Honors Course Archive
Course Archive for Spring 2017
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 (4)
- Honors Science (2)
- Honors Social Sciences (2)
- Honors Interdisciplinary (7)
- HONORS 100/496 (2)
- Honors Electives (11)
- Special Topics (4)
Honors Arts & Humanities (4)
HONORS-prefix courses
HONORS 212 A: Nabokov (A&H)
HONORS 212 A: Nabokov (A&H)
SLN 14933 (View UW registration info »)
Office: A219 Padelford Hall, Box 354335
Phone: 206-543-6848
Email: galya@uw.edu
Credits: 5
Limit: 20 students
HONORS 212 B: Many RÄmÄyanas (A&H, DIV)
HONORS 212 B: Many RÄmÄyanas (A&H, DIV)
SLN 14934 (View UW registration info »)
Email: hpauwels@uw.edu
Credits: 5
Limit: 25 students
HONORS 212 C: lovework: an unfinished syllabus (A&H, DIV)
HONORS 212 C: lovework: an unfinished syllabus (A&H, DIV)
SLN 14937 (View UW registration info »)
Office: Padelford B110, Box 354345
Phone: 206 543-6900
Email: pembina@uw.edu
Credits: 5
Limit: 25 students
We will vision possible logic trajectories of love, or lack thereof, individually and societally based on what we discover while learning through our explorations.
We will explore:
o ways in which love is expressed by human people
o words and metaphors associated with love in English and other languages
o where love is placed in different philosophical and scholarly schema
o historical concepts and discourses regarding human love
o how love can be a force for social action
o what sorts of actions are attributed to human love
o human discourses on love about non-human love
HONORS 212 D: Revolutionary Cinema: Eisenstein, Vertov, Pudovkin (A&H)
HONORS 212 D: Revolutionary Cinema: Eisenstein, Vertov, Pudovkin (A&H)
SLN 21549 (View UW registration info »)
Office: M256 Smith Hall, Box 353580
Phone: 543-7580
Email: jos23@uw.edu
Credits: 5
– writing a longer midterm paper
– attending office hours
– writing a longer, more extensive final paper
Honors Science (2)
HONORS-prefix courses
HONORS 222 A: HIV AND AIDS: Issues and Challenges (NSc, DIV)
HONORS 222 A: HIV AND AIDS: Issues and Challenges (NSc, DIV)
SLN 14938 (View UW registration info »)
Credits: 5
Limit: 30 students
Students will be required to write a 15 page research paper focused on the Sustainable Development Goals, set in 2015 (http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/) to be achieved by 2030. Students will choose a lower or middle-income country and describe what their country’s Health Goal is, and how it applies to the in-country AIDS epidemic. As part of SDGs, countries have committed to a 90-90-90 target for their AIDS epidemics. Students will summarize the current in-country AIDS epidemic in terms of its epidemiology (disease transmission and spread) and compare it to the epidemic in that country in 2000. Students will describe in-country HIV/AIDS evidence-based prevention and treatment (medical/clinical and/or behavioral), and social or economic programs that were designed to reduce the in-country AIDS epidemic. Students will then document the evidence on how their country is progressing in its 90-90-90 goals, and explain whether and why they think their chosen country will or will not achieve its 90-90-90 goal by 2030. Students will provide documented evidence from research, WHO/UNAIDS/CDC/USAID reports, as well as in-country Ministry of Health reports to back up their explanations. Papers will be due last week of class (week of May 29, 2017) on JUNE 2, 2017.
HONORS 222 B: Science and the Public (NSc)
HONORS 222 B: Science and the Public (NSc)
SLN 14939 (View UW registration info »)
Office: M41 Denny, Box 353010
Phone: (206) 543-9608
Email: stevehar@uw.edu
Office: 718 ATG, Box 351640
Phone: (206) 543-2019
Email: battisti@uw.edu
Credits: 5
Limit: 25 students
-How do scientific ideas become consensus among scientists?
-How do broader publics accept, reject or debate scientific ideas?>/li>
-How does science interact with politics and religion to produce consensus or contention?
To address these questions, we first take a general look at the scientific method and at non-scientific influences on science, and then we dig deeply into two case studies:
-The origin of species by means of natural selection, again accepted for over a hundred and fifty years by science and by the public in most countries, but still hotly debated, mainly for religious reasons, in the United States and a few other very religious countries
-The predicted warming of the earth’s climate, something now accepted generally as scientific consensus, and accepted by the public in many countries, but still hotly debated, primarily for political and economic reasons, in the United States
Honors Social Sciences (2)
HONORS-prefix courses
HONORS 232 A: Bull of Heaven and Earth: Animal-Human Relations from Paleolithic Europe to the Chicago Stockyards (SSc)
HONORS 232 A: Bull of Heaven and Earth: Animal-Human Relations from Paleolithic Europe to the Chicago Stockyards (SSc)
SLN 14940 (View UW registration info »)
Office: Smith Hall, Room 206B, Box 353560
Phone: 206-890-0241
Email: jwalker@uw.edu
Credits: 5
Limit: 25 students
HONORS 232 B: Understanding and Combating Human Trafficking (SSc, DIV)
HONORS 232 B: Understanding and Combating Human Trafficking (SSc, DIV)
SLN 14941 (View UW registration info »)
Office: 102 Communications Bldg, Box 353740
Phone: 543-4837
Email: kfoot@uw.edu
Credits: 5
Limit: 25 students
These aims will be accomplished through a) the reading, written analysis, and in-class discussion of relevant texts produced by concerned government bodies and nongovernmental organizations as well as scholars; b) class visits by local experts representing local and/or national law enforcement, providers of services to trafficking victims, and community organizers; and 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. There will be a few small quizzes on key terms/concepts, but no midterm or final exam.
Students will have the option of satisfying one of the 2 experiential learning projects required by the Honors Program through volunteering with Seattle Against Slavery to: 1) promote and attend a SAS-sponsored event at Elliott Bay Bookstore (3pm on 4/22/17); 2) recruit UW participants for a SAS-sponsored survey on sex-buying and prostitution and assist in the one-to-one administration of that survey on campus; and 3) collaboratively create and/or host a counter-trafficking campaign or event for the UW community during the latter half of the quarter, in cooperation with fellow classmates and members of the UW chapter of SAS. In addition to on-time completion of the Honors experiential learning application and reflection requirements detailed on http://depts.washington.edu/uwhonors/reqs/exp/, students who seek experiential learning credit will be required to document their participation in all three of these activities and submit that documentation along with a brief reflection paper to the instructor by noon on 6/2/17.
Honors Interdisciplinary (7)
HONORS-prefix courses
HONORS 345 A: Seattle: Reading and Writing the City (C)
HONORS 345 A: Seattle: Reading and Writing the City (C)
SLN 14942 (View UW registration info »)
Office: Denny 220C, Box 353120
Phone: 206-543-7145
Email: naosok@uw.edu
Credits: 5
Limit: 23 students
This course considers a range of writers who have taken on that challenge and, in a variety of ways, in different eras, have depicted life in Seattle. Reading assignments for this class include fiction, poetry, vignettes, essays, and popular song lyrics that explore the city, its history, its geography, and its diverse population.
Till recently, the notion of a “Seattle literature” has received relatively little attention. Interest in it has been overshadowed by efforts to establish a canon of Pacific Northwest writing– -a body of work devoted largely to environmental themes and a focus on nature. Since the 1980s and 1990s, though, writing about Seattle has gained prominence, even as the city itself has gained a higher profile both nationally and internationally. No single school of writing prevails – there has been no Seattle movement per se — but multiple texts have been inspired by and respond to distinctively Seattle milieus, circumstances, and personalities.
How has the literary imagination perceived and portrayed Seattle? One of the goals of this course is to ask how literary representations have shaped, conformed to, diverged from, and /or contested prevailing images of Seattle. In popular culture and commercial contexts
Seattle has often been associated with economic cycles of boom and bust; it has been cast as a town beset by provinciality and boosterism, and as a singular locale that has evolved from pioneering outpost to radical hotbed to hi-tech hub. Often defined as a gateway to the great outdoors, Seattle has also been called a livable city and a city of neighborhoods. It has come to be known, too, as a hip city, celebrated for its coffee culture, grunge music, and cutting edge arts scene. The texts selected for this course illuminate, complicate, and enrich such understandings of the city. As Peter Donahue remarks in Reading Seattle: The City in Prose, literature may serve to “amplify, augment and add to” readers’ own experiences of Seattle, making the city more legible to them and guiding them to interpret it with new insight.
In the past two decades, even as literature of Seattle has proliferated, Seattle has emerged as one of America’s most literate cities. Literary festivals, readings, bookstores, and special events abound. This course encourages students to discover and experience some of that cultural vitality. Students will have opportunities to work with community organizations
that promote writing in and about Seattle, so as to learn about contemporary literary voices and about museums, historical societies, and other agencies engaged with recounting stories of Seattle’s past. Students may choose to volunteer 2-3 hours a week, to reflect on their experiences in connection with issues raised in classroom discussion and reading assignments,
and to include written reports of their activities in their Honors portfolios. Students who prefer may write a 7-8 page research paper in lieu of service learning. Another option is to prepare an exhibit on Seattle in literature for the UW Libraries. This is a C (Composition) course, which means that student will compose several drafts of their essay assignments and they will receive peer review along with feedback from the instructor. Editing and revision are an integral part of the process of writing; students will rework their essays in order to refine their prose, articulate their views, and practice proofreading, citation and documentation of sources.
HONORS 345 B: Modern Ways to write about the ancient World (C)
HONORS 345 B: Modern Ways to write about the ancient World (C)
SLN 21657 (View UW registration info »)
Office: Denny 262 B, Box 353110
Phone: 206- 543-2266
Email: cconnors@uw.edu
Credits: 5
Limit: 10 students
HONORS 384 A: Summer A-term Rome Study Abroad Prep Seminar (A&H / SSc)
HONORS 384 A: Summer A-term Rome Study Abroad Prep Seminar (A&H / SSc)
SLN 21746 (View UW registration info »)
Office: 322 Thomson, Box 353650
Phone: 543-6890
Email: kasaba@uw.edu
Credits: 2
HONORS 384 B: Sumak Kawsay: Well-Being, "Race," and Gender in Ecuador Prep Seminar (A&H / SSc)
HONORS 384 B: Sumak Kawsay: Well-Being, "Race," and Gender in Ecuador Prep Seminar (A&H / SSc)
SLN 21752 (View UW registration info »)
Office: PDL B110 T, Box 354380
Phone: (206) 543-6981
Email: mhabellp@uw.edu
Credits: 2
HONORS 384 C: "Negotiating Identities and Mediating Community in Berlin, Germany" Prep Seminar (A&H / SSc)
HONORS 384 C: "Negotiating Identities and Mediating Community in Berlin, Germany" Prep Seminar (A&H / SSc)
SLN 21864 (View UW registration info »)
Credits: 2
HONORS 392 A: Visions of the land: Wilderness and shifting cultural landscapes of the Pacific Northwest (SSc / NSc, DIV)
HONORS 392 A: Visions of the land: Wilderness and shifting cultural landscapes of the Pacific Northwest (SSc / NSc, DIV)
SLN 14943 (View UW registration info »)
Credits: 5
Limit: 35 students
HONORS 394 A: Speculative Fiction and Social Reality (A&H / SSc)
HONORS 394 A: Speculative Fiction and Social Reality (A&H / SSc)
SLN 14944 (View UW registration info »)
Office: M39 Denny, Box 353100
Phone: 206 543-4793
Email: jstaylor@uw.edu
Credits: 5
Limit: 25 students
HONORS 100/496 (2)
Honors Electives (11)
Other Honors courses (without HONORS-prefix)
CHEM 165: Honors General Chemistry (NSc)
CHEM 165: Honors General Chemistry (NSc)
SLN 11990 (View UW registration info »)
Credits: 5
Limit: 72 students
CHEM 337 A: Honors Organic Chemistry (NSc)
CHEM 337 A: Honors Organic Chemistry (NSc)
SLN 12081 (View UW registration info »)
Credits: 5
Limit: 50 students
CSE 142: Computer Programming I (NSc)
CSE 142: Computer Programming I (NSc)
SLN ?
Credits: 4
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. corresponding CSE 390 H section
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. corresponding CSE 390 H SECTION (TBA)
See Time Schedule for course day, time and SLN for both lecture and CSE 390.
GREEK 103 B: Beyond Introductory Greek (A&H)
GREEK 103 B: Beyond Introductory Greek (A&H)
SLN 21725 (View UW registration info »)
Office: Denny 262 B, Box 353110
Phone: 206- 543-2266
Email: cconnors@uw.edu
Credits: 5
Limit: 5 students
Depending on student interests and goals, there may also be a project component of the class. My goal is to help you connnect the fascinating world of Greek literature and ancient Greek culture and history with issues and ideas that you find important and compelling. We can explore issues connected to the history of Latin as a language, the interpretation of major texts, and historical periods and trends, and the history and socio-economic context of the teaching of Latin.
Your grade for this course will be 90% based on your grade for the work assigned in Greek and 10% based on your grade for work done with me. That 10% will be based on participation for and preparation in our weekly discussion sessions, and completion of a final project: a 2 page reflection.
JSIS 202 AJ: Cultural Interactions in an Interdependent World (SSc)
JSIS 202 AJ: Cultural Interactions in an Interdependent World (SSc)
SLN 15617 (View UW registration info »)
Credits: 5
Limit: 15 students
LATIN 103: Beyond Introductory Latin (A&H)
LATIN 103: Beyond Introductory Latin (A&H)
SLN ?
Office: Denny 262 B, Box 353110
Phone: 206- 543-2266
Email: cconnors@uw.edu
Credits: 5
Limit: 5 students
Students may enroll in LATIN 103, Section D, E, or F to receive Honors credit.
Depending on student interests and goals, there may also be a project component of the class. My goal is to help you connnect the fascinating world of Latin literature and Roman culture and history with issues and ideas that you find important and compelling. We can explore issues connected to the history of Latin as a language, the interpretation of major texts, and historical periods and trends, and the history and socio-economic context of the teaching of Latin.
Your grade for this course will be 90% based on your grade for the work assigned in Latin 103 and 10% based on your grade for work done with me. That 10% will be based on participation for and preparation in our weekly discussion sessions, and completion of a final project: a 2 page reflection.
LAW E 532 H: Intro to Law and Neuroscience
LAW E 532 H: Intro to Law and Neuroscience
SLN 21706 (View UW registration info »)
Credits: 4
Limit: 5 students
NOTE: this course counts towards your Additional Any Honors requirements, and, as a professional course, does NOT award Areas of Knowledge credit.
RESTRICTED TO THIRD, FOURTH+ YEAR STUDENTS
LAW E 532 H adheres to a different schedule than the traditional undergraduate quarter schedule and this alternate schedule must work for you in order to enroll in the course:
LAW E 532 Neuroscience and Law will meet TTh 1:30-3:20 in weeks 1-8, with two additional meetings 1:30-3:20 on Friday 4/7 and 5/5. There will be a final exam 5/22/17 8:30 AM.
MATH 136 A: Accelerated Honors Calculus (NSc)
MATH 136 A: Accelerated Honors Calculus (NSc)
SLN 16578 (View UW registration info »)
Credits: 5
Limit: 40 students
Students must have completed Honors MATH 135.
MATH 336: Honors Accelerated Advanced Calculus (NSc)
MATH 336: Honors Accelerated Advanced Calculus (NSc)
SLN 16642 (View UW registration info »)
Credits: 5
Limit: 30 students
PHYS 123 B: Waves (NSc)
PHYS 123 B: Waves (NSc)
SLN 18481 (View UW registration info »)
Credits: 5
Special Topics (4)
HONORS-prefix courses
HONORS 396 A: Natural History and Culture Museums in the 21st Century (NSc)
HONORS 396 A: Natural History and Culture Museums in the 21st Century (NSc)
SLN 14945 (View UW registration info »)
Office: Burke Museum, Room 203E, Box 353010
Phone: 206-221-7170
Email: freyma@uw.edu
Credits: 3
Limit: 20 students
The aim of this seminar is to explore both the public faces (exhibit/education programs) and the behind-the-scene spaces (collections/research) of a natural history and culture museum. Students will examine first-hand the Burke Museum’s paleontology, biology, archaeology, and ethnology collections, and learn about contemporary museum research. We will assess how these collections and their stories can be shared in creative and novel ways, and together, what they can teach us about ourselves and our communities.
The course will be hosted on-campus at the Burke Museum, where students will engage with a variety of museum experts and explore multiple collections. Assignments will include weekly course readings and discussions, two short papers, and a final group project. Seminar is offered as CR/NC (minimum performance level required for CR is 1.5 out of 4.0); grading will be based on participation (40%), written assignments (20%), and final presentation (40%).
HONORS 397 B: WASEDA (SSc)
HONORS 397 B: WASEDA (SSc)
SLN 14946 (View UW registration info »)
Credits: 3
Limit: 15 students
HONORS 397 C: Peer Educator Seminar (SSc)
HONORS 397 C: Peer Educator Seminar (SSc)
SLN 14947 (View UW registration info »)
Office: MGH 211, Box 352800
Phone: 206-221-0774
Email: cdmayer@uw.edu
Email: kimkraft@uw.edu
Office: 211 Mary Gates Hall, Box 352800
Phone: 221-6074
Email: aleym@uw.edu
Credits: 1 OR 2, c/nc
Limit: 25 students
HONORS 398 A: Experimental Music Ensemble (A&H)
HONORS 398 A: Experimental Music Ensemble (A&H)
SLN 14948 (View UW registration info »)
Email: sinibald@uw.edu
Credits:
To request an add code: http://tinyurl.com/honors398