Honors Residential Academic Programs

Choose one or two courses from the following:

CHEM 121H ▪ Honors General Chemistry ▪ Gen Ed: PS ▪ 4 credits — Basic principles of chemistry. Microscopic nature of atoms and molecules; macroscopic properties of chemical systems. Topics include stoichiometry, thermochemistry, atomic and nuclear structure, molecular structure, gases. Includes laboratory. Student must also register for an associated lab. RESERVED FOR CHEM MAJORS ONLY.

CHEM 121H ▪ Honors General Chemistry ▪ Gen Ed: PS ▪ sect 3 ▪ 4 credits — Same description as above. OPEN TO CHEM AND NON-CHEM MAJORS.

ENGIN 111H ▪ Introduction to Civil & Environmental Engineering

ENGIN 112H ▪ Introduction to Electrical & Computer Engineering

ENGIN 113H ▪ Introduction to Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

ENGLWP 112H ▪ College Writing ▪ Gen Ed: CW ▪ 3 credits — This intensive course in expository writing satisfies the First-Year Writing requirement. It focuses attention on the writing process i.e, pre-writing, composing, and editing. Students work with peer editing and in-class publication. Required Text: Andrea Lunsford, The Everyday Writer: A Brief Reference and Donna LeCourt et al, The Text-Wrestling Book. This is a 3-Credit Honors Course. May NOT be taken Pass/Fail. Prereq: All sections require satisfactory performance on writing test.

HIST 151H ▪ American Civilization Since 1876 ▪ Gen Ed: HS ▪ 4 credits —This course will focus on the major events, forces, and personalities of late nineteenth and twentieth century U.S. Subjects include industrialization, urbanization, the rise of the presidency, immigration, racism, and an imperial foreign policy. Students meet in a seminar setting and will be asked to participate actively in discussion. Students will be assigned several oral reports based upon extensive readings. Students will write short papers based upon subjects agreed upon with the instructor. The intent of the course is to provide students with interaction and debate, and the honing of skilled based upon independent activities.

HONORS 292M ▪ Metaphor and Creativity ▪ Gen Ed: I ▪ 3 Credits — In reference to metaphors, Susan Sontag writes "Saying a thing is or is like something-it-is-not is a mental operation as old as philosophy and poetry, and the spawning ground of most kinds of understanding, including scientific understanding, and expressiveness." In this course, through literary (fiction and non-fiction), theoretical, and filmic texts we will explore some of the metaphors that have been (ab)used in the last 106 years, while also taking a global perspective on how metaphors play an important role in our daily lives. Many metaphors build on ancient, medieval or renaissance ideologies, myths, and theories. We will critique the texts and deconstruct, dismantle, and re-create our own metaphors, making our own conclusions on what the authors convey and represent. Because this is a course on metaphor and creativity, students are not only expected to read and learn about these themes, but also engage in their own creative process at the research level as well as at the poetic one. Active class participation, reaction papers, journal, midterm, research paper, and creative work will be required.

MATH 131H ▪ Calculus I ▪ Gen Ed: R2 ▪ 4 credits — Continuity, limits, and the derivative for algebraic, trigonometric, logarithmic, exponential, and inverse functions. Applications to physics, chemistry, and engineering. Students expected to have and use a Texas Instruments 86 graphics, programmable calculator. Prerequisites: high school algebra, plane geometry, trigonometry, and analytic geometry.

MATH 132H ▪ Calculus II ▪ Gen Ed: R2 ▪ 4 credits — This course will cover the standard subject matter: The definite integral, techniques of integration, and applications to physics, chemistry, and engineering. Sequences, series, and power series. Taylor and MacLaurin series. Students expected to have and use a Texas Instruments 86 graphics, programmable calculator. There will be some emphasis on the underlying theory. More applications will be included, and some attention will be paid to history in the honors version of this course. Active student participation will be encouraged.

MUSIC 170H ▪ Music in Film ▪ Gen Ed: AT ▪ 3 credits — Music in Film is a general education course on the use of music in film, a "grand tour" of the esthetics and dramatic techniques of film music since 1895. Excerpts from commercial "silent era" and sound films will be viewed and studied as examples of film music development and the composer's art. Students will construct two soundtracks for specific scenes. No special musical skills or academic prerequisites are required. Students will spend two weeks focusing on the work of Bernard Herrmann, particularly his work in Citizen Kane. Honors students will complete a term paper on a topic related to music and film. Students will be required to watch the equivalent of two films each week.

WOMENSST 187H ▪ Intro to Women's Studies ▪ Gen Ed: IU ▪ 3 credits — Placing women's experiences at the center of interpretation, this class introduces basic concepts and perspectives in Women's Studies. Focusing on both historical and contemporary women's issues, we will examine women's lives with a particular emphasis on the ways in which gender interacts with race, class, sexual orientation and ethnicity. The central aim is to foster critical reading and thinking about women's lives and the ways in which the interlocking systems of colonialism, racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, ageism, and heterosexism shape women's and men's lives; and how women have resisted these inequalities and worked to create new systems of change, and engage in national and global transformational politics.