Honors Course Archive
Course Archive for Autumn 2015
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 (6)
- Honors Science (2)
- Honors Social Sciences (1)
- Honors Interdisciplinary (4)
- HONORS 100/496 (4)
- Honors Electives (10)
- Study Abroad (1)
- Special Topics (5)
Honors Arts & Humanities (6)
HONORS-prefix courses
Honors 210 A: Unmaking and Making: The Politics of Contemporary Textile Art (A&H)
Honors 210 A: Unmaking and Making: The Politics of Contemporary Textile Art (A&H)
SLN 15545 (View UW registration info »)
Email: jef9@uw.edu
Credits: 5
Limit: 20 students
This course will introduce students to processes such as embroidery, knitting, applique and quilting to create one piece throughout the quarter. This final piece will be made from fabric and will be an accumulation of the different textile processes and a record of the researching, making and interacting during in this course.
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: Japanese-Language Literature in the Americas (A&H, DIV)
Honors 210 B: Japanese-Language Literature in the Americas (A&H, DIV)
SLN 15546 (View UW registration info »)
Office: Gowen 248, Box 353521
Phone: 206-543-4356
Email: tmack@uw.edu
Credits: 5
Limit: 30 students
All readings are in English translation. No Japanese language ability is required or expected.
Honors 210 C: Staying Local, Going Global: Worldwide Appropriations of Shakespeare in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (A&H)
Honors 210 C: Staying Local, Going Global: Worldwide Appropriations of Shakespeare in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (A&H)
SLN 15547 (View UW registration info »)
Credits: 5
Limit: 25 students
Assignments and Evaluations:
·Class participation: 20%
·4 Short written responses to films/documentaries: 20%
·An outline for the final paper: 10%
·A final paper: 30%
·A group project: 20%
HONORS 210 D: Beyond Elementary Greek (A&H)
HONORS 210 D: Beyond Elementary Greek (A&H)
SLN 22874 (View UW registration info »)
Email: jjc@uw.edu
Credits: 5
Limit: 10 students
Students enrolling in this special offering will attend GREEK 101A, Elementary Greek. Additionally, students will meet in a small section to further explore the learning process required for dealing with an ancient inflected language, teasing out the metacognitive process that lies at the heart of the Honors curriculum. Small section meetings will be held with former Honors Director Dr. James Clauss of the Classics Department.
Honors 240 A: Big Book (A&H)
Honors 240 A: Big Book (A&H)
SLN 15553 (View UW registration info »)
Office: A219 Padelford Hall, Box 354335
Phone: 206-543-6848
Email: galya@uw.edu
Credits: 5
Limit: 15 students
Honors 240 B: American Sabor: Latinos in U.S. Popular Music (A&H, DIV)
Honors 240 B: American Sabor: Latinos in U.S. Popular Music (A&H, DIV)
SLN 15554 (View UW registration info »)
Email: marisolbmd1@yahoo.com
Credits: 5
Limit: 30 students
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Latino contributions to popular music in the United States have too often been relegated to the margins of a narrative dominated by African and European Americans-an overly black and white view of our musical history. Latin music is often portrayed as an exotic resource for “American” musicians, as suggested by pianist Jelly Roll Morton’s reference to “the Latin Tinge.” This course turns that phrase and that perspective on its head. “American Sabor” addresses problems of cultural representation that concern an increasingly visible and influential community in the U.S. We will document the roles of U.S. Latino musicians as interpreters of Latin American genres. We will also highlight their roles as innovators within genres normally considered indigenous to the U.S., such as rock and roll, R & B, jazz, country/western, and hip hop. The course distinguishes regional centers of Latino population and music production-exploring unique histories,
artists, and musical styles. At the same time it draws out broader patterns of boundary crossing, language, social struggle, generational difference, racial/ethnic/class/gender
identification, and other factors that shape the experiences of U.S. Latinos everywhere.
COURSE GOALS
The goals of this course include learning to distinguish a variety of music styles and develop a rudimentary vocabulary for describing musical sounds and instruments; learning about the histories of specific U.S. Latinos and their music: learning about the ways Latino musicians have shaped U.S. popular music generally; and considering a variety of social and historical factors to which music-making in U.S. Latino communities responds, including immigration and migration, racism, gender inequality, the music industry and media generally, and changing U.S. identity politics.
Honors Science (2)
HONORS-prefix courses
Honors 220 A: Storytelling in the Sciences (NSc)
Honors 220 A: Storytelling in the Sciences (NSc)
SLN 15548 (View UW registration info »)
Credits: 5
Limit: 28 students
This class is centered around three presentations. The planetarium presentation is intended to develop the student’s storytelling skills, with the suggested subject being the origin myth of a constellation. The remaining two presentations are scientific in nature, and draw from the student’s interests in the natural world. Students will work closely in small groups as they develop their presentations, and the best (by peer evaluation) will be invited to present in front of the entire class.
Honors 220 B: Neuroscience of Sex (NSc)
Honors 220 B: Neuroscience of Sex (NSc)
SLN 15549 (View UW registration info »)
Office: 750 Republican St, Building E, Suite E510, Box 359608
Phone: 206 221-3262
Email: tsexton@uw.edu
Credits: 5
Limit: 30 students
Honors Social Sciences (1)
HONORS-prefix courses
Honors 230 A: Leadership, Democracy, and a More Thoughtful Public (SSc)
Honors 230 A: Leadership, Democracy, and a More Thoughtful Public (SSc)
SLN 15551 (View UW registration info »)
Credits: 5
Limit: 30 students
1. Leadership always has a political context; leadership in a democracy is necessarily different than leadership in other political regimes.
2. Leadership involves at its base the creation of a persuaded audience, but, more than persuasion, involves creating and sustaining a more thoughtful public, a public capable of rising above itself.
3. A more thoughtful public must not only be created and sustained, but, given that things inevitably fall apart, must be recovered and reconstituted.
4. Distinctions must be made in the leadership functions of (a) initiating, (b) sustaining, and c) recovering and reconstituting. What it takes for leader to sustain isn’t quite the same as what it takes to initiate, and neither of these approach what it takes to recover and reconstitute when the organization or regime falls apart.
5. Good leadership involves ethical and effective information seeking. A leader must have knowledge of what must be done, knowledge of what it takes to persuade others of what must be done (and, in persuading, creating a more thoughtful public), and knowledge of how an audience/public will respond. Only with a thorough understanding of the principles, strategies, and costs of information seeking will one be able to engage in ethical and effective leadership.
Sources of texts will include Tocqueville, Orwell, Machiavelli, Bacon, Dostoevsky, and Sophocles, as well as contemporary authors.
Method of instruction: close reading of texts, coupled with short papers on texts, plus a longer (8-10) synthesis paper; small and large group discussions with each other and visiting scholars/practitioners.
Honors Interdisciplinary (4)
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 15544 (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 392 A: Person/Planet Politics: Being Human on a New Earth (SSc / NSc)
Honors 392 A: Person/Planet Politics: Being Human on a New Earth (SSc / NSc)
SLN 15558 (View UW registration info »)
Office: 33 Gowen, Box 353530
Phone: (206) 685-3694
Email: litfin@uw.edu
Credits: 5
Limit: 20 students
• It was a colossal accident.
• It is a consequence of the everyday life choices of over seven billion people.
• These choices are strongly driven by an amalgamation of psychological and institutional forces with deep historical and even biological roots.
• The everyday actions of a few of us are far greater drivers than those of most us, but our lower-impact members are quickly adopting the habits of the affluent.
Taken alone, each of these factors presents a conundrum; taken together, they cry out for deep inquiry into the peculiar place of the “anthros” in the scheme of things. The dawning of the Anthropocene seems to compel us to ask ourselves not only, “What on Earth are we doing?” but even more fundamentally, “What on Earth are we?” If nothing else, the new geological era highlights our species’ paradoxical relationship to the rest of creation. While these questions can be illuminated by the natural sciences, social sciences and humanities, so too can we investigate them through personal and interpersonal introspection. For our complicity in the Anthropocene implies that each of us must answer the question, “Who am I in relation to this?” The very magnitude of the problem and its undeniable biophysical dimensions tend to transfix our gaze outwardly, yet coming to understand the “anthros” must surely also entail looking within.
The premise of this course is that cognition will be necessary but not sufficient on addressing the global challenges of the 21st century. Rather than studying such issues as climate change, the extinction crisis, world food challenges, and global justice as happening only “out there,” we will view them as also happening “in here” by continually asking ourselves, “Who am in relation to this?” This holistic approach involves integrating cognitive learning with affective and somatic awareness through reflective and contemplative exercises and community.
Course requirements will include:
• Intensive reading on the human and biophysical dimensions of the Anthropocene
• Active participation in seminar discussions
• A daily reflective or contemplative practice
• Writing in both a private journal and a public blog
• Bi-weekly meetings with your “study buddy”
• A class-wide community service project
• A final creative project (paper, video, performance, multi-media) addressing the question, “Who am I in the Anthropocene?”
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 15559 (View UW registration info »)
Office: B-110 Padelford, Box 354345
Phone: (206) 543-6900
Email: cbright@uw.edu
Credits: 5
Limit: 25 students
An exploration and critique of the dominant themes and paradigms which have shaped Western European thought, with special focus on concepts of “woman” and “man.” Theories of knowledge and reality will also be covered. Feminist perspectives will be studied along with more traditional viewpoints.
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 the concepts of major thinkers regarding “woman” and “man”
-To analyze the social and metaphysical contexts for these concepts
-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 for portfolios)
Honors 394 B: AfroLatinxAmerica (A&H / SSc, DIV)
Honors 394 B: AfroLatinxAmerica (A&H / SSc, DIV)
SLN 22511 (View UW registration info »)
Email: imrodrig@uw.edu
Credits: 5
Limit: 25 students
We will investigate the violences, inequities, and erasures embedded in key historical processes unleashed particularly by but not exclusive to Spanish and Portuguese colonial endeavors, decolonization efforts, and processes of nation-state formation. Most importantly, we will examine how Afro-descendent communities creatively navigated the treacherous political and economic landscapes of the Americas yesterday and today as well as how they envision a more just future. We will look at the production of blackness as a relational process overlapping, intersecting, and colliding with other formations of race as well as gender, sexuality, class, age, region/nationality, and religion, among others.
The ultimate aim is to reveal the multiplicity of Africanidades and Negritudes populating our Americas.
The course will include a wide array of texts including historical monographs, memoirs, fiction writing, anthropological pieces, and works based on oral interviews.
Assignments include in-class participation and attendance, weekly Go-Post reflections and commentaries, a set of short analytical essays to be included in the production of a class newsletter, and participation in a selection of the workshops and dialogues in the 5-week event series MAS ORGULLO sponsored by various UW units and MAS (Movimiento AfroLatino Seattle).
HONORS 100/496 (4)
Honors Electives (10)
Other Honors courses (without HONORS-prefix)
Art 190 E: Introduction to Drawing (A&H)
Art 190 E: Introduction to Drawing (A&H)
SLN 10432 (View UW registration info »)
Email: jonathanahapp@gmail.com
Credits: 5
Limit: 20 students
Chem 145 A: Honors General Chemistry (NSc)
Chem 145 A: Honors General Chemistry (NSc)
SLN 12159 (View UW registration info »)
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, AC or AD.
Chem 335 A: Honors Organic Chemistry (NSc)
Chem 335 A: Honors Organic Chemistry (NSc)
SLN 12266 (View UW registration info »)
Credits: 5
Limit: 70 students
Prerequisite: either CHEM 155 or CHEM 162
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
To earn Honors credit, students must register for:
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 ?
Credits: 5
To earn Honors credit, students must register for:
1. CSE 143 A
2. corresponding CSE 143 section (AA – AV)
3. CSE 390 H
AND
4. CSE 390 HB/C/D (TBA)
See Time Schedule for course day, time and SLN for both lecture and CSE 390.
L ARCH 553: History of Modern Landscape Architecture
L ARCH 553: History of Modern Landscape Architecture
SLN 22348 (View UW registration info »)
Office: 348F Gould Hall, Box 355734
Phone: 206 685-2523
Email: tway@uw.edu
Credits: 5
Limit: 10 students
This course will count as 5 credits toward the 15 credit maximum allowed for "Honors coursework by contract" (this includes ad hoc coursework, HONORS 499 credits and/or graduate level courses).
Law 100 H: Intro to American Law (SSc)
Law 100 H: Intro to American Law (SSc)
SLN 22230 (View UW registration info »)
Credits: 5
Limit: 25 students
Math 134 A: Accelerated (Honors) Calculus (NSc)
Math 134 A: Accelerated (Honors) Calculus (NSc)
SLN 17392 (View UW registration info »)
Credits: 5
Limit: 30 students
Math 334: Accelerated Honors Advanced Calculus (NSc)
Math 334: Accelerated Honors Advanced Calculus (NSc)
SLN 17447 (View UW registration info »)
Credits: 5
Limit: 40 students
Phys 121 B: Honors Physics: Mechanics (NSc)
Phys 121 B: Honors Physics: Mechanics (NSc)
SLN 19351 (View UW registration info »)
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.
Study Abroad (1)
HONORS-prefix courses
Honors 384 A: Your Study Abroad Experience Continued Back Home (A&H / SSc)
Honors 384 A: Your Study Abroad Experience Continued Back Home (A&H / SSc)
SLN 15557 (View UW registration info »)
Email: anu@uw.edu
Credits: 3
Limit: 13 students
Required for those returning from the Summer 2015 Honors/CHID study abroad program in Bangalore.
If you are enrolled in the Bangalore Study Abroad Program, please visit MGH 211 starting May 4, for an add code. It is important you register before June 22 to ensure your spot.
Starting June 22, no add code is required.
Special Topics (5)
HONORS-prefix courses
Honors 397 A: Honors 100 Peer Educator Seminar (SSc)
Honors 397 A: Honors 100 Peer Educator Seminar (SSc)
SLN 15560 (View UW registration info »)
Office: MGH 211, Box 352800
Phone: 205 543-7444
Email: laurah13@uw.edu
Credits: 1/2, c/nc
Monday PEs, please register for Honors 397 AA as well. Tuesday PEs, please register for Honors 397 AB.
Honors 397 B: Leadership Toward a Caring Global Community (SSc, DIV)
Honors 397 B: Leadership Toward a Caring Global Community (SSc, DIV)
SLN 15563 (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 seeks 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.
Honors 397 C: Introduction to International Business (SSc)
Honors 397 C: Introduction to International Business (SSc)
SLN 22133 (View UW registration info »)
Email: NULL
Credits: 1, c/nc
Limit: 25 students
In the first half of the course I will provide short lectures and discuss some materials/ideas on international business. No previous knowledge about business or economics is necessary.
Further, there will be no exams or papers. However, participants will be expected to contribute to the class discussion. I will ask you to complete a group work presentation in the second half of the class. Here is an
example of the presentation topic: “Suppose you start up your own business in a country outside of the US. What should you do in order to maximize the profits from your business in that
country?” Class-participation (not just attendance) and the uniqueness of the group work presentation are important for the final evaluation.
Honors 397 D: Out of Eden: exploring the consequences of human polygamy (SSc)
Honors 397 D: Out of Eden: exploring the consequences of human polygamy (SSc)
SLN 22618 (View UW registration info »)
Credits: 1, c/nc
Limit: 15 students
Honors 398 A: Presenting Your Skills and Accomplishments Effectively (A&H)
Honors 398 A: Presenting Your Skills and Accomplishments Effectively (A&H)
SLN 22512 (View UW registration info »)
Office: 205 Engineering Annex, Box 352183
Phone: 206 616-8242
Email: kmobrand@uw.edu
Credits: 1, c/nc
Limit: 18 students
your peers. You will also gain experience evaluating your own presentations and providing feedback to peers on theirs. You will also receive instructor feedback aimed at helping you improve your skills and prepare for future speaking opportunities.
Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:
-Create and organize presentation content for a given audience and situation
-Design visual aids that complement and enhance the oral message
-Deliver presentations effectively, with and without visual aids, and within a specific time limit
-Manage-and leverage-anxiety that can accompany oral presentation
-Engage in question-and-answer sessions, as both speaker and audience member
-Listen attentively to peers’ presentations and provide meaningful feedback