Honors Program Courses

 

FALL 2015

*Non-Honors students with a 3.5 GPA are invited to email aubreylord@weber.edu for a departmental override to register for an Honors course.

Visit the WSU Course Catalog for a list of Honors classes.

 

Course Number Course Title CRN Description Time Day Room Instructor(s)
H ENGL 1010
 
Writing as a Weapon: An Introduction to Writing through the Lens of Social Justice 22283   9:30-10:20 MWF LI 227 Sarah Vause
HNRS HU1110 The Construction of Knowledge 21551 This course examines how knowledge is produced, what it is used for, and what it means.  Specifically, it looks to compare different forms of knowledge, their bases and purposes.  In our society – even within our own university – we separate and distinguish different ways of making sense of the world.  Thus, English departments remain separate from departments of physics; an art studio is across campus from a mathematics building.  Although such distinctions might seem obvious, if we think of all different disciplines as representing the learning of some set of ideas and/or skills, the obvious distinction can become more blurred.  In this course, you will consider where the edges between different ways of knowing exist, and even where the boundaries of knowledge itself must be.  We will look specifically at science, literature, and culture systems to understand how each of these produces unique understandings, how they interact with one another, and how they contrast. 9:00-10:15 TR LI 227 Christy Call &
Sue Harley
HNRS HU1110 The Construction of Knowledge 21909 This course examines how knowledge is produced, what it is used for, and what it means.  Specifically, it looks to compare different forms of knowledge, their bases and purposes.  In our society – even within our own university – we separate and distinguish different ways of making sense of the world.  Thus, English departments remain separate from departments of physics; an art studio is across campus from a mathematics building.  Although such distinctions might seem obvious, if we think of all different disciplines as representing the learning of some set of ideas and/or skills, the obvious distinction can become more blurred.  In this course, you will consider where the edges between different ways of knowing exist, and even where the boundaries of knowledge itself must be.  We will look specifically at science, literature, and culture systems to understand how each of these produces unique understandings, how they interact with one another, and how they contrast. 9:00-10:15 TR LL 230 Carl Porter & Adam Johnston
HNRS PS1500 Why Bad Things Happen to Good People 21913   11:30-12:20 MWF LI 227 Stacy Palan
 
HNRS LS1510 Omnivore’s Dilemma 21918   12:30-3:00 W LI 227 Michele Skopec
 
HNRS CA1530 The Dancing Body on Film 21920 Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels! Learn the history and behind-the-scenes mechanics of the dancing body on film. This course will cover artists in film and dance, from around the world, who came together to generate new modes of creating work to entertain, educate and inspire. 12:00-1:15 TR LI 227 Amanda Sowerby & Joanne Lawrence
HNRS SS1520 Microbes Rule the World: The Effects of Disease on History 21112   1:30-2:45 M
(Hybrid class)
LI 227 Gene Sessions & Craig Oberg
HNRS HU1540 Before I Die 21943 What do you want to do before you die? Inspired by Candy Chang’s public art project turned worldwide phenomenon, this class will engage with and respond to the community through public prompts and creative responses. Students will develop independent portfolios of artwork and writing inspired by the “honest mess of longing, pain, joy insecurity, gratitude fear, and wonder” expressed by Ogdenites. 2:30-5:15 T KA 306 Janine Joseph &
Molly Morin
HNRS HU2010 The Good Life 21945 Take ten seconds to imagine where you want to be in ten years.  Perhaps you see yourself surrounded by a loving family, or firmly established in your career, or standing proudly atop Everest.  You imagine yourself happy.  Take another ten seconds.  Have you ever thought seriously about why you want to be wherever you want to be?  On what grounds did you decide? What is the good life, anyway? Join us this semester as we investigate philosophical conceptions of the good life from ancient times to the present day. 10:30-11:45 TR LI 227 Mary Beth Willard
HNRS SS2120B The Meaning of Life 21949 Why am I here? Is life a test, an illusion, a battle, a game, a giant cosmic mistake? Is there even a point to any of this? Explore with us the wonderful variety of answers given by the greatest minds of the last 600 years of western history. We’ll spend the semester reading the words of some of the most influential thinkers (Galileo, Descartes, Emerson, Marx, Sartre, the Monty Python boys...), charting their answers to humanity’s biggest question. We’ll put the great thinkers in their historical context to see the amazing confluence of personalities, events, and ideas that came together to form the intellectual tradition we’ve inherited. 12:00-1:15 TR SS 219 Marc & Katie Nelson
HNRS HU/DV2130A Analogs of God 21952 Religious traditions depend upon rituals and behaviors that invite understanding of the infinite or ineffable, through proportionate extrapolations of the “good” that we see and experience in the world.  In this class we will explore how imperfect people can come to an understanding, or get some sense of a perfect God.  The way I propose they come to that understanding is by seeing an analog of perfection.  Not a reproduction, but a sense of perfection.  We are imperfect; our faculties are limited, but we can experience love or beauty.  Even imperfectly, in a transcendent way, we can imagine what perfection can be.
The class will consider the notion of transcendent analogy and its relationship to Twentieth Century philosophical traditions like Humanism, Existentialism and Nihilism.  Using texts from Christianity and Islam, we will look at how people who have this experience can come to know who or what God is.
1:30-2:45 TR LI 227 Ryan Thomas
 
HNRS 3900
 
Qualitative Research 21954 This class teaches you how to use qualitative research tools in a project of your choosing that you will then submit for publication. The course will provide you with a valuable grounding and understanding in how to use qualitative research effectively. 12:30-1:20 MWF SS 121 Barrett Bonella & Corina Segovia-Tadehara
HNRS 4990 Honors Senior Project 21959   TBA TBA LIB225 Judy Elsley

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