Renée Crown University Honors Program at Syracuse University

Spring 2007 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:

ANT/HST 145 Historical Anthropology/Honors
CHE 119 General Chemistry/Honors & Majors
CHE 139 General Chemistry Lab/Honors
CRS 225/HNR 260 Public Advocacy/Honors
ECN 203 Economic Ideas and Issues/Honors
ECN 310 Economics in History: Rosie the Riveter/Honors
ETS 151 Interpretation of Poetry/Honors
FIA 106 Arts and Ideas II/Honors
GEO 219 American Diversity and Unity/Honors
HNR 240 Beginning Play Writing
HNR 240 Poetry Workshop
HNR 240 Arts Without Borders
HNR 250/PHY 200 Seeing Light
HNR 260/WSP 200 Feminism: An Activist Conversation
HNR 260/CRS 225 Public Advocacy
HNR 260 Polar Heroes: Myth & Reality
HNR 260 The News According to Hollywood
HNR 260 Collaborative Practicum in Social Science: Hospice Legacy Project
HNR 260 Collaborative Practicum in Social Science: Hospice Outreach Project
HNR 360/IST 443 Critique of the Information Age
HNR 360 Evolving Law and Contemporary Society
HST/ANT 145 Historical Anthropology/Honors
IST 443/HNR 360 Critique of the Information Age/Honors
ITA 102 Italian II/Honors
JSP/REL 107 Religion, Literature, Film
JSP/REL 114 The Bible/Honors
LIT 227 Pasternak and Solzhenitsyn/Honors
MAX 123 Critical Issues for the U.S./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 129 American National Government and Politics/Honors
PSY 209 Foundations of Human Behavior/Honors
PSY 393 Personality
REL/JSP 107 Religion, Literature, Film
REL/JSP114 The Bible/Honors
SPA 201 Spanish III/Honors
SPA 202 Spanish IV/Honors
WRT 209 Writing Studio 2/Honors
WSP 200/HNR 260 Feminism: An Activist Conversation

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HONORS COURSES:

ANT/HST 145 Historical Anthropology/Honors
3 Credits
ANT 145 M004 M 9:30 - 10:25 #33910
Lecture MW 12:45-1:40
Professor Doug Armstrong

Register for either ANT or HST 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 the material record of the recent past (last 500 years) with a focus on diverse cultural contexts in the Americas. It examines historical archaeology as a mechanism to critique perceptions of the past. Archaeology is explored as a means to learn about initial cultural contacts and interactions among Indigenous, European, African, and Asian populations in the Americas. The class uses a case study approach examining contexts from the impact of early Spanish colonialism in the Caribbean and South America, Native and European interactions in early British colonial settlements in North America (including Jamestown and Plimoth), a variety of contexts associated with the African Diaspora-addressing issues of enslavement and the struggle for freedom, and even the archaeological lessons from mid-20th century Japanese American internment camps.

ANT/HST 145 Historical Anthropology/Honors (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (other honors course)

Interdisciplinarity

Public Presentation (Honors section only)

CHE 119 General Chemistry/Honors & Majors
3 credits
Lec M001: MWF 10:35-11:30, #31392
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 119 (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (other honors course)

CHE 139 General Chemistry Lab/Honors
1 credit
Lab M001: W 2:15-5:15 pm, #31393
Lab M002: T 2:00-5:00 pm, #35509
Professor Robert Doyle

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.

CHE 139 (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Collaboration

CRS 225/HNR 260 Public Advocacy/Honors
3 credits
CRS 225 Section M008 T TH 3:30-4:50, #40382
Professor Amardo Rodriguez
The objectives of this course are to understand fundamental mechanics, processes, and techniques of communication as they apply to making presentations. Through various readings, many presentation sessions, and constructive criticism and discussion, this course enhances student capacity to respond appropriately to a variety of presentation situations.

CRS 225/HNR 260/Honors (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (HNR or other honors course)

Public Presentation

ECN 203 Economic Ideas and Issues/Honors
3 credits
Section M014: MW 8:00-9:20, #36232
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 203/Honors (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (other honors course)

ECN 310 Economics in History: Rosie the Riveter
3 credits
Section M001: MW 12:45-2:05, #37131
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 of 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?

ECN 310 Economics in History/Honors (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (other honors course)

ETS 151 Interpretation of Poetry/Honors
3 credits
Section M001 MW 2:15-3:35, #36137
Professor Brooks Haxton

Poetry is an art, a distillation of language, that matters deeply to almost every culture. Poets study the practices of those who have come before them and adapt old ways of making poems to the present moment. This course will involve weekly reading of poems from various times and places, selected as examples of particular poetic techniques: image, narrative, diction, tone, argument, and so on. Each week’s handout will describe the technique in that week’s reading and present relevant questions. Short essays by the students will analyze individual poems with respect to the use of one of these techniques. Final grades will include papers (70%) and classroom presentations and participation (30%). No prerequisites beyond a fascination with the details of language. Attendance required.

ETS 151 Interpretation of Poetry/Honors (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (other honors course)

Public Presentation (Honors section only)

FIA 106 Arts and Ideas II/Honors
3 credits
Honors Lec M018: TTh 3:30-4:50, #31611
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. There will be at least one excursion on or near campus. Students need not have taken FIA 105

FIA 106 Arts and Ideas II/Honors (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (other honors course)

GEO 219 American Diversity and Unity/Honors
3 credits
M001: MWF 11:40 – 12:35, #39651
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.

GEO 219 American Diversity and Unity/Honors (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (other honors course)

HNR 240 Beginning Play Writing
3 credits
Section M001 MW 12:45 – 2:05, #40314
Professor Gerardine Clark

An introduction to play writing for non-drama students. The course will begin with a brief study of dramatic structure, characterization, and dialogue. You will learn everything you need to write a short play. No previous drama experience required; the class will be conducted as a writing workshop.

HNR 240 Beginning Play Writing (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (HNR course)

HNR 240 Poetry Workshop
3 credits
Section M002 M 5:15 – 8:15, #38144
Professor Charles Martin

GOALS: To begin, or to continue developing, a lifelong connection with poetry by reading, writing, and discussing poems in a workshop setting. With regard to reading, our goal will be to learn how to read poems better than we do now, with increased understanding and appreciation. With regard to writing, we will explore a variety of different kinds of poetry, old and new, formal and free, aiming first at fluency, then at accomplishment. Wallace Stevens said, “Happens to like happens to be/ The way things happen to fall,” but with regard to class discussion, we will move past liking and disliking into understanding our likes and dislikes and being able to explain them to others.

PROCEDURES: We will begin each class with a discussion of a poem or two written by poets from outside the class, using them as examples or models, for analysis and performance; we will continue by reading and discussing work of student poets. You will be writing a poem a week, with a session or two at the end given over to revision. We will also spend at least one session, possibly two, on collaborative poetry, investigating the Japanese form called the renga, the predecessor of the haiku.

HNR 240 Poetry Workshop (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (HNR course)

HNR 240 Arts Without Borders
3 credits
M003 MW 3:45-5:05, #40455
Professor William West

Course fee: $43

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)

Public Presentation

HNR 250/PHY 200 Seeing Light
3 credits
HNR 250 Section M001 MW 3:45-5:05, #40470
Professor Alan Middleton

Course fee: $40

This is an Honors course on the physics of light. The goal is to change how students “see”: they will think about light and vision in a deeper way after taking this course. The course will be application and discussion oriented: it is not meant as a traditional optics course, but instead provides an overview of concepts of light, vision, and uses of light. Light is central to science as a tool and object of study. The tight connection of vision to our everyday experience contrasts with the difficulty of understanding light as both a wave and a particle.

The course starts with an historical look at how theories of light and vision have evolved. It then addresses more carefully, and a bit more quantitatively, modern theories and uses of light: waves, photons, and a bit of quantum mechanics. Applications could include the limits on spy satellites, modern displays (LCD, plasma), the operation and use of lasers, and the emerging field of quantum communications.

A central part of the course will be laboratory work. These laboratory experiments can be done in the classroom and as take-home assignments, and include pinhole cameras, mirrors, lenses, color mixing, prisms and diffraction gratings, polarizing filters, pinhole diffraction, photoelectric effect, bioluminescense and triboluminescence. These experiments will show how scientific theories evolve and are reinforced.

There are no science prerequisites, but we will use algebra and trigonometry. There will be a gentle introduction to the idea of Fourier decomposition, that is, representing a signal as a sum of distinct frequencies. This course has been approved by the College of Arts and Sciences as a lab science. Some schools and colleges (e.g. Newhouse) may require that you file a petition with them to use it as a lab science. Check with your home school or college.

HNR 250/PHY 200 Seeing Light (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (HNR course or other honors course)

HNR 260/WSP 200 Feminism: An Activist Conversation
3 credits
HNR 260 Section M001 W 7-10 p.m., #36517
Professor 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 as 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 19th century U.S. feminism. Students will learn about Gage through primary sources, primarily her correspondence, which has never been published. Veteran feminist activist Dr. Wagner will provide contrasting reflections from her experience in the 1960-70's second wave of feminism. Requirements include a Public Presentation at the Matilda Joslyn Gage Home in Fayetteville based on a collaborative project of preparing Gage's correspondence for on-line publication. This course was previously offered under the title History of the Women’s Suffrage Movement. If you have taken that course, you cannot receive credit for this course.

HNR 260 Feminism: An Activist Conversation (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (HNR course)

Collaboration

Public Presentation

HNR 260/CRS 225 Public Advocacy
3 credits
HNR 260 Section M002 T TH 3:30-4:50, #38145
Professor Amardo Rodriguez

The objectives of this course are to understand fundamental mechanics, processes, and techniques of communication as they apply to making presentations. Through various readings, many presentation sessions, and constructive criticism and discussion, this course enhances student capacity to respond appropriately to a variety of presentation situations.

HNR 260/CRS 225 Public Advocacy (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (HNR course or other honors course)

Public Presentation

HNR 260 Polar Heroes: Myth & Reality
3 credits
Section M003 MW 2:15-3:35, #40315
Professor David Stam

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 research course will explore 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 their reputations of heroism and courage, sometimes deserved, often exaggerated.

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. Active participation without classroom domination will be the best ingredient for success in this class. Throughout you will be asked to evaluate the evidence on which your growing knowledge of polar exploration is based. This course has been approved as a history elective.

HNR 260 Polar Heroes: Myth & Reality (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (HNR course)

Public Presentation

HNR 260 The News According to Hollywood
3 credits
Section M004 T 5-8 p.m., #40428
Professor Hub Brown

The course will examine large controversies of our time through two sets of eyes--those provided by journalists and those provided by the moviemakers of Hollywood. Through the examination of major motion pictures and the journalism surrounding major events, the course will examine how we draw meaning from both types of communication. What can we learn about how we tell stories of great conflict in our time through the comparison of cinema and journalistic storytelling? Can both be used to get to the true meanings of great issues and our reactions to them? The course will explore those questions and will also look at how the movie industry and journalism talk about each other. Because this course is taught by a Newhouse faculty member, it will count as Newhouse credit (not A&S credit) for students enrolled in Newhouse.

HNR 260 The News According to Hollywood (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (HNR course)

HNR 260 Collaborative Practicum in Social Science: Hospice Legacy Project (Meets with SOL 260 M001/SOL 360 M001)
3 credits
Honors Section M005, #40480
Meeting time to be determined at the convenience of those registered
Professor Jim Spencer

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 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 or other honors course)

Collaboration

Civic Engagement

HNR 260 Collaborative Practicum in Social Science: Hospice Outreach Project (Meets with SOL 260 M002/SOL 360 M002)
3 credits
Honors Lec M006, #40481
Meeting time to be determined at the convenience of those registered
Professor Jim Spencer

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 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 or other honors course)

Collaboration

Civic Engagement

HNR 360/IST 443 Critique of the Information Age
3 credits
HNR 360 M001 T TH 3:30-4:50, #40313
Professor Michael Nilan

This course examines the times in which we live to try to understand the implications on our lives, both personal and professional, and to try to improve our ability to think and communicate about individual and social achievement. The global electronic network, aka, the Web, has dramatically changed life for individuals, organizations, societies and governments. Although technology has played a significant role in these changes, this is not a course on technology per se. Rather, it is an extended discussion of what students want from life and how they are going to achieve their life’s goals in today’s world. This seminar explores the implications of changes in values, priorities and behaviors resulting in a shift from the ‘industrial age’ to the ‘information age.’

HNR 360/IST 443 Critique of the Information Age/Honors (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (HNR course or other honors course)

Interdisciplinarity

Public Presentation

HNR 360 Evolving Law and Contemporary Society
3 credits
M002 MW 3:45-5:05, #40317
Professor Hannah Arterian

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.

HNR 360 Evolving Law and Contemporary Society (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (HNR course)

HST/ANT 145 Historical Anthropology/Honors
3 Credits
HST 145 M004 M 9:30-10:25, #31817
Lecture MW 12:45-1:40
Professor Doug Armstrong

Register for either HST or ANT 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 the material record of the recent past (last 500 years) with a focus on diverse cultural contexts in the Americas. It examines historical archaeology as a mechanism to critique perceptions of the past. Archaeology is explored as a means to learn about initial cultural contacts and interactions among Indigenous, European, African, and Asian populations in the Americas. The class uses a case study approach examining contexts from the impact of early Spanish colonialism in the Caribbean and South America, Native and European interactions in early British colonial settlements in North America (including Jamestown and Plimoth), a variety of contexts associated with the African Diaspora-addressing issues of enslavement and the struggle for freedom, and even the archaeological lessons from mid-20th century Japanese American internment camps.

HST/ANT 145 Historical Anthropology/Honors (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (other honors course)

Interdisciplinarity

Public Presentation (Honors section only)

IST 443/HNR 360 Critique of the Information Age/Honors
3 credits
IST 443 M001 T TH 3:30-4:50, #37465
Professor Michael Nilan

This course examines the times in which we live to try to understand the implications on our lives, both personal and professional, and to try to improve our ability to think and communicate about individual and social achievement. The emerging global electronic network, aka, the Web, has dramatically changed life for individuals, organizations, societies and governments. Although technology has played a significant role in these changes, this is not a course on technology per se. Rather, it is an extended discussion of what students want from life and how they are going to achieve their life’s goals in today’s world. This seminar explores the implications of changes in values, priorities and behaviors resulting in a shift from the ‘industrial age’ to the ‘information age.’

IST 443/HNR 360 Critique of the Information Age/Honors (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (HNR course or other honors course)

Interdisciplinarity

Public Presentation (Honors section only)

ITA 102 Italian II/Honors
4 credits
Lecture M003: TTh 11:00-12:20 and W 10:35-11:30, #31869
Instructor: Agata Pavone

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.

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

Breadth (other honors course)

Public Presentation (Honors section only)

JSP/REL 107 Religion, Literature, Film
3 credits
JSP 107 Lecture M001 T 11:00-12:20, #40287
Honors Discussion Section M003 TH 11:00-12:20, #40523

Register for discussion section 40523; lecture will auto-enroll.

Professor Kenneth Frieden
Professor Gail Hamner

This course will examine a sampling of literary and cinematic approaches to religious life, focusing on Jewish and Christian communities. We will pay special attention to the Bible, Yiddish culture, post-Holocaust writing, and Israel. Our discussions will focus on topics such as land, tradition, humor, science, and violence. The course includes an additional screening session on Sunday or Monday evening. The films we will discuss include: The Decalogue, 1; Tevye; Annie Hall; Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, and Spring; Contact; Life is Beautiful; Wedding in Galilee. Readings will likely include Aharon Appelfeld, "Badenheim 1939"; Isaac Babel, Collected Stories; Classic Yiddish Stories of S. Y. Abramovitsh, Sholem Aleichem, and I. L. Peretz; God, Man, and Devil (Yiddish plays); Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha; Sayed Kashua, Dancing Arabs.

JSP/REL 107 Religion, Literature, Film/Honors (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (other honors course)

Interdisciplinarity

Public Presentation (Honors section only)

JSP/REL 114 The Bible/Honors
3 credits
Lec M001, M-W 10:35-11:30
Honors Discussion: F 12:45-2:05, #37406
Professor: James Watts

Register for Honors discussion section M008:, #37406; 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

JSP 114/REL 114 The Bible/Honors (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth(other honors course)

LIT 227 Pasternak and Solzhenitsyn/Honors
3 credits
Lecture M002: TTh 7:00-8:20 pm, #37561
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.

LIT 227 Pasternak and Solzhenitsyn/Honors (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (other honors course)

Public Presentation (Honors section only)

MAX 123 Critical Issues for the U.S./Honors
3 credits
Lec M001: M 9:30-10:25, #31999
Professor Robert McClure
Honors Sec M006: WF 9:30-10:25, #32003
Professor Robert McClure

Register for Honors Section 32003; Lecture M001 will auto-enroll.

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
Lec M001: W 9:30-10:25, #32007
Professor John Western
Honors Sec M002: M F 9:30-10:25, #32008
Professor John Western

Register for Honors Section M002, Lecture M001 will auto-enroll.

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 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 (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:
Breadth (other honors course)

Breadth (other honors course)

Interdisciplinarity

Global Awareness (Non-Eurocentric)

PAF 101 Introduction to Analysis of Public Policy/Honors
3 credits
Honors Section M002: MWF 12:45-1:40, #32019
Honors discussion section: M003: M 1:50-3:35, #33962
Professor William Coplin

Register for M002 #32019 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.

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
Lec M001 TTh 11:00-12:20, #36353
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
Lec M001:T-Th 9:30-10:50, #37135
Professor Ben 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.

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)

Public Presentation (Prof. Bradley’s sections only)

PSC 129 American National Government and Politics/Honors 3 credits
Lecture M001: TTh, 5:00-6:20, #33855
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.

PSC 129 American National Government and Politics/Honors (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (other honors course)

PSY 209 Foundations of Human Behavior/Honors
3 credits
Section M002 TTh 11:00-12:20 p.m., #37539
Prof. 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)

Public Presentation (Prof. Fontana’s section only)

PSY 393 Personality
3 credits
Section M002 T TH 8:00-9:20, #40569
Prof. Max Malikow
According to one expert, an unabridged English dictionary contains 17,953 words that describe various human characteristics. For each of us, the combination of our numerous characteristics comprises our personality. Personality is an individual's characteristic pattern of acting, feeling, relating, and thinking. This course offers an opportunity for a careful study of the various theories of personality and how each of us came to be who we uniquely are.

PSY 393 Personality/Honors (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (other honors course)

REL/JSP 107 Religion, Literature, Film
3 credits
REL 107 Lecture M001 T 11:00-12:20, #39734
Honors Discussion Section M003 TH 11:00-12:20, #40510

Register for discussion section 40510; lecture will auto-enroll.

Professor Kenneth Frieden
Professor Gail Hamner

This course will examine a sampling of literary and cinematic approaches to religious life, focusing on Jewish and Christian communities. We will pay special attention to the Bible, Yiddish culture, post-Holocaust writing, and Israel. Our discussions will focus on topics such as land, tradition, humor, science, and violence. The course includes an additional screening session on Sunday or Monday evening. The films we will discuss include: The Decalogue, 1; Tevye; Annie Hall; Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, and Spring; Contact; Life is Beautiful; Wedding in Galilee. Readings will likely include Aharon Appelfeld, "Badenheim 1939"; Isaac Babel, Collected Stories; Classic Yiddish Stories of S. Y. Abramovitsh, Sholem Aleichem, and I. L. Peretz; God, Man, and Devil (Yiddish plays); Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha; Sayed Kashua, Dancing Arabs.

REL/JSP 107 Religion, Literature, Film/Honors (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (other honors course)

Interdisciplinarity

Public Presentation (Honors section only)

REL/JSP 114 The Bible/Honors
3 credits
Lec M001, M-W 10:35-11:30
Honors Discussion: F 12:45-2:05, #37406
Professor: James Watts

Register for Honors discussion section M008:, #37406; 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

REL 114/JSP 114 The Bible/Honors (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (other honors course)

SPA 201 Spanish III/Honors
4 credits
Sec M008: MW 9:30-10:25 and TTh 9:30-10:50, #33880

This is an intermediate level class that 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 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 Spanish IV/Honors
4 credits
Sec M001: TTh 9:30-10:50 and W 10:35-11:30, #32393

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 209 WRITING STUDIO 2/HONORS
3 credits
Sec M060: MWF 11:40-12:35, #32510
Instructor: Gael Sweeney
Sec M080: MWF 12:45-1:40, #32511
Instructor: Gael Sweeney
Sec M240: TTh 11:00-12:20, #32512 Service Learning Section
Instructor: Chris Madden-Feikes
Sec M260: TTh 12:30-1:50, #32513
Instructor: Lois Agnew
Sec M300: TTh 3:30-4:50, #34466 Service Learning Section
Instructor: Karen Oakes

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 admitted in Fall '04 or later.

WRT 209 Writing Studio 2/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)

WSP 200/HNR 260 Feminism: An Activist Conversation
3 credits
WSP 200 Section M001 W 7-10 p.m., #40520
Professor 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 as 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 19th century U.S. feminism. Students will learn about Gage through primary sources, primarily her correspondence, which has never been published. Veteran feminist activist Dr. Wagner will provide contrasting reflections from her experience in the 1960-70's second wave of feminism. Requirements include a Public Presentation at the Matilda Joslyn Gage Home in Fayetteville based on a collaborative project of preparing Gage's correspondence for on-line publication. This course was previously offered under the title History of the Women’s Suffrage Movement. If you have taken that course, you cannot receive credit for this course.

WSP 200/HNR 260 Feminism: An Activist Conversation (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (HNR course or other honors course)

Collaboration

Public Presentation

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Honors Seminars:

HNR 100 Orientation Seminar
HNR 100 starts in the second week of classes.
Each section is 1 credit, pass/fail grading. The seminar provides intellectual enrichment and an introduction to the Honors program, and explores the world of ideas. It is required for all freshmen who are newly admitted to the Honors Program in the spring semester.
Six Myths About the Good Life
Earth Sciences, Exploration and Extreme Environments
Music and Disaster
Asking, Listening, Writing: Creating a Book About France
Aging: It's About Your Life!
The Art of Living
200-Level Honors Seminars:
200-level Honors Seminars start in the second week of classes.
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 seminars (in which you received a "B" or higher) to count as one required HNR course. For those of you with tight schedules, this may be an efficient way to fulfill a three-credit requirement over multiple semesters.

All sophomore seminars are offered contingent upon sufficient enrollment. Keep an eye on this site for possible additions to the offerings.

All 200-level seminars are graded beginning in the Spring 2007 semester. No paperwork is required to receive a letter grade.
HNR 210 Arts in Society
HNR 220 Introduction to Political Culture and Practice
HNR 230 Scientific Issues and Practice

Honors Capstone Project Seminars:
HNR 309 begins in the second week of classes.
BEN 498 Senior Thesis II
BIO 419 Biology Honors Seminar
HNR 309 Capstone/Thesis Project Planning Seminar
HNR 409 Capstone/Thesis Project Execution Seminar
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HNR 100 Orientation Seminar

Six Myths About the Good Life
Section M001, Tuesdays 3:30 – 4:50 p.m., #33737
Professor Kristopher McDaniel
Meets in Bowne 306A
Start Date: Tuesday, January 23, 2007

What makes a life worth living? Is a good life simply a happy life? Is one's life worth living to the extent that one gets what one wants? Or is something more (or less) required? In this seminar, we will try to answer these questions together. We'll use a recent book, Six Myths About the Good Life, as a springboard for our conversations.

Earth Sciences, Exploration and Extreme Environments
Section M002, Tuesdays 5:00 – 6:20 p.m., #33738
Professors Paul Fitzgerald and Suzanne Baldwin
Meets in Heroy 210
Start Date: Tuesday, January 23, 2007

These three topics are often linked because global warming typically has a greater effect on polar regions, and these thus regions are often cited as "barometers for global change." Polar regions are, of course, regions of extreme environment and are areas where many exploration epics have taken place. This seminar will touch on several key issues related to earth sciences and the environment - namely global warming and the ozone hole, the evidence for these devastating phenomena, their impact on society and whether it's possible to mitigate their effects. We will also experience exploration as it pertains to solving these and other fundamental earth science questions such as the formation of mountain belts and how rock can be brought to the surface by natural processes from depths of 100 km in a few million years. We look at examples from the mountains of Antarctica, Alaska, and the wilds of Papua New Guinea.

Music and Disaster
Section M003, Thursdays 2:00-3:20 p.m., #33739
Professor Andrew Waggoner
Meets in Bowne 306A
Start Date: Thursday, January 25, 2007

Recent events, from 9/11 to the Asian tsunami and the hurricanes on the U.S. gulf coast, have forced artists to re-consider their various roles as voices of their cultures as they have at no time since the 1960’s. How do societies respond in their arts (and, more specifically, their musics) to disaster? What, if any, is the role of the individual artist in contributing to this communal process? Finally, how do cultures differ from one another in their ways of approaching this most basic and yet most ethically and emotionally complex problem of human expression? In this course we’ll take a comparative listen to several different cultural responses to tragedy, including the protest music of the 60's, music of the early labor movement in the Appalachians, and varied responses to 9/11, among them John Adams' work for the New York Philharmonic. We'll also share our own experiences and individual ways of using art in times of stress.

Asking, Listening, Writing: Creating a Book About France
Section M004, Mondays 3:45-5:05 p.m., #40456
Professor John Western, Maxwell Professor of Teaching Excellence
Meets in Bowne 306A
Start Date: Monday, January 22, 2007

Your instructor is a geographer and an ethnographer, which means he watches people going about their lives, and gets them to talk with him about the cities in which they live. When I start inquiring, obviously there are certain things I want to investigate, like politics, history, or social tensions such as racism or the-rich-versus-the-poor. But by putting very open-ended questions to people in a courteous manner, a lot of folks will tell you what they think about their city – and some of this would be stuff I’d never have thought of asking about myself. For those of you who are quantitative and/or ‘hard’ scientific by leaning, this kind of ‘soft’ research might seem rather undemanding. Nope. This is hard and rigorous – but joyous too. I’ve written work like this on southern Louisiana (early 1970s), in “Coloured” Cape Town under apartheid (late 1970s), with Caribbean settlers in London (late 1980s), and now am doing a book about Strasbourg, which has been both German (= Strassburg) and French in modern times and now has many Muslim settlers. Join with me in the making of my book, and see to what really broad-scale questions (about America, and about the world) it leads!

We will meet in the Honors Suite once a week for (probably) 11 weeks, on Monday afternoons from 3.45 to 5.05. Be there. Do not fail to turn up; that is discourteous. E-mail me if there’s a problem (as when you’re unwell).

Sometimes I will give you small assignments: readings, projects, or being prepared to lead a discussion at the upcoming meeting. Sometimes our class together will not be about what I do at all ... but about you (you’ll see). And there’ll likely be at least one meeting off campus. Whatever our focus each time, this will be fun. A nice way to earn one credit. And beware: I enjoy teaching!

Aging: It’s About Your Life!
Section M005, Wednesdays 3:45-5:45 p.m., #40457
Professor Eric Kingson
Students will meet in Bowne 306D and ride together to the seminar. Transportation provided.
Start Date: Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Counts toward your Civic Engagement requirement in Honors.

COURSE THEME: It is 2055. America is older and more diverse racially and ethnically. Have you and the nation made the right decisions?

Syracuse University honors students will explore the implications of their and the population's aging -- for you personally, for your parents', grandparents' and great-grandparents' generations and for your children, your community and society. Along with the 8-10 older participants in this seminar, you will be asked to discuss in class what it means to get older, how decisions made early in life will affect you in later years, how people prepare for old age, and how different generations work and relate to each other. You will also debate ethical questions such as whether health care should be rationed based on age and whether assisted suicide should be legalized. And you will discuss what the role of Social Security and Medicare should be in the future. When this course is completed, you should have a better appreciation of what you, your family members, and the nation can do to prepare for old age and the Aging of America. Equally importantly, you will have met and exchanged views on a regular basis with older residents of the Oaks, ranging in age from their 70s to their 90s and possibly older.

The Art of Living
Section M006, Tuesdays, 12:30 – 1:50, #40458
Professor Amy Leal
Meets in Bowne 306A
Start Date: Tuesday, January 23, 2007

In this course, students will explore living and learning as an art, partaking of the highest life has to offer in writing, painting, sculpture, theater, scientific speculation, music, social activism, and, of course, fine dining. Students will read short weekly writings of some of the world's finest writing to stimulate discussion as we explore the best Syracuse has to offer. This course is centered around pleasure in learning and takes advantage of the local arts scene--for the arts, as Pater explained, come "to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake." Students will keep a weekly reaction journal for course credit.

HNR 210 Arts in Society
1 credit

Sec M002: W 5:15-6:35, #31770 -Cancelled
Sec M003: TH 5:00-6:20, #31771
Start Dates: Second week of Classes (January 24 and 25, 2007)
Instructor: William D. West

This seminar is an experienced-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.

HNR 220 Introduction to Political Culture and Practice

Each section is 1 credit. The various sections of this seminar will explore civic life in the wider Syracuse community. Different approaches for this exploration will be used in different sections:

Muslim Communities
Flaunting it! The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Rights and Culture
Culture of Violence

Muslim Communities
Sec M001: T 2:00-3:20 p.m. #31774
Start Date: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 (Second week of classes)
Instructor: Professor Ahmed Kobeisy

Islam is one of the largest and fastest growing religions of the world. It is followed by approximately 1.5 billion people around the world, including 8 million here in the United States. Islam and Muslims have been the center of political events and debates in many circles, particularly since 9/11.
This course will explore major events in Islam and Islamic history and the development of its institutions, along with the seamless interaction of religion and culture which forms a great diversity within the Muslim world, and which is rarely recognized. Furthermore, the course will discuss the lives and experiences of Muslims in some countries in the Middle East and the world, as indicators of contemporary and future trends in Muslim societies.

The history and demographic structure of Muslims living in the United States will also be explored, as will the effects of world political events and the process of globalization.

Flaunting it! The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Rights and Culture
Sec M002: W 3:45-5:05 p.m., #31775
Start Date: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 (Second week of classes)
Instructor: Harry Freeman-Jones
This seminar examines the roots and growth of the gay and lesbian rights movement from a state of fearful invisibility to its present status as a provocative force upsetting assumptions about the nature of society's mythic values. Material will explore how this very personal yet political and cultural struggle challenges society to embrace the inherent diversity of its minority citizens. Sessions will include recorded and in-person accounts from gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered people who have survived the challenges of manifest prejudice to create lifestyles, relationships, and families on their own terms.

Culture of Violence
Sec M006: Th 3:30-4:50 p.m., #35769
Start Date: Thursday, January 25, 2007 (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.

HNR 230 Scientific Issues and Practice
Each section is 1 credit. 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.
Wonders of Weather
The Care and Feeding of Zoo Animals
Wonders of Weather
Sec M001: TH 12:30-1:50 p.m., #37475
Start Date: Thursday, January 25, 2007 (Second week of classes)
Instructor: Tom Hauf
We will explore all things weather this semester-from a fast-paced run through all the basics of Meteorology to more advanced discussions on wild weather events both here in the United States and around the world. Special emphasis will be placed on our shared environment and how our changing world of weather may affect us and our environment in the future.
Information will be presented in ways that will be challenging, entertaining, and above all else, unforgettable. For more information, please see the course website: http://www.tomhauf.com.
Care and Feeding of Zoo Animals
Sec M002 M 5:30 – 6:50 p.m., #34519
Start Date: Monday, January 22, 2007 (second week of classes)
Instructors: Ted Fox & Adrienne Whiteley, Burnett Park Zoo

This seminar course will provide students with an overview of all the elements required to manage exotic animals in a zoo. The course will culminate in a trip to the zoo where students will have an opportunity to test behavioral enrichment projects they have designed. Occasionally, zoo animals will visit the seminar.

Possible seminar topics include: Animal Behavior; Collection Planning; Exhibit Design; Record Keeping; Veterinary Care; Nutrition; Population Management; Animal Training; Safety; Animal Enrichment

Honors Capstone Project Seminars:
BEN 498 Senior Thesis II
1 credit
Sec M001: F 12:45-3:35 PM, #30838
This is a senior honors seminar for honors students undertaking theses in bioengineering.

BIO 419 Biology Honors Seminar
1 credit
Sec M001: Junior & Senior Thesis Seminar, T 5:00-6:00 PM, #31304
Sec M002: Junior & Senior Thesis Seminar, T 5:00-6:00 PM, #31305
Professors Larry Wolf and John Belote

Juniors and seniors majoring in biology meet together 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 Project Planning Seminar
1 credit, pass/fail grading
For juniors who were abroad or in IR/DC in the Fall 2006 semester, and sophomores who will be abroad in Fall 2007.
Sec M001: TH 5:00-6:00, #31778
Start date: 2nd week of classes (January 25)

The purpose of HNR 309, the Capstone/Thesis Project Planning seminar, is to introduce you to capstone project. The goals of the course are to understand what a capstone project is, to understand what personal resources are necessary for successful completion of a project, to clarify a topic for your project, to find a faculty member who will advise your project, and to develop an academic plan and a timeline for completion of the project. During the first half of the semester, there will be a series of seminar meetings, assignments, and exercises designed to meet these goals. 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 project.
HNR 409 Capstone/Thesis Project Execution Seminar
1 credit, pass/fail grading
Sec. 1: #33740
Students will meet individually with the instructor, Prof. Eric Holzwarth
Sec. 2: #33741
Students will meet individually with the instructor, Prof. Stuart Thorson

The purpose of HNR 409, the Capstone/Thesis Project Execution seminar, is to ensure that you are making significant progress toward the completion of your capstone/thesis project. You may register for HNR 409 any semester after you have completed junior seminar. There are no class meetings for this seminar. To complete HNR 409, you must meet with your faculty thesis project advisor regularly during the semester; meet twice during the semester with the person with whom you took HNR 309; and complete a thesis project status report (1-2 pages) by the end of the semester. Be sure to register for the section taught by your HNR 309 instructor.