Honors Classes

Course

CRN# 22349

Students will learn practices of successful academic writing. Students will focus on the writing process, writing for specific audiences, collaboration with peers, and on the interrelationship between reading and writing.

9:30-10:20 AM

MWF

Sylvia Newman

EH206

CRN#  20484

How do you know something and how do you decide how to use that knowledge?  This course looks at different ways that we understand the world and invites you to participate in these practices.  In particular, we compare science, the written word, and cultural systems by asking where these traditions come from and what they should mean to us.  In addition to projects in which students produce their own scientific knowledge, relay they own written meaning, and contrast cultural interpretations, the class ends with a final essay and discussion on the meaning of truth.  Throughout the course, students are engaged with a wide variety of readings, writing prompts, interactive discussions, investigations, and other engaging activities that are designed to introduce you to a wide variety of tools and practices that are intended to prepare you for other courses in Honors and beyond.

9:00-10:15 AM

T/TH

CarlPorter/AdamJohnston

LL230

CRN# 20485

From earliest time, man has wondered if we are alone in the Universe.  Astrobiologists seek to answer this question by approaching it from both ends–what is life, and where could it flourish in the Universe.  This course explores the science of astrobiology, from founding ideas to the present. 

10:30-11:20 AM

MWF

Stacy Palen

SL220

CRN# 20486

How do you decide what to eat?  Why is the decision so easy for some yet fraught with stress and guilt for others?  In this course we will use Michael Pollan’s best selling book “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” as a jumping-off point for learning how the human diet has changed over time and the consequences for our health as well as that of the environment.  Through readings, discussions, eating and field trips we will explore ways to change the current food system one bite at a time.

12:20-3:10 PM 

W

Michele Skopec

LIB227

CRN# 20487

What does it mean to live sustainably? How do we sift through the deluge of data and articles to evaluate our environmental situation? And, perhaps most crucial, how does one move from concern to action? This introductory class will explore these questions and provide students with a broad background in sustainability concepts, theory and practice. Students completing the course will be ready to work as a WSU Environmental Ambassador for the Office of Sustainability, where they could plan, contribute to, or implement projects that grow out of their academic work in this class.

10:30-11:20AM

MWF

Hal Crimmel, Alice Mulder, Jennifer Bodine

LIB227

CRN# 20488

This course will explore music as seen through the lenses of Plato’s “Big Three”: The Good, the True and The Beautiful.  The perspective of the Good will be taken to look at music in society - its role, that of the True for its scientific side - its nature, and that of the Beautiful to investigate the interior, personal experience of music - its meaning.

The course will take two approaches in exploring these areas: the Theory and the Lab.  In the theory part of the course we will discuss how music appears in the Big Three, and also how it relates to the other arts; for the Lab part of the course we will make things.  Students will produce two original works involving the creative use of music.  For example, they might write a song, produce and score a short film using original or existing music, or devise and conduct a creative experiment of the effects of music on health.

1:45-3 PM

T/TH

Mark Henderson

LIB227

CRN# 20489

What makes you unique? How does the way you are defined, understood and categorized influence your life and how you are perceived? What aspects of your identity are most necessary? What do the groups you belong to reveal about you? This class looks at the merging field of identity studies through literature, films, theoretical writings, photographs, music and artworks. We will study how personal and collective identities take shape, find expression, and sometimes come into conflict.

10:30-11:45 AM

T/TH

Christy Call

LIB231

Special Collections

Honors 3900

China's Great Leap Forward, 1958-1962

 9:00-10:15 AM

T/TH

J Russell Burrows,
Gregory S Lewis

 LIB227

TBA

Judy Elsley

LIB225

TBA

Judy Elsley

LIB225