Honors Course Archive
Course Archive for Autumn 2014
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 (2)
- Honors Social Sciences (3)
- Honors Interdisciplinary (6)
- HONORS 100/496 (4)
- Honors Electives (15)
- Special Topics (4)
Honors Arts & Humanities (3)
HONORS-prefix courses
Honors 210 A: Feminisms, Fictions, Fashions, and Fabrics: The Cultural Politics of Cloth (A&H, DIV)
Honors 210 A: Feminisms, Fictions, Fashions, and Fabrics: The Cultural Politics of Cloth (A&H, DIV)
SLN 15578 (View UW registration info »)
Email: jef9@uw.edu
Email: k8boyd@uw.edu
Credits: 5
Limit: 25 students
We will approach reading fiction, creating physical artifacts, multi-media presentations, film and museum visits in a way that seeks to emerge alternative feminist histories, labors and politics of the cloth we wear daily. To analyze and critically respond to the texts, this course will be taught in the art building so that we can create a physical artifacts out of cloth and textile processes. Students will work independently and collaboratively as we participate in the age old activist practice of community building through making a group textile piece.
Honors 210 B: Beyond Elementary Greek (A&H)
Honors 210 B: Beyond Elementary Greek (A&H)
SLN 22900 (View UW registration info »)
Email: jjc@uw.edu
Credits: 5
Limit: 5 students
Honors 240 A: Russian Crime Fiction (A&H)
Honors 240 A: Russian Crime Fiction (A&H)
SLN 22676 (View UW registration info »)
Office: A219 Padelford Hall, Box 354335
Phone: 206-543-6848
Email: galya@uw.edu
Credits: 5
Limit: 8 students
Honors Science (2)
HONORS-prefix courses
Honors 220 A: Storytelling in the Sciences (NSc)
Honors 220 A: Storytelling in the Sciences (NSc)
SLN 15579 (View UW registration info »)
Credits: 5
Limit: 20 students
The first set of stories will be drawn from Astronomy, Earth Science, and other fields that lend themselves to presentation in the UW’s digital planetarium. The remaining two story assignments allow students the freedom to choose the topic and media. Student’s will develop their digital storytelling skills through skill development assignments and work shopping their ideas in class.
Honors 220 B: Public Policy Using A Benefit-Cost Analysis Approach (NSc)
Honors 220 B: Public Policy Using A Benefit-Cost Analysis Approach (NSc)
SLN 15580 (View UW registration info »)
Office: Rm 226 Parrington Hall, Box 353055
Phone: 206 616-5470
Email: zerbe@uw.edu
Credits: 5
Limit: 25 students
Grades:
The grades will be based on problem sets, class discussion, a mid-term and a team paper. The problems sets are take-home open book exercises. You may confer on these problems with the grader and with fellow students but cannot copy answers from others. Problem sets will be 30% of grade , the mid-term 20% and the paper 50%. A copy of some of the papers you can critique will be available in Odegaard Library. You are not limited to these papers. They are primarily from Brent’s (editor). The difficulty of the reading materials is variable but is in any event at professional level.
Textbooks:
There is one required textbook and one recommended:
1. Required R. Zerbe and D. Dively, Benefit Cost Analysis in Theory and Practice, Harper Collins, 1994. (This is out of print but a copy is available from the University Bookstore or on-line on the course website.
2. There will be a reading packet, which is also available from the University Bookstore.
Websites:
The course website is: https://catalysttools.washington.edu/workspace/evansas/1845
A web site that did have free access to Crystal Ball is: http://www.montecarlito.com/
Honors Social Sciences (3)
HONORS-prefix courses
Honors 230 A: Geographies of Peace and Violence: Critical Examinations of Power, Conflict, and Structural Inequalities (SSc, DIV)
Honors 230 A: Geographies of Peace and Violence: Critical Examinations of Power, Conflict, and Structural Inequalities (SSc, DIV)
SLN 15582 (View UW registration info »)
Email: amer@uw.edu
Credits: 5
Limit: 35 students
Over the course of the quarter, students will be expected to make connections between the theories and empirical examples we engage, and thus to map and make sense of the linkages between various forms of violence and peace at different scales and sites. Weekly writing assignments will be used to draw out students’ critical reflection, and class-time will be discussion driven. Most students in the class will participate in service learning. Those who are not able to do service will undertake research on a peace or anti-violence initiative of their choice, preferably one with a Seattle connection so that they can include a site visit or interview in their research. Final class projects will revolve around the service or research work and students will present their findings and reflections in the last weeks of the quarter. Students will be required to include an artifact and annotation from this project in their Honors Portfolios, and thus have the opportunity to develop this with peer and instructor support.
In their weekly assignments, quarter-long projects, and final presentations, students are encouraged to express their ideas creatively and in a manner that captures their own voice (for example, through the use of art, music, film, creative writing and digital platforms).
NOTE – UPDATE:
In preparation for our fall course, please read George Orwell’s 1984. Even if you have read the book in the past, I ask that you read it again specifically for this course. During our study of ‘Geographies of Peace and Violence’ this autumn, we will examine how ‘peace’ and ‘violence’ are deployed as ideas within accounts of historical and contemporary events, as well as the complex meanings assigned to these terms within varying contexts. Please read 1984 with a critical eye to the different roles that peace and violence play in Orwell’s story. What meanings are assigned to the terms? How does Orwell craft his story to reveal dynamics of violence that are otherwise unspoken or less visible? How are these two concepts/terms of peace and violence used by the government in Orwell’s fictional account? Do you see any parallels in our contemporary world? How does Orwell’s account complicate the notion that peace is necessarily an antidote to, or the antithesis of, violence?
Prior to our first day of class (Thurs. Sept. 25th), please read the book and take some notes on the questions above. During our first week of class, you will be given a short writing assignment asking you to reflect on peace & violence in Orwell’s story and to begin connecting this with our course themes.
Honors 230 B: Rhetoric and Debate: race, class, gender and public debate (SSc, DIV)
Honors 230 B: Rhetoric and Debate: race, class, gender and public debate (SSc, DIV)
SLN 15583 (View UW registration info »)
Credits: 5
Limit: 30 students
Honors 230 C: Understanding and Combating Human Trafficking (SSc, DIV)
Honors 230 C: Understanding and Combating Human Trafficking (SSc, DIV)
SLN 15584 (View UW registration info »)
Office: 102 Communications Bldg, Box 353740
Phone: 543-4837
Email: kfoot@uw.edu
Credits: 5
Limit: 30 students
These aims will be accomplished through a) reading, written analyses, and in-class discussions of relevant texts produced by concerned government bodies and nongovernmental organizations as well as scholars; b) visits by local experts representing local and/or national law enforcement, providers of services to trafficking victims, and community organizers; c) written analyses of case studies and a research paper on a particular aspect of the problem of human trafficking and/or efforts to combat it; d) completion of an experiential learning/service learning assignment which will require a total of about 20 hours of volunteer work with Seattle Against Slavery during the last five weeks of the course. Most of this experiential/service learning will take place in the U District; no travel will be necessary. There will be a few quizzes on key terms and concepts, but no midterm nor final exam.
Honors Interdisciplinary (6)
HONORS-prefix courses
Honors 205 A: What We Know & How We Know It (C)
Honors 205 A: What We Know & How We Know It (C)
SLN 15577 (View UW registration info »)
Email: frances@francesmccue.com
Credits: 5
Limit: 22 students
This course satisfies BOTH Honors Interdisciplinary AND UW's Composition requirements.
Expectations for students include: attending all classes with the (substantial) assigned readings completed; contributing to small group presentations; considering one’s own belief systems and the belief systems in a respectful and curious manner; being willing to experiment in writing styles and genres. In the end, students should be active questioning learners and show evidence of this engagement.
Goals for the course include: learning how to negotiate and navigate with different ways of knowing; developing empathic and creative imagination; enhancing student writing; creating models for civic dialogue; and articulating individual learning.
The course will connect often-separated worlds of research and practice, university and “real world” expertise, and writing and dialogic education.
This course is the introduction to a year-long sequence-in the winter quarter, the course topic will be “Teaching What We Know” and in the spring, the class will culminate in internships throughout the area. Enrollment in all three terms is not required.
Honors 345 A: Pilgrimages and Idle Travels: Travel Writing and Memoir (C)
Honors 345 A: Pilgrimages and Idle Travels: Travel Writing and Memoir (C)
SLN 15588 (View UW registration info »)
Email: frances@francesmccue.com
Credits: 5
Limit: 22 students
Honors 392 A: The Good Life (SSc / NSc)
Honors 392 A: The Good Life (SSc / NSc)
SLN 15589 (View UW registration info »)
Credits: 5
Limit: 20 students
Honors 394 A: Philosophy of Gender in Western Thought (A&H / SSc, DIV)
Honors 394 A: Philosophy of Gender in Western Thought (A&H / SSc, DIV)
SLN 15590 (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 dominant philosophical paradigms in western thought To assess such paradigms critically, especially from feminist perspectives
– To become familiar with concepts of major thinkers regarding gender, “woman” and “man,”
– To analyze the social and metaphysical contexts for these definitions
– To develop the student’s ability to analyze and formulate theory
– To facilitate the thoughtful verbal and written expression of knowledge gained this term, including material suitable for your portfolios
REQUIRED READINGS
Riane Eisler, The Chalice and the Blade
Plato, The Republic
The Bible (A version of your choice)
Woman in Western Thought (Reading Packet #1)
Reading Packet #2
(Both Reading Packets available at Professional Copy, 42nd & 15th Ave NE)
COURSE REQUIREMENTS
– Class Participation (30%): Students are expected to be at all class sessions and to be prepared for class discussion. This means studying the readings for the unit scheduled and coming to class with ideas to share. *Acceptable participation includes both thoughtful comments and active, respectful listening, as well as an appropriate balance between them.* One absence is permitted without affecting your participation grade.
– Two Take-home essay assignments (20% each)
– Group Project (15%)
– Final Exam (15%): An in-class comprehensive exam
– Class Partner: Someone with whom you exchange contact information.
Honors 394 B: Puget Sounds: Music History, Criticism, and Archiving in the Pacific NW (A&H / SSc)
Honors 394 B: Puget Sounds: Music History, Criticism, and Archiving in the Pacific NW (A&H / SSc)
SLN 15591 (View UW registration info »)
Office: Suzzallo Library 370A, Box 352900
Phone: 206 616-1210
Email: vallier@uw.edu
Credits: 5
Limit: 30 students
This class is an interdisciplinary mix, one that blends elements of ethnomusicology, music history/criticism, and archival studies. In it you will learn about the history of music in the Puget Sound region, become familiar with approaches to music criticism, and develop techniques for building your own music collection. At the core of the class is a growing archive of regional music recordings held by the UW Libraries. Called Puget Sounds, this archive documents music across genres, from folk to rock, jazz to classical, and includes both published and unpublished recordings (e.g., the Crocodile Cafe Collection, Vera Project Collection, more…). By the end quarter you will make contributions to the Puget Sounds Archive by way of creating new collections through original fieldwork and/or archiving legacy music collections. Student goals include…
• Developing a broader knowledge and appreciation of the plurality of music in the greater Seattle region;
• Forming a nuanced and critically informed understanding of what we mean by the term music;
• Building an understanding of archival and ethnomusicological issues and techniques, particularly as they apply to the collection, preservation, and interpretation of music;
• Building confidence with contributing to discussions in a seminar type setting;
• Learning how to make live field recordings.
No formal music training or knowledge is necessary. Everyone is welcome.
(Website from 2012 version of the course is available here: guides.lib.washington.edu/honors394b)
Honors 394 C: Universal and Culture Specific Aspects of Meaning (A&H / SSc)
Honors 394 C: Universal and Culture Specific Aspects of Meaning (A&H / SSc)
SLN 15592 (View UW registration info »)
Office: Padelford A217, Box 354335
Phone: 206-543-7691
Email: dziwirek@uw.edu
Credits: 5
Limit: 30 students
For more about this course, view this video course description from Prof Dziwirek:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/nia8ka7zqx66a2e/Slavic_Katarzyna_Aut14.mp4?n=45587939
HONORS 100/496 (4)
Honors Electives (15)
Other Honors courses (without HONORS-prefix)
ARCH 350 D: Architecture of the Ancient World (A&H)
ARCH 350 D: Architecture of the Ancient World (A&H)
SLN 10342 (View UW registration info »)
Credits: 5
Limit: 20 students
ADD CODE REQUIRED FOR BOTH LAB AND LECTURE. Available in MGH 211 starting May 5.
ART 190 A: Introduction to Drawing (A&H)
ART 190 A: Introduction to Drawing (A&H)
SLN 10430 (View UW registration info »)
Email: jonathanahapp@gmail.com
Credits: 5
Limit: 20 students
**Remaining spaces reserved for incoming freshmen. Visit MGH 211 to be placed on waitlist.**
CHEM 145 A: Honors General Chemistry (NSc)
CHEM 145 A: Honors General Chemistry (NSc)
SLN 12132 (View UW registration info »)
Office: 305A Bagley Hall, Box 351700
Phone: 206 543-0578
Email: rein@chem.washington.edu
Credits: 5
Limit: 96 students
1) Take a placement test through Office of Educational Assessment, 440 Schmitz Hall, 206.543.1170, http://www.washington.edu/oea/testctr.htm OR use AP (3,4,5) or IB (5,6,7) scores as placement.
2) Contact the Chemistry advisers: Mary Harty or Lani Stone, 206.543.1610 or Bagley Hall 303.
Must also register for CHEM 145 AA, AB or AC.
CHEM 335 A: Honors Organic Chemistry (NSc)
CHEM 335 A: Honors Organic Chemistry (NSc)
SLN 12243 (View UW registration info »)
Credits: 4
Limit: 70 students
Prerequisite: either CHEM 155 or CHEM 162
CHEM 475 A: Honors Physical Chemistry (NSc)
CHEM 475 A: Honors Physical Chemistry (NSc)
SLN 12260 (View UW registration info »)
Credits: 3
Limit: 12 students
CSE 142: Computer Programming I (NSc)
CSE 142: Computer Programming I (NSc)
SLN ?
Email: ln@cs.washington.edu
Credits: 4
Limit: 30 students
1. CSE 142 lecture A or B
2. corresponding CSE 142 section
3. CSE 390 H
AND
4. CSE 390 HA
See Time Schedule for course day, time and SLN for both lecture and CSE 390.
CSE 143: Computer Programming II (NSc)
CSE 143: Computer Programming II (NSc)
SLN ?
Email: NULL
Credits: 5
Limit: 50 students
1. CSE 143 A
2. corresponding CSE 143 section (AA – AQ)
3. CSE 390 H
AND
4. CSE 390 HB / OR / CSE 390 HE
See Time Schedule for course day, time and SLN for both lecture and CSE 390.
DXARTS 200 AA: Digital Art and New Media: History, Theory, and Practice (A&H)
DXARTS 200 AA: Digital Art and New Media: History, Theory, and Practice (A&H)
SLN 13275 (View UW registration info »)
Credits: 5
Limit: 30 students
Students must also register for DXARTS 200 A (lecture).
We will examine various technologies, such as electric light, xerography, rapid prototyping, digital computing, telecommunications, the Web, virtual reality, and GPS in terms of their specific characteristics as media. We will equally consider how technologies cannot be separated from the way people use them, the behaviors that emerge, and the dreams (and fears) embedded in them.
Dr. Shanken’s book, Art and Electronic Media (available via course site) will be the course text. Our survey of the field will include writings by curators, theorists, engineers, and artists, and will combine historic primary texts and current literature. In order to foreground conceptual continuities across media, periods, genres and forms, we will take a thematic approach to several topical streams:
* Motion, Duration, Illumination * Coded Form and Electronic Production * Charged Environments * Networks, Surveillance, Culture Jamming * Bodies, Surrogates, Emergent Systems * Simulations and Simulacra * Exhibitions, Institutions, Communities, Collaborations
Individual examples and the streams they represent will be subjected to close readings. Students will acquire fluency with methods from art history, media-theory, and media-archaeology, and learn how to apply these methods, traditions, and principles to the analysis of visual culture.
Throughout the course, students will undertake independent research to write a weekly journal entry and will also respond to each others’ writings using the Art and Electronic Media Online Companion (AEM-OC) .
For more about the course, visit: http://bit.ly/dxarts200f2014
ENGL 281 A: Intermediate Expository Writing (C)
ENGL 281 A: Intermediate Expository Writing (C)
SLN 14070 (View UW registration info »)
Credits: 5
Limit: 22 students
ADD CODE REQUIRED. Available in MGH 211 as of May 5.
JSIS 200 AI: States and Capitalism: The Origins of the Modern Global System (SSc)
JSIS 200 AI: States and Capitalism: The Origins of the Modern Global System (SSc)
SLN 16349 (View UW registration info »)
Credits: 5
Limit: 22 students
ADD CODE REQUIRED. Available in MGH 211 as of May 5.
Law 100 H: Introduction to American Law (SSc)
Law 100 H: Introduction to American Law (SSc)
SLN 22619 (View UW registration info »)
Credits: 5
Limit: 25 students
MATH 124 H: Honors Calculus with Analytical Geometry (NSc)
MATH 124 H: Honors Calculus with Analytical Geometry (NSc)
SLN 17461 (View UW registration info »)
Credits: 5
Limit: 60 students
Students must also register for quiz section HA or HB; see time schedule for more information.
MATH 134 A: Accelerated (Honors) Calculus (NSc)
MATH 134 A: Accelerated (Honors) Calculus (NSc)
SLN 17563 (View UW registration info »)
Credits: 5
Limit: 30 students
MATH 334 A: Accelerated Honors Advanced Calculus (NSc)
MATH 334 A: Accelerated Honors Advanced Calculus (NSc)
SLN 17617 (View UW registration info »)
Credits: 5
Limit: 40 students
PHYS 121 B: Honors Physics: Mechanics (NSc)
PHYS 121 B: Honors Physics: Mechanics (NSc)
SLN 19521 (View UW registration info »)
Office: C529 Physics-Astonomy Bldg, Box 354290
Phone: 616-2875
Email: agarcia3@uw.edu
Credits: 5
Limit: 66 students
Students must also sign up for an Honors tutorial section and a lab.
Email margot@phys.washington.edu to enroll.
Special Topics (4)
HONORS-prefix courses
Honors 350 B: Driving Education Change (SSc)
Honors 350 B: Driving Education Change (SSc)
SLN 22610 (View UW registration info »)
Email: jeanne.contardo@gmail.com
Credits: 2, c/nc
Limit: 18 students
Readings will include strategic plans from non-profit entities engaged in education reform, regional and state dashboards and report cards, materials on the Common Core, peer reviewed journal articles on Collective Impact, and contemporary news sources (newspapers and magazine articles, blogs, etc).
Honors 397 A: Honors 100 Peer Education Seminar (SSc)
Honors 397 A: Honors 100 Peer Education Seminar (SSc)
SLN 15593 (View UW registration info »)
Office: 211 Mary Gates Hall, Box 352800
Phone: 221-6074
Email: aleym@uw.edu
Office: MGH 211, Box 352800
Phone: 206.221.6131
Email: bbkelly@uw.edu
Office: MGH 211, Box 352800
Phone: 205 543-7444
Email: laurah13@uw.edu
Credits: 1, c/nc
Limit: 25 students
Monday PEs, please register for Honors 397 AA as well. Tuesday PEs, please register for Honors 397 AB.
Honors 397 B: Leadership Towards a Caring Community--Omoiyari no aru kokusai shakai ni mukete no ridashippu (SSc)
Honors 397 B: Leadership Towards a Caring Community–Omoiyari no aru kokusai shakai ni mukete no ridashippu (SSc)
SLN 23106 (View UW registration info »)
Office: 220 Mary Gates Hall, Box 352800
Phone: 206 616-7175
Email: edtaylor@uw.edu
Credits: 1
Limit: 12 students
NOTE: this seminar does NOT fulfill any Interdisciplinary Honors Core course requirements, as it is only 1 credit.
The seminar aims to foster dialogue among future leaders across areas of study. The seminar will bring students together to discuss leadership, citizenship, historical and current issues in bilateral relations, as well as issues reaching beyond our two countries. Students will engage in serious conversation along with shared cultural experiences and to nurture lifelong friendships. The overall goal of the seminar is to take steps toward the formation of leadership for a more caring global community– Omoiyari no aru kokusai shakai ni mukete no ridashippu.
More at http://depts.washington.edu/uwhonors/international/waseda/
Honors 398 A: So...tell me about yourself! (A&H)
Honors 398 A: So…tell me about yourself! (A&H)
SLN 22656 (View UW registration info »)
Office: 205 Engineering Annex, Box 352183
Phone: 206 616-8242
Email: kmobrand@uw.edu
Credits: 1, c/nc
Limit: 12 students
NOTE: This seminar does NOT fulfill any Interdisciplinary Honors Core course requirements, as it is only 1 credit.
In this studio seminar, you will have multiple opportunities to participate in workshops and to practice different speaking genres-from elevator pitches to formal presentations. Bring content about you and your accomplishments, and learn to present it effectively!