Honors Program Courses Fall 2025
Fall 2025
Course description: Skills and techniques of effective speaking
Course Details
- CRN – 47366, Section No.14
- Faculty: Diane L. Carter
- Schedule: MW 1:30-2:20 p.m.
- Delivery Method: Classroom Meeting
- Credits: 3 credits
Course description: Fundamental programming constructs, algorithms and problem-solving, fundamental data structures, overview of programming languages, virtual machines, introduction to language translation, declarations and types, abstraction mechanisms, object-oriented programming. This course includes a lab.
Course Details
- CRN – 47964, Section No.31
- Faculty: Michael D. Wilder
- Schedule: MWF 9:30-10:20 a.m., R 8:30-10:20 a.m.
- Delivery Method: Classroom Meeting
- Credits: 4 credits
Course description: Intermediate course in the practices of personal and exploratory writing; may include personal narrative and observation, autobiography, or extended reflection; special attention to prose style and voice; includes research-based writing.
Course Details
- CRN – 47438, Section No.02
- Faculty: Jamaica Ritcher
- Schedule: TR 2-3:15 p.m.
- Delivery Method: Classroom Meeting
- Credits: 3 credits
Course description: Major texts reflecting development of Western thought and culture, Classical Greece to the Renaissance.
Course Details
- CRN – 47445, Section No.02
- Faculty: Tom A. Drake
- Schedule: MWF 11:30-12:20 p.m.
- Delivery Method: Classroom Meeting
- Credits: 3 credits
Course description: Further study of principles and practice of effective technical communication. Projects teach conventions of tone and style appropriate to the specific discourse situation in a variety of formats, including oral, written, visual, and multimedia genres. Recommended Preparation: ENGL 2020. Typically Offered: Varies. Prereqs: ENGL 1102 or Equivalent; Sophomore standing.
Course Details
- CRN – 50336, Section No.02
- Faculty: Karen L. Thompson
- Delivery Method: ONLINE
- Credits: 3 credits
Course description: Honors internship in tutoring writing.
Course Details
- CRN – 47467, Section No.02
- Faculty: Emma Cathrine Perry
- Schedule: MWF 2:30-3:20 p.m.
- Delivery Method: Classroom Meeting
- Credits: 3 credits
Course description: Principles of statics with engineering applications; addition and resolution of forces, vector algebra, moments and couples, resultants and static equilibrium, equivalent force systems, centroids, center of gravity, free body method of analysis, two- and three-dimensional equilibrium, trusses, frames, and friction. Cooperative: open to WSU degree-seeking students.
Course Details
- CRN – 48800, Section No.04
- Faculty: JJ J. Petersen
- Schedule: MWF 10:30-11:20 a.m.
- Delivery Method: Classroom Meeting
- Credits: 3 credits
Course description: Physical properties of fluids; fluid statics; continuity, energy, momentum relationships; laminar and turbulent flow; boundary layer effects; flow in pipes, open channels, and around objects. Cooperative: open to WSU degree-seeking students.
Course Details
- CRN – 49189, Section No.03
- Faculty: Tao Xing
- Schedule: MWF 11:30 a.m. to 12:20 p.m.
- Delivery Method: Classroom Meeting
- Credits: 3 credits
Course description: Elasticity, strength, and modes of failure of engineering materials; theory of stresses and strains for ties, shafts, beams, and columns. Typically Offered: Fall and Spring. Prereqs: ENGR 2100, MATH 1750
Course Details
- CRN – 48810, Section No.04
- Faculty: Robert R. Stephens
- Schedule: MWF 1:30-2:20 p.m.
- Delivery Method: Classroom Meeting
- Credits: 3 credits
Course description: Contributions to the modern world, to 1650.
Course Details
- CRN – 47688, Section No.02
- Faculty: Alyson Roy
- Schedule: MWF 9:30-10:20 a.m.
- Delivery Method: Classroom Meeting
- Credits: 3 credits
Course description: This course is required for new first-year and transfer honors students. It introduces students to the Honors Program community and prepares them for the academic expectations of the program. It also provides new students with an opportunity to think about their expectations and goals surrounding their college education and introduces them to academic and co-curricular resources available at the university.
Course Details
- CRN – 48851, Section No.01
- Faculty: Aubrey Shaw
- Schedule: W 3:30-5:20 p.m.
- Delivery Method: Classroom Meeting
- Credits: 1 credit
Course description: This University Honors Program course is designed for honors students who are actively working towards completing an honors thesis or honors portfolio by the time they graduate from the university and the honors program with an undergraduate degree. The course is intended to assist students with the final assignment of their honors thesis or honors portfolio, i. e., the public presentation of their thesis or portfolio work at the bi-annual Honors Forum in either December or May each year.
Course Details
- CRN – 48846, Section No.01
- Faculty: Sandra Reineke
- Schedule: W 2:30-3:20 p.m.
- Delivery Method: Classroom Meeting
- Credits: 1 credit
Course description: This University Honors Program course is designed for honors students who are actively working towards completing an honors thesis or an honors portfolio by the time they graduate from the university and complete the honors program. After researching and writing their honors thesis or completing their honors professional portfolio, students are expected to enroll in INTR 440 Honors Presentations, usually during their last semester at the University of Idaho, when they present their findings at the public Honors Forum in either December or May each year.
Course Details
- CRN – 48850, Section No.01
- Faculty: Sandra Reineke
- Schedule: MW 3:30-5:20 p.m.
- Delivery Method: Classroom Meeting
- Credits: 3 credits
Course description: Student ambassadors are selected through an application and interview process. Students will learn skills in leadership, communication, networking, and public speaking. Students will be responsible for representing the College of Science in various recruiting activities and events.
Course Details
- CRN – 49712, Section No.02
- Faculty: Roopal Jani
- Schedule: MW 4-4:50 p.m.
- Delivery Method: Classroom Meeting
- Credits: 1 credit
Course description: Overview of principal UN agencies and current UN activities; emphasis on written and oral presentations through resolution and position paper writing, negotiations, and small group discussions.
Course Details
- CRN – 47534, Section No.02
- Faculty: Bill L. Smith
- Schedule: MWF 8:30-9:20 a.m.
- Delivery Method: Classroom Meeting
- Credits: 3 credits
Course description: Functions, limits, continuity, differentiation, integration, applications, differentiation and integration of transcendental functions. Primarily for students in engineering, mathematics, science, or computer science. Typically Offered: Fall, Spring and Summer. Prereqs: MATH 1143 (with a grade of C or better) and MATH 1144 (concurrent enrollment in MATH 1144 is allowed, although it is recommended that students complete MATH 1144 before enrolling in MATH 1170); or demonstrated proficiency through a sufficiently high score on the ACT, SAT, or math placement test. Required test scores can be found here.
Course Details
- CRN – 48784, Section No.07
- Faculty: Robert E. Ely
- Schedule: MWF 9:30-10:20 a.m., T 2-2:50 p.m.
- Delivery Method: Classroom Meeting
- Credits: 4 credits
Course description: Thermodynamic properties of substances, first and second laws of thermodynamics, thermodynamic analysis of mechanical engineering thermal components and cycles, psychrometric process, and introduction to combustion systems. Typically Offered: Fall and Spring.
Course Details
- CRN – 49027, Section No.02
- Faculty: Dan A. Cordon
- Schedule: MWF 12:30-1:20 p.m.
- Delivery Method: Classroom Meeting
- Credits: 3 credits
Course description: Transmission by conduction of heat in steady and unsteady states, by free and forced convection, and by radiation; combined effects of conduction, convection, and radiation. Typically Offered: Fall and Spring.
Course Details
- CRN – 49024, Section No.02
- Faculty: Dan A. Cordon
- Schedule: MWF 1:30-2:20 p.m.
- Delivery Method: Classroom Meeting
- Credits: 3 credits
Course description: Introduction to philosophical reasoning through historical study of moral thought.
Course Details
- CRN – 48329, Section No.10
- Faculty: Graham P. Hubbs
- Delivery Method: ONLINE
- Credits: 3 credits
Course description: Survey of approaches used to describe and explain conflict and cooperation among states in the international system, special emphasis on games of strategic interaction.
Course Details
- CRN – 48378, Section No.02
- Faculty: Jhon K. Bonilla Aranzales
- Schedule: TR 2-3:15 p.m.
- Delivery Method: Classroom Meeting
- Credits: 3 credits
Course description: Credit will not be awarded for STAT 251 after STAT 301 or STAT 416, or for STAT 416 after STAT 251 or STAT 301. Intro to statistical methods, including design of statistical studies, basic sampling methods, descriptive statistics, probability and sampling distributions, inference in surveys and experiments, regression, and analysis of variance.
Course Details
- CRN – 48844, Section No.05
- Faculty: Renae L. Shrum
- Schedule: MF 8:30-9:20 a.m., W 12:30-1:20 p.m.
- Delivery Method: Classroom Meeting
- Credits: 3 credits