 Honors Program Fall 2009
Freshman
1000-Level Colloquium and I-Course
Honors freshmen take one course each semester, along with a discussion section.
HP 1000: Intellectual Communities
As an introduction to the academic environment of the university, every UW freshman is required to take one Intellectual Community (I) course in the department of his or her choice. The Honors Program I-Course queries the nature, functions, and benefits of intellectual communities from the ancient world to the present.
HP 1000-01: Intellectual Communities; 1 cr., Intellectual Community (I); CRN # 18970; R, 3:10-4pm; CR 149; Professor Duncan Harris.
HP 1000- 02: Intellectual Communities; 1 cr., Intellectual Community (I); CRN # 20102; W, 3:10-4pm; MH, 103; Professor Duncan Harris.
HP 1020
HP 1020: Freshman Colloquium; A composition course that introduces the works and history of Western culture to the Renaissance. This course fulfill the University studies WA writing requirement.
HP 1020-01: Freshman Colloquium I; 3 cr.; Writing (WA); Information Literacy (L); CRN # 15478; TR, 9:35-10:50 am, HO, 121B; Professor Paul Bergstraesser.
HP 1020-02: Freshman Colloquium I; 3 cr.; Writing (WA); Information Literacy (L); CRN # 15479; TR, 1:20-2:35 pm, AS 226; Professor Paul Bergstraesser.
HP 1020-03: Freshman Colloquium I; 3 cr.; Writing (WA); Information Literacy (L); CRN # 15480; TR, 11:00-12:15 am, MH 103; Professor Diane Panozzo.
HP 1020-04: Freshman Colloquium I; 3 cr.; Writing (WA); Information Literacy (L); CRN # 15481; TR, 1:20-2:35 pm, HO, 121B; Professor Diane Panozzo.
HP 1020-05: Freshman Colloquium I; 3 cr.; Writing (WA); Information Literacy (L); CRN # 20103; TR, 9:35-10:50 am, AS, 226; Professor Diane Panozzo.
HP 1020-06: Freshman Colloquium I; 3 cr.; Writing (WA); Information Literacy (L); CRN # 23339; MWF, 12:00-12:50 pm, MH, 103; Professor Duncan Harris.
HP 1020-20: Freshman Colloquium Discussion; 0 cr.; Discussion; CRN #15535; T, 3:10-4:00pm, AG Aud; Staff.
All HP 1020 sections must enroll in this discussion class.
HP 1151
HP 1151: Freshman Colloquium; The course is a study of significant works in the history of Western civilization to the Renaissance, both in their historical context and in relation to one another. The course counts toward the University Studies CH humanities requirement.
HP 1151-01: Freshman Colloquium II; 3 cr.; Humanities (CH); Information Literacy (L); CRN # 15482; MWF, 10:00-10:50 am; HO 121B; Professor Carolyn Anderson.
HP 1151-02: Freshman Colloquium II; 3 cr.; Humanities (CH); Information Literacy (L); CRN # 15483; MWF, 11:00-11:50 am; HO, 121B; Professor Robert Torry.
HP 1151-03: Freshman Colloquium II; 3 cr.; Humanities (CH); Information Literacy (L); CRN #15484; MWF, 1:10-2:00 pm; MH 103; Professor Carolyn Anderson.
HP 1020-20: Freshman Colloquium Discussion; 0 cr.; Discussion; CRN #15541; T, 3:10-4:00pm.
All HP 1151 sections must enroll in this discussion class.
Sophomore
2000-Level Non-Western Perspectives
Honors sophomores take one course each year, either fall or spring
HP 2151-01: Indian Epic; 3 cr.; Humanities (CH), Global (G), A & S Non-Western; CRN# 18973, TR, 2:45-4:00pm. MH 103; Instructor Barbara Logan.
We will examine religious experience and expression in Hindu India in their diversity and regional variation with special emphasis on the contemporary persistence of traditional values and practices. Relevant historical background will be surveyed to help assess continuity and change in learned and vernacular Hindu religious practices and the values that both influence and are displayed in them.
This course explores the many ways in which Hindus visualize and talk about the divine, and its manifestations in the world, using mythic stories, the images used in worship, explanations of the nature of the soul and the body in relation to the divine, and the belief in living, human embodiments of God in Hindu holy men and women. Topics addressed include: the religious meanings of masculine and feminine in the divine and human contexts; the idea of local, family, and "chosen" divinities; and forms of Hindu devotion for women and men.
Junior
3000-Level Modes of Understanding
Honors juniors take one course each year, either fall or spring
HP 3151-01: Consciousness of Nature; 3 cr.; Humanities (CH); CRN# 20948; TR 9:35-10:50am, MH 103; Professor Peter Shive.
Ethical decisions forced by our confrontation with nature have become an increasingly important component of our lives. We balance spotted owls against lumber, silvery minnows against water, and dioxide against air. We strive to control the very large, like rivers coastlines and volcanoes, and the very small, like bacteria, viruses and atomic forces. We squabble over the management and development of public land. We tinker with genetic engineering and have the power to create new forms of life. We wonder how large the ozone hole can safely be and how much global warming we can tolerate.
Many of these problems did not exist, could not even have been imagined, a generation ago. All of them become steadily more severe; few are even close to resolution. Today's students need a broad perspective on these issues because they will be dealing with them for the rest o f their lives. How do we feel about nature? Where do our ideas come from? Our approach will be to explore the evolution of the attitudes of Western Civilization toward nature, beginning with the Greeks and ending with material published within the last two years. The goal is to discover how cultural (and pre-cultural) forces have influenced past choices and how these forces shape the arena in which we currently debate the issues.
HP 3151-02: Disney Discourse; 3 cr.; Humanities (CH); CRN# 24223; MW, 2:10 - 3:25 pm, MH 103; Professor Susan Aronstein.
In the 1960's, Mike Wallace wrote: "Disney has succeeded in putting a pair of Mickey Mouse ears on every developing personality in America." In this class, we will examine the myths about America and Americans that accompanied those mouse ears - that we were a nation of dreamers and doers, that science and technology would usher in a "great big beautiful tomorrow," that manifest destiny would march from the frontier (Frontierland and Adventureland) to the stars (Tommorowland). We will look at a variety of Disney texts-animated and live action movies, theme parks, television shows, documentaries, speeches and interviews, merchandise - in the context of both their political and historical moment and Disney's real and imagined biography. Requirements: midterm, class presentation, a 12-15 page critical conference paper. Possible long weekend at Disneyland and analytical report on the park.
HP 3152-01: Mind Bind; 3 cr.; Social Sciences (CS); CRN# 22623; TR, 2:45-4pm., CR 209; Professor Karen Bartsch.
Some of the most important psychological developments concern the realization of one's own limitations in the areas of perception, memory, reasoning, and judgment. This seminar-style course will draw on literatures from developmental, cognitive, social, and abnormal psychology, as well as related material from philosophy, anthropology, and literature, to explore the limitations of human knowledge acquisition and how to overcome them. Topics will include developmental advances in meta-cognition, epistemological advances in adulthood, new perspectives on conceptual development that focus on naive theories ( including the development of a "theory of mind"), moral reasoning and development, cultural constraints on cognitive development, categorization and stereotyping, functional-fixedness, perceptual biases and development, and decision-making. The aim of the course is to enhance awareness of the psychological constraints on human information processing, explore ways to circumvent them, and thus foster critical and creative thinking.
HP 3152-02: Media Ecology; 3 cr; Social Sciences (CS); CRN # 24688; TR, 9:35-10:50 am; PS 237; Professor Gladney.
This seminar-style Honors course will use a media ecology (medium theory) approach to examine the broad social and psychological impact of communication technologies. Media ecology takes an historical, cross-cultural approach that focuses on the particular characteristics of each medium not the content the medium conveys. Students will examine how communication technologies have inherent biases, temporal and spatial, that affect consciousness by determining how humans senses are activated and how humans organize experience. In short, students will develop a deep understanding of Canadian communication theorist Marshal McLuhan's famous aphorism: "The medium is the message."
HP 3153-01: American Popular Music; 3 cr.; Arts (CA), CRN# 25089; TR 1:20 - 2:35 pm; MH 103; Visiting Lecturer Jeremy Weaver
This course will develop an understanding of how popular music, music artists, and the music industry interact with society. Students will be able to conceptualize this incredibly rich area of culture and social production and consumption. We will outline and explore a variety of topics related to these concepts and popular music: the development of "popular music" globally in its social and historical context; the relationship between music artists and the music industry yesterday and today; the socioeconomic and political statuses of the music artists; censorship; genres of music; the implications of technology and music; and finally, the politics of musical representation.
HP 3153-02: American Popular Music; 3 cr.; Arts (CA), CRN# 25090; TR 4:10 - 5:35 pm; MH 103; Visiting Lecturer Jeremy Weaver
Senior
4000-Level Senior Seminar
Honors seniors take one course each year, either fall or spring
HP 4152-01: HIV/AIDS: Disease and Dilemma; 3 cr., Social Sciences (CS); CRN# 14061; F, 2:10-5:00pm., MH 103; Professor Robery Kitchin.
Since its initial description in 1981, nearly half a million Americans have become infected with the HIV virus and died of AIDS. HIV/AIDS is the most dramatic, pervasive, and tragic pandemic in recent history. HIV/AIDS infection has provoked a reassessment of society's approach to public health strategy, health care, resource allocation, medical research, and sexual behavior. Fear and discrimination have affected virtually every aspect of our culture. Both the medical challenge and, in particular, the social challenge will continue in the foreseeable future. This course will explore the basic biology of the HIV virus and its effects upon the human body, the magnitude of the global HIV/AIDS pandemic, prospects for treatment of those afflicted with the disease, and social, political, economic, and legal issues associated with HIV/AIDS disease.
HP 4152-02: Climate Change, Water, and Engery; 3 cr.; Social Sciences (CS); CRN# 24233; MW, 9:00-10:50 am, AS 226; Professor Shinker.
Climate change, water, and energy represent distinctly interrelated issues important to local, regional, and global resources availability, use, and our socio-economic future. In this course, we will look at the scientific history and understanding of climate change as well as the impacts of climate change on water-resources issues by comparing and contrasting challenges faced by both developed and developing nations. In addition we will examine energy issues including sources, production, delivery, and use. these issues bear on the causes and solutions to the challenge of climate change, but are also strongly influenced by the climatically-determined availability of water. Energy production is heavily dependent on water supply, and vice versa. Therefore, we will consider how the topics of climate problem sets to consider the earth's energy intersect and what it means for an emerging global economy. Students will utilize problem sets to consider the earth's energy balance, water availability versus use, quantify energy and carbon consumption, and the economic impact to climate change. In class activities will include "summit" panel discussions on how to communicate the science of climate change, the carbon economy and the alternatives, and planning how to find an energy-water balance in the future.
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