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Honors Program Classes
Spring 2010
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ART 103H: Honors Visual Culture This course will focus on aspects of culture that rely on visual images: the fine arts, photography, advertising, comic books, film, television and the Internet. The proliferation of visual media and the blurring of boundaries between high and low art demand active rather passive participants. The course is organized thematically and designed to encourage students to engage with a number of questions and issues that are critical to living in today’s increasingly visual age. For instance do all cultures rely upon the same battery of concepts to define the aesthetic? How are perceptions of visual culture and of art shaped not only by culture but also by history? In addition students will explore connections between visual media and imagery as it relates to cultural, social, religious, political and aesthetic change.
ENG 102H: Honors English Composition II English Composition 102, the second semester of a two-semester general education course, develops the student's ability to read and write, building on the foundation of English Composition 101. To this end, it begins with a review of the subject matter and terminology taught in English Composition 101—a rapid and rigorous review, neither an attempt to re-teach subject matter nor an exercise in teaching elementary editing skills—to prepare the student for the more challenging reading and writing of English Composition 102. The reading assignments represent the best writing in English, both in the quality of the writing and in the quality and complexity of content. All writing assignments are based on these readings. The course stresses argumentative writing and grounds the student in the rhetoric of argumentation. It also develops the student's research skills and ability to use source material.
ENG 271H: Honors World Literature Students study masterpieces of world civilization representative of various epochs, nationalities, and literary genres from ancient time from the seventeenth century. The course explores the relationship between people to their world and their deities in such works as Homer, Sophocles, Shonagon, Dante, LiPo, Jiang Fang, Zeimi, Cervantes, and Shakespeare.
HIS 102H: Honors World History II This course is an introduction to the major cultures of the world from c. 800 C.E. through the 19th century.
PHL 232H: Honors Biomedical Ethics The first third of the course will be devoted to an historical study of the way in which several ethical theories have attempted to answer the question of how we can determine what we ought to do – i.e., what does it mean to “do the right thing”? The remainder of the course will be spent reading and analyzing articles which present differing views about what we should or should not do with respect to difficult situations in biomedical ethics. For example: is euthanasia ever permissible? Does a dental hygienist have a duty to treat a person who is in pain but who has no dental insurance? Should a nurse treat a critically ill patient who, because of illness, is unable to give consent for a procedure? Should animals be used for medical research? What is the appropriate use for genetic information about an individual? As we address these and other similar issues, emphasis will be placed on close reading of the text and on class discussion.
SPE 102H: Honors Public Speaking Public Speaking introduces the principles and techniques of formal communication. Attention will be given to speaker-listener relationships, management and choice of ideas, selection and organization of materials, and use of language and nonverbal elements. Particular attention will be paid to the principles and skills of persuasion and delivery skills as well as audience analysis. Formal presentations will be required.
THE 122H: Honors Film Appreciation Film Appreciation is a basic survey aiming to acquaint the student with the art of the form. The focus is on the narrative or story film and the approach is analytical rather than historical. Having completed the course a student should find that she/he has greater insight into the creating of films and a greater appreciation of that which is good in films. A more insightful film-goer should be a more demanding patron. A more discerning film-going public may encourage more discerning film-making and that, perhaps, should be the focus of a film appreciation course
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