Courses
First “Honors Footnotes” Event Is a Hit!
On Thursday, October 18th, Honors Core Faculty member and chair of the Magazine Journalism Department, Melissa Chessher, hosted the inaugural “Honors Footnotes” event – a guided tour of Oakwood Cemetery, led by Sue Greenhagen, a member of the Historic Oakwood Cemetery Preservation Association, a local historian, and a retired librarian from Morrisville State College .Designed…
Read MoreHonors Community Outing
We in the Honors Program are always impressed by the bonds created between our students and professors. It is no wonder we call it an Honors COMMUNITY. We wanted to share these wonderful photos of a recent trip that our Honors professor and Core Faculty member, John Western, took with his former students to the…
Read MoreHNR 240 Food Stories presents….”Rot or Not?”
A group of students in Jolynn Parker’s HNR 240 Food Stories class has created this display on the ground floor of Bird Library to educate the SU community about chemicals in processed food. The food should rot, right? Wouldn’t it be disturbing if it didn’t rot? Follow the progress of the three burgers (McDonald’s, campus…
Read MoreSpring 2013 Registration Notes!
Spring 2013 Honors courses are online! Take a look and start making your plans. Honors students in good standing will register the morning of Monday, November 12. However, if you will have senior standing after this semester (84 credits or more), you will have a standard senior registration access time (before the 12th). There is…
Read MoreHonors class partners with Syracuse’s Somali Bantu community
Five hundred Somali Bantu call Syracuse their home, and thanks in part to an initiative spearheaded by anthropology research associate and public sector folklorist Felicia McMahon, they are reviving their traditional folk arts here in Central New York. Follow the link below to read the full article about Professor McMahon’s Folk Arts, Festivals,…
Read MoreCatholic Charities Refugee Resettlement – a living classroom for our students!
Honors students in HNR 340/360 “Folk Arts, Festival and Public Display” had a cultural history lesson while they learned to cook traditional foods with refugees from Burma, DR Congo and Somalia at the Catholic Charities Refugee Resettlement here in Syracuse. Not only did they chop, slice and dice the ingredients but after their shared meal,…
Read MoreHonors Courses in Photos
It’s time to start looking forward to your Honors classes! Honors classes are unique in many ways. One such example comes from instructor Catherine Nock, who frequently uses food as a way to connect students both with eachother and more deeply with the course subject. Her latest end of the year gathering was a “Pre-Thanksgiving…
Read MoreNew Section of HNR 210 for Spring!
Still Looking for a 1-Credit Seminar? We’ve added a section of HNR 210: Viewing the World Through Changing Lenses taught by Georgia Popoff, Wednesdays 5:15 – 6:35 pm. She received great reviews last semester. To see the full course details, check out our full PDF listing of HNR Seminars.
Read MoreSeats Still Open in ETS 115, Shakespeare’s Tragic Heroes
Welcome back to Spring semester 2012! There are still open spaces in ETS 115, Shakespeare’s Tragic Heroes (#60778 section M002). It meets on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 11am – 12:20pm. Below is the course description. In this course we will be reading six of Shakespeare’s tragedies, with particular emphasis on the playwright’s characterization of each…
Read MoreIntercultural Learning in Syracuse
On Saturday, Oct. 29th Honors students (from left to right) Maria Kontos, Amanda Lickfield, Feifei Zhu, Meng Meng, Arianna Brown, and Lauren Deyo visited Habiba Hassan, a traditional basket weaver, and Halima, her daughter, a master jewelry maker in their home in Syracuse’s Somali Bantu refugee community. During the fall semester the students have been…
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