Renée Crown University Honors Program at Syracuse University

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 General Chemistry/Honors
CHE 129 General Chemistry Lab/Honors
ETS 200: Malcolm X/Honors
FIA 105 Arts and Ideas/Honors
FRE 201 French III/Honors
GEO 219 American Diversity and Unity/Honors
HNR 240 The Ancient Epic - FULL
HNR 240 Arts Without Borders
HNR 250 Linked Lenses: Science, Philosophy, and the Pursuit of Knowledge - FULL
HNR 260 Ethics in the 21st Century: Personal and Social Responsibility - FULL
HNR 260 Improving Undergraduate Education
HNR 260 Collaborative Practicum in Social Science: Hospice Legacy Project (Cross-listed with SOL 260 M002/SOL 360 M004) - FULL
HNR 260 Collaborative Practicum in Social Science: Hospice Outreach Project (Cross-listed with SOL 260 M003/SOL 360 M005) - FULL
HNR 306/CHE 306/SOL 306 Advanced Forensic Science - FULL
HNR 340/SOL 344 Creativity and the Art of Crossing Borders - FULL
HNR 350 Water for Gotham
HNR 360/EEE 400 Exploring the Entrepreneurial Journey - FULL
HNR 360 Quilts and Community (meets with SOL 360 M003)
HNR 440/ARC 551 LeCorbusier and Modernism - FULL
HNR 440 Artist as Icon: Media Image & the Creative Spirit - FULL
ITA 101 Italian I/Honors
LIT 226 Dostoevsky and Tolstoy/Honors
MAX 123 Critical Issues for the United States/Honors - FULL
MAX 132 Global Community/Honors - FULL
PAF 101 Introduction to Analysis of Public Policy/Honors
PHI 109 Introduction to Philosophy/Honors - FULL
PHI 209 Introduction to Moral Philosophy/Honors - FULL
PSY 209 Foundations of Human Behavior/Honors
PSY 393 Personality - FULL
REL/JSP 114 The Bible/Honors
SPA 101 Intensive Spanish I/Honors
SPA 102 Intensive Spanish II/Honors
SPA 201 Intensive Spanish III/Honors
SPA 202 Intensive Spanish IV/Honors
WRT 109 Writing Studio I/Honors

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HONORS COURSES:

CHE 109 General Chemistry/Honors
3 credits
Honors section M001 MWF 9:30-10:25 a.m., #12966
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 (see below). 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)

CHE 129 General Chemistry Lab/Honors
1 credit
Honors section M001 W 12:45 – 3:30 p.m., #12967
Honors section M002 Th 12:30 – 3:15 p.m., #12968
Honors section M003 W 3:45 – 6:30 p.m., #19953
Instructor: Tewodros Asefa

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.

ETS 200: Malcolm X/Honors
3 credits
Section M002: TTH 2:00 - 3:20, #18414
Professor Greg Thomas

He was "the finest revolutionary theoretician and activist produced by
America's [B]lack working class in [the twentieth] century," according
to the late, great historian John Henrik Clarke. Malcolm X is, for
many, more icon or memory, even an object of adulation (or
condemnation), than the monumental mind and body of the Pan-African
Black liberation movement. These ideas about Malcolm X inhere despite
his extreme dexterity in Black history and folklore, U.S. public debate,
as well as local and global political analysis. This course will
engage his thought and his activism in addition to his legacy via his
own textuality--not to mention film and video, essays, and poetry by
others focusing on his work as an insistent, persistent source of
inspiration.

ETS 200: Malcolm X/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: TTH 3:30 - 4:50, #13099
Professor Sandra Chai

This course is primarily a survey of the visual arts from the Prehistoric period through the High Renaissance and Mannerist periods. Emphasis is on art as a reflection of its historical context. Art as aesthetic object will also be considered. Parallel phenomena in music and literature may be briefly discussed. The course requirements include three equally weighted exams, occasional short writing assignments, and one paper that may be revised for additional credit. There may be one or more excursions 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 11:40-12:35 and TTh 12:30-1:50, #21572
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

GEO 219 American Diversity and Unity/Honors
3 credits
M001: MWF 11:40–12:35, #21826
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 The Ancient Epic - FULL
3 credits
Section M001 MW 12:45 – 2:05, #19111
Professor Charles Martin

Through the medium of deathless stories, the ancient epic, from Gilgamesh through Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, Virgil’s Aeneid, Ovid’s Metamorphoses, to Beowulf and Dante’s Inferno, preserved, challenged, or redefined the image of the hero and the values of the society that honored the hero. We will read and discuss these works, examining such issues as the relation of the epic to political and religious hierarchies, the appearance of honor and shame in epic and modern societies, and the role of women as characters in, and as readers---and perhaps writers---of epic.

HNR 240 The Ancient Epic (with a grade of “B” or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (other honors course)

Public Presentation

HNR 240 Arts Without Borders
3 credits
Section M002 TTH 5:00 – 6:20, #20141
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). Students will also be called upon to give a 15-minute presentation on a cultural event that left a particularly strong impression on them during the semester.

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

Breadth (other honors course)

Public Presentation

HNR 250 Linked Lenses: Science, Philosophy, and the Pursuit of Knowledge - FULL
3 credits
Section M003 MW 12:45-2:05 p.m., #19168
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 both contemporary and historically important philosophers (e.g., Peirce, Hume, Popper) and scientists (e.g., Darwin, Gould, Margulis).

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 (other honors course)

Interdisciplinarity

HNR 260 Ethics in the 21st Century: Personal and Social Responsibility - FULL
3 credits
Section M001 TTH 3:30 - 4:50 p.m., #19109
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 21st Century: Personal and Social Responsibility (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (other honors course)

Public Presentation

HNR 260 Improving Undergraduate Education
3 credits
Section M002 MWF 9:30 to 10:25, #21871
Professor William Coplin

Purpose: Explore the impact of college education on undergraduates and what faculty, administrators, students and the government can do to improve it

Description: If you have ever wondered why undergraduate education is what it is and wanted to do something to make it better, this course is for you. Starting with a book written by the former and now acting President of Harvard, Derek Bok, you will see what undergraduate education is supposed to be. You will examine undergraduate education at SU to see how it measures up to Bok’s vision and also relate current research findings about undergraduate education throughout the United States to what you find here. Then you will develop and begin to execute a plan to make things better on campus, as well as study how the United States government is trying to craft policy to do the same throughout the country. And in case you are wondering, Dr. Bok is not too pleased with undergraduate education at Harvard. (Note: many of the Friday sessions will be devoted to independent projects.)

HNR 260 Improving Undergraduate Education (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (other honors course)

Public Presentation

Collaboration

HNR 260 Collaborative Practicum in Social Science: Hospice Legacy Project (Cross-listed with SOL 260 M002/SOL 360 M004) - FULL
3 credits
Section M004, MW 2:15 – 3:35, #20625
Professor James Spencer
This course has very limited availability.

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.

HNR 260 Hospice Legacy Project, and the SOL sections with which it is cross-listed (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (other honors course)

Collaboration

Civic engagement

HNR 260 Collaborative Practicum in Social Science: Hospice Outreach Project (Cross-listed with SOL 260 M003/SOL 360 M005) - FULL
3 credits
Section M005, MW 2:15 – 3:35, #20626
Professor James Spencer
This course has very limited availability.

This project involves video production. You may select from three different projects. The first, about Grief Services, would involve the Hospice commitment to bereavement care by focusing on adult, childhood and group counseling related to the loss of a loved one. The activities involved may be Grief Work seminars, Camp Healing Hearts (a day camp for children coping with loss of a loved one), Helping Hands, Healing Hearts (an after school program for children and teens), and Grief Write (a writing-through-grief program.) 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.

HNR 260 Hospice Outreach Project, and the SOL sections with which it is cross-listed (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (other honors course)

Collaboration

Civic engagement

HNR 306/CHE 306/SOL 306 Advanced Forensic Science - FULL
3 credits
M001 MW 12:45 - 2:05, #20418
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 (other honors course- if registered for HNR 306)

Collaboration

Public Presentation

Interdisciplinarity

HNR 340/SOL 344 Creativity and the Art of Crossing Borders -FULL
3 credits
Section M001 TH 2:00-4:50 p.m., #20627
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 a member of the internationally renowned Open Hand Puppet Theater. The course will consider the role and history of puppets as agents for social change.

HNR 340/SOL 344 Creativity and the Art of Crossing Borders (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (other honors course)

Collaboration

HNR 350 Water for Gotham
3 credits
Section M001, T TH 9:30 – 10:50, #19112
Professor Chris Johnson
No prerequisites.

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 (other honors course)

Interdisciplinarity

HNR 360/EEE 400 Exploring the Entrepreneurial Journey -FULL
3 credits
Section M001, MW 2:15 – 3:35, #21486
Professor Minet Schindehutte
No prerequisites.

Entrepreneurship is not about starting a business. Rather, it is a way of thinking and acting that transcends career, social and business dimensions. Arguably, there is no area of academic pursuit that is more interdisciplinary and cross-functional than entrepreneurship. The real quest of the course is to explore the nexus of multiple disciplines in order to construct an integrative perspective on the question: "What is entrepreneurship?" Towards this end, the theory of entrepreneurship is investigated through discussion of perspectives from thought leaders, research articles and the popular business press. The practice of entrepreneurship is explored in a simulation challenge that enables students to assess their personal entrepreneurial abilities and potential. Students develop an appreciation of the world views and life worlds of entrepreneurs by doing a research project on the various competencies associated with an entrepreneurial mindset, using the logic and methodologies from other disciplines. These skills are important preconditions to developing one's own original ideas.

HNR 360/EEE 400 Exploring the entrepreneurial Journey (with a grade of “B” or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (other honors course)

Collaboration

Interdisciplinarity

HNR 360 Quilts and Community (meets with SOL 360 M003)
3 credits
Section M002, M 5:30 – 8:30, #19185
Professor Susan Wadley

This interactive course explores the role of quilts and quilting communities in the US and elsewhere. Each class begins with one and a half hours of discussion, films, and exploration of quilts and their makers—and the communities that result. Then class shifts to Hendricks Chapel where we will join the Hendricks Chapel Quilters and learn the process of quilt making through making our own “community” quilt. No sewing experience needed! - Susan Wadley – M 5:30-8:30PM Bowne 105,

HNR 360/SOL 360 Quilts and Community (with a grade of “B” or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (other honors course)

Collaboration

HNR 440/ARC 551 LeCorbusier and Modernism -FULL
3 credits
Section M001 TTH 2:00-3:20 p.m., #19058
Professor Bruce Abbey
Honors juniors and seniors only.

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 (other honors course)

HNR 440 Artist as Icon: Media Image & the Creative Spirit -FULL
3 credits
M002 M 5:15 – 8:15, #19135
Professor Johanna Keller
No prerequisites.

Creative people who achieve fame have participated in creating their own celebrity. But how exactly does this occur? In this class we examine how images and narratives are selected and repeated to create the iconic persona of a celebrity (or, in marketing terms, a brand). In the worlds of fashion, painting, architecture, literature, music, film, or popular culture, how do we think of creative icons and their work? How do the media interpret creative work and present creators to the public? This course examines the lives, the works and media images of such cultural icons as Frida Kahlo, Truman Capote, Jackson Pollock, Frank Lloyd Wright, Madonna, Andy Warhol, Ray Charles and others. In class we will view recent biographical films and documentaries, discuss biographies and journalistic accounts, listen to sound recordings, and analyze photographs and images, in order to trace the relationship between creative people, their work and their media images. We will also examine theories of fame and celebrity. The class project includes writing assignments and an in-class presentation about a media icon of your own choosing.

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 (other honors course)

Public Presentation (Fall 2006 and later)

Interdisciplinarity

ITA 101 Italian I/Honors
4 credits
Honors Section M008: TTh 11:00-12:20 and W 10:35-11:30, #16122
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 integral parts of this course.
The course is highly structured. Class attendance is obligatory, and there is a two-hour 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, #18540
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 course. Two of the greatest writers in the world provide material for critical thinking, analysis and increased understanding of life's greatest questions. Dostoevsky states the universal dilemma: “God and the devil are struggling, and the battlefield is the heart of man.” Class discussions; written, oral and dramatic presentations; and final class projects allow students to explore the meaning of life, the essence of truth in life and the significance of suffering as a means of salvation. Readings include The Death of Ivan Ilych, Anna Karenina, The Brothers Karamazov , and Notes from Underground, plus a biography of one author and a second work by the other. Film viewings will further supplement discussion and inspire term paper themes. This course challenges students of all disciplines 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 (with a grade of “B” or better) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

Breadth (other honors course)

Presentation (Fall 2006 and later) (Honors section only)

MAX 123 Critical Issues for the United States/Honors -FULL
3 credits
Lecture: M001 M 9:30-10:25 #16550
Professor Robert McClure

Honors Discussion M007: WF 9:30-10:25, #13479
Professor John Palmer
Register for Discussion M007; 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 -FULL
3 credits
Lecture: M001 W 9:30-10:25 #16551
Honors Discussion M003: MF 9:30 - 10:25 #15682
Register for Discussion M003; Lecture M001 will auto-enroll
Professor John Western

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)

Interdisciplinarity

Global Awareness (Non-Eurocentric)

PAF 101 Introduction to Analysis of Public Policy/Honors
3 credits
Lecture M002: MWF 12:45-1:40, #17070
Honors Discussion section M003: M 1:50-2:45, #17071
Professor William Coplin
Register for Lecture M002; Discussion M003 will auto-enroll.

Honors students attend the PAF 101 course lectures and complete required assignments for the course. They also meet once a week for one period to apply the concepts in to a variety of topics through discussion, take part in conversations with outside speakers and develop oral communications and presentation skills. Students choose which social and economic problems facing the United States they will study. This is the gateway course to the Policy Studies major. Many Policy Studies students win scholarships, get into the best graduate, law and medical schools, attain a position with Teach for America and learn how to do good and do well simultaneously.

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 -FULL
3 credits
Honors lecture M001: TTh 11:00-12:20, #13557
Professor Kristopher McDaniel

This course introduces students to philosophy by considering a selection of the most fundamental problems in metaphysics and epistemology including: the mind-body problem, the existence of God, the nature of knowledge, skepticism, free will vs. determinism. Our approach will be topical: we will learn what a philosophical problem is, and what methods philosophers use to solve such problems, by attempting to answer philosophical questions.

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 - FULL
3 credits
Honors lecture M001: MW 2:15 – 3:35 p.m., #20046
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)

PSY 209 Foundations of Human Behavior/Honors
3 credits
Honors section M001: TTh 8:00 - 9:20 #13727
Professor Max Malikow

Honors section M002: TTh 11:00 - 12:20 #18538
Professor Anne Fontana

This course is the Honors equivalent of PSY 205. It 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)

Presentation (Professor Fontana section only)

PSY 393 Personality -FULL
3 credits
Section M002 MW 12:45 – 2:05, #22014
Prof. Max Malikow
Prerequisite: PSY 205 or PSY 209

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 114 The Bible/Honors
3 credits
Lec M001, M-W 11:40 – 12:35
Disc M008, #22308 Friday 10:35 – 11:30
Register for Recitation M008; Lecture M001 will auto-enroll.
Prof. James Watts

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 101 Intensive Spanish I/Honors
4 credits
Honors sec M004: MW 10:35 - 11:30, and TTh 9:30 - 10:50, #13819
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 ar e integral parts 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, #13828
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 integral parts 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 #13840
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, #21439
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, #14066
Sec M080: MWF 12:45-1:40, #14067
Sec M240: TTh 11:00-12:20, #14068 Service Learning Section - FULL
Sec M260: TTh 12:30-1:50, #14069 - CANCELLED
Sec M300: TTh 3:30-4:50, #14070 Service Learning Section - CANCELLED

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 Honors Orientation Seminar
HNR 210 Arts in Society
HNR 220 Introduction to Political Culture and Practice
HNR 230 Scientific Issues and Practices
Honors Capstone Project Seminars

HNR 100 Honors Orientation 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.

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Honors 200-Level Seminars:

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

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
Each section is 1 credit, graded.

Sec M001: W 3:45-5:05, #13259 Arts in Society CANCELLED (M002 is open).
Sec M002: W 2:15-3:35, #20361 Arts in Society
Start Dates: Second week of classes (Wednesday, September 5, 2007)
Instructor: William D. West
Course fee: $43 to cover cost of tickets.

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.

Sec M003 W 5:15-6:35, #20375 Artists With Day Jobs
Start Date: First week of classes (Wednesday, August 29, 2007)
Instructor: Georgia Popoff

This seminar will be structured as a facilitated discussion of the concerns of balancing one's creative identity with pressing academic schedules, career choices, and personal goals after graduation. Issues for exploration will include the "juggling act" of personal artistic expression with managing a demanding course load or 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. Artmaking and community resources will be incorporated as well as resources for grant writing and fellowship opportunities will also be offered.

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HNR 220 Introduction to Political Culture and Practice
Each section is 1 credit, graded. The various sections of this seminar will focus on the exploration of civic life in the wider Syracuse community, through several different approaches:

Haudenosaunee: Native American Perspectives
Culture of Violence
Refugee Communities in Syracuse - FULL

Haudenosaunee: Native American Perspectives
Section M003: T 7:00-8:20 p.m., #13260
Start Date: Second week of classes (Tuesday, September 4, 2007)
Instructor: John Dyer, Oneida Nation, Wolf Clan

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., #17366
Start Date: Second week of classes (Thursday, September 6, 2007)
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 - FULL
Section M005: W 3:45-5:05 p.m., #13261
Start Date: Second week of classes (Wednesday, September 5, 2007)
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.

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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., #16026
Start Date: Third week of classes (Monday, September 10, 2007)
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.

The Challenges of Zoo Management - FULL
Sec M003 W 5:30 – 6:50 p.m., #22403
Start Date: Second week of classes (Wednesday, September 5, 2007)
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
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Honors Capstone Project Seminars:

BIO 419 Junior and Senior Thesis Seminar
1 credit
Sec M001: Junior & Senior Thesis Seminar, T 5:00-6:00 PM, #12880
Professor Larry Wolf
This section for Honors students only

Sec M002: Junior & Senior Thesis Seminar, T 5:00-6:00 PM, #12881
Professor 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 (see syllabus)
Sec M002: TH 5:00-6:00, #13262

Start date:
Our first class meeting will actually be the Junior Assembly on September 6,
in 320 Lyman Hall (5:00).

This serves as our first “class session,” and will include an introduction to Capstone, some initial thoughts how to get started, and a faculty panel of experienced Capstone Advisors from a variety of disciplines. Many other juniors will join us just for this session.

Our first “regular” session will be on Thursday, September 13, in 306 Bowne.
On that day we’ll begin to work closely together.

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, 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.

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