Fall 2006 Registration Information
Honors Courses
Honors Seminars

Note: You may complete three one-credit 200-level seminars for a grade in lieu of one HNR course to count toward your "Breadth" requirement.

Foreign language courses require permission from the Language Department in 340 HBC before registering.

If you have other problems with registration for Honors Courses, please call our office at 443-2759 or stop by the Honors Program at 306 Bowne Hall.

Honors Courses:

CHE 109/129 General Chemistry & Lab/Honors
ECN 203 Economic Ideas and Issues/Honors
ETS 115 Modern British Comedy/Honors
ETS 182 Race and Literary Texts/Honors
FIA 105 Arts and Ideas/Honors
FRE 201 French III/Honors - Cancelled
HNR 240 Metamorphosis in Modern Fiction
HNR 240 Arts Without Borders
HNR 250 The History and Natural History of Medicinal Plants
HNR 250 Linked Lenses: Science, Philosophy, and the Pursuit of Knowledge
HNR 260 Ethics in the 21st Century: Personal and Social Responsibility
HNR 260/PSC 200 Constitutional Democracy in America - Cancelled
HNR 260 Collaborative Practicum in Social Science: Hospice Legacy Project
HNR 260 Collaborative Practicum in Social Science: Hospice Outreach Project
HNR 306 Advanced Forensic Science
HNR 340 Collaborative Practicum in the Humanities: Creativity and the Art of Crossing Borders
HNR 340 Collaborative Practicum in the Humanities: Literacy, Community & Photography: Projects with Children in the Syracuse City School District
HNR 350 Water for Gotham
HNR 360 Polar Heroes: Myth & Reality - Cancelled
HNR 360 Nations and States: The Question of Ethnicity in International Relations
HNR 440/ARC 500 LeCorbusier and Modernism
HNR 440 Artist as Icon: Media Image & the Creative Spirit
HST 300 The Crusades/Honors
ITA 101 Italian I/Honors
LIT 226 Dostoevsky and Tolstoy/Honors
LPP 255 Introduction to the Legal System/Honors
MAX 123 Critical Issues for the United States/Honors
MAX 132 Global Community/Honors
PAF 101 Introduction to Analysis of Public Policy/Honors
PHI 109 Introduction to Philosophy/Honors
PHI 209 Introduction to Moral Philosophy/Honors
PSC 200/HNR 260 Constitutional Democracy in America/Honors - Cancelled
PSY 209 Foundations of Human Behavior/Honors
REL 101 Religions of the World/Honors
SPA 101 Intensive Spanish I/Honors - Cancelled
SPA 102 Intensive Spanish II/Honors
SPA 201 Intensive Spanish III/Honors
SPA 202 Intensive Spanish IV/Honors
WRT 109 Writing Studio I/Honors

Honors Seminars:

HNR 100 Orientation Seminar

200-Level Seminars:

HNR 210 Arts in Society
HNR 220 Introduction to Political Culture and Practice
HNR 230 Scientific Issues and Practice

Honors Thesis Project Seminars:

BEN 497 Senior Thesis I
BEN 498 Senior Thesis II
BIO 419 Junior & Senior Thesis Seminar
HNR 309 Thesis/Project Planning Seminar
HNR 409 Thesis/Project Execution Seminar

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Honors Courses:

CHE 109 General Chemistry/Honors
3 credits
Honors Lec M001: MWF 9:30-10:25, #11504
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 109 (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (other honors course)
Quantitative/creative expression

CHE 129 General Chemistry Lab/Honors
1 credit
Honors lab M001: W 12:45-3:30, #11505 or
Honors lab M002: Th 12:30-3:15, #11506 or

Honors lab M003: W 3:45-6:30, #19748

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.

CHE 129 (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (other honors course)
Quantitative/creative expression

ECN 203 Economic Ideas and Issues/Honors
3 credits
Register for Honors lab M018: WF 10:35-11:30, #17424;
you will be auto-enrolled in Lecture M003: MWF 12:45-1:40 #17408

Professor Donald Dutkowsky

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.

ECN 203/Honors (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (other honors course)

ETS 115 Modern British Comedy/Honors
3 credits
M002 TTH 2:00-3:20 p.m., #16669
Prof. Sanford Sternlicht

Tragedy is about dying and death. Comedy is about living and life. Like tragedy, comedy is basically a literary form. Although it is about life, it is not a direct replication of life. The world of comedy is a real place (except in the Theater of the Absurd) but the characters in comedy are generally eccentric. That is why we laugh, and laughter is as cathartic as crying. Inheriting comic traditions from Shakespeare and Shaw, British playwrights have written many fine comedies full of romance and satire, the two basic ingredients of the form. This course will try to determine what exactly modern British comedy is, through a study of plays by British playwrights of different decades.

We will study modern British Comedy from Bernard Shaw to Caryl Churchill, examining plays as literal and cultural texts while focusing on their historical contexts and political dimensions. Readings typically include:

Shaw's Pygmalion
Coward's Private Lives, Blithe Spirit
Orton's Entertaining Mr Sloane and What the Butler Saw
Russell's Educating Rita
Churchill's Cloud Nine

ETS 115/Honors (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (other honors course)

ETS 182: Race and Literary Texts/Honors
3 credits
M001, TTH 12:30-1:50 p.m., #19743
Professor Michael Echeruo

Race has always been real and material in Euro-American discourse, and especially so in its literary texts. Contemporary accounts of "race" and racially-charged literary texts attempt a revisionary account of this presence in ways that appear politically/culturally sensitive but actually mask the deeper currents of racism which gave substance and authority to those representations.

The course will do three things:

1. Read in general about race formations and theorizations in earlier Judeo-Christian cultural and literary documents;

2. Read a selection of recent cultural studies re-theorizings of race in the Euro-American academy;

3. Read or re-read a good selection of primarily literary texts in the light of the above.

ETS 182/Honors (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (other honors course)

FIA 105 Arts and Ideas/Honors
3 credits
Honors section M018: T-TH 3:30 - 4:50, # 11651
Professor Laurinda Dixon

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.

FIA 105/Honors (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (other honors course)

FRE 201 French III/Honors
4 credits
Honors section M002: MW 12:45-2:05 and TTh 12:30-1:50, #11711
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.

FRE 201 (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (other honors course)
Global Awareness

HNR 240 Metamorphosis in Modern Fiction
3 credits
M001 MW 3:45-5:05 p.m., #18414
Professor Charles Martin

Metamorphosis--the sudden, inexplicable, irresistible, and often irreversible, transformation from one state of being to another--has fascinated writers and artists from Ovid to Kafka and beyond. We will begin our exploration of this subject with Karen Armstrong's A Brief History of Mythology , and then read modern writers in the light of their connections with classical myths, Our reading list of moderns will include Franz Kafka, Virginia Woolf, Stanislaw Lem, Italo Calvino, Jorge Luis Borges, Margaret Atwood, and Salman Rushdie.

HNR 240 Metamorphosis in Modern Fiction (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (HNR course)
Public Presentation

HNR 240 Arts Without Borders
3 credits
M002 TTH 5:00-6:20 p.m., #19979
Professor William West

Syracuse can be deceptive to students whose immediate world is that of the university campus. What actually goes on in the cultural life of the community beyond? Students will answer that question by attending concerts, going to the theater, and visiting museums. This course not only opens the door to Syracuse 's rich cultural life, but also suggests fresh possibilities for students who want to broaden their cultural horizons. In addition to the performances, there will be opportunities to attend rehearsals, go behind the scenes of a show or concert, and have visiting actors, directors and musicians address the class. The course is also designed to help students think and write critically about what they observe, and so become informed members of an audience and of the community in which they will eventually live. Some may aspire to become professional critics or see performance and art criticism as an avocation to be pursued alongside their professional careers.

Students will attend the Symphony, Syracuse Stage, one Musical Theatre event, and the Everson Museum, and there will be various options with regard to other cultural activities both on and off campus, including Dance, Drama, Vocal and Instrumental Concerts (Classical, Jazz, Blues, Rock), Exhibitions (Painting, Sculpture, Ceramics, Photography, etc.), Ethnic Cultural Presentations (such as the Korean Dance and Drum Ensemble), and special Schine Center events (such as the appearance of Audra McDonald in the Spring of 2005).

HNR 240 Arts Without Borders (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (HNR course)

HNR 250 The History and Natural History of Medicinal Plants
3 credits
M002 MW 12:45-1:40 p.m.; F 12:45-5:00 p.m., #17703 (see note below)
Professor Ernest Hemphill

PREREQUISITES: High school biology and chemistry or permission of the instructor.

DESCRIPTION: Plants synthesize an extensive armamentarium of chemicals (phytochemicals), which they employ to defend themselves, manipulate the behavior of animals, and even alter their environment. From very ancient times, humans have used plants, and, thus, indirectly these chemicals, to treat their illnesses, sooth their troubled souls, control fertility, alter their perceptions of reality, as tools of witchcraft, and even to poison their enemies. This course is a blend of anthropology, medical history, physiology, and natural history in which we explore cultural definitions of illness and wellness, old and modern theories of pathology, how (and which) plants are/were used medically, and the mode of action of some herbal drugs. The plants, of course, do not intentionally manufacture these chemicals for human benefit, and the class will also examine the roles some of these phytochemicals serve in nature.

(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 begin at 12:45 and last about an hour. However, students must attend the longer classes and field trips when scheduled.)

HNR 250 The History and Natural History of Medicinal Plants (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (HNR course)
Interdisciplinarity
Quantitative/Creative Expression
Public Presentation

HNR 250 Linked Lenses: Science, Philosophy, and the Pursuit of Knowledge
3 credits
M003 Monday/Wednesday 12:45-2:05 p.m., #18527
Professors Cathryn Newton & Samuel Gorovitz

Science and philosophy each pursues knowledge, by apparently different approaches. Each influences and is influenced by the other. What are the philosophical underpinnings of scientific thought? What are the scientific contributions to philosophical thought? We will consider such questions, with readings by historically important philosophers (e.g., Hume, Popper) and scientists (e.g., Darwin, Curie), and several contemporary authors.

HNR 250 Linked Lenses: Science, Philosophy, and the Pursuit of Knowledge (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (HNR course)
Interdisciplinarity
Quantitative/Creative Expression

HNR 260 Ethics in the 21 st Century: Personal and Social Responsibility
3 credits
M001 TTH 3:30 - 4:50 p.m., #18411
Professor Sandra Hurd

What does it mean to be ethical? Why be ethical? Do some individuals or groups have particular kinds of ethical responsibilities? Students? Celebrities? Sports figures? Business people? Politicians? Others? In this course, we will explore ethical theories, examine the role of social values in developing ethical stances, and seek to improve our understanding of how we make ethical decisions. We will also explore our roles and responsibilities in creating ethical organizations and communities.

HNR 260 Ethics in the 21 st Century: Personal and Social Responsibility (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (HNR course)
Public Presentation

HNR 260/PSC 200 Constitutional Democracy in America
3 credits
Cancelled

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/PSC 200 Constitutional Democracy in America (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (HNR course - if registered for HNR 260)
Breadth (other honors course - if registered for PSC 200)

HNR 260 Collaborative Practicum in Social Science: Hospice Legacy Project (Cross-listed with SOL 260 M002/SOL 360 M004)
3 credits
Honors Lec M004, #20585
Meeting time to be determined at the convenience of those registered
Faculty TBA

Would you like to use your artistic talents to create a family treasure? Hospice of Central New York provides quality care for people with a terminal illness. This project celebrates the lives of our patients. It will link students with patients and families. Students will work collaboratively with Hospice care team members to help patients document their life experiences and tell the stories that have shaped their lives to provide the gift of a "Legacy"; capturing and celebrating a life. Students will have the opportunity to spend time with patients and families, getting to know them in a unique way, to hear the events, experiences and reflections that have formed their life. Students will creatively capture this story via photographs, video, a written journal, memory books or collage. There's no limit to your imagination! This will truly be a life changing experience for both patients and students. This course does not yet have a set meeting time. You will be contacted by the Soling Program before the end of the Spring 2006 semester to find a time that will accommodate your schedule.

HNR 260 Hospice Legacy Project (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (HNR course)
Collaboration
Civic engagement

HNR 260 Collaborative Practicum in Social Science: Hospice Outreach Project (Cross-listed with SOL 260 M003/SOL 360 M005)
3 credits
Honors Lec M005, #20586
Meeting time to be determined at the convenience of those registered
Faculty TBA

This project involves video production. You may select from for three different projects. The first, Camp Healing Hearts, a Bereavement Camp for children ages 6-14, allows children to share their stories and feelings, make friends and have fun. This project involves students interviewing children that attend Camp Healing Hearts as well as the staff and volunteers for the camp to "tell the story" in the form of a video; to show the uneasy looks as the new campers arrive on the first day to their soulful exploration as the week progresses and finally, the growth and support at week's end. The second consists of the creation of a series of Public Service Announcements about Hospice of Central New York and the series provided. Themes to be promoted might be: "How to Volunteer at Hospice"; "When is the Best Time to Call Hospice?"; "Hospice, It's About Life!" The third project is the production of a video to tell the "The Story of Hospice". Students would work with various Hospice staff members to produce a video to tell the Hospice story, how and where it began, its interdisciplinary focus, what Hospice care means and the changes throughout the years. This course does not yet have a set meeting time. You will be contacted by the Soling Program before the end of the Spring 2006 semester to find a time that will accommodate your schedule.

HNR 260 Hospice Outreach Project (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (HNR course)
Collaboration
Civic engagement

HNR 306/CHE 306/SOL 306 Advanced Forensic Science
3 credits
M001 MW 12:45 - 2:05, #20323
Professor Jim Spencer

Prerequisites: CHE 106 or 109; CHE 113 or 335; BIO 326; or permission of instructor.

This course will deal with selected topics of current interest in Forensic Science. Our focus will be to explore selected areas in forensics in relatively greater depth, rather than to give general introductions to all areas of forensic science. Emphasis will be placed upon the application of scientific methods and techniques to crime and law. Recent advances in basic scientific research have had a rapid and dramatic impact upon law enforcement and the criminal justice system. The material presented in this course will include both background material on the topics and case studies contributed by class members. Topics typically included are DNA, drug chemistry and toxicology, forensic psychology, entomology and ecology, among others.

HNR 306/CHE 306/SOL 306 (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (HNR course - if registered for HNR 306)
Quantitative/Creative Expression
Public Presentation
Collaboration
Interdisciplinarity

HNR 340 Collaborative Practicum in the Humanities: Creativity and the Art of Crossing Borders (Cross-listed with SOL 340/100/360)
3 credits
Honors Lec M001 TH 2:00-4:50 p.m., #20587
Instructor: Geoffrey Navias

Historically, small puppet companies traveled from one community to the next, and from one culture to the next, creating, mixing and sharing in miniature the stories of those peoples. Always mixing the folk and fine arts, the bawdy with the sublime, the satirical with the politic, the art of puppetry has often been considered subversive for its tendencies to cross over the border. "Creativity and the Art of Crossing Borders" will first explore the folk and fine art of puppetry and then through hands on studios and workshops be an incubator for the students' creative self expression. Taught by the internationally renowned Open Hand Puppet Theater. The course will consider the role and history of puppets as agents for social change.

HNR 340 Creativity and the Art of Crossing Borders (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (HNR course)
Collaboration

HNR 340 Collaborative Practicum in the Humanities: Literacy, Community & Photography: Projects with Children in the Syracuse City School District (cross-listed with SOL 340/500)
3 credits
Honors Lec M002 W 8:25-11:10AM, #20589
Instructor: Mary Marien

This class explores the intersection of learning, teaching and art making through the medium of photography. The course begins with workshop-teacher training sessions to build teaching skills and develop strategies to engage young students. SU students enrolled in this course will work in tandem with 5th grade city school children exploring the world of childhood identity, photographing their own lives, and writing their own texts that articulate their world. In addition the SU students will develop their own photographic-textual projects on themes related to childhood and the elementary school experience. There is no requirement for SU students to have training in either photography or education.

HNR 340 Literacy, Community & Photography (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (HNR course)
Collaboration
Civic engagement
Interdisciplinarity

HNR 350 Water for Gotham
3 credits
M001 MW 2:15-3:35 p.m., #18416
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. The course includes a weekend field trip to the Catskills region.

HNR 350 Water for Gotham (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (HNR course)
Interdisciplinarity
Quantitative/Creative Expression

HNR 360 Polar Heroes: Myth & Reality
3 credits
Cancelled

The last ten years have seen a dramatic increase in attention to the polar regions, stimulated by debates over global warming, a series of centennial celebrations of notable polar exploits, and a cascade of historical, fictional, scientific, and popular publications and movies dealing with the Arctic and Antarctic regions.

This course explores various aspects of polar exploration, primarily from an historical perspective but branching out according to student interests to any other aspects of polar history for which we can find adequate materials for study. The main focus will be on published journals of explorers on some of the major expeditions (e.g. Franklin, Peary, Amundsen, Scott, Shackleton, Byrd), emphasizing the ways in which these narratives were used to shape myths of heroism and courage.

Essentially this is a course about stories, narrative accounts of particular events and people; the final project will be a story of your choice and development. Extensive reading and regular reporting by each student will be important elements of the class. Throughout you will be asked to evaluate the evidence on which your growing knowledge of polar exploration is based.

HNR 360 Polar Heroes: Myth & Reality (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (HNR course)

HNR 360 Nations and States: The Question of Ethnicity in International Relations
3 credits
Professor Goodwin Cooke
Lecture: M002 M 8-9:20 a.m., #18552
Recitation: M003 W 8-9:20 a.m., #19762 or M004 W 12:45-2:05 p.m., #19763

The international system of sovereign states, established by the Peace of Westphalia after the Thirty Years War in Europe , made no allowances for ethnic differences. The King was to be sovereign over all those within the state's borders, regardless of race, religion, language or other defining characteristics. To this day there are no defined international norms for dealing with the problem of nationalism -- the aspiration of people of differing ethnicities for political autonomy or statehood. Woodrow Wilson's call for "self-determination of peoples" did not solve the problem; indeed, it opened a Pandora's Box, and the demons it loosed still rage. In Iraq , in the Balkans, and elsewhere the perilous question is posed: "Why should I be a minority in your state when I can make you a minority in my state?"

What is a state? What is a people (or nation)? Where did ethnic groups originate and how are they defined? How should international society -- which is a society of states -- react to nationalist aspirations, often violent, which attack the states themselves?

This course will examine these issues from various perspectives: anthropology, history, geography, political science and others, and address contemporary problems in Iraq, the Balkans and other "hot spots," as well as in Europe, Canada, Africa, and elsewhere.

HNR 360 Nations and States: The Question of Ethnicity in International Relations (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (HNR course)
Interdisciplinarity
Global Awareness

HNR 440/ARC 500 LeCorbusier and Modernism
3 credits
M001 TTH 2:00-3:20 p.m., #18302
Professor Bruce Abbey

The Swiss/French architect Le Corbusier (Charles Edouard Jeanneret, 1887-1965) was the most important architect of the 20th century. Architect, painter, urbanist, sculptor, editor and author of over 30 texts, his creative work and thought helped create and guide 20th century Modernism as it is understood today. This course will look at the thematic structure of his extraordinary production and discuss his continuing influence.

HNR 440 LeCorbusier and Modernism (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (HNR course)

HNR 440 Artist as Icon: Media Image & the Creative Spirit
3 credits
M002 W 2:15-5:00 p.m., #18466
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 artists such as 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.

HNR 440 Artist as Icon: Media Image & the Creative Spirit (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (HNR course)
Interdisciplinarity
Public presentation (Fall 2006 and later)

HST 300 The Crusades/Honors
3 credits
Honors Lec M003: MWF 9:30-10:25, #18536
Professor Samantha Herrick

This course examines the historical phenomenon of Crusade. We will examine in detail the first four crusades to the Holy Land and Crusades within Europe that also took place in the Middle Ages. We will seek to explain the causes of each Crusade and their outcomes, to evaluate their achievements and to assess their impact on both East and West. In addition to the establishment and fate of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, we will investigate the Muslim view of the Crusades, the development of Crusading ideals, changing participation in Crusades, the culture of Western Europe and the Kingdom of Jerusalem , and the changing definition of the Christian community and its enemies as Western Europe expanded its borders.

The aim of this course is to understand the culture of Crusade and its place in history: in addition to a knowledge of events, we will learn how medieval Christians justified violence in the name of religion, and how their actions were viewed by those whom they fought. The goal is to understand the Crusades on their own terms.

Most of our reading will consist of primary sources produced in the eleventh through the thirteenth centuries, by people of various backgrounds. We will read these sources directly and form our own conclusions from them; the textbook will serve only to provide background. Each class will therefore combine discussion with brief lectures providing background. Both in class and in written assignments, we will give attention to developing the skills of close reading, solid argumentation, and clear writing.

HST 300 The Crusades (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (other honors course)
Public Presentation

ITA 101 Italian I/Honors
4 credits
Honors Lec M008: TTh 11:00-12:20 and W 10:35-11:30, #14842
Instructor: Agata Pavone

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.

ITA 101/Honors (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (other honors course)

LIT 226 Dostoevsky and Tolstoy/Honors
3 credits
Honors Lec M002: TTh 7:00-8:20 pm, #17711
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.

LIT 226 Dostoevsky and Tolstoy/Honors (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (other honors course)
Public Presentation

LPP 255 Introduction to the Legal System/Honors
3 credits
Honors Lec M007 MW 12:45 - 2:05, #20058
Professor Lisa Knych

This course will introduce you to law and the legal system. We will study how the law (in all its forms) and public policy affect business and society. We will focus on improving critical thinking skills when applying both procedural and substantive rules. In addition to emphasizing the importance of ethics throughout the course, we will specifically examine the law of contracts, torts, and employment. This course will promote clear and concise communication, written and verbal, in carrying out all course objectives.

LPP 255 Introduction to the Legal System/Honors (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (other honors course)

MAX 123 Critical Issues for the United States/Honors
3 credits
Lecture: M001 M 9:30-10:25 #15324
Professor Robert McClure
Honors Section M002: MW 10:35-11:30, #12050
Professor John Palmer

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 123 Critical Issues for the United States/Honors (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (other honors course)
Interdisciplinarity

MAX 132 Global Community/Honors
3 credits
Lecture: M001 W 9:30-10:25 #15325
Honors Sec M013: MF 9:30 - 10:25 #16999

This course is designed to help students become informed about globalization and its consequences. The first unit 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 132 Global Community/Honors (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (other honors course)
Interdisciplinarity
Global Awareness (Non-Eurocentric)

PAF 101 Introduction to Analysis of Public Policy/Honors
3 credits
Lec M002: MWF 12:45-1:40, #15959
Honors discussion section M003: M 1:50-3:35, #15960
Professor William Coplin
Register for section M002; 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.

PAF 101 Introduction to Analysis of Public Policy/Honors (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (other honors course)
Collaboration
Public Presentation

PHI 109 Introduction to Philosophy/Honors
3 credits
Honors lecture M001: TTh 11:00-12:20, #12136
Professor Kristopher 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 109 Introduction to Philosophy/Honors (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (other honors course)

PHI 209 Introduction to Moral Philosophy/Honors
3 credits
Honors lecture M001: MW 12:45-2:05 p.m., #19865
Professor Edward McClennan

This course will consider problems of social morality such as abortion and world hunger, personal moral issues such as bitterness and self-respect, as well as perennial moral questions concerning death and the meaning of life. These topics will be discussed in the context of alternative moral theories. In addition to two major writing assignments, there will be brief, in-class writing exercises to test reading comprehension and to develop skills of argument analysis. This course is the honors equivalent of PHI 191.

PHI 209 Introduction to Moral Philosophy/Honors (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (other honors course)

PSC 200/HNR 260 Constitutional Democracy in America/Honors
Cancelled

PSC 200/HNR 260 Constitional Democracy in America/Honors (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (other honors course - if registered for PSC 200), or
Breadth (HNR course - if registered for HNR 260)

PSY 209 Foundations of Human Behavior/Honors
3 credits
Honors section M001: T-Th 8:00 - 9:20 #12341

Honors section M002: MWF 8:25-9:25, #17707
Professor Max Malikow

Honors section M003: TTh 11:00 - 12:20 #19766
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.

PSY 209 Foundations of Human Behavior/Honors (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (other honors course)

REL 101 Religions of the World/Honors
3 credits
Honors sec M002 F 11:40-12:35, #15462
Lecture M001 MW 11:40-12:35, #14121
Register for sec M002; lecture M001 will auto-enroll.
Professor Richard Pilgrim

This course will look first at what we mean by "religion," and what - generically and generally - its universal features are. With that foundation established, we will look at case studies of religions in action through primary texts and tales from East and West, and from ancient and modern.

REL 101/Honors (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (other honors course)
Global Awareness (Non-Eurocentric)
Collaboration

SPA 101 Intensive Spanish I/Honors
4 credits
Honors sec M004: MW 10:35 - 11:30, and TTh 9:30 - 10:50, #12437
Instructor: TBA

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 101 Intensive Spanish I/Honors (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (other honors course)

SPA 102 Intensive Spanish II/Honors
4 credits
Honors sec M001: MW 10:35-11:30 and TTh 11:00-12:20, #12446
Instructor: TBA

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 102 Intensive Spanish II/Honors (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (other honors course)

SPA 201 Intensive Spanish III/Honors
4 credits
Honors sec M001: W 10:35-11:30 and TTh 9:30-10:50 #12458
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 201 Intensive Spanish III/Honors (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (other honors course)
Global Awareness

SPA 202 Intensive Spanish IV/Honors
4 credits
Honors section M004: TTh 9:30 - 10:50 and W 10:35-11:40, #12471
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.

SPA 202 Intensive Spanish IV/Honors (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (other honors course)
Global Awareness

WRT 109 Writing Studio I/Honors
3 credits
Sec M060: MWF 11:40-12:35, #12702
Sec M080: MWF 12:45-1:40, #12703
Sec M200: TTh 8:00-9:20, #12704
Sec M240: TTh 11:00-12:20, #12705 Service Learning Section
Sec M260: TTh 12:30-1:50, #12706
Sec M300: TTh 3:30-4:50, #12707 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.

WRT 109 Writing Studio I/Honors (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (other honors course)
Civic Engagement (if you take a Service Learning Section)

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Honors Seminars:

HNR 100 Freshman Honors Seminar

Each section is 1 credit hour, pass/fail grading.

The aims of the Freshman Honors Seminar are: (1) to build a sense of community among a small group of honors freshmen; (2) to aid them in the transition from high school to college; and (3) to introduce them to the world of ideas and the life of the mind.

As the Renée Crown University Honors Program is an all-University program, the students are drawn from all of the schools and colleges within Syracuse University. Students will be assigned to various sections of the Honors Freshman Seminar, based to the extent possible upon their housing assignments.

Each seminar section is led by a member of the Syracuse University faculty, aided by a "junior assistant" who is usually a third-year student in the Honors Program. The seminar runs for approximately the first 10-12 weeks of the semester, ending no later than the week following Thanksgiving, in order to avoid interfering with students' study time in preparation for final exams.

Honors 200-Level Seminars:

The 200-level seminars are intended to expose you to the cultural and civic life in the wider Syracuse community, using a hands-on approach so you will have a more informed basis for participation later in life. They consist of HNR 210, HNR 220 and HNR 230.

These seminars are optional for students who started in the Honors Program Fall 2004 or later. However, you may combine three 1-credit HNR sophomore seminars (in which you received a "B" or higher) to count as one required HNR course toward the Breadth requirement. For those of you with tight schedules, this may be an efficient way to fulfill a three-credit requirement over multiple semesters.

HNR 210 Arts in Society

1 credit, pass/fail grading (N.B. If you plan to use this seminar as HNR credit toward the Breadth requirement, you must request a grade by the deadline, usually the second week of the semester. See your home college recorder for details about how to request a grade.)

Sec M001: W 3:45-5:05, #11826 Arts in Society
Sec M002: W 5:15-6:35, #20252 Arts in Society

Start Dates: Second week of classes (September 6, 2006)
Instructor: William D. West

This seminar is an experience-based introduction to the Arts in the City of Syracuse . Students will attend a production at the Syracuse Opera, Syracuse Symphony, Syracuse Stage (an Equity theatre), an event at Crouse College, and will visit the Everson Museum. Background information is presented in class prior to each event. Students write reviews of each event afterwards and discuss the performances in class. Note that there is a $43 course fee to cover costs of tickets. For more information, see the on-line syllabus (available in August) .

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Sec M003 T 7:00-9:00, #20268 Artists With Day Jobs

Start Date: Second week of classes (September 5, 2006)

Instructor: Georgia Popoff

This seminar will be structured as a facilitated discussion of the concerns of balancing one's creative identity with career choices and personal goals after graduation. Issues for exploration will include the "juggling act" of personal artistic expressions with a nine-to-five job, creative career paths in the job market that utilize the arts, options for fulfilling the need to create with "out-of-the-box" opportunities for work, the pressure from society to find a "real job," among others. Some resources such as grant writing and fellowship opportunities will also be offered.

HNR 220 Introduction to Political Culture and Practice

1 credit, pass/fail grading (N.B. If you plan to use this seminar as HNR credit toward the Breadth requirement, you must request a grade by the deadline, usually the second week of the semester. See your home college recorder for details on how to request a grade.) The various sections of this seminar will focus on the exploration of civic life in the wider Syracuse community, through several different approaches:

Haudenosaunee Culture
Culture of Violence
Refugee Communities in Syracuse

Haudenosaunee: Historical and Contemporary Issues
Section M003: Th 7:00-9:00 p.m., #11832
Start Date: September 7, 2006
Instructor: John Dyer, Oneida Nation, Wolf Clan

"Haudenosaunee" means "People who build" and it is the proper name of the People of the Longhouse: the Mohawks ("Keepers of the Eastern Door"), Oneidas , Onondagas ("Keepers of the Fire"), Cayugas, Senecas ("Keepers of the Western Door"), and Tuscaroras. Their oral tradition states that they originated in the Northeastern Woodlands of North America, also called Turtle Island . They have never left. The Haudenosaunee are the original inhabitants of this land. The Chiefs and Clan Mothers of the Haudenosaunee acknowledge the following:

"Our existence in these lands has not been one of absolute peace and tranquility. We have had to work hard to develop the civilization we enjoy. There was a time when our lands were torn by conflict and death. There were times when certain individuals attempted to establish themselves as the rulers of the people through exploitation and repression. We emerged from those times to establish a strong democratic and spiritual Way of Life. The confederate state of the Haudenosaunee became the embodiment of democratic principles which continue to guide our people today. The Haudenosaunee became the first 'United Nations,' established on a firm foundation of peace, harmony, and respect."

(Basic Call to Consciousness 1978:1)

This seminar provides a historical context in which to consider contemporary issues of the Haudenosaunee and other native peoples, such as taxation, land claims, sovereignty, and others. A visit to the Oneida Reservation allows students to compare their assumptions about "Indian Reservations" to reality, and to share their impressions with the instructor and with one another.

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Culture of Violence
Sec M004: Th 3:30-4:50 p.m., # 16305
Start Date: Thursday, September 7, 2006 (second week of classes)
Instructor: Professor Mark Muhammad , Speech Communication

This seminar will provide an overview of the issue of gangs and juvenile gun violence. We will discuss the problem in Syracuse and examine some of the efforts to curb violence in our community. The seminar is designed to increase students' knowledge about, and reduce the fear of, organized youth groups (gangs) in urban areas, particularly Syracuse .

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Refugee Communities in Syracuse
Section M005: W 3:45-5:05 p.m., #11833
Start Date: Wednesday, September 6, 2006 (second week of classes)
Instructor: Hope Wallis, Program Director, Refugee Resettlement Program

Over the last 20 years refugees from many countries, including Viet Nam , Somalia , Sudan , Cuba , Bosnia , and Iraq , have resettled in Syracuse . This course enables participating students to develop a basic understanding of U.S. immigration and refugee policies and their effect on the men, women, and children who resettle in the Central New York area, and in Syracuse in particular. Why do they come to Syracuse ? What is their new life in Syracuse like? How do these newcomers contribute to the larger community? How do they become part of the larger community?

Students will answer these questions through experiential exercises, group discussion, reading, and talking with refugees and immigrants. The seminar will explore the impact of public policy, physical and mental health, economics, school and children's education, and citizenship training on the lives of refugees and immigrants.

HNR 230 Scientific Issues and Practice
Each section is 1 credit, graded. These seminars explore scientific issues and practices in Syracuse and the wider region of Central New York . Methods of inquiry and exploration differ between sections.

Natural History of Onondaga County
Sec M002: M 5:15-6:35 p.m., #14733
Start Date: Monday, September 11, 2006 (Third week of classes)
Instructor: Jack Gramlich

Onondaga County has a number of natural areas that are truly special. Many of these areas have been protected and preserved by government (both county and state). Some possible field trips include the Jamesville Quarry, Clark Reservation, Beaver Lake , Baltimore Woods, Green Lakes , and Old Fly Marsh.

Honors Thesis Project Seminars:

BEN 497 Senior Thesis I , #10925
BEN 498 Senior Thesis II , #14043
1 credit
These are senior seminars for students undertaking theses in bioengineering.

BIO 419 Junior and Senior Thesis Seminar
1 credit
Sec M001: Junior & Senior Thesis Seminar, T 5:00-6:00 PM, #11397
Sec M002: Junior & Senior Thesis Seminar, T 5:00-6:00 PM, #11398
Professors Larry Wolf and John Belote

Juniors and seniors majoring in biology meet weekly in this seminar. Honors students from other majors such as chemistry and psychology, who are doing biological research, are accepted into this seminar with permission of instructor only.

HNR 309 Capstone/Thesis Planning Seminar

1 credit, pass/fail grading
Start date for all sections: third week of classes

Sec M002: TH 5:00-6:00, #11836 Start date: 3rd week of classes (September 14)
Sec M003: T 5:00-6:00, #11837 Start date: 3rd week of classes (September 12)
Sec M004: W 5:15-6:15, #16355 Start date: 3 rd week of classes (September 13)

HNR 309, the Capstone/Thesis Project Planning seminar, is a an optional, one-credit, pass-fail seminar designed to help you understand what a capstone/thesis project is in your discipline, develop and clarify a topic for your project, find a faculty member who will advise your project, and develop a timeline for completion of the capstone/thesis project. During the first half of the semester, there will be a series of seminar meetings, assignments, and exercises designed to help you meet these goals. Some special sessions may be held in the evenings. During the second half of the semester, you must meet with your junior seminar leader at least twice to discuss the progress you have made on your thesis project.

HNR 309 is not required of all Honors students, and there are other ways to get started on your capstone project. See http://honors.syr.edu/CapstoneProject/GettingStarted.htm for a full overview of your options.

HNR 409 Thesis/Project Execution Seminar
1 credit, pass/fail grading
Sec. M003: #14099
Students will meet individually with the instructor, Prof. Bruce Carter
Sec. M006: #16918
Students will meet individually with the instructor, Prof. Eric Holzwarth

HNR 409, the Thesis Project Execution seminar, is an optional, one-credit, pass-fail seminar designed to help you continue to make progress on your thesis project. There are no class meetings for this seminar and your instructor is the person who taught your HNR 309 seminar. You complete the seminar by meeting at least twice with your HNR 309/409 instructor (who assigns your grade for this seminar), meeting regularly with your capstone/thesis project advisor, and submitting to your HNR 309/409 instructor a project status report (1-2 pages) by the end of the semester. It is essential that HNR 409 students register for the section taught by their HNR 309 instructor!