Honors Course Archive
Course Archive for Winter 2013
Except where noted*, current Interdisciplinary Honors students may self-register using the SLN/MyPlan. If you have any questions regarding what category a course will fulfill, please check your degree audit on MyPlan and/or contact us here.
* Add codes are placed on all courses one week after the first day of the quarter. If you need an add code, please email the course instructor for permission, and once approved, forward the confirmation from your instructor to uwhonors@uw.edu. We will be in touch with registration details as soon as possible.
- Honors Arts & Humanities (3)
- Honors Science (3)
- Honors Social Sciences (2)
- Honors Interdisciplinary (5)
- HONORS 100/496 (1)
- Honors Electives (15)
- Special Topics (1)
Honors Arts & Humanities (3)
HONORS-prefix courses
Honors 211 A: Eco-Cinema: Filming the Ethics and Aesthetics of Waste (A&H)
Honors 211 A: Eco-Cinema: Filming the Ethics and Aesthetics of Waste (A&H)
SLN 14735 (View UW registration info »)
Office: C-522 Padelford, Box 354338
Phone: 206 616-6781
Email: jmbean@uw.edu
Credits: 5
Limit: 30 students
The paradoxes of the present age have become the subject of a 21st century film and media movement ranging from CNN sponsored television programs on renewable energy, to animated allegories produced by PIXAR, through science-fiction fantasies of future catastrophe and documentary filmmakers who take their own bodies as “visible evidence” of environmental and physical crisis. While this recent representational movement forms a substantial component of this course, any informed conception of cinematic “aesthetics and ethics” in moments of perceived social crisis demands a historical purview. Due to the rhetorical potency of filmmaking as a tool for public education and advocacy, for instance, the form has frequently served as a powerful instrument of rationality, harnessed to the manufacture of social consent in a tradition that reaches back to ethnographic and adventure films of the 1920s and “New Deal-era” propaganda and animated comedies of the 1930s. At the same time, alternative rhetorical and ethical ends that have shaped cinema’s engagement with social concerns in recent years, in some cases by rendering disaster or waste “sublime,” draws from a tradition reaching back through cold war films of the 1950s and the innovations of filmmakers such as Stanley Kubrick and Werner Herzog. We will pay particular attention to films that forcibly demonstrate the unraveling of certainty in the visible field and play with cinematic techniques-editing tempos, camera angles, lighting, framing devices, time-lapse photography, extreme close or long shots, mobile or still cameras, etc.-in order to question conventional models of perception and knowledge.
Class Structure: Formal Sessions and Film Screenings
Given what literary critic William Rueckert termed the First Law of Ecology-“Everything is connected to everything else”-this is a particularly ambitious course. You will learn to employ a set of analytical and critical skills intrinsic to film and media studies that will provide a foundation for our study. But we will also be grappling with an ensemble of interlocking ideas, texts, people, and institutions-a sprawling formation within which environmental discourse historically has attained intellectual, popular and legal status. Approximately 12 films will form our primary focus and another 30 films and media texts will be considered in short clips and excerpts; readings will include work by sociologists, historians, film critics, philosophers, and natural scientists among others. Regular class sessions meet twice a week (M/W). An additional two sessions (T/Th) will be designated for film screenings. You are highly encouraged to attend all regular screenings in the assigned classroom, but in cases of scheduling conflict you may also watch these films on your own in the Media Center on campus (2nd floor, Suzallo Library) where all titles will be on reserve, or via NetFlix, etc, if those services are available to you.
Regular Assignments and Final Project:
In the first half of the quarter assignments include weekly exercises such as go-post responses to materials, film segmentation analyses, and oral presentations on relevant materials. A mid-term exam will be administered in week five. Through these foundational assignments you will develop research skills and the critical tools necessary to mount a final project. For that project, you will have the option of writing a research paper that incorporates film frames from the texts you are studying and analyzing; another option will be to produce a short film (approximately 15-20 minutes maximum) that directly reflects the concerns of the class. In order to accomplish these goals an adventurous and inquisitive spirit, as well as a mind open to opinions and perspectives that might differ from your own is absolutely necessary. No prior filmmaking or film studies experience required.
Honors 211 B: Indian Literature & Popular Film (A&H)
Honors 211 B: Indian Literature & Popular Film (A&H)
SLN 14736 (View UW registration info »)
Email: hpauwels@uw.edu
Credits: 5
Limit: 30 students
Format and Evaluation
Students complete a weekly writing assignment (try-out in W1, counts from W2-9): totaling 8 screening reports that count for their grade. They will post this on our GoPost class board after seeing the movie (suggestions for format, see guidelines). It has to be posted either on the same Wednesday night or at the latest by the next morning 9 am, so others can see it and read prior to the discussion. In preparation for the paired discussions, each partner will read and prepare comments on the other’s post. After the discussion, students will incorporate the peer-feedback and polish their initial draft into a short essay, which they keep for their final portfolio. They have to polish their screening reports into a full essay only every other week, for a total of 4 such essays (see guidelines for details).
Students will work towards a final presentation in class during the final week of instruction, which they will write up as a paper due during final’s week. By the middle of week 9, students will post an abstract indicating the topic and outlining the basic argument of their paper, which they will present in class the next week. The instructor will organize the papers in panels and let students know when they are to present by the end of week 9. The presentations take place during week 10. All students are expected to attend all peers’ presentations and give peer feedback to each other.
Evaluation will be based on:
– Final paper and presentation: 30 + 10%
– Weekly screening report and bi-weekly essay for final portfolio: 10+40%
– Participation in discussions and class: 10%
Honors 211 C: Introduction to Bilingualism: Ways of Being (A&H)
Honors 211 C: Introduction to Bilingualism: Ways of Being (A&H)
SLN 14737 (View UW registration info »)
Office: Padelford A217, Box 354335
Phone: 206-543-7691
Email: dziwirek@uw.edu
Credits: 5
Limit: 20 students
Grading:
25% – Study Activities
50% – service-learning project
25% – quizzes
Honors Science (3)
HONORS-prefix courses
Honors 221 A: Evolution & Human Behavior (NSc)
Honors 221 A: Evolution & Human Behavior (NSc)
SLN 14738 (View UW registration info »)
Office: 205D Burke Museum, Box 351800
Phone: (206) 547-6330
Email: herronjc@uw.edu
Credits: 5
Limit: 25 students
-Why are women and men different?
-Which is more egalitarian: monogamy or polygamy?
-Why do step-parents and step-children often have more conflicted relationships than biological parents and biological children?
-When do people cooperate, when are they selfish, and why?
-What can we do to reduce the rate of spousal abuse and homicide?
My goal is to help students learn selection thinking; that is, to help them learn to reason like evolutionary biologists. I hope to help students pose questions, formulate hypotheses, design experiments, and critically evaluate the quality of evidence. After taking this course, students will be able to:
-Apply evolutionary theory to human interactions, especially those involving social conflict, and make predictions about how the divergent interests of the parties involved will affect their behavior.
-Design observational studies and experiments to test these predictions.
-Interpret and critically evaluate graphs and tables showing data on behavioral patterns in humans and animals.
-Provide evolutionary interpretations of various human social institutions, such as laws, wills, and social policies.
Honors 221 B: Evolution & Human Behavior (NSc)
Honors 221 B: Evolution & Human Behavior (NSc)
SLN 14739 (View UW registration info »)
Office: 205D Burke Museum, Box 351800
Phone: (206) 547-6330
Email: herronjc@uw.edu
Credits: 5
Limit: 25 students
-Why are women and men different?
-Which is more egalitarian: monogamy or polygamy?
-Why do step-parents and step-children often have more conflicted relationships than biological parents and biological children?
-When do people cooperate, when are they selfish, and why?
-What can we do to reduce the rate of spousal abuse and homicide?
My goal is to help students learn selection thinking; that is, to help them learn to reason like evolutionary biologists. I hope to help students pose questions, formulate hypotheses, design experiments, and critically evaluate the quality of evidence. After taking this course, students will be able to:
-Apply evolutionary theory to human interactions, especially those involving social conflict, and make predictions about how the divergent interests of the parties involved will affect their behavior.
-Design observational studies and experiments to test these predictions.
-Interpret and critically evaluate graphs and tables showing data on behavioral patterns in humans and animals.
-Provide evolutionary interpretations of various human social institutions, such as laws, wills, and social policies.
Honors 221 C: Climate Extremes (NSc)
Honors 221 C: Climate Extremes (NSc)
SLN 14740 (View UW registration info »)
Office: 417 Ocean Science Bldg, Box 355351
Phone: 206 685-8061
Email: pdquay@uw.edu
Office: 256 Marine Science Bldg, Box 357940
Phone: 206-543-8474
Email: paulj@uw.edu
Credits: 5
Limit: 15 students
Dramatic changes in the earth’s climate has resulted from natural variations in solar insolation, atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, rates of ocean circulation, plate tectonics and volcanic activity, the evolution of vascular plants and, in recent times, the burning of fossil fuels. The impact of these factors on climate, through interactions between the atmosphere, oceans and land, will be discussed. Importantly, the processes that produced past climate changes will be discussed in the context of modern impending climate change.
One class period per week will be spent in class discussion of an important paper. Problem sets, stressing quantitative solutions, will be given as take home assignments during the quarter.
Honors Social Sciences (2)
HONORS-prefix courses
Honors 231 A: Encounters in the Heart of Darkness (SSc)
Honors 231 A: Encounters in the Heart of Darkness (SSc)
SLN 14741 (View UW registration info »)
Email: landogo@uw.edu
Credits: 5
Limit: 40 students
Honors 231 B: Conflict, Crime and War in the 21st Century (SSc)
Honors 231 B: Conflict, Crime and War in the 21st Century (SSc)
SLN 20623 (View UW registration info »)
Office: Children’s Hospital & Medical Center, Box 359300
Phone: 206 987-2164
Email: sis@uw.edu
Credits: 5
Limit: 15 students
Primary text: “McMafia” by Misha Glenny (New York: Knopf, 2008, ISBN 978-1-4000-4411-5).
The course is organized around 5 topic modules:
1) Identity, gang & tribal membership- Understanding who you are and how you see things.
2) Identity and the Middle East- study peacemaking in a virtual gaming exercise.
3) How corruption, crime & terrorism come together: what should the “rules of engagement” be that guide America’s response to these threats?
4) Drugs, guns and money: how criminals clean dirty money and terrorists raise clean money for dirty deeds.
5) Develop an understanding of how the US government (the President and the National Security Council) conducts its “war on terror” and “war on drugs,” and how we are evolving strategies for the changing nature of these threats in the 21st Century. In this Honors seminar we will practice advising the President on such actions through the National Security Council.
Honors Interdisciplinary (5)
HONORS-prefix courses
Honors 391 A: "I Am Charlotte Simmons": An Interactive Health Seminar Based on the Novel by Tom Wolfe (A&H / SSc / NSc)
Honors 391 A: "I Am Charlotte Simmons": An Interactive Health Seminar Based on the Novel by Tom Wolfe (A&H / SSc / NSc)
SLN 14742 (View UW registration info »)
Office: H-692 Health Sciences Building, Box 357660
Phone: 206 616-2948
Email: cspigner@uw.edu
Credits: 5
Limit: 35 students
The Socratic approach is employed to give students a voice. Students must bring the maturity and intellect to critically examine both the summit and the pitfalls of campus life.
Honors 394 A: Comparative Ideologies: Human Rights Movements (A&H / SSc)
Honors 394 A: Comparative Ideologies: Human Rights Movements (A&H / SSc)
SLN 14743 (View UW registration info »)
Office: B-110 Padelford, Box 354345
Phone: (206) 543-6900
Email: cbright@uw.edu
Credits: 5
Limit: 25 students
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
To provide an overview of the sociopolitical philosophies which underlie the Feminist, African/American, and Gay movements in the United States.
To situate these paradigms in their historical context.
To assess which theories, concepts and arguments transcend the particular features of the individual movements and apply across their differences and which do not.
To develop the students’ ability to analyze, formulate and defend theory.
To assist students in examining their own sociopolitical beliefs and goals.
REQUIRED TEXTS:
Black Power Ideologies, John McCartney
Readings Packets (available at Prof. Copy, 42nd & U. Way)
COURSE REQUIREMENTS:
– Class participation (30%): Be present and prepared for discussion. This means having each day’s readings completed by class time and coming with some ideas about them and about any assigned questions. Participation includes both thoughtful comments and active, respectful listening and an appropriate balance between them. One absence is permitted without affecting your participation grade.
– Weekly response papers (30%): Each week questions or topics related to the readings will be given on which you will write approximately 2 typewritten pages. Graded credit/no-credit.
– Group project (15%): Guidelines to be announced.
– Final exam (take-home essay) (25%)
Honors 394 B: Animal Planet: Food, Development and Activism in Global Perspective (A&H / SSc)
Honors 394 B: Animal Planet: Food, Development and Activism in Global Perspective (A&H / SSc)
SLN 14744 (View UW registration info »)
Office: B102 Padelford Hall, Box 354300
Phone: 206 221-0561
Email: meg71@uw.edu
Credits: 5
Limit: 20 students
Course Requirements and Assignments
– Active participation during seminar and weekly reading responses
– Weblog Assignment (to be included in Honors Portfolio)
– Collaborative report and presentation on industrial agriculture in Brazil, China, Ethiopia, or India
– Short position paper on animal-related policy issue
Honors 394 C: Teaching to Transgress: A Teaching Workshop (A&H / SSc)
Honors 394 C: Teaching to Transgress: A Teaching Workshop (A&H / SSc)
SLN 14745 (View UW registration info »)
Email: frances@francesmccue.com
Credits: 5
Limit: 30 students
Many theorists believe that social change begins inside classrooms, or in transforming classrooms into spaces where students take charge of their learning. How can we re-imagine notions of “school” and “expert” to open new ways of exchanging information and power? Together, we’ll envision some utopian scenarios of ideal learning communities. Then, we’ll work with realistic “case studies” or “portraits” that ask us to teach in difficult situations. This class will be a lively, hands on, on-your-feet atmosphere in which you will begin the journey of becoming a teacher- whether that teaching happens in classrooms, workplaces or in your community.
Honors 394 D: Exploring the Power of Music (A&H / SSc)
Honors 394 D: Exploring the Power of Music (A&H / SSc)
SLN 14746 (View UW registration info »)
Credits: 5
Limit: 15 students
In this experiential course we will examine some of the universal themes emerging from the use of music and its influence on humanity and our world. Our ten week journey will utilize various lenses through which we will explore the topic, including scientific and academic research, observation of collective human experience, and your own personal experience both in and outside of class. Our time together will be partially modeled on the goals and objectives of collaborative teaching/learning communities. Activities will include class visits from guest experts and group and individual research opportunities along with weekly musical explorations facilitated by the instructor. During this process we will also examine how it affects and empowers our own lives.
HONORS 100/496 (1)
Honors Electives (15)
Other Honors courses (without HONORS-prefix)
ARCH 351 C: Romanesque, Gothic, and Renaissance Architecture (A&H)
ARCH 351 C: Romanesque, Gothic, and Renaissance Architecture (A&H)
SLN 10379 (View UW registration info »)
Credits: 5
Limit: 15 students
Recommended preparation:
This is an undergraduate upper division and graduate level class, and as such we assume you are responsible students who attend class regularly and plan ahead for assignments and exams. We recommend that you read and review the assigned material before the lectures in which it will be covered. Because the lectures do not directly follow the order of the text, it may be useful first to read an entire chapter or set of chapters in anticipation of the lectures dealing with the material covered. Although Arch 350 is not a prerequisite for the class, the material covered in it is helpful for understanding the course content of Arch 351. Required text: Marvin Trachtenberg and Isabelle Hyman, Architecture, from Prehistory to Postmodernity, Second Edition (New York: H.N. Abrams, 2002).
Class assignments and grading:
There will be two tests, two take-home writing assignments, and approximately 215 pages of required readings.
Test responses will be evaluated for accuracy, thoughtfulness and clarity. Assignments will be evaluated for thoroughness, quality of ideas, and clarity of presentation (this can include writing and graphics). Each test and assignment will be given a percentage score. Final percentage grades will be calculated according to the weighting below and then converted to the University’s 4.0 scale using a curve. This means that your final grade will be assessed relative to the performance of the others in this class.
Assignment 1: 20 % of course grade
Assignment 2: 20 % of course grade
Test 1: 30 % of course grade
Test 2: 30 % of course grade
ART 339 B: Honors Photography (A&H)
ART 339 B: Honors Photography (A&H)
SLN 10500 (View UW registration info »)
Email: bentz@spu.edu
Credits: 5
Limit: 20 students
BIOC 441 AD: Honors Biochemistry (NSc)
BIOC 441 AD: Honors Biochemistry (NSc)
SLN 11176 (View UW registration info »)
Office: J-061C Health Sciences, Box 357350
Phone: 206 543-1743
Email: parsonb@uw.edu
Credits: 4
Limit: 30 students
BIOC 441 Honors section. Students must also register for Bioc 441 A lecture (SLN 11172). See Time Schedule for lecture day/time information.
CHEM 155 A: Honors General Chemistry (NSc)
CHEM 155 A: Honors General Chemistry (NSc)
SLN 11999 (View UW registration info »)
Credits: 5
Limit: 72 students
Prerequisite: 2.2 in Honors CHEM 145.
Students must also sign up for Section AA, AB, or AC. See Time Schedule for day/time information.
CHEM 336 A: Honors Organic Chemistry (NSc)
CHEM 336 A: Honors Organic Chemistry (NSc)
SLN 12130 (View UW registration info »)
Credits: 5
Limit: 72 students
Prerequisite: 2.2 in Honors CHEM 335.
CSE 142: Computer Programming I (NSc)
CSE 142: Computer Programming I (NSc)
SLN ?
Office: Allen Center, Room 552, Box 352350
Phone: 206-685-9138
Email: reges@uw.edu
Credits: 5
See Time Schedule for course day, time and SLN.
CSE 143: Computer Programming II (NSc)
CSE 143: Computer Programming II (NSc)
SLN ?
Email: ln@cs.washington.edu
Credits: 5
See Time Schedule for course day, time and SLN.
FISH 101 AH: Water & Society (SSc / NSc)
FISH 101 AH: Water & Society (SSc / NSc)
SLN 14169 (View UW registration info »)
Credits: 5
Limit: 25 students
Student learning goals
As a result of this course, students will have a strong understanding of the tight linkages between water, the environment, and human society. Specifically, this course aims to i) introduce students to contemporary issues and challenges in freshwater ecology and resource management; ii) develop students’ skills to critically evaluate scientific information; iii) develop students’ writing skills to effectively communicate issues to a variety of audiences; iv) increase awareness that human existence depends on a supply of clean and abundant water; and v) explore ways that individuals and society can reduce their impacts on water resources.
GEOG 331 AD: Global Poverty and Care (SSc)
GEOG 331 AD: Global Poverty and Care (SSc)
SLN 14486 (View UW registration info »)
Credits: 5
Limit: 18 students
Add code required. Available as of October 29 in MGH 211.
Please note this class links up with GH 101 ‘Introduction to Global Health: Disparities, Determinants, Policies and Outcomes’. Students are encouraged, but not required, to enroll in both.
INFO 101 AE: Social Networking (SSc / NSc)
INFO 101 AE: Social Networking (SSc / NSc)
SLN 15124 (View UW registration info »)
Credits: 5
Limit: 23 students
JSIS 201 AH: The Making of the 21st Century (SSc)
JSIS 201 AH: The Making of the 21st Century (SSc)
SLN 15342 (View UW registration info »)
Email: migdal@uw.edu
Credits: 5
Limit: 20 students
COURSE FULL. Visit MGH 211 to be added to waitlist.
SIS 201 is intended to prepare students to think critically about the world and formulate their own ideas about important international issues. The course covers the major events and trends of the twentieth century, including the world wars and the Cold War, decolonization, democratization, and approaches to economic development; and current issues that stem from twentieth-century processes, such as globalization, failed states, the “war on terror,” and changes in the international distribution of power.
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
Learn to think critically about complex issues and identify connections between events
Write an analytical paper that formulates a causal argument about political or social phenomena
METHOD OF INSTRUCTION:
Lecture 3 times a week, plus two sections a week.
RECOMMENDED PREPARATION:
Reading a newspaper daily.
COURSE ASSIGNMENTS & GRADING:
Reading of 150-200 pages per week, several short papers and a longer research paper.
Several short papers, one research paper, class participation, final exam.
MATH 125 H: Honors Calculus with Analytical Geometry II (NSc)
MATH 125 H: Honors Calculus with Analytical Geometry II (NSc)
SLN 16287 (View UW registration info »)
Credits: 5
Limit: 55 students
Students must have completed Honors Math 124.
Students must register for section HA or HB. Check Time Schedule for day/time information.
MATH 135 A: Accelerated (Honors) Calculus (NSc)
MATH 135 A: Accelerated (Honors) Calculus (NSc)
SLN 16328 (View UW registration info »)
Office: 505C Padelford, Box 354350
Phone: 206 543-1724
Email: duchamp@math.washington.edu
Credits: 5
Limit: 35 students
Students must have completed Honors MATH 134.
MATH 335 A: Accelerated (Honors) Advanced Calculus (NSc)
MATH 335 A: Accelerated (Honors) Advanced Calculus (NSc)
SLN 16371 (View UW registration info »)
Office: C439 Padelford, Box 354350
Phone: 206 543-1161
Email: jamorrow@uw.edu
Credits: 5
Limit: 35 students
Students must have completed Honors MATH 334.
PHYS 122 B: Honors Electromagnetism and Oscillatory Motion (NSc)
PHYS 122 B: Honors Electromagnetism and Oscillatory Motion (NSc)
SLN 18236 (View UW registration info »)
Office: B478 Physics-Astronomy Bldg., Box 351560
Phone: 206 685-2988
Email: bulgac@uw.edu
Credits: 5
Limit: 66 students
Contact Prof. Bulgac (bulgac@phys.washington.edu) to register.
Special Topics (1)
HONORS-prefix courses
Honors 398 A: Experiencing Music: The Seattle Symphony (A&H)
Honors 398 A: Experiencing Music: The Seattle Symphony (A&H)
SLN 14747 (View UW registration info »)
Phone: 206 604-1831
Email: marini@uw.edu
Credits: 3, c/nc
Limit: 20 students
The concerts and dates are as follows (and note that students will be required to attend at least five of the six scheduled concerts; the bonus concert can be used as a make-up if necessary). The cost will be $12 per concert and each student will be asked to sign up for the Symphony’s Campus Club on line. We will collect funds on the first day of class. NOTE that we are still in the process of making arrangements about ticket purchases; feel free to contact Claudia Jensen (cjensen@uw.edu) if you have questions or concerns about paying for the tickets.
The concerts are as follows:
1. Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013 (Stravinskii, Suite from Pulcinella; Mendelssohn, Piano Concerto No. 1; Mozart, Symphony No. 39)
2. Tuesday, Jan. 22 (a piano recital by Nobuyuki Tsujii featuring Debussy and Chopin, held in the recital hall upstairs at Benaroya; this concert is still somewhat uncertain due to the smaller venue)
3. Thursday, Jan. 31 (Messiaen, Turangalîla Symphony, with a pre-concert gamelan performance and a presentation during the concert to explain this work; it uses an early electronic instrument called an ondes Martinot)
4. Thursday, Feb. 14 (Fauré, Suite from Pelléas et Mélisande; Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 21; Ravel, Schéhérazade; Szymanowski, Symphony 4)
Bonus Concert! Friday, Feb. 15 (this is an intimate late-night concert featuring a couple of very recent works and also a performance of the Schoenberg Pierrot Lunaire song cycle, for its 100th anniversary; the concert starts at 10 pm, in the lobby of the main hall, so it will be an up close and personal experience. We’ll discuss the specifics of this concert later.)
5. Thursday, Feb. 28 (early works by Mozart, including his Flute Concerto)
6. Thursday, March 14 (Elgar, Enigma Variations; Tippett, Ritual Dances from The Midsummer Marriage; Bruch, Violin Concerto No. 1)
There will be no final exam, although students will write a final short essay summarizing their experiences. All writing will be appropriate for the Honors portfolio.