy/Honors
PHI 109 Introduction to Philosophy/Honors
PHI 209 Introduction to Moral Philosophy/Honors
PHY 216 General Physics II/Honors
PSC 129 American National Government and Politics/Honors
PSY 209 Foundations of Human Behavior/Honors
REL 114 The Bible/Honors
SPA 201 Spanish III/Honors
SPA 202 Spanish IV/Honors
WRT 209 Writing Studio 2/Honors
WSP 200/HNR 260 History of Women's Suffrage Movement/Honors
HONORS COURSES:
ANT/HST 145 Historical Anthropology/Honors
3 Credits
M004 M 9:30 - 10:25 #34165 (HST 145: M004 #31973)
Lecture MW 12:45-1:40
Professor Doug Armstrong
Register for discussion M004; section M001 will auto-enroll. Discussion sections will meet the first week of class.
This course explores the role of history and archaeology in our understanding of 17th- to 19th- century Europe, Africa, and America. It examines historical archaeology as a mechanism to critique perceptions of the past; firsthand record ethnic groups and cultural settings not recorded in writing are a particular focus.
CHE 119 General Chemistry/Honors & Majors
3 credits
Lec M001: MWF 10:35-11:30, #31503
Professor Karin Ruhlandt-Senge
Chemistry 119 is a general chemistry course intended for honors students or students who expect to major in chemistry or a related discipline and for students with a strong background in science. Topics included this semester are physical aspects of chemistry. We will discuss in detail the differences between the different states of matter, gases, liquids and solids, talk about various aspects of equilibria, understand the speed of a chemical reaction when we discuss chemical kinetics, and end the semester with a short insight into descriptive chemistry, when we discuss the chemistry of the s and p block elements and look at some aspects of transition metal chemistry. Many aspects of the material discussed in CHE106/109 will be the basis for this course.
This class should be taken together with a laboratory class, Chemistry 139, a one credit course. Please note that grading for CHE 119 and CHE 139 are completely independent.
CHE 139 General Chemistry Lab/Honors
1 credit
Lab M001: W 2:15-5:15 pm, #31504
Professor Karin Ruhlandt-Senge
Lab M002: T 2:00-5:00 pm, #35971
Professor Karin Ruhlandt-Senge
CHE 139, taught concurrently with CHE 422/622, is a laboratory course accompanying the lecture, CHE 119. This course is an introduction into chemical laboratory techniques. Groups consisting of CHE 139 and CHE 422/622 (Advanced Inorganic Chemistry) students will be conducting original research. Activities will include a literature search, writing a research proposal, conducting the proposed research, and summarizing the results in a paper and a research presentation. Techniques will encompass modern synthetic methods (inert gas techniques), and a variety of analytical and physical methods typically not available to General Chemistry students such as IR, NMR, UV-Vis, X-ray crystallography.
ECN 203 Economic Ideas and Issues/Honors
3 credits
Section M014: MW 8:00-9:20, #36812
Professor Timothy Smeeding
This course has as its goal the understanding of the rudiments of economic theory and its application to public policy problems. As an introduction to the economic way of thinking and the tools of applied economics, this course applies the scientific method to the analysis of the question: How do individuals, firms and society, via government, make choices in the face of scarcity? The course develops a model of production, distribution and consumption in a modern society based on exchange through markets. It moves to an investigation of the economic rationale for government and public policy. The course reveals the workings of a market-oriented economy and illuminates economic policy debates in such areas as health care, inequality, poverty, discrimination, trade policy and education. There are no course prerequisites.
ECN 310 Economics in History: Rosie the Riveter
3 credits
Section M001: MW 12:45-2:05, #37986
Professor Jerry Evensky
The objectives of this course are:
To understand two classic stories about values and choices: An economic story represented by Gary Becker's Economic Approach to Human Behavior and a social story represented by Berger and Luckmann's The Social Construction Reality.
To thoughtfully address the following question: Do we learn to value/choose from our social context (are values/choices socially constructed?), do we determine what we value/choose based on utility maximization (are values/choices an economic optimization process?), or is value/choice determined by some combination of these?
To further develop your ability to research a topic and present your position in a persuasive paper by: Efficiently finding useful sources, taking effective and efficient notes, using the information you accumulate to imagine and develop your own representation of an answer to the question we are addressing, and developing a logical presentation of your representation.
To write a high quality research paper on values/choices using the values/choices of those women represented by image of Rosie the Riveter as your empirical base: What motivated these women to move into and then out of the traditionally male sectors of the labor market over the course of the World War II years?
ETS 153 Interpretation of Fiction/Honors
3 credits
Section M001: MWF 9:30-10:25, #31696
Professor Robert Gates
This section of "Interpretation of Fiction" will take up the subject of fictional characters who are in some way or another trying to "interpret" the "fictions" of their lives. We will look at characters who confront the experience of a "self" that is expressed, revealed, or acted out but is felt to be "other" than their already known experience of self--who they think they "are," their constructed fiction of a "self." The notion that an "other," previously unknown, self may become known to us by speaking or acting through us derives from Freud's discoveries that the "self" of every person is not simply our conscious thoughts, ideas and self-perceptions, but includes a vast area of unconsciousness of which they usually are unaware. We will read novels and short stories in which such characters try or fail to come to terms with the expressions, verbal or otherwise, of these unknown "other" selves. These expressions will range from memories and dreams to compulsive behaviors, lies, fantasy figures, artistic expressions, seeing "aliens," and spontaneous speech. What these "self-expressions" all have in common is that they are initially strange and incomprehensible (i.e. "unreadable" or "fictional") to the very people who would seem to be their "authors." We will see that when characters fail to read or interpret these strange "fictions" from their other or unknown selves, they remain stuck in a tragic plot, but that when they learn how to interpret these fictions, the literary genre that results is a romance or comedy.
ETS 154 Interpretation of Film/Honors
3 credits
Section M001: MWF 12:45-1:40, Film: M 7:00-9:50 pm, #39467
Professor Steven Cohan
This course is an introduction to the interpretation of film. Accordingly, the course is not an overview of the filmic medium, film genres, film history, or film masterpieces. Rather it emphasizes, introducing students to the basis of, film analysis. Using films selected because they illustrate certain issues of interpretation, the course combines close attention to the aesthetic, formal, and rhetorical aspects of film with an investigation of the social and cultural contexts that shape how we make sense of and take pleasure from films. We shall also devote attention to questions of history: How may one interpret a film in relation to its historical context-and to our own? Film history incorporates not only the films that have been produced over the past one hundred years, but also an understanding of how the practice of movie going and filmmaking has transformed during that time. This course is recommended for students wishing to take more specialized and advanced ETS courses in film studies.
Monday evening film screenings are required.
FIA 106 Arts and Ideas II/Honors
3 credits
Honors Lec M018: TTh 3:30-4:50, #31742
Professor Sandra Chai
FIA 106 is a survey of key concepts and works of painting, sculpture, and architecture in Europe from the Baroque period through the twentieth century, and in the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Emphasis is on art as a reflection of its historical context as well as aesthetic object. Works of music and literature that parallel major developments in art may be briefly considered. Course requirements include three tests, a short paper, and occasional short homework/discussion assignments. There will be at least one excursion on or near campus. Students need not have taken FIA 105.
HNR 260/WSP 200 History of Women's Suffrage Movement:
Through the Letters of Matilda Joslyn Gage
3 credits
M001: W 7:00-10:00pm, #37145
Cross-listed as WSP 200, Sec M003: #40224
Instructor: Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner
In the area where the woman's rights movement had its origin, we'll trace the history of its development. Videos, field trips, readings, individual research, practical experience, web searches, and classroom lecture/ discussions will be the vehicles for our pursuit. The foreground focus will be on Matilda Joslyn Gage, a woman equally important with her more recognized counterparts, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. She will be the lens through which we explore the backdrop, the standard historical analysis of 19 th century U.S. feminism. You will learn about Gage up-close and personal, through working with her correspondence, which has never been published.
We will explore
• why Gage got written out of history by challenging religious fundamentalists and their effort to destroy religious freedom
• the campaign of non-violent civil disobedience for the vote which Gage masterminded
• her influence on her son-in-law, L. Frank Baum's writing of his 14-volume Oz books
• how the woman's rights movement took form in the territory of the Haudenosaunee, the six nations of the Iroquois confederacy, where women live with far greater status and authority than in the non-native world.
The legacy of radical reform in this region will provide a context for understanding the woman's movement. We'll look for the passion of the movement. What inspired these women and their male allies to stand up to the dictates of church and state alike in their demand that the world be transformed; where did they get their courage? How did they hold up under the ridicule, resistance and backlash? What were they like personally? Letters tell that story.
You'll also have an opportunity to be part of the creation of history as, working in partnership with the other students, you will read, data enter and interpret the unpublished letters of Matilda Joslyn Gage. Your work will be part of the process of preparing these letters for publication. You will play an integral part in writing this woman back into history as you study about her.
HNR 340 Introduction to Acting
3 credits
Section M004, T TH 3:30-5:20 39702
Hutchings Aud; Hutchings Ctr.
Professor Geri Clark
This course is an introduction to acting for non-drama students; no previous theater experience is necessary. The course will include basic group and individual exercise and improvisations in vocal, physical, and emotional relaxation, concentration and dramatic action. An excellent introduction to theater acting and for honing public presentation skills.
HNR 340 Evolving Law and Contemporary Society
3 credits
Section M002, M W 3:45-5:05 # 37118
Professor Hannah Arterian, Dean of the College of Law
Law changes society and is profoundly influenced by society. In this course, several faculty members of the College of Law and other distinguished legal thinkers will approach a variety of topics related to the interaction between law and society. Dean Hannah Arterian will preside throughout the term. It is anticipated that the topics will be wide-ranging. The course will require in depth preparation and significant informed participation. In addition, a series of short papers based upon the material covered in class and the issues raised by the classroom experience will be required. Enrollment is limited. Students seeking additional information can contact Dean Arterian, at arterian@syr.edu .
HNR 340 Folk Arts & Oral Epic of India /Honors
3 credits
Lec M003: M 3:45-6:45, #39599
Professor Susan Wadley
In Indian society, arts, oral texts, and religious traditions are intimately combined in folk performances such as those accompanying scrolls that are 'read' by a lone male singer, in stories told about gods and goddesses that are painted by women on the walls of bridal chambers, in puppet performances that endure into the night, and in myriad other ways. This course explores some of these traditions, while also teaching about caste, varied religious traditions, gender, the social lives of the rural masses, and of change- in design, maker, performance style.
We will learn
• about shadow puppets from Kerala and Andhra Pradesh, both southern states
• about string puppeteers from the desert state of Rajasthan
• about the makers and singers of 25 foot scrolls called Par, also from Rajasthan
• about the female painters of a tradition called "Mithila", line drawings on walls and now paper, from the state of Bihar
• on male epic traditions of strong goddesses and upstart kings from an area near the Taj Mahal
• epic stories such as the Ramayana, and much more...
We will have access to SU's fine collection of South Asian Folk Arts, as well as two local private collections. You will also get an opportunity to create your own epic and folk traditions, whether oral or visual.
Meets with Soling 300, M008
HNR 360 Building with a Conscience:
The Synergies of Historic Preservation and Sustainable Design
3 Credits
M001 T-TH 3:30-4:50, #39706
January 14-15, 2006 Pre-semester seminar (Saturday afternoon through Sunday evening)
Professors Elet Callahan and Gary Radke
Start the spring semester with a two-day seminar introducing historic preservation, sustainable design, and the non-profit organization with which we will work during the semester. Seminar participants will visit sites developed with the intent to preserve the natural and built environments and meet with professionals involved in these efforts. During the semester, we will explore the values underlying historic preservation and sustainable design, identifying ways in which these objectives reinforce and support each other, and examine local, national, and international illustrations of "building with a conscience."
Our partner non-profit agency is Grace Episcopal Church. Located in the university neighborhood, the church was founded in 1871 and has been listed in the National Register of Historic Places since1973. Grace is a diverse, socially active community struggling to survive, in part due to the burdens imposed by its building. The class will work with Grace members to research and organize its archives, which are housed in the Special Collections Resource Center of the Syracuse University Library and include correspondence related to the civil rights movement in the 1960s. The class will also conduct an energy audit of the facility and explore other environmental design and use strategies.
This course is team-taught by a professor of art and architectural history in the College of Arts and Sciences and a professor of law and public policy in the Whitman School of Management.
Building with a Conscience will be limited to twenty students. Qualified students who are not enrolled in the honors program may be admitted at the discretion of the instructors.
ITA 102 Italian II/Honors
4 credits
Lecture M005: TTh 11:00-12:20 pm in 210 Hinds and W 10:35-11:30, #36419
Instructor: Jacqueline Sorci
This is a continuing proficiency-based course which develops communicative abilities in speaking, listening, reading, and writing in culturally authentic contexts. Activities are conducted in Italian. Prereq: ITA 101 or admission by placement testing.
LIT 227 Pasternak and Solzhenitsyn/Honors
3 credits
Lecture M002: TTh 7:00-8:20 pm, #38771
Instructor: Patricia Burak
Two renowned Nobel Prize winners, Boris Pasternak and Alexander Solzhenitsyn, have explored the meaning of life in their great novels, Dr. Zhivago and The First Circle , the two main texts of LIT 227. In addition, students read biographies of both authors, and Solzhenitsyn's first novel, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich . We study the themes of revolution, war, communism, prison, love, family, and fidelity in the context of the life experiences of Pasternak and Solzhenitsyn and the characters of these novels. Pasternak's poetry, and Solzhenitsyn's own prison experience elevate these novels to the ranks of world famous literature. Students make oral presentations, write papers and do projects which thoroughly integrate the themes of these novels to the times in which they were written, and the reality of current times.
MAX 123 Critical Issues for the U.S./Honors
3 credits
Lec M001: M 9:30-10:25, #32167
Professor Robert McClure
Sec M008: MW 12:45-1:40, #32173 (HNR section)
Professor Freedman
Register for one Section M008, Lecture M001 will auto-enroll.
MAX 123 is an interdisciplinary, team-taught course concerned with 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? What does it mean to be a citizen, both in terms of rights and responsibilities, and the creation of good public policy? These questions rest on deep historical traditions that demand our attention.
The specific occasion for our consideration of these questions is the condition of social and economic inequality in the United States . Over the past 30 years, the U. S. has been marked by a rise in economic inequality, and in comparison with most other advanced Western nations, the U.S. is more unequal. Our recent experience with inequality invites reconsiderations of economic and educational opportunity, political opportunity, access to health care, race relations, and more generally, the relations between inequality, liberty, and power. The course presumes that these questions and issues do not have obvious answers, that they are open to sustained debate and necessarily involve trade-offs, and that crafting specific policies to address social problems is the most difficult task of all.
Our method of engagement will rely in part on specific case studies embedded in broader topics, a well-established tool for learning and policy exploration. Citizenship, education, and race are the topics we will explore; the specific subjects of our deliberations are campaign financing; school choice in public education; admission to institutions of higher learning, with SU as the example; and affirmative action. Our primary resources will consist of readings of three principal types: those that delineate the cases and their issues; more general explorations of the policy areas; and broader theoretical and philosophical reflections.
More information is available on the web . MAX 123 is a required course for the Policy Studies major. 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
Lec M001: W 9:30-10:25, Max Aud, 32176
Professor Mark Rupert
Sec M002: M F 9:30-10:25, #32177
Professor Mark Rupert
Register for one Section M002, Lecture M001 will auto-enroll.
MAX 132 is designed to help you become informed about globalization and its consequences. Four units make up the course. The first begins with a general look at globalization and how it seems to be reshaping our world. We then examine the free trade notion that is so much at the center of disputes surrounding globalization. The second unit is concerned with globalization's impacts on everyday life, as represented by the workplace, domestic arrangements, and consumption habits. In the third unit we'll look at three case studies to see how globalization has generated responses that favor both wider political unity and disunity. The final unit is devoted to globalization and protest movements -- why it's spawned them and how they in turn use it to their advantage.
MAX 132 is a required course for the International Relations major. 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. More information is available on the web .
NEU 211 Introduction to Neuroscience/Honors
3 credits
Sec M002: TTh 11:00-12:20, #31075
recitation section T-TH 3:30-4:30 in 220 Link Hall
(cross-listed with BIO 211)
Professor Steven Chamberlain
Register for one Section M002, Recitation will auto enroll
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
Honors Section M002: MWF 12:45-1:40, Maxwell Auditorium,
Honors discussion section: M003: M 1:50-3:35
Professor William Coplin
Register for M002 #32189 only. M003 will auto-enroll.
This course will focus on techniques widely used by government, business, and public communications to evaluate public policy as well as their application to a problem area selected from research activities of Syracuse faculty in social sciences and professional schools. The Honors section will identify problems on campus and in the community and apply the skills in the course to ameliorate those problems. They will complete the written work required for the non-honors portion of the course. Work in the Honors section will include participation in the weekly meeting and working on action projects outside of class.
PHI 109 Introduction to Philosophy/Honors
3 credits
Lec M001:TTh 11:00-12:20, #36948
Professor McDaniel
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.
PHI 209 Introduction to Moral Philosophy/Honors
3 credits
Lec M001:T-Th 9:30-10:50, #37992
Professor Benjamin Bradley
This course will be devoted to the problem of the justification of moral beliefs (rather than a treatment of the varieties of moral theories, utilitarianism, deontological theories, etc.). We will start by looking at the early part of Plato's Republic, especially the exchange between Socrates and Glaucon, and then move through various other historical arguments, on into a consideration of the principal positions that have been defended in 20th Century Philosophy, including emotivism, skepticism, intuitionism, coherentism, and pragmatism.
PHY 216 General Physics II/Honors
3 credits
Section M001: T-TH 11:00-12:20 #40095
Recitation M002: W-F 9:30-10:25 #40097
Professor Steven Blusk
Register for the recitation (M002) and the section (M001) will auto enroll.
Co-requisite PHY222: you must also register for this lab; choose any section
MAT286 or MAT296 are pre- or co-requisites for this course
This course is introductory, calculus-based physics emphasizing topics important in modern research and technology. This course is for physics majors and honors students who wish to pursue the topic at greater depth and sophistication than that of PHY 212. The course includes special labs appropriately designed for this group of students.
PSC 129 American National Government and Politics/Honors
3 credits
Lecture M001: TTh, 5:00-6:20, #34105
Professor Gavan Duffy
This course examines the processes and institutions of American politics and government. It explores the underlying aspirations and principles of American governance, assesses the extent to which the American polity serves these aspirations and principles, and examines the practical consequences of the political system for American citizens. Students read and discuss major scholarly works on American politics and government.
PSY 209 Foundations of Human Behavior/Honors
3 credits
Section M001 TTh 8:00-9:20 a.m., #38731, Prof. Malikow
Section M002 TTh 11:00-12:20 p.m., #38732, Prof. 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 114 The Bible/Honors
3 credits
Lec M001, M-W 10:35-11:30
Discussion: F 12:45-2:05, #38476
Professor: James Watts
Register for Honors discussion section M008:, #38476; M001will auto-enroll.
The Bible has been the most widely read literature in Western culture, influencing literature, law and politics as well as religious traditions. This survey of Jewish and Christian scriptures in their ancient Near Eastern and Hellenistic contexts will pay particular attention to the literary form of biblical books, their history of composition, and their role in the development of Western religions and cultures.
SPA 201 Spanish III/Honors
4 credits
Sec M008: MW 9:30-10:25 and TTh 9:30-10:50, #34134
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 is an integral part of this course.
SPA 202 Spanish IV/Honors
4 credits
Sec M001: TTh 9:30-10:50 and W 10:35-11:30, #32583
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 209 WRITING STUDIO 2/HONORS
3 credits
Sec M060: MWF 11:40-12:35, #32701
Sec M080: MWF12:45-1:40, #32702
Sec M240: TTh 11:00-12:20, #32703 Service Learning Section
Sec M260: TTh 12:30-1:50, #32704
Sec M300: TTh 3:30-4:50, AG 210, #34795 Service Learning Section
This course builds on the skills and practices of WRT 109 by doing critical research and emphasizing composing in conversation with sources from the library and online as well as from interviews and experience. Students do individual and collaborative researched writing projects, and they use writing and research to explore the world, make claims, and persuade audiences.
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. This will count toward the "civic engagement" requirement for students for students admitted in Fall '04 or later.
