Spring 2008 Registration Information
Honors Courses
Honors Seminars
Honors Capstone Project 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. (However, the seminar you use to complete the Orientation requirement cannot be one of the three.)

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

Check start dates for seminars - many start in the second or third week of classes.

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 Public Advocacy/Honors (see note)
CRS 400 Art in Action: Get on the Bus/Honors - NEW COURSE!!!
ECN 203 Economic Ideas and Issues/Honors
ECN 310 Economics in History: Rosie the Riveter/Honors
FIA 106 Arts and Ideas II/Honors
HNR 240 Theatre as Collaboration
HNR 240 Interpretation of Poetry
HNR 240 Arts Without Borders
HNR 240 American Fear
HNR 240/HNR 260/HST 300 Elizabeth I: Images and Iconography Full
HNR 250/PHY 200 Seeing Light
HNR 250 History and Natural History of Medicinal Plants
HNR 260/WSP 200 History of the Women's Suffrage Movement
HNR 260/HNR 240/HST 300 Elizabeth I: Images and Iconography Full
HNR 260/SOL 260 Hospice Legacy Project
HNR 260/SOL 260 Hospice Outreach Project
HNR 260/SOL 260 Elder Legacy Project
HNR 340/HNR 360/SOL 360 Folk Arts, Festival and Public Display
HNR 340 Reading Pictures, Picturing Texts: Visual Culture and Literature Full
HNR 340/360 Folk Art and Oral Traditions of India Full
HNR 340 Fiction Writing Workshop
HNR 340/SOL 345 Puppets and Community
HNR 360/HNR 340/SOL 360 Folk Arts, Festival and Public Display
HNR 360/340 Folk Art and Oral Traditions of India Full
HNR 360 Nations and States: The Question of Ethnicity in IR Full
HST/ANT 145 Historical Anthropology/Honors
HST 300/HNR 240/260 Elizabeth I: Images and Iconography/Honors Full
IST 443 Critique of the Information Age/Honors (see note)
ITA 102 Italian II/Honors
LIT 227 Pasternak and Solzhenitsyn/Honors
LPP 255 Introduction to the Legal System/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 209 Introduction to Moral Philosophy/Honors
PHY 200/HNR 250 Seeing Light/Honors
PSC 129 American National Government and Politics/Honors
PSY 209 Foundations of Human Behavior/Honors Full
PSY 393 Personality/Honors Full
SPA 201 Spanish III/Honors
SPA 202 Spanish IV/Honors
WRT 209 Writing Studio 2/Honors new time for Section M300!
WSP 200/HNR 260 History of the Women's Suffrage Movement/Honors

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HONORS COURSES:

ANT/HST 145 Historical Anthropology/Honors
3 Credits
ANT 145 M004 M 9:30 - 10:25 #31187
Can also be taken as HST 145; see below.
Lecture M001 MW 12:45-1:40
Professor Doug Armstrong

Register for 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.

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, #30216
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, #30217
Lab M002: T 2:00-5:00 pm, #31632
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 Public Advocacy/Honors
3 credits
CRS 225 Sec M008 MW 3:45 - 5:05, # 37329
Professor Amardo Rodriguez

The objectives of this course are to understand fundamental mechanics, processes, and techniques of communication that make for superior presentations and richer public communication experiences. Through various readings, many presentation sessions, and constructive criticism and discussion, this course enhances our capacities to respond appropriately to a variety of presentation situations. This mission includes understanding the origins of the different anxieties, insecurities, and fears that often undercut our presentational experiences. Ultimately, the goal of this course is to introduce students to the different relational demands that make for superior presentations and the communication practices that build the constitution to meet such demands.

Please Note that this course is no longer crosslisted as HNR 260. However, it will still count as an "HNR" course (as well as an "other honors course") for this semester only.

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

  • Breadth (HNR or other honors course)
  • Public Presentation

CRS 400 Art in Action: Get on the Bus/Honors - NEW COURSE!
3 credits
Section M003, Thursdays 9:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m., #40951
Professor Jan Cohen-Cruz

How can art contribute to community development? Focusing on the role of performance in public places towards this end, we’ll use Syracuse’s Connective Corridor, a broad effort to link an array of arts and cultural institutions, businesses, and neighborhoods towards the city’s revitalization, as a touchstone. The class inter-weaves workshops in creating public performances; principles and theories of art for community development; and student projects on and off the Connective Corridor bus to highlight arts and cultural organizations in Syracuse.

We’ll explore art in public places whose goal is community revitalization. Much has been documented about the importance of promoting interaction in public space for revitalizing cities. William H. Whyte, that great sociologist of urban life, wrote that crowded, pedestrian-friendly, active spaces are safer, more economically productive, and more conducive to healthy civic communities. More pedestrians eventually generate more jobs, from cafes to clothing shops, and more collaboration between artists and business people to create more activity as enough people are there to participate. The class inter-weaves workshops in selected methodologies of art in public spaces; readings about models and theories of cultural sectors situated to enhance their communities’ development; and hands-on projects on and off the Connective Corridor bus to highlight arts and cultural organizations in Syracuse. All students must be available on at least one of the following Thursdays or Fridays, 5:30-7:30 p.m., for a Get on the Bus project:  February 8, February 29, March 20, April 4, April 17.

CRS 400 Art in Action: Get on the Bus (with a grade of “B” or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

  • Breadth (other honors course)
  • Collaboration
  • Civic Engagement

ECN 203 Economic Ideas and Issues/Honors
3 credits
Section M014: MWF 9:30 - 10:25, #31842
Professor Donald Dutkowsky

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, #32086
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)

FIA 106 Arts and Ideas II/Honors
3 credits
Honors Lec M018: TTh 3:30-4:50, #30319
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)

HNR 240 Theatre as Collaboration
3 credits
Section M001 MW 2:15 - 3:35, #33108
Professor Gerardine Clark

Practical exercises in writing, directing, theatre design, and acting. Working groups will "produce" original student work on a regular basis. All students will participate in all areas. Prior experience in any of these areas welcome but not required. Emphasis will be on success of collaborative strategies.

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

  • Breadth (HNR course)
  • Collaboration

HNR 240 Interpretation of Poetry
3 credits
Section M003 MW 3:45 - 5:05, #33139
Professor Charles Martin

What is poetry that it should need to be interpreted? What kinds of interpretation are appropriate to bring to bear on it? We will begin by examining the form and forms of poetry, the relationship between meter and syntax, language and meaning. We will consider metaphor, imagery and ideas, and the way that they, along with tone, pace and texture create the imitation of a human voice. We will go on to closely read four or more poets, from a list including John Donne, Alexander Pope, John Clare, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, and Elizabeth Bishop.

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

  • Breadth (HNR course)
  • Public Presentation

HNR 240 Arts Without Borders
3 credits
M004 T TH 11:00 – 12:20, #39428
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.

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 240 American Fear
3 credits
Section M005 T TH 3:30 – 4:50, #39483
Instructor:  Sean Quimby

We Americans live in fear. In our day-to-day lives, we measure the passage of time in terms of yellow, orange and red "terror alerts." The nightly news bombards us with tales of murder and mayhem. How exactly did we get to this point? What types of fear bind Americans together? How has this changed over time? Drawing upon the primary source collections in Syracuse University's Special Collections Research Center, "American Fear" will give students the opportunity to consider the role that fear has played in American culture in context by consulting original sources in the arts, literature, and social science.

The course will open with the early days of European colonization. In the late 17th century Michael Wigglesworth's (1631-1705) best-selling poem Day of Doom (1662) sought to frighten people into church attendance. One hundred years later saw the printing of America's first gothic tale in Charles Brockden Brown's (1771-1810) Wieland, or, The Transformation (1798). By the mid 19th century Brown's now obscure novel had paved the way for an established literary tradition that included Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864), Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) and later Henry James (1843-1916) and H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937).

But the fictional tales in which American authors registered both their personal anxieties and those of their culture tell only a part of the story. The 20th century brought economic collapse, industrialized war and unprecedented carnage. While Europeans bore the emotional trauma resulting from the First World War, America imported Freudian psychoanalysis and the argument that individual phobias were the by-product of repressed longings, and that the emerging "mass culture" had served only to exacerbate their severity. Figures like Dr. Benjamin Spock (1903-1998) applied the tenets of psychoanalysis to child-rearing, maintaining that a healthy childhood was free from fear. Meanwhile, mid 20th century Americans of all ages lived under the threat of nuclear annihilation.

Students will be required to read the original editions of the works in question. Only by handling and reading the very same textual artifacts that contemporaries were reading can we begin to imagine the contexts in which their fears made sense. Nor will we limit ourselves to the purely textual. One class session will be devoted to listening to the original broadcast of H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds. Students will delve into SCRC's diverse holdings, including print-from literary classics to sci-fi pulp magazines-and manuscript-like the papers of Dr. Spock and writer Joyce Carol Oates (1938-).

Course goal(s):

This class represents something of an experiment. Traditionally, humanities courses have not invited collaborative research. By assuming responsibility for the Special Collections Research Center's summer 2008 exhibition American Fear, students will be required to collaborate on every step of the exhibition process, from concept to selection of materials and finally to execution. All the while students will learn the pitfalls and rewards of working with primary resources.

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

  • Breadth (HNR course)
  • Collaboration

HNR 240/HNR 260/HST 300 Elizabeth I: Images and Iconography
3 credits
Section M006 T TH 2:00 - 3:20, #40495
Can also be taken as HNR 260 or HST 300.
Professor Christopher Kyle

Elizabeth I: Cultural icon? Virgin queen? ‘Father/Mother’ of the nation? This course will examine the images, personality, words and actions of one of the most important monarchs in English history. How did Elizabeth manage to negotiate her rule of a patriarchal society as a ‘weak-willed woman’? Did she exploit her considerable political skills to benefit the country or simply to maintain her position on the throne? And what of those who sought to assassinate or replace her? How did she react to threats of foreign invasion, domestic rebellion and a barely concealed hostility among many in the governing classes? Using both early modern and modern iconography, we will explore the images and representations of Elizabeth to unravel her life and examine how she sought to portray herself and how others have seen her through the years.

Please note: an interest in visual culture is important for this class.

HNR 240/HNR 260/HST 300 Elizabeth I: Images and Iconography (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 250/PHY 200 Seeing Light
3 credits
HNR 250 Sec M001 MW 3:45-5:05, #33146
Can also be taken as PHY 200; see below.
Professor Alan Middleton

Course fee: $40

This is an Honors course on the science 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 provide a broad overview of concepts of light, color, vision, and uses of light. The study of light ranges from the everyday, including our everyday experience, to the more abstract, such as understanding light as both a wave and a particle. The audience can include students in any major or school and a broad range of students have taken this course: all that is required is an interest in color, vision, and light.

The course includes discussion sections, integrated lab work with simple equipment, and external activities. The external activities might include presentations on color by an expert in textiles, a visit to Syracuse Stage to discuss lighting, and a visit to Holden Observatory to use the telescope there.

The course starts with an historical look at theories of light and vision. It then addresses more modern theories and uses of light: waves, photons, and a bit of quantum mechanics. Applications of this knowledge could include understanding how computer monitors display color, explaining visual effects in nature (rainbows and mirages), color blindness, explaining the limits of spy satellites, and reviewing what light tells us about the history of the universe. The content includes a brief introduction to relativity: light is a central clue to demonstrating that time is closely related to space.

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, and vision. These experiments will show how scientific theories evolve and are reinforced.

There are no science prerequisites, but we will use algebra and trigonometry. 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 250 History and Natural History of Medicinal Plants
3 credits
Section M002, T TH 9:30 – 10:50, #39387
Professor Ernest Hemphill

The History and Natural History of Medicinal Plants is the story of a group of poisons and their remarkable roles in nature and in healing. These "phytochemicals" are probably synthesized by plants as defenses against animals and microbes, but when ingested, inhaled, injected or they otherwise gain entry to the human body, some act as stimulants, dull the sense of pain, strengthen the beating heart, or otherwise dramatically alter our physiology. There are two major themes in this course. The first is an exploration of the medical aspects of these plants studied in the context of our perceptions of healing, the history of medicine and pharmacology, and theories about the causes of disease. The second focus is natural history and the roles these chemicals play in the ecology of plants and animals, the mode of action of drugs, and strategies for developing and finding new pharmaceuticals. Consideration will also be given to how scientific methods are applied to human studies, and ethics in medical research and treatment. Some class activities will be linked to the apothecary shop at the Museum of Science and Technology (M.O.S.T).

(NOTE ON MEETING TIMES: There will be several field trips or extended classes during the semester. Every effort will be made to schedule these at the most convenient times for the class, but it is likely that at least two or three will be on Saturday or Sunday.)

TEXTS & EXPENSES Mark Plotkin: Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice. In addition, all students will be required to obtain a membership in the Museum of Science and Technology (MOST) costing, depending on type of membership, between $29 and $39.

GRADING Grading will be based on class participation, class presentations, and a major term paper. Attendance is expected at all classes and field trips.

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

  • Breadth (HNR course)
  • Interdisciplinarity
  • Public Presentation

HNR 260/WSP 200 History of Women's Suffrage Movement: Through the Letters of Matilda Joslyn Gage
3 credits
M001: W 7:00-10:00pm, #31884
Can also be taken as WSP 200; see below
Instructor: Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner

In the area where the woman's rights movement had its origin, we'll trace the history of its development. Videos, field trips, readings, individual research, practical experience, web searches, and classroom lecture/ discussions will be the vehicles for our pursuit. The foreground focus will be on Matilda Joslyn Gage, a woman equally important with her more recognized counterparts, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. She will be the lens through which we explore the backdrop, the standard historical analysis of 19th century U.S. feminism. You will learn about Gage up-close and personal, through working with her correspondence, which has never been published.

We will explore:

  • why Gage got written out of history by challenging religious fundamentalists and their effort to destroy religious freedom;
  • the campaign of non-violent civil disobedience for the vote which Gage masterminded;
  • her influence on her son-in-law, L. Frank Baum's writing of his 14-volume Oz books;
  • how the woman's rights movement took form in the territory of the Haudenosaunee, the six nations of the Iroquois confederacy, where women live with far greater status and authority than in the non-native world.

The legacy of radical reform in this region will provide a context for understanding the woman's movement. We'll look for the passion of the movement. What inspired these women and their male allies to stand up to the dictates of church and state alike in their demand that the world be transformed; where did they get their courage? How did they hold up under the ridicule, resistance and backlash? What were they like personally? Letters tell that story.

You'll also have an opportunity to be part of the creation of history as, working in partnership with the other students, you will read, data enter and interpret the letters and writings of Matilda Joslyn Gage. Your work will be part of the process of preparing her papers for publication. You will play an integral part in writing this woman back into history as you study about her.

HNR 260 History of Women's Suffrage Movement (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

  • Breadth (HNR course)
  • Collaboration
  • Public Presentation

HNR 260/HNR 240/HST 300 Elizabeth I: Images and Iconography
3 credits
Section M003 T TH 2:00 - 3:20, #40039
Can also be taken as HNR 240 or HST 300.
Professor Christopher Kyle

Elizabeth I: Cultural icon? Virgin queen? 'Father/Mother' of the nation? This course will examine the images, personality, words and actions of one of the most important monarchs in English history. How did Elizabeth manage to negotiate her rule of a patriarchal society as a 'weak-willed woman'? Did she exploit her considerable political skills to benefit the country or simply to maintain her position on the throne? And what of those who sought to assassinate or replace her? How did she react to threats of foreign invasion, domestic rebellion and a barely concealed hostility among many in the governing classes? Using both early modern and modern iconography, we will explore the images and representations of Elizabeth to unravel her life and examine how she sought to portray herself and how others have seen her through the years.

Please note: an interest in visual culture is important for this class.

HNR 260/HNR 240/HST 300 Elizabeth I: Images and Iconography (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/SOL 260 Hospice Legacy Project
3 credits
HNR 260 M005 MW 2:15 - 3:35, #33148
Can also be taken as SOL 260 M001, #32692
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 section 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/SOL 260 Hospice Outreach Project
3 credits
HNR 260 M006 MW 2:15 - 3:35, #33149
Can also be taken as SOL 260 M002, #32693
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 (HNR course or other honors course)
  • Collaboration
  • Civic Engagement

HNR 260/SOL 260/Elder Legacy Project
3 credits
HNR 260 M007 MW 2:15 – 3:35, #40356
Can also be taken as SOL 260 M005, #40349
This course has very limited availability

Students use their academic, writing, and/or artistic talents to create a family treasure and work with a unique group of people who have experienced life in many ways. Students work with elderly residents and families collaboratively to help them 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 the elderly participants and families (depending upon circumstances). Students will creatively capture their stories via writings, photographs, videos, journals, memory books/collages, or in other fashions. The experiences are also enriched by a seminar series presented by professional with expertise in related fields.

HNR 260 Elder 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 (HNR course or other honors course)
  • Collaboration
  • Civic Engagement

HNR 340 Reading Pictures, Picturing Texts: Visual Culture and Literature
3 credits
Section M001 T TH 2:00-3:20, #39482
Professor Amy Leal

This interdisciplinary course examines the intersection between visual culture (photography, painting, and film) and literature (fiction, poetry, and essays). Our class will center on the following themes: The Visual and the Visionary; Aesthetes and Decadents; Spirit Photography; Repetition and Desire; and Fantasy, Childhood, and the Age of Consent. To facilitate our understanding of the reflexive relationship between literature and visual culture, there will also be a trip to the Eastman Museum in Rochester and class projects such as making a camera obscura and taking a class portrait using a Victorian camera and collodion materials. Literary texts will include Tracy Chevalier's Girl with the Pearl Earring, William Blake's illuminations of his Songs of Innocence and Experience, Victorian poems, and novels by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll, and Vladimir Nabokov. There will be one presentation, three critical papers, and a final exam.

HNR 340 Reading Pictures, Picturing Texts (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

  • Breadth (HNR course)
  • Interdisciplinarity
  • Public Presentation

HNR 340/HNR 360/Folk Arts & Oral Traditions of India
3 credits
HNR 340 Sec M002 M 5:15 - 8:15 p.m., #39485 (Humanities)
Can also be taken as HNR 360 (Social Science) - See below
Professor Susan Wadley

In Indian society, arts, oral texts, and religious traditions are intimately combined in folk performances such as those accompanying scrolls that are 'read' by a lone male singer, in stories told about gods and goddesses that are painted by women on the walls of bridal chambers, in puppet performances that endure into the night, and in myriad other ways. This course explores some of these traditions, while also teaching about caste, varied religious traditions, gender, the social lives of the rural masses, and of change- in design, maker, performance style.

We will learn:

  • about shadow puppets from Kerala and Andhra Pradesh, both southern states;
  • about string puppeteers from the desert state of Rajasthan;
  • about the makers and singers of 25 foot scrolls called Par, also from Rajasthan;
  • about the female painters of a tradition called "Mithila," line drawings on walls and now paper, from the state of Bihar;
  • about male epic traditions of strong goddesses and upstart kings from an area near the Taj Mahal;
  • epic stories such as the Ramayana, and much more...
We will have access to SU's fine collection of South Asian Folk Arts, as well as two local private collections. You will also get an opportunity to create your own epic and folk traditions, whether oral or visual.

HNR 340/360 Folk Arts & Oral Traditions of India (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

  • Breadth (HNR course)
  • Interdisciplinarity
  • Public Presentation
  • Collaborative Capacity
  • Global Awareness (non-Eurocentric)

HNR 340 Fiction Writing Workshop
3 credits
HNR 340 Sec M003, W 12:45 - 3:35, #40340
Professor Phil LaMarche

Creative writing requires several attributes - inspiration, creativity, a sense of craft, and a knowledge of the world of literature into which you write. Only the last two can be learned. Therefore, this class will focus on making you betters readers, critical readers, and on sharpening the skills you may have been acquiring in other creative writing classes. Most likely you have already been subjected to piece-meal approaches to writing-working exclusively on plot, dialogue, setting, "description", et cetera-so what we will do is stress the importance of the story as a whole.

Requirements are as follows. Everyone will sign up for two different classes in which you will read aloud from your work. After the reading we will discuss the piece. In order for this to work smoothly, you must hand out a copy of your story to everyone in class a week prior to the date you select to read. Every student will read twice, and at the end of the term you will hand in a revised copy of one of the stories. This is also crucial. What makes good writing is highly subjective. Moreover, not all of you are coming into this class at the same level of ability. I am more interested in seeing improvement than attempts at the next Great American Short Story. The only way to gauge improvement is for me to see how well you respond to advice and criticism and alter your writing accordingly. In addition to the student writing, we will discuss published works that I will assign on a weekly basis. I will provide the stories each week.

Grading Breakdown: Class participation: 30%; Two readings: 20% each; Final revision: 30%

HNR 340 Fiction Writing Workshop (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

  • Breadth (HNR course)

HNR 340/SOL 345 Puppets and Community
3 credits
Honors Section M004, TH 2:00 - 4:45 p.m., #40479
Instructor: Geoffrey Navias

"Puppets and Community" is an active hands on course exploring the role of art in the formation of community in human societies. This grassroots approach involves SU students with the internationally respected Open Hand Theater. Students will design, build and operate giant puppets in two collaborative projects working with the theater's artistic director Geoffrey Navias:

  • The Shape of Our Lives, is a collaborative performance with award winning children's author Bruce Coville, the Syracuse Children's Chorus and Open Hand Theater to be performed at Hendricks Chapel March 2nd.
  • The second project is working with the fifth grade of an inner city elementary school creating and performing a puppetry pageant.

This class seeks to involve students from a wide range of disciplines. The willingness to experiment, be creative, and be involved are important attributes. Aspects of arts in education and professionally working with children and creativity will be explored. The Soling Program is a team-based collaborative, problem-based learning environment that emphasizes active learning. The program prepares undergraduates for both advanced study and future employment by encouraging them to develop problem solving, conflict resolution, presentation, and technical skills while working on a project for the University and the local community.

Times working with in the elementary school and rehearsals will be arranged.

HNR 340/SOL 345 Puppets and Community (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

  • Breadth (HNR course)
  • Collaboration
  • Civic Engagment

HNR 340/HNR 360/SOL 360 Folk Arts, Festival and Public Display
3 credits
HNR 340 Sec M005, #40737
Can also be taken as SOL 360 M004, #39438 or
HNR 360 Sec M002, MW 12:45-2:05, #39754 (Social Sciences)
Professor Felicia McMahon

The goal of this interactive course is to design a community folk arts festival component for Mayfest 2008. Students begin by interviewing traditional artists and exploring aesthetics in everyday life, i.e. those group experiences created by humans that are regarded as aesthetically pleasing to a particular community. Our emphasis will be on the process of recontextualization and hands-on collaborative projects in which students work as teams to plan and implement a folk arts festival

HNR 360/SOL 360 Folk Arts, Festival and Public Display (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

  • Breadth (HNR course)
  • Public Presentation
  • Collaboration
  • Civic Engagement

HNR 360/HNR 340/SOL 360 Folk Arts, Festival and Public Display
3 credits
HNR 360 Sec M002, MW 12:45-2:05, #39754
Can also be taken as SOL 360 M004, #39438 or
HNR 340 Sec M005, #40737 (Humanities)
Professor Felicia McMahon

The goal of this interactive course is to design a community folk arts festival component for Mayfest 2008. Students begin by interviewing traditional artists and exploring aesthetics in everyday life, i.e. those group experiences created by humans that are regarded as aesthetically pleasing to a particular community. Our emphasis will be on the process of recontextualization and hands-on collaborative projects in which students work as teams to plan and implement a folk arts festival

HNR 360/SOL 360 Folk Arts, Festival and Public Display (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

  • Breadth (HNR course)
  • Public Presentation
  • Collaboration
  • Civic Engagement

HNR 360/HNR 340 Folk Arts & Oral Traditions of India
3 credits
HNR 360 Sec M003, M 5:15 - 8:15 p.m., #39756 (Social Science)
Can also be taken as HNR 340 (Humanities) - See above
Professor Susan Wadley

In Indian society, arts, oral texts, and religious traditions are intimately combined in folk performances such as those accompanying scrolls that are 'read' by a lone male singer, in stories told about gods and goddesses that are painted by women on the walls of bridal chambers, in puppet performances that endure into the night, and in myriad other ways. This course explores some of these traditions, while also teaching about caste, varied religious traditions, gender, the social lives of the rural masses, and of change- in design, maker, performance style.

We will learn:

  • about shadow puppets from Kerala and Andhra Pradesh, both southern states;
  • about string puppeteers from the desert state of Rajasthan;
  • about the makers and singers of 25 foot scrolls called Par, also from Rajasthan;
  • about the female painters of a tradition called "Mithila," line drawings on walls and now paper, from the state of Bihar;
  • about male epic traditions of strong goddesses and upstart kings from an area near the Taj Mahal;
  • epic stories such as the Ramayana, and much more...
We will have access to SU's fine collection of South Asian Folk Arts, as well as two local private collections. You will also get an opportunity to create your own epic and folk traditions, whether oral or visual.

HNR 340/360 Folk Arts & Oral Traditions of India (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

  • Breadth (HNR course)
  • Interdisciplinarity
  • Public Presentation
  • Collaborative Capacity
  • Global Awareness (non-Eurocentric)

HNR 360 Nations and States: The Question of Ethnicity in International Relations
3 credits
HNR 360 Sec M004 T TH 11:00-12:20, #40335
Professor Goodwin Cooke

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

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

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

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

  • Breadth (HNR course)
  • Interdisciplinarity
  • Global Awareness (non-Eurocentric)

HST/ANT 145 Historical Anthropology/Honors
3 Credits
HST 145 M004 M 9:30-10:25, #30505
Can also be taken as ANT 145; see above.
Lecture MW 12:45-1:40
Professor Doug Armstrong

Register for 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.

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)

HST 300/HNR 240/HNR 260 Elizabeth I: Images and Iconography/Honors
3 credits
Honors Sec M003 T TH 2:00 – 3:20, #32816
Can also be taken as HNR 240 or HNR 260.
Professor Christopher Kyle

Elizabeth I: Cultural icon? Virgin queen? ‘Father/Mother’ of the nation? This course will examine the images, personality, words and actions of one of the most important monarchs in English history. How did Elizabeth manage to negotiate her rule of a patriarchal society as a ‘weak-willed woman’? Did she exploit her considerable political skills to benefit the country or simply to maintain her position on the throne? And what of those who sought to assassinate or replace her? How did she react to threats of foreign invasion, domestic rebellion and a barely concealed hostility among many in the governing classes? Using both early modern and modern iconography, we will explore the images and representations of Elizabeth to unravel her life and examine how she sought to portray herself and how others have seen her through the years.

Please note: an interest in visual culture is important for this class.

HST 300/HNR 260 Elizabeth I: Images and Iconography (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

  • Breadth (HNR course or other honors course)
  • Public Presentation

IST 443 Critique of the Information Age/Honors
3 credits
Honors Sec M002 T TH 3:30-4:50, #40665 (note new class number!)
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.’

Please Note this course is no longer crosslisted as HNR 360. However, it will still count as an "HNR" course (as well as an "other honors course") for this semester only.

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 (Honors section only)

ITA 102 Italian II/Honors
4 credits
Honors Sec M003: TTh 11:00-12:20 and W 10:35-11:30, #30542
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)

LIT 227 Pasternak and Solzhenitsyn/Honors
3 credits
Honors Sec M002: TTh 7:00-8:20 pm, #32194
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)

LPP 255 Introduction to the Legal System/Honors
3 credits
Honors Sec M003 MW 2:15 - 3:35, #34905
Professor Lisa Knych

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

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

  • Breadth (other honors course)

MAX 123 Critical Issues for the U.S./Honors
3 credits
Lecture M001: M 9:30-10:25, #30654
Professor Robert McClure
Honors Discussion M015: MW 10:35 - 11:30, #33131
Professor John Palmer

Register for Honors Section M015, #33131 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, #30662
Professor John Western
Honors Sec M002: M F 9:30-10:25, #30663
Professor John Western

Register for Honors Section M002, #30663, 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)
  • Interdisciplinarity
  • Global Awareness (Non-Eurocentric)

PAF 101 Introduction to Analysis of Public Policy/Honors
3 credits
Honors Sec M002: MWF 12:45-1:40, #30674
Honors discussion section: M003: M 1:50-3:35, #31207
Professor William Coplin

Register for M002 #30674 only. Discussion 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 209 Introduction to Moral Philosophy/Honors
3 credits
Honors Sec M001:T-Th 12:30 – 1:50, #32090
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)

PHY 200/HNR 250 Seeing Light
3 credits
Honors Section M001 MW 3:45-5:05, #33184
Can also be taken as HNR 250; see above.
Professor Alan Middleton

Course fee: $40

This is an Honors course on the science 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 provide a broad overview of concepts of light, color, vision, and uses of light. The study of light ranges from the everyday, including our everyday experience, to the more abstract, such as understanding light as both a wave and a particle. The audience can include students in any major or school and a broad range of students have taken this course: all that is required is an interest in color, vision, and light.

The course includes discussion sections, integrated lab work with simple equipment, and external activities. The external activities might include presentations on color by an expert in textiles, a visit to Syracuse Stage to discuss lighting, and a visit to Holden Observatory to use the telescope there.

The course starts with an historical look at theories of light and vision. It then addresses more modern theories and uses of light: waves, photons, and a bit of quantum mechanics. Applications of this knowledge could include understanding how computer monitors display color, explaining visual effects in nature (rainbows and mirages), color blindness, explaining the limits of spy satellites, and reviewing what light tells us about the history of the universe. The content includes a brief introduction to relativity: light is a central clue to demonstrating that time is closely related to space.

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, and vision. These experiments will show how scientific theories evolve and are reinforced.

There are no science prerequisites, but we will use algebra and trigonometry. 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.

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

  • Breadth (HNR course or other honors course)

PSC 129 American National Government and Politics/Honors
3 credits
Honors Sec M001: TTh, 5:00-6:20, #31156
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
Honors Sec M002 MW 12:45 -2:05 p.m., #32188
Prof. Jeanne Denti

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)

PSY 393 Personality/Honors
3 credits
Honors Sec M002 T TH 9:30 – 10:50, #33186
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)

SPA 201 Spanish III/Honors
4 credits
Honors Sec M008: MW 9:30-10:25 and TTh 9:30-10:50, #31170

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
Honors Sec M001: TTh 9:30-10:50 and W 10:35-11:30, #31002

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, #31107 - Cancelled

Sec M240: TTh 11:00-12:20, #31108 Service Learning Section
Instructor: Kelly Concannon
Sec M260: TTh 12:30-1:50, #31109
Instructor: Elisa Norris
Sec M300: TTh 2:00-3:20, #31369 Service Learning Section Note: new time!
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 History of Women's Suffrage Movement: Through the Letters of Matilda Joslyn Gage/Honors
3 credits
Honors Sec M001: W 7:00-10:00pm, #33166
Can also be taken as HNR 260; see above
Instructor: Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner

In the area where the woman's rights movement had its origin, we'll trace the history of its development. Videos, field trips, readings, individual research, practical experience, web searches, and classroom lecture/ discussions will be the vehicles for our pursuit. The foreground focus will be on Matilda Joslyn Gage, a woman equally important with her more recognized counterparts, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. She will be the lens through which we explore the backdrop, the standard historical analysis of 19th century U.S. feminism. You will learn about Gage up-close and personal, through working with her correspondence, which has never been published.

We will explore:

  • why Gage got written out of history by challenging religious fundamentalists and their effort to destroy religious freedom;
  • the campaign of non-violent civil disobedience for the vote which Gage masterminded;
  • her influence on her son-in-law, L. Frank Baum's writing of his 14-volume Oz books;
  • how the woman's rights movement took form in the territory of the Haudenosaunee, the six nations of the Iroquois confederacy, where women live with far greater status and authority than in the non-native world.

The legacy of radical reform in this region will provide a context for understanding the woman's movement. We'll look for the passion of the movement. What inspired these women and their male allies to stand up to the dictates of church and state alike in their demand that the world be transformed; where did they get their courage? How did they hold up under the ridicule, resistance and backlash? What were they like personally? Letters tell that story.

You'll also have an opportunity to be part of the creation of history as, working in partnership with the other students, you will read, data enter and interpret the letters and writings of Matilda Joslyn Gage. Your work will be part of the process of preparing her papers for publication. You will play an integral part in writing this woman back into history as you study about her.

WSP 200/HNR 260 History of Women's Suffrage Movement (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

  • Breadth (HNR 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.

Asking, Listening, Writing: Creating a Book About France
Mixing It Up
Aging: It's About Your Life!
American Culture through Classic Movies
Music and Disaster
Artists With Day Jobs
The Art of Living

Honors 200-Level Seminars:

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

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; however, you may combine three 1-credit HNR 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 100  Orientation Seminar

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Asking, Listening, Writing: Creating a Book About France
Section M001, Tuesdays 3:30-4:50 p.m., #31134
Instructor:  Prof. John Western, Maxwell Professor of Teaching Excellence
Meets in Bowne 306A
Start Date: Tuesday, January 22, 2008

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 Tuesday afternoons from 3:30 to 4:50. Be there. Do not fail to turn up; that is discourteous. E-mail me if there’s a problem (as when you’re unwell).
On occasion I will give you small assignments: readings, projects, or being prepared to lead a discussion at the upcoming meeting. On occasion, also, it may be that our class together will not be about what I’m doing with this book. I hope there can 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!

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Mixing It Up
Section M002, Wednesdays 5:15-6:35 p.m. #31135
Instructor:  Elane Granger, Ph.D.; Associate Director, Lillian and Emanuel Slutzker Center for International Services
Start Date:  Wednesday, January 23, 2008

This is a highly participatory course based on short writings, film, art and theatre performances to stimulate discussion as we explore people, places and ideas in our immediate community and around the globe.  Activities may include making our own video, sharing and maybe publishing our own creative scribbles or sampling international cuisine together.  I have lots of ideas and I will also ask for your input. Many of you will be studying abroad or traveling at some point.  Here's a fun and creative way to start preparing yourself.


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Aging: It’s About Your Life!
Section M003, Thursdays 3:30 – 5:30 p.m., #31136 (Includes travel time)
Instructor:  Prof. Eric Kingson
Students will meet in Bowne 306D and ride together to the seminar. Transportation provided.
Start Date: Thursday, January 24, 2008

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 discuss major events and ideas that have shaped the lives of the elders participating in the course, the world we live in today and that you will inhabit in 2055. 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.

Counts toward your Civic Engagement requirement in Honors.

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American Culture through Classic Movies
Section M004, Mondays 3:45 – 5:05 p.m., #33140
Instructor:  Prof. Kendall Phillips; Chair, Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies
Start Date:  Monday, January 28, 2008 (Third Week of Class)

Movies have been a mainstay of American culture since the early twentieth century and in this course we will consider some of the ways that classic American films help us understand our culture.  The instructor of this course not only writes about mainstream American films - with a particular specialty in horror films - but also hosts "Classic Movie Night," a Saturday evening movie show broadcast on WCNY, central New York's PBS affiliate.  Students in this course will be encouraged to watch the weekly classics, as well as some other films, and discuss issues related to these films and the culture that considered them 'classics.'  Additionally, students in the course will have a chance to go 'behind-the-scenes' of the TV show and learn about the technical, contractural and aesthetic issues wrapped up in broadcasting 'classic movies' each week.

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Music and Disaster
Section M005, Tuesdays and Thursdays 5:00-6:20 p.m., #33141
Please note:  This section will meet twice a week but the last class meeting will be Tuesday, March 4.
Instructor:  Prof. Andrew Waggoner
Meets in Tolley 114
Start Date: Tuesday, January 22, 2008

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.

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Artists With Day Jobs
Section M006 Mondays 5:15-6:35 p.m., #33142
Instructor: Georgia Popoff
Start Date:  Monday, January 28, 2008 (Third Week of Class)

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; fellowship opportunities will also be offered.

The Art of Living
Section M007, Tuesdays 3:30 – 4:50 p.m., #41194
Instructor:  Amy Leal
Start Date:  Thursday, January 22, 2008 (Second Week of Classes)

In this course, students will explore living and learning as an art, partaking of the highest life has to offer in writing, painting, 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.

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Honors 200-Level Seminars:

HNR 210 Arts in Society - cancelled

Each section is 1 credit, graded. These seminars explore the arts in Syracuse.

Sec M002: W 5:15-6:35, #20361 Theatre in Syracuse
Start Dates: Second week of classes (Wednesday, January 23, 2008)
Instructor: William D. West

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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:

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

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Islam
Section M001: M 2:15 - 3:35, #30464
Start Date: Third week of classes (Monday, January 28, 2008