2501 Campus Culture. Prerequisite: Admission/Eligible to the Honors Program (3.40 GPA). Encourages interaction with many of the cultural events offered by the University. Events include plays, art exhibits, lectures, concerts, film and more. The course emphasizes the critical analysis of culture through in-class conversation, out-of-class writing, and peer-revision of texts. Writing for the class will be uploaded to “our page”, an online culture magazine which includes listings of upcoming events. (F, Sp)
2511 Community Citizen. Prerequisite: Admission/eligible to the Honors Program (3.40 GPA). May be repeated once. Students will provide volunteer service at a community agency (hospitals, united way agencies, art museum, etc.) as approved by the course instructor. Students will be asked to discuss their experiences in class, write about the experience, and to participate in peer-revision sessions. Students will be expected to complete a minimum of 30 hours of volunteer service in a semester. (F, Sp)
2970 Honors Seminar. 1 to 3 hours. Prerequisite: admission to Honors College Curriculum. May be repeated; maximum credit six hours. (F, Sp)
2973 Perspectives on the American Experience. Prerequisite: permission of Honors College. May be repeated; maximum credit six hours. An interdisciplinary investigation of the social, economic, and political realities of American life and culture from the late nineteenth century to the present. Topics to be treated include immigration, the rise of mass production and consumer culture, the Great Migration, the Cold War, 1960s social movements, and current "culture wars." (Sp) [IV-WC]
3103 Writing Workshop. Prerequisite: Admission to the Honors College and permission of the instructor, and 2973. The course will help the student learn more about writing and helping others to write well. Designed to help students become familiar with rhetorical theory as well as practice. Students will develop effective strategies for work in the honors college writing assistant program. Focus is on two key questions: What is good writing? How can we help others to become better writers? (Sp)
3223 American Thought and Culture in the 1940s. Prerequisite: English 1213 and permission of Honors College. Study of America in the 1940s through an examination of American intellectual and cultural life. Among the themes discussed are wartime American culture, modern American liberalism and conservatism, the effects of McCarthyism, the changing place of women and minorities in American life, and anxieties about life in the atomic age. (Irreg.) [IV-WC]
3513 Biotechnology. Prerequisite: Zoology 1114 or Microbiology 3813 or Botany 1114 and permission of Honors College. Survey of the most active areas in the field including recombinant DNA technology, protein engineering, large-scale cultivation of microorganisms, commercial exploitation of microorganisms, mammalian cells in culture and their application in vaccine production and monoclonal antibody production, gene therapy, and genetic engineering in plants. (F)
3713 Religion in America. Prerequisite: permission of Honors College. Traces the development, character and impact of religion in America from the pre-colonial era to the present. (Irreg.) [IV-WC]
3960 Honors Reading. 1 to 3 hours. Prerequisite: admission to Honors Program. May be repeated; maximum credit six hours. Will consist of topics designated by the instructor. The content will emphasize work not presented in other courses. (F, Sp, Su)
3970 Honors Seminar. 1 to 3 hours. Prerequisite: member of Honors College Curriculum in good standing. An upper-division Honors College course to be used by departments and by the Honors College. (F, Sp, Su)
3980 Honors Research. 1 to 3 hours. Prerequisite: admission to Honors Program. May be repeated with change of content; maximum credit six hours. Will provide an opportunity for the gifted honors candidate to work at a special project under the guidance of a professor in the student's field. (F, Sp, Su)
3993 Honors Colloquium. Prerequisite: admission to and good standing in Honors College Curriculum. May be repeated with change in course topic. An interdepartmental course involving two or more instructors from different departments. (Sp)
Updated: April 1, 2007