UNIVERSITY HONORS PROGRAM COURSE OFFERINGS

    Fall Semester, 2005[see further below for provisional spring 2006 schedule]

CORE - Discovery [within General Core Studies]
(27244) Core H104 (01) 4 cr., 9:30-10:45, T-Th: Prof. Dale Graden
Honors Contemporary American Experience. This course takes a broad look at contemporary American life in the context of the last fifty years. Students analyze films, stories, poems, court cases, personal narratives, popular media, and objects of material culture for what they portray about six aspects of American experience: religion, family, the sense of place, gender/sexual orientation, race and class. The course also includes readings from the social sciences; fall semester satisfies core curriculum requirements for social science. Enrollment limited to 30 entering freshmen.

(29210) Core H117 (03) 4 cr. 12:30-1:20, MWF: Prof. Sheila O'Brien
Honors The Movies, the World and You. Across cultures, movies entertain, delight, and challenge their viewers; they explore and document our world. In the process, this medium both reflects and shapes people's perception of the world. Watching movies is not the passive activity that many think it is. A major aim of this course, therefore, is to enable students to become more active, critical, and compassionate viewers. Another aim is to introduce students to aesthetic values and social concerns in a variety of world cultures. The course will use numerous disciplinary lenses on both the movies themselves and the issues they raise. Satisfies core curriculum requirements for humanities and also General Core Studies International Course requirement.. Enrollment limited to 30 entering freshmen.

(29209) Core H119 (02), 4 cr., 2-3:15 T-Th: Prof. John Mihelich
Honors Sports and American Society. Sports and American Society will take a thematic approach in an effort to explore the many aspects of this topic. The course is organized around specific sports-soccer in the fall, and baseball in the spring; around specific cultural icons-the Super Bowl, the World Series, college football bowl season, the Masters, and March Madness; and around specific topics-ethics and sports; sports and the arts; gender and race; drugs and athletics; class; sports and media, sport and popular culture, and sexuality and sport. Satisfies core curriculum requirements for social science in the fall semester. Enrollment limited to 30 entering freshmen.

(12200) History H101, 3 cr., (01) 1:30 MWF: Prof. Pingchao Zhu
Honors History of Civilization. A survey of the major ideas and institutions of selected world civilizations. Differs from non-honors sections primarily in its discussion format and enlarged history of ideas component. Satisfies core curriculum requirement for social sciences. Limit of 30.

(15866) English H257, 3 cr., (01) 10:30 MWF: Prof. D'Wayne Hodgin
Honors Literature of Western Civilization. Reading in selected classics of Western Literature from Classical Greece to the Renaissance, reflecting the development of Western thought and culture. Discussion and lecture format; satisfies core curriculum requirement for humanities. Limit of 30.

(28031) Philosophy H103, 3 cr., (17) 11:30-12:20 (tentative) MWF: Prof. Janice Capel Anderson
Honors Introduction to Ethics. An introduction to philosophical reasoning through historical study of Western moral thought. Readings and discussions, with required individual and group papers; satisfies core curriculum requirement for humanities. Limit of 30.

(26132) Biology H115, (Provisional) 4 cr., (08), 10:30-11:20, MWF, MINES 212 and 11:00-1:50 T; Pre-or corequisite: Chem 111. Matt Parks
Honors Biology: Cells & Evolution of Life. Metabolic and genetic processes in cells; cell structure and function; regulation of gene expression and organism development; cell-cell communication; adaptive evolution and the analysis of evolutionary history. Satisfies core curriculum requirements in the natural and applied sciences. Limit of 24

Chemistry H111, 4 cr.: Prof. Thomas Bitterwolf
(10727) Sec. 33-- 8:30 MWF, AD 336; Lab 2:30-5:20 M, REN 222
(10728) Sec. 34-- 8:30 MWF, AD 336; Lab 2:30-5:20 M, REN 222
(10729) Sec. 35-- 8:30 MWF, AD 336; Lab 2:30-5:20 W, REN 222
(10730) Sec. 36-- 8:30 MWF, AD 336; Lab 2:30-5:20 W, REN 222
Honors Principles of Chemistry. Intensive treatment of principles and applications of chemistry. Honors labs have an emphasis on independent laboratory exercises. Satisfies core curriculum requirements in the natural and applied sciences. Enrollment limit: 12 each section

(15581) Psychology, H101, 3 cr., (01) 9:30-10:45 T-Th: Dr. Alan Whitlock
Honors Topics in Introductory Psychology. An exploration of the evolution of psychology, personality theory, memory, research in psychology, biology related to psychology, sensation and perception, learning, states of consciousness, psychological disorders, and psychotherapy. Each student will evaluate their own personality and search for new meanings in their experience. Satisfies core curriculum requirements for the social sciences. Limit 30.

(26231) Communication Studies H335, 2-3:15 TR, 3 cr. Prof. Steve Banks
Honors Intercultural Communication challenges basic assumptions about culture, communication and the theories that link these two constructs. Students read classic and contemporary literature on intercultural communication, travel on Web-based sojourns, write critical evaluations of research reports, create and present case analyses, and conduct a semester-long investigation of a culture of choice. Satisfies core requirement for the social sciences and the General Core Studies International Course requirement. Limit 27.

(29271) Sociology H499, 3 cr., 12:30-1:45 T-Th.: Prof. Debbie Storrs
Honors Program Research: Looking Inward
This 3 credit honors seminar provides an opportunity for curious and motivated students to engage in original research. After beginning the course with exploring qualitative sociological research methodology, students and faculty will work as a research team to design and conduct a research project focused on the University of Idaho Honors Program. Guided by Peter Berger's "first wisdom" of sociology, that in social life "things are not always what they seem," students will develop a research question and spend the bulk of the semester collecting and analyzing data and discussing and writing up their findings. Students invested in this class will have an opportunity to submit a proposal to present their findings at the regional honors conference in the spring semester in Denver, Colorado. This seminar is suited for social science majors and students interested in exploring the social world through the research process. Students interested in working on a research team and who aren't afraid of "shocking discoveries" about the "world taken-for-granted" should take this course. Prerequisites: Soc 101, Psych 101, or Anth 100, or permission from the instructor (dstorrs@uidaho.edu). Enrollment limit 15.

(12592) Mathematics H315, 3 cr., (01) 10:30-11:20 MWF: Prof. Mark Nielsen, A&A 109
Numbers from Here to Infinity. This course will examine the question of what numbers are. Are they human constructions used to model and imitate reality, or are they the very substance of reality? We'll study numbers as markers on the road of human intellectual development, concentrating on the struggle over the last century to understand infinite numbers.
Prerequisites: basic background in algebra is all that is required. Students who have taken calculus will have additional insights into some topics, but we will make the main concepts accessible to all. What is required of all students in Math 315 is a willingness to practice the art of mathematics by engaging in logic and reasoning about abstract ideas.. Limit 30 (with priority within the initial senior registration period offered, if necessary, according to class rank--seniors, juniors, sophomores, current first-year students).

Fall 2005 Upper Division Honors Seminars
The upper division honors seminars are reserved for juniors and seniors in the program. Sophomores will be allowed to register for seminars on a space-available basis only with juniors and seniors being given first priority. Three credits of Honors course work must be completed prior to the beginning of fall semester in order to enroll in a seminar.

(13475) Pol. Science H404, 3 cr., 11-12:15 TR, Youth Politics and Mobilization, Prof. Sandra Reineke
Youth Politics and Mobilization. American culture is fascinated with youth and young people's lifestyles. Yet young people seldom play an active role in politics and the political process in the US--or do they? The ecology movement, the anti-war movement, the human rights movement, and the anti-globalization movement are just a few examples of political involvement in which young people are at the forefront of political activism. This interdisciplinary honors seminar examines how young people express their political (and ideological) beliefs and how they combine their limited political power to affect social change nationally and locally. The course asks if young people have real political potential, and if so, how it fits into the larger historical framework of political mobilization. Limit of 15.

(29230) Chemistry H400, Energy Issues, 1:30 MWF, 3 cr., Dr. Tom Bitterwolf
Energy Issues. This seminar explores all aspects of energy including the technical fundamentals, economic considerations, political controversies and environmental consequences. Much of the course is centered on informed discussion and selected readings, while being enriched by guest presentations. Previous guests have included Senator Jim McClure, one of the Idaho commissioners on the Northwest Power Commission, UI faculty and staff such as Dean Emeritus Mal Miller, utility representatives, INEEL and PNNL scientists, and environmental spokespersons. In addition to their participation in the lively in-class discussions, students develop a formal paper on some aspect of energy issues and then present their findings in class. While the course is offered as an upper level chemistry course there is no requirement for a background in chemistry.

(28033) Intr 400, 1 cr., Dean Donald L. Burnett, Law
Law, Literature and Cinema. This seminar will employ short literary works and motion pictures to illuminate issues of law, justice, and ethics from a variety of perspectives. Illustrative works and discussion themes may include "Absence of Malice" (motion picture based on screenplay by Kurt Luedtke), "A Study in Scarlet" (Arthur Conan Doyle), "A Civil Action" (motion picture based on book by Jonathan Harr), "An Enemy of the People" (screenplay by Henrik Ibsen), "Inherit the Wind" (motion picture based on screenplay by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee). The seminar would meets in the evening, once per week for seven weeks, two hours per session. During five sessions the students discuss works of literature or cinema such as those mentioned above. During the sixth and seventh sessions students present and defend short (5- to 10-page) papers, each identifying and analyzing a question of justice or ethics, running through two or more of the works previously discussed. Limit 15.