ANT 300/HNR 340/HNR 360 Migrating Memories/Migrating/Honors NEW COURSE
ARC 500/HNR 340 The Architecture of Court Society/Honors NEW COURSE
CHE 109 General Chemistry/Honors
CHE 129 General Chemistry Lab/Honors
COM 300 The News According to Hollywood/Honors
ETS 114: Survey of British Literature, 1789-Present/Honors
FIA 105 Arts and Ideas/Honors
GEO 219 American Diversity and Unity/Honors
HNR 240 Arts Without Borders
HNR 260 Ethics in the 21st Century: Personal and Social Responsibility
HNR 260/SOL 260 Hospice Legacy
HNR 260/SOL 260 Hospice Outreach
HNR 260/HST 300 Presidential Politics and the New Media NEW COURSE
HNR 260/SOL 260 Elder Legacy Project
HNR 340/SOL 344 Creativity and the Art of Crossing Borders
HNR 340: Beautiful Minds NEW COURSE
HNR 340: American Parsifal (Why the U.S. Wants to be the World's "Wise Fool")NEW COURSE
HNR 340/HNR 360/ANT 300: Migrating Memories/Migrating Arts NEW COURSE
HNR 340/ARC 500 The Architecture of Court Society NEW COURSE
HNR 350 Water for Gotham
HNR 350/SOL 406 Advanced Forensic Science
HNR 360 Improving Undergraduate Education
HNR 360/SOL 360 Quilts and Community
HNR 360/HST 300 Polar Heroes: Myth & Reality
HNR 360/HNR 340/ANT 300 Migrating Memories/Migrating Arts NEW COURSE
HST 300/HNR 360 Polar Heroes: Myth & Reality/Honors
HST 300/HNR 260 Presidential Politics and the New Media/Honors NEW COURSE
ITA 101 Italian I/Honors
LIT 226 Dostoevsky and Tolstoy/Honors
MAX 123 Critical Issues for the United States/Honors
MAX 132 Global Community/Honors
PAF 101 Introduction to Analysis of Public Policy/Honors
PHI 109 Introduction to Philosophy/Honors
PHI 209 Introduction to Moral Philosophy/Honors
PSC 202 Introduction to Political Analysis/Honors NEW COURSE
PSY 209 Foundations of Human Behavior/Honors
PSY 393 Personality/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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ANT 300/HNR 340/HNR 360 Migrating Memories/Migrating Arts
3 Credits
ANT 300 section M003: MW 12:45-2:05 p.m., #24698
Professor Felicia McMahon Can also be taken as HNR 340 or HNR 360; see below. In this course students will engage in fieldwork with immigrant and refugee folk artists and learn the basics of conducting interviews among folk artists in the city of Syracuse, including planning and mechanics, formulating questions that link interviews to larger research projects, and communications issues (culture, class, language, and gender differences, interview dynamics, etc.). We will not neglect the "forced immigration" of Africans, and we will also consider early encounters between Native Americans and immigrants as critical to understanding American narratives about immigration to the New World. Each student will be responsible for an in-depth ethnographic project with a focus on one cultural group. Special consideration will be given to the oral history project's impact on resettlement or integration processes and how projects might facilitate cultural and social cohesion, thus "giving back" to the communities with whom we work.

ANT 300/HNR 340/HNR 360 Migrating Memories/Migrating Arts (with a grade of “B” or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

• Breadth (HNR course)

• Civic Engagement

• Global Awareness (non-Eurocentric)

ARC 500/HNR 340 The Architecture of Court Society/Honors
3 credits
ARC 500 Section M002: MW 3:45-5:05 p.m., #12187
Professor Jean-François Bédard
No prerequisites.

Can also be taken as HNR 340; see below.

Buildings both frame and shape human action. This fundamental role of architecture comes forth most clearly in pre-modern societies. Their relatively stable social hierarchies and highly scripted codes of behavior echoed the simple geometries and material permanence typical of traditional building. Before the advent of modernity, architecture operated as the monumental setting for social ritual.

The seminar will focus on the material culture and built environment of court society. This form of political system flourished from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century in Europe before its placement by the bourgeois revolutions. This course will examine in more detail the French court. It will study the building types that best embodied court society's social aspirations: the royal palace, the urban hôtel and the country château.

ARC 500/HNR 340 The Architecture of Court Society/Honors (with a grade of “B” or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

• Breadth (other honors course)

• Global Awareness

CHE 109 General Chemistry/Honors
3 Credits
Honors section M001: MWF 9:30-10:25 a.m., #11722
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 General Chemistry/Honors (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., #11723
Honors section M002: Th 12:30-3:15 p.m., #11724
Honors section M003: W 3:45-6:30 p.m., #17861
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.

COM 300 The News According to Hollywood/Honors
3 credits
Honors section M002: W 3:45-7:15 p.m., #24479
Professor Hub Brown

The course will examine large controversies of our time through two sets of eyes--those provided by journalists and those provided by the moviemakers of Hollywood. Through the examination of major motion pictures and the journalism surrounding major events, the course will examine how we draw meaning from both types of communication. What can we learn about how we tell stories of great conflict in our time through the comparison of cinema and journalistic storytelling? Can both be used to get to the true meanings of great issues and our reactions to them? The course will explore those questions and will also look at how the movie industry and journalism talk about each other.

COM 300 The News According to Hollywood/Honors (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

• Breadth (other honors course)
  

ETS 114 Survey of British Literature, 1789-Present/Honors
3 credits
Honors section M001: T Th 3:30-4:50 p.m., #18129
Professor Michael Goode

This course is a survey of major British literary works from 1789 to the present. Students will acquire a general knowledge of historical movements and trends in British intellectual history. Roughly categorized into the following periods, "Romanticism," "The Victorians" "Modernism," and "Post-modernism," this course will consist of a chronological selection of widely recognized authors. The readings will include novels, poems, plays, and other historical texts. By the end of this course, you should be able to:

1. Identify the major authors and genres, important texts, and main themes of the literature of England from 1789 to the present.

2. Achieve a familiarity with the basic vocabulary used to discuss these literary texts.

3. Possess an understanding of the significance of historical and cultural contexts in the process of literary production.

ETS 114 Survey of British Literature, 1789-Present/Honors (with a grade of “B” or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

• Breadth (other honors course)
  

FIA 105 Arts and Ideas/Honors
3 credits
Honors section M018: T Th 3:30-4:50 p.m., #11847
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 Arts and Ideas/Honors (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

• Breadth (other honors course)

GEO 219 American Diversity and Unity/Honors
3 credits
Honors section M001: MWF 11:40 a.m-12:35 p.m., #18822
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 Arts Without Borders
3 credits
Section M002: T Th 5:00-6:20 p.m., #18033
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 260 Ethics in the 21st Century: Personal and Social Responsibility
3 credits
Section M001: T Th 3:30-4:50 p.m., #17402
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. This course has been approved to fulfill both the Writing Intensive and Critical Reflections requirements for Arts & Sciences students.

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 (HNR course)
• Public Presentation
  

HNR 260/SOL 260 Hospice Legacy
3 credits
Section M004: MW 2:15-3:35 p.m., #18460
Professor James Spencer

Can also be taken as SOL 260 M002, #18153
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
3 credits
HNR 260 section M005: MW 2:15-3:35 p.m., #18461
Professor James Spencer

Can also be taken as SOL 260 M003, #18234
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 section with which it is cross-listed (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

• Breadth (HNR course)
• Collaboration
• Civic Engagement

HNR 260/HST 300 Presidential Politics and the New Media
3 credits
HNR 260 section M006: T Th 3:30-4:50 p.m., #23770
Professor Margaret Thompson

Can also be taken as HST 300; see below.

The 2008 election is different from all previous national contests because of the increasing significance and consequences of the “new media” in transforming the style, substance, and conduct of American politics. We will explore the roles of these media—broadcast and, especially, electronic—with particular (but not exclusive) attention to the Presidential race. Among the resources we will examine are networking sites (from Facebook and MySpace to more specialized ones such as Eons, GLEE, BlackPlanet, MiGente, and Faithbase); YouTube, Digg, Twitter, and Flickr; candidate sites; various blogs; television programs such as The Daily Show, Colbert Report, and SNL; and electronic outlets for traditional news media. Students will work in teams to follow the election (presidential and other major races) in various states and regions, and each student will be required to present a piece of independent, individual research by the end of the semester.

This class also will enable community engagement and trans-generational outreach because, in addition to the fifteen SU Honors students who are enrolled, there will be ten participants from “Oasis,” a cultural enrichment program for senior adults. [We will meet once a week with the Oasis members, and once on our own.]

Because both the subject matter and the resource material for this course are so new, students inevitably will help to shape some the actual direction of our work. Additionally, given the unpredictability of electoral cycles, we need to be open to the unexpected! In any event, it is hoped that this class will prepare students not only to understand the transforming world of American politics, but also the challenges and consequences of using online materials in pursuing scholarly research and inquiry. Finally, we will attend to the differences between how those born the early and born late in the 20th century participate in the electoral process and think about citizenship, as well as how they use and respond to the new media in all its varieties.

HNR 260/HST 300 Presidential Politics and the New Media (with a grade of “B” or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

• Breadth (HNR course or other honors course)
• Collaboration

HNR 260/SOL 260 Elder Legacy Project
3 credits
HNR 260 section M007: MW 2:15-3:35 p.m., #24398
Professor James Spencer

Can also be taken as SOL 260 M004, #18798
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 section 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/SOL 344 Creativity and the Art of Crossing Borders
3 credits
HNR 340 section M001: Th 2:00-4:45 p.m., #18462
Instructor: Geoffrey Navias

Can also be taken as SOL 344, #18826

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 (HNR course)
• Collaboration

HNR 340 Beautiful Minds
3 credits
Section M005: MW 12:45-2:05 p.m., #24971
Professor Samuel Gorovitz, Honors Program Director

A decade ago, Sylvia Nasar published her best-selling, award-winning biography of Nobel Laureate John Nash. The title was A Beautiful Mind - also the title of the major film based on Nash's story. But Nash suffered from serious mental illness, and spent much time as a psychiatric patient. Did his story have the right title? Is Nash's mind what you would consider a beautiful mind? This interdisciplinary seminar will pursue the question: what is a beautiful mind? Readings will come from literature, architectural history, mathematics, and more. Each student will select a prominent thinker and develop an assessment of that thinker's mind, making a presentation to the class of the work in progress, and then making a final presentation when the work is fully developed.

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

• Breadth (HNR course)
• Interdisciplinarity
• Public Presentation

HNR 340 American Parsifal (Why the U.S. Wants to be the World's "Wise Fool")
3 credits
Section M002, T 5:00-7:45 p.m., #24341
Professor Andrew Waggoner

The United States has both a great and longstanding intellectual and artistic tradition, and a deep-seated mistrust of and hostility toward artists and intellectuals. We'll examine this strange dichotomy, one that has been both invigorating and debilitating, crippling even, for our cultural development, and our standing on the world stage, through American music, literature and popular culture. We'll want to know which aspects of their own culture Americans have invested in, which ones have been successfully exported, and which currently serve as icons of a recognizably American sensibility. Over the course of the semester we'll encounter a broad range of works by William James, W.E.B. DuBois, Walt Whitman, Jack Kerouac, Louis Menand, William Faulkner, Cormac McCarthy, Elizabeth Bishop, John Ashberry, Mark Rothko, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Charles Ives, John Cage, Elliott Carter, John Adams, Charles Mingus, Brad Mehldau and Miles Davis, among others. Through it all we'll consider America's desire to be a kind of cultural Parsifal, the "wise fool" who rescues the world from impotence and shame, and the implications of that role for us as contemporary citizens.

HNR 340 American Parsifal (with a grade of “B” or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

• Breadth (HNR course)
• Interdisciplinarity

HNR 340/HNR 360/ANT 300: Migrating Memories/Migrating Arts
3 credits
HNR 340 section M003: MW 12:45-2:05 p.m., #24684
Professor Felicia McMahon

Can also be taken as ANT 300; see above, or HNR 360; see below.

In this course students will engage in fieldwork with immigrant and refugee folk artists and learn the basics of conducting interviews among folk artists in the city of Syracuse, including planning and mechanics, formulating questions that link interviews to larger research projects, and communications issues (culture, class, language, and gender differences, interview dynamics, etc.). We will not neglect the "forced immigration" of Africans, and we will also consider early encounters between Native Americans and immigrants as critical to understanding American narratives about immigration to the New World. Each student will be responsible for an in-depth ethnographic project with a focus on one cultural group. Special consideration will be given to the oral history project's impact on resettlement or integration processes and how projects might facilitate cultural and social cohesion, thus "giving back" to the communities with whom we work.

HNR 340/HNR 360/ANT 300 Migrating Memories/Migrating Arts (with a grade of “B” or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

• Breadth (HNR course or other honors course)
• Civic Engagement
• Global Awareness (non-Eurocentric)

HNR 340/ARC 500 The Architecture of Court Society
3 credits
Section M004: MW 3:45-5:05 p.m., #24699
Professor Jean-François Bédard
No prerequisites.

Can also be taken as ARC 500; see above.

Buildings both frame and shape human action. This fundamental role of architecture comes forth most clearly in pre-modern societies. Their relatively stable social hierarchies and highly scripted codes of behavior echoed the simple geometries and material permanence typical of traditional building. Before the advent of modernity, architecture operated as the monumental setting for social ritual.

The seminar will focus on the material culture and built environment of court society. This form of political system flourished from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century in Europe before its placement by the bourgeois revolutions. This course will examine in more detail the French court. It will study the building types that best embodied court society's social aspirations: the royal palace, the urban hôtel and the country château.

HNR 340/ARC 500 The Architecture of Court Society (with a grade of “B” or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

• Breadth (other honors course)
• Global Awareness

HNR 350 Water for Gotham
3 credits
Section M001: T Th 9:30-10:50 a.m., #17405
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 350/SOL 406 Advanced Forensic Science
3 credits
HNR 350 section M002: MW 12:45-2:05 p.m., #24400
Professor Jim Spencer
Prerequisites: CHE 106 or 109; CHE 113 or 335; BIO 326; or permission of instructor.

Can also be taken as SOL 406, #24496

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 350/SOL 406 (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

• Breadth (HNR course)
• Collaboration
• Public Presentation
• Interdisciplinarity

HNR 360 Improving Undergraduate Education
3 credits
Section M001: MWF 9:30-10:25 a.m., #18683
Professor William Coplin

Purpose: To 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. During the first third of the course, students will read and participate in discussions on major problems facing undergraduate education in the United States. These problems include the lack of career preparation students obtain, grade inflation and poor interactions between faculty and students.

During the last two-thirds of the course, the class will develop and execute plans to make things better on campus. Last semester, students completed two projects: one group organized an event on campus that was featured in USA Today and another group helped to shape policies influencing the SU Writing Program. (Note: Many of the Friday sessions will be devoted to independent and group projects.)

HNR 360 Improving Undergraduate Education (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

• Breadth (HNR course)
• Public Presentation
• Collaboration

HNR 360/SOL 360 Quilts and Community
3 credits
HNR 360 section M002: M 5:30-8:30 p.m., #17430
Professor Susan Wadley

Can also be taken as SOL 360, #18145

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!

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
• Civic Engagement

HNR 360/HST 300 Polar Heroes: Myth & Reality
3 credits
HNR 360 section M003: MW 2:15-3:35 p.m., #24327
Professor David Stam
Prerequisite: Sophomore standing.

Can also be taken as HST 300; see below.

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

This research course will explore various aspects of polar exploration, primarily from an historical perspective but branching out according to student interests to any other aspects of polar history for which we can find adequate materials for study. It is not an ecological course on global warming, though the topic can scarcely be avoided. The main focus, however, will be on the actual experience of polar explorers on some of the major expeditions (e.g. Franklin, Peary, Amundsen, Scott, Shackleton, Byrd), based on their published memoirs and those of their colleagues, emphasizing the ways in which these narratives were used to shape their reputations for heroism and courage, sometimes deserved, often exaggerated.

Essentially this is a course about stories, narrative accounts of particular events and people; the final project will be a story of your choice and development. Extensive reading and regular reporting by each student will be important elements of the class. Active participation without classroom domination will be the best ingredient for success in this class. Throughout you will be asked to evaluate the evidence on which your growing knowledge of polar exploration is based. This course has been approved as a history elective.

HNR 360/HST 300 Polar Heroes: Myth & Reality (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

• Breadth (HNR course)
• Public Presentation

HNR 360/HNR 340/ANT 300 Migrating Memories/Migrating Arts
3 credits
HNR 360 section M004: MW 12:45-2:05 p.m., #24688
Professor Felicia McMahon

Also offered as HNR 340 and ANT 300; see above.

In this course students will engage in fieldwork with immigrant and refugee folk artists and learn the basics of conducting interviews among folk artists in the city of Syracuse, including planning and mechanics, formulating questions that link interviews to larger research projects, and communications issues (culture, class, language, and gender differences, interview dynamics, etc.). We will not neglect the "forced immigration" of Africans, and we will also consider early encounters between Native Americans and immigrants as critical to understanding American narratives about immigration to the New World. Each student will be responsible for an in-depth ethnographic project with a focus on one cultural group. Special consideration will be given to the oral history project's impact on resettlement or integration processes and how projects might facilitate cultural and social cohesion, thus "giving back" to the communities with whom we work.

HNR 360/HNR 340/ANT 300 Migrating Memories/Migrating Arts (with a grade of “B” or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

• Breadth (HNR course)
• Civic Engagement
• Global Awareness (non-Eurocentric)

HST 300/HNR 360 Polar Heroes: Myth & Reality/Honors
3 credits
HST 300 Section M005: MW 2:15-3:35 p.m., #24828
Professor David Stam
Prerequisite: Sophomore standing.

Can also be taken as HNR 360; see above.

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

This research course will explore various aspects of polar exploration, primarily from an historical perspective but branching out according to student interests to any other aspects of polar history for which we can find adequate materials for study. It is not an ecological course on global warming, though the topic can scarcely be avoided. The main focus, however, will be on the actual experience of polar explorers on some of the major expeditions (e.g. Franklin, Peary, Amundsen, Scott, Shackleton, Byrd), based on their published memoirs and those of their colleagues, emphasizing the ways in which these narratives were used to shape their reputations for heroism and courage, sometimes deserved, often exaggerated.

Essentially this is a course about stories, narrative accounts of particular events and people; the final project will be a story of your choice and development. Extensive reading and regular reporting by each student will be important elements of the class. Active participation without classroom domination will be the best ingredient for success in this class. Throughout you will be asked to evaluate the evidence on which your growing knowledge of polar exploration is based. This course has been approved as a history elective.

HST 300/HNR 360 Polar Heroes: Myth & Reality/Honors (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

• Breadth (HNR course)
• Public Presentation

HST 300/HNR 260 Presidential Politics and the New Media/Honors
3 credits
HST 300 section M007: T Th 3:30-4:50 p.m., #24829
Professor Margaret Thompson

Can also be taken as HNR 260; see above.

The 2008 election is different from all previous national contests because of the increasing significance and consequences of the “new media” in transforming the style, substance, and conduct of American politics. We will explore the roles of these media—broadcast and, especially, electronic—with particular (but not exclusive) attention to the Presidential race. Among the resources we will examine are networking sites (from Facebook and MySpace to more specialized ones such as Eons, GLEE, BlackPlanet, MiGente, and Faithbase); YouTube, Digg, Twitter, and Flickr; candidate sites; various blogs; television programs such as The Daily Show, Colbert Report, and SNL; and electronic outlets for traditional news media. Students will work in teams to follow the election (presidential and other major races) in various states and regions, and each student will be required to present a piece of independent, individual research by the end of the semester.

This class also will enable community engagement and trans-generational outreach because, in addition to the fifteen SU Honors students who are enrolled, there will be ten participants from “Oasis,” a cultural enrichment program for senior adults. [We will meet once a week with the Oasis members, and once on our own.]

Because both the subject matter and the resource material for this course are so new, students inevitably will help to shape some the actual direction of our work. Additionally, given the unpredictability of electoral cycles, we need to be open to the unexpected! In any event, it is hoped that this class will prepare students not only to understand the transforming world of American politics, but also the challenges and consequences of using online materials in pursuing scholarly research and inquiry. Finally, we will attend to the differences between how those born the early and born late in the 20th century participate in the electoral process and think about citizenship, as well as how they use and respond to the new media in all its varieties.

HST 300/HNR 260 Presidential Politics and the New Media/Honors (with a grade of “B” or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

• Breadth (HNR course)
• Collaboration

ITA 101 Italian I/Honors
4 credits
Honors section M008: T Th 11:00-12:20 a.m.and W 10:35-11:30 a.m., #13244
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 section M002: T Th 7:00-8:20 p.m., #17229
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 Dostoevsky and Tolstoy/Honors (with a grade of “B” or better) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

• Breadth (other honors course)
• Public Presentation (Fall 2006 and later) (Honors section only)

MAX 123 Critical Issues for the United States/Honors
3 credits
Lecture: M001: M 9:30-10:25 p.m., #13976
Professor Robert McClure
Honors Discussion M004: MW 2:15-3:10 p.m., #12561
Professor Kristi Anderson

Register for Discussion M004; 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
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MAX 123 Critical Issues for the United States/Honors (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

• Breadth (other honors course)
• Interdisciplinarity

MAX 132 Global Community/Honors
3 credits
Lecture M001: W 9:30-10:25 a.m., #13980
Honors Discussion M003: MF 9:30-10:25 a.m., #13159
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 p.m., #15512
Honors Discussion section M003: M 1:50-2:45 p.m., #15522
Register for Lecture M002; Discussion M003 will auto-enroll.
Professor William Coplin

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 (honors section only)

PHI 109 Introduction to Philosophy/Honors
3 credits
Honors section M001: T Th 11:00 a.m.-12:20 p.m., #12623
Professor Melissa Frankel

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
3 credits
Honors section M001: MW 2:15-3:35 p.m., #17925
Professor Edward McClennan

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

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

• Breadth (other honors course)

PSC 202 Introduction to Political Analysis/Honors
3 credits
Honors section M200: T Th 11:00 a.m.-12:20 p.m., #24473
Professor Stuart Thorson

This course, required for political science majors, builds skills for conducting, interpreting, and presenting political science research. This includes basic research and data collection practices, techniques for measuring political science concepts quantitatively, hypothesis testing, interpretation of statistical evidence, and the presentation of findings in a clear and compelling manner. Tying these components together is a thematic focus on important political science concepts including rationality, democracy, power, and representation.

Fall 2008 should be an especially exciting time as we will be looking at ways of understanding and interpreting US pre-election polls using the tools developed in the course.

PSC 202 Introduction to Political Analysis/Honors (with a grade of "B" or higher) can be used toward the following Honors requirements:

• Breadth (other honors course)
• Collaboration
• Public Presentation

PSY 209 Foundations of Human Behavior/Honors
3 credits
Honors section M001: MW 8:00-9:20 a.m., #12770
Professor Anne Fontana
Honors section M002: T Th 11:00 a.m.-12:20 p.m., #17227
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)
• Public Presentation (Professor Fontana section only)

PSY 393 Personality/Honors
3 credits
Honors section M003: T Th 9:30-10:50 a.m., #18918
Professor Anne Fontana
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)

SPA 101 Intensive Spanish I/Honors
4 credits
Honors section M004: MW 10:35-11:30 a.m., and T Th 9:30-10:50 a.m., #12850
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 section M001: MW 10:35-11:30 a.m.and T Th 11:00 a.m.-12:20 p.m., #12868
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 section M001: W 10:35-11:30 a.m.and T Th 9:30-10:50 a.m., #12880
Instructor: TBA

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: T Th 9:30-10:50 a.m. and W 10:35-11:40 a.m., #18666
Instructor: TBA

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
Section M060: MWF 11:40 a.m.-12:35 p.m., #13061
Section M080: MWF 12:45-1:40 p.m., #13062
Section M240: T Th 11:00 a.m.-12:20 p.m., #13063 Service Learning Section

Student writers investigate and design writing processes and practice an array of informal writing strategies that strengthen learning and composing. They sharpen their critical edges as readers, writers, and thinkers. The studio classroom forms an active intellectual community collaboratively pursuing a common topic of inquiry by unraveling complex texts, arguing relevant issues, and researching key problems. Born out of this work is students' keen sense of themselves as developing writers within the University, writers who are skilled at assessing and revising their writing both in and outside the studio classroom.

Two sections, M240 and M300, will include service learning opportunities. Service learning sections require 20-25 hours of community work at local not-for-profit agencies, many of which are located on or near campus (a car is not a requirement for community service). The Writing Program works with the University's Mary Ann Shaw Center for Public and Community Service to provide placements that are both interesting to the students and meaningful to the work of the writing course. The community work students do is part of the course work, not "extra work," and is fully integrated into reading assignments and class discussions, as well as the writing that students do for the course.

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

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