Honors Course Archive
Course Archive for Winter 2018
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 (5)
- Honors Social Sciences (3)
- Honors Interdisciplinary (5)
- HONORS 100/496 (2)
- Honors Electives (10)
- Special Topics (2)
Honors Arts & Humanities (4)
HONORS-prefix courses
HONORS 211 A: The Remix as Discourse and Resistance (A&H, DIV)
HONORS 211 A: The Remix as Discourse and Resistance (A&H, DIV)
SLN 15425 (View UW registration info »)
Office: Suzzallo Library 370A, Box 352900
Phone: 206 616-1210
Email: vallier@uw.edu
Credits: 5
Limit: 30 students
Goals and Learning Outcomes
– Develop an understanding of remix culture and a familiarity with the field of remix studies.
– Make remixes that employ radical juxtaposition and scholarly practices such as rhetoric, persuasion, and critique.
– Create remixes that question and/or resist dominant paradigms and privileged narratives.
– Analyze remixes, asking what they convey and what cultural critiques they deliver.
– Critique media sources and archives as sites of privilege and control.
– Develop audio/video/film editing skills and grasp of copyright law, especially fair use.
– Present and archive student remixes in the UW Libraries.
HONORS 211 C: WAYS OF FEELING: EXPRESSIONS OF EMOTIONS ACROSS LANGUAGES AND CULTURES (A&H)
HONORS 211 C: WAYS OF FEELING: EXPRESSIONS OF EMOTIONS ACROSS LANGUAGES AND CULTURES (A&H)
SLN 15426 (View UW registration info »)
Office: Padelford A217, Box 354335
Phone: 206-543-7691
Email: dziwirek@uw.edu
Credits: 5
Limit: 40 students
tion and emotional behavior, as well as gender-specific emotional expressions in different languages.
The key questions that are addressed in the Ways of Feeling class are:
· Are there “emotional universals”, that is, feelings that all people share independent of language, culture, gender, and race? and
· Are there “culture-specific” emotions?
· Are there “gender-specific” emotions?
The class is suitable for all students who are interested in Language, languages, and meaning. Ways of Feeling is a comparative course, with enough Slavic content for it to be relevant for Slavic majors and graduate students, yet accessible to those interested in other languages. Students will be introduced to research methods in semantics, pragmatics and discourse. They will gain an appreciation of the social and cultural underpinnings of their own language and other languages. The requirements consist of 4 short papers, an image collection, and a final term paper.
HONORS 211 D: The Classical Tradition (A&H)
HONORS 211 D: The Classical Tradition (A&H)
SLN 15427 (View UW registration info »)
Credits: 5
Limit: 30 students
Presupposing no prior study of what we know as classical antiquity (a shorthand term for the ethnically diverse and multicultural worlds unified by the use of the Greek and Latin languages on all sides of the Mediterranean Sea from about 1000 BCE/BC to 500 CE/AD), the course will offer the opportunity to explore conversations across centuries between ancient and modern texts and ideas, especially in poetry but in other textual genres and in other media too. For classicists like myself, antiquity ends in the 5th or 6th century CE, and on some definitions modernity begins as early as the 14th century CE; in between lie the Middle Ages (the medieval period), whose boundaries are themselves negotiable. Although this class will of course pick and choose its particular objects of study, in principle no period of culture influenced by ancient Greece and Rome is irrelevant to our investigation. What will unify our explorations are, first, a consistent grounding in ancient Greek and Roman texts and ideas and, second, our own perspectives as 21st century readers living in increasingly diverse and interconnected societies, trying to make sense of conversations across two and even three millennia of Western culture and to put them in conversation with other world cultures and traditions on which they have had an impact. ‘Classical’ and ‘tradition’ are both highly loaded terms: to study the Classical Tradition is to investigate, and to be ready to problematize, a long history of cultural appropriation and identity formation.
HONORS 240 A: Crime Fiction in Russian Literature (A&H)
HONORS 240 A: Crime Fiction in Russian Literature (A&H)
SLN 15434 (View UW registration info »)
Office: M256 Smith Hall, Box 353580
Phone: 543-7580
Email: jos23@uw.edu
Credits: 5
Limit: 15 students
HONORS SECTION REQUIREMENTS WILL INCLUDE A LONGER MID-TERM EXAM, AND EITHER A LONGER FINAL EXAM OR A 10-
12 PAGE PAPER.
Honors Science (5)
HONORS-prefix courses
HONORS 221 A: Evolution and Human Behavior (NSc)
HONORS 221 A: Evolution and Human Behavior (NSc)
SLN 15428 (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 and Human Behavior (NSc)
HONORS 221 B: Evolution and Human Behavior (NSc)
SLN 15429 (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: Sea-Level Rise: State of Science and Societal Implications (NSc)
HONORS 221 C: Sea-Level Rise: State of Science and Societal Implications (NSc)
SLN 15430 (View UW registration info »)
Credits: 5
Limit: 25 students
Coupled to these scientific observations is an imperative to society: improved understanding of the ice-sheet change is necessary in order to make the best possible projections – adaptation and mitigation strategies depend on the science. Major global impacts are projected, and are already being seen in some parts of the world. Climate-change policy is explicitly tied to mitigation efforts, but an additional challenge for sea-level rise is that ice sheets do not respond immediately. The responsibility of response is complicated by the political and economical circumstances of the people affected. Sea-level rise is a multi-faceted global challenge that requires breadth of understanding, but also needs reflection as part of a learning process that can lead to informed awareness and action; students should gain both in this course.
Major expectations include engaging in class lectures and discussion, reading assignments, working in groups on problem sets related to the scientific material and on a presentation related to societal implications of sea-level rise for a chosen location from around the world, as well as submitting an independent essay at the end of the course.
HONORS 221 D: Climactic Extremes (NSc)
HONORS 221 D: Climactic Extremes (NSc)
SLN 15431 (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: 25 students
The impact of these factors on climate through interactions between the atmosphere, oceans and land will be evaluated.
The processes that produced past climate changes will be discussed primarily as a framework to evaluate modern and future climate change resulting from human activity.
The class will utilize lectures, in-class problem solving, discussion of scientific papers and weekly homeworks to learn the material on both a qualitative and quantitative level. Students are expected to have had sufficient science-based coursework to feel comfortable solving quantitative in-class and homework problems using basic algebra and, in some cases, using the spreadsheet program Excel. Honors students will work as multi-student teams on separate projects to quantify the impact of human CO 2 emissions on local and regional climate change.
HONORS 221 E: Introduction to Bioengineering Problem Solving: Interplay of Diversity and Ethics (NSc, DIV)
HONORS 221 E: Introduction to Bioengineering Problem Solving: Interplay of Diversity and Ethics (NSc, DIV)
SLN 22202 (View UW registration info »)
Phone: 206-685-9283
Email: dgh5@uw.edu
Credits: 5
Limit: 25 students
If one of the associated sections, HONORS 221 EA-EE, is closed, you may contact the instructor to ask about overloading the section. Her email is: dgh5@uw.edu.
THIS COURSE IS APPROPRIATE FOR STUDENTS WITH SCIENCE AND NON-SCIENCE BACKGROUNDS
In the Honors section of this course, we ask students to put their bioengineering knowledge into a social context and reflect on the impact of engineering in society. Through weekly readings and discussions, we will explore the relationships between engineering, ethics, race, gender, disability and sexuality to answer three inter-related questions:
1) How do our cultural ideas about race, gender, disability and sexuality influence engineering knowledge and practice?
2) On the other hand, how does our engineering practice influence our cultural ideas about race, gender, disability and sexuality?
3) How can we use engineering to promote social welfare for all people?
Honors Social Sciences (3)
HONORS-prefix courses
HONORS 231 A: The Record of Us All: The Past, Present and Future of the Human Record (SSc)
HONORS 231 A: The Record of Us All: The Past, Present and Future of the Human Record (SSc)
SLN 15432 (View UW registration info »)
Credits: 5
Limit: 25 students
knowing, understanding and remembering days and people gone by, and in turn is the only way we and our world will be known and remembered.
This course will explore that record in its various forms, how it got that way, what makes it work, what is and might be happening to it, and what that might mean going forward. Questions we will explore include: What is the human record? Why does it
exist? How does it impact our society? What (and who) is missing? How is changing? What are the effects of recording? What do we want it to be? How does power play out? And, ultimately, who shall we be?
Students will know more about the various types of records: public, private and published, the life cycle of information, including specific examples and the questions they raise, the importance of social context and roles, power and work, as well as the institutions that work to create, organize, preserve and provide access. Finally, we'll look
at the future of an increasingly documented world and its implications.
HONORS 231 B: Grand Challenges for Entrepreneurs (SSc)
HONORS 231 B: Grand Challenges for Entrepreneurs (SSc)
SLN 15433 (View UW registration info »)
Credits: 5
Limit: 25 students
HONORS 231 C: Citizenship Acts to Challenge Poverty (SSc, DIV)
HONORS 231 C: Citizenship Acts to Challenge Poverty (SSc, DIV)
SLN 22225 (View UW registration info »)
Credits: 5
Limit: 18 students
Honors Interdisciplinary (5)
HONORS-prefix courses
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 15435 (View UW registration info »)
Email: frances@francesmccue.com
Credits: 5
Limit: 22 students
Students who have already taken an Honors "C" (Honors 205/345) are not allowed to register for a second "C" in any quarter (unless space is available during Priority III registration).
Our goals include: helping you to keep a fantastic notebook/record of the sights, sounds, smells and impressions of the places you’ve visited and creating methods to transform that notebook into a more formal piece of writing. By reading poems, stories, essays and articles that illuminate the art of travel and of recording memories, we’ll test out a range of styles and stances. These activities will surface our initial assumptions about what it means to travel as a method of inquiry and imagination, and of acceptance, through places we don’t yet know– or places we have already been.
HONORS 391 A: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (A&H / SSc / NSc, DIV)
HONORS 391 A: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (A&H / SSc / NSc, DIV)
SLN 15436 (View UW registration info »)
Office: H-692 Health Sciences Building, Box 357660
Phone: 206 616-2948
Email: cspigner@uw.edu
Credits: 5
Limit: 30 students
Course Requirements: A complete critical reading of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Crown, 2010) and not the movie. Students must fully engage each other with informed discussion and will demonstrate a deeper understanding of societal and institutional forces that framed the exploitation of Henrietta Lacks and her family. A week-by-week discussion guide provides a blueprint for presentations. Group Presentations (30%), Pop Quizzes, Final Essay (70%).
HONORS 394 A: The Disenchantment of the West: From Shakespeare to the Coen Brothers (A&H / SSc)
HONORS 394 A: The Disenchantment of the West: From Shakespeare to the Coen Brothers (A&H / SSc)
SLN 15437 (View UW registration info »)
Email: jwhelan@uw.edu
Credits: 5
Limit: 30 students
This is a course in the history of ideas that will look at how key themes in philosophy, literature and film, science, and religion have come to shape the way we think about and imagine what is real and unreal, what is legitimate or illegitimate in our practices and thinking.
This course is designed to help students become more aware of the cultural forces that otherwise unconsciously impinge on them to shape the narratives that give their lives meaning. It will do so by looking at the remarkable transformation of the North Atlantic social imaginary in the last five hundred years-from a premodern, enchanted world full of magic, spirits, and invisible forces to the late modern one that Max Weber described as ‘disenchanted’, a world that lacks any robust, commonly imagined sense of the supernatural that our ancestors in all world cultures took for granted.
The course will require coursepack readings that will include excerpts from Plato, Marsilio Ficino, Castiglione, Friedrich Nietzsche, Michel Foucault, Charles Taylor, and others. The course will examine how these readings and other concepts presented in class have been dramatically represented in films that include The Matrix, As You Like It, King Lear, Fargo, Hail Caesar, Harry Potter, and others to be determined.
Lectures on Mondays and Wednesdays along with assigned coursepack readings will provide necessary historical and conceptual background. Students will be required to watch and analyze assigned films. Students can watch films on their own or view them out-of-class Thursday evenings when I will schedule on-campus viewings. Scheduled class time on Fridays will provide the opportunity for discussions led by me or students to hash through the themes and materials presented each week during the quarter.
Grade will be determined by short quizzes, class participation, and final project.
HONORS 394 B: Climate Change: an International Perspective: Science, Art & Activism (A&H / SSc)
HONORS 394 B: Climate Change: an International Perspective: Science, Art & Activism (A&H / SSc)
SLN 22042 (View UW registration info »)
Office: 3707 Brooklyn Avenue NE, Box 359485
Phone: 425-502-5243
Email: bobpavia@uw.edu
Credits: 5
Limit: 17 students
Understanding climate change requires an interdisciplinary approach that considers natural and social sciences, art, and the role of activism. A first step is to understand the often complex and sometimes perplexing science of climate change, in all its disciplines. Beyond the natural sciences, we can learn from history how past civilizations succumbed to climate change, we can further examine how the human brain limits our ability to process complex problems in a moral context. Just as importantly, we can explore how artists and musicians work with scientist to extend the expression of hard facts to intellectual and emotional enrichment.
The course will begin by building a foundation for understanding climate change causes and impacts, including atmospheric science, oceanography, chemistry, and ecology. First comes information on how the atmosphere works and mechanisms of climate alteration. Next, how the ocean works, atmospheric-ocean interactions, and their role in climate alteration. Then we will follow with key ecosystems and species in Arctic.
Interwoven with the science will be discussions of how Arctic states are working together to mitigate climate change impacts. Arctic indigenous peoples are also working with Arctic states to engage in the climate change discussion. The course consider the impacts of climate change to those nations and people, and also how they are contributing through literature, music, art.
Student learning goals
Students planning to enroll in this course should have substantial college-level preparation. That preparation should include completing at least one Natural World course and one English composition and writing course. Students will be reading, interpreting, and analyzing materials from a broad range of disciplines with guidance from the instructor. With good comprehension and writing skills, students from all schools and departments can be successful in this class. At the end of this course, the student will be able to:
Explain climate change in the context of atmospheric and oceanic systems, with an emphasis on effects to humans and ecosystems.
Describe how Arctic indigenous people understand and articulate climate change.
Explain the role of Arctic Council members, permanent participants, and non-member observer nations in investigating, communicating, and mitigating climate change impacts.
Describe and compare the advantages and disadvantages of climate policy strategies and their differing impacts on the environment and humans.
Recognize the role of art, music, and activism in communicating science and affecting policy.
Display a leadership role in the classroom community through discussion, group learning, and class presentations.
Class assignments and grading
In-class participation – 10%
Discussion briefs and short writing assignments – 30%
Quizzes – 20%
Group Project – 20%
Final Paper – 20%
HONORS 394 D: Exploring the Power of Music (A&H / SSc)
HONORS 394 D: Exploring the Power of Music (A&H / SSc)
SLN 15438 (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 (2)
Honors Electives (10)
Other Honors courses (without HONORS-prefix)
ARCH 351B: Architecture of the Medieval and Early Modern World (A&H)
ARCH 351B: Architecture of the Medieval and Early Modern World (A&H)
SLN 10358 (View UW registration info »)
Office: 208N Gould Hall, Box 355720
Phone: 206 685-8455
Email: ahuppert@uw.edu
Credits: 5
Limit: 15 students
You must register for both lecture and section.
Honors students: please email uwhonors@uw.edu for an add code. If you have questions about the course, feel free to email instructor at: ahuppert@uw.edu
Additional $17 course fee.
The requirements are regular attendance at lectures, a mid-term and final exam, and a research project. The Honors discussion section meets once a week with the class instructor for deeper exploration of course content through readings and discussion. The focus of the discussions will be on the networks and flows of people, materials, and ideas surrounding architecture and the built environment. Students will develop individual research projects and a digitally-based presentation centered on images and maps.
Student learning objectives:
• Identify and explain the significance of representative buildings, sites and features.
• Define key terms that relate to the design, construction and materials of the buildings and sites presented in the course.
• Recognize and interpret basic drawing conventions of architecture.
• Distinguish and compare representative built works according to the historical, cultural and regional context in which they were created.
• Interpret architectural works of the past as an expression of the social, political, technological,
theoretical and aesthetic context of the cultures that built them.
• Recognize the complex manner in which architectural traditions evolved and related over
time as well as within and across diverse cultural and regional contexts.
• Critically analyze and effectively communicate ideas about architecture using text and images.
BIOC 451 B: Honors Biochemistry (NSc)
BIOC 451 B: Honors Biochemistry (NSc)
SLN 11323 (View UW registration info »)
Credits: 4
Limit: 30 students
Contact advisers@chem.washington.edu to be registered
CHEM 155: Honors General Chemistry (NSc)
CHEM 155: Honors General Chemistry (NSc)
SLN 12196 (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: Honors Organic Chemistry (NSc)
CHEM 336: Honors Organic Chemistry (NSc)
SLN 12339 (View UW registration info »)
Credits: 4
Limit: 72 students
Prerequisite: 2.2 in Honors CHEM 335.
CSE 142: Computer Programming I (NSc)
CSE 142: Computer Programming I (NSc)
SLN ?
Credits: 4 +1
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 + 1
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.
L ARCH 353 B: Designing Landscapes in a Modern World: History of Modern Landscape Architecture (A&H / SSc)
L ARCH 353 B: Designing Landscapes in a Modern World: History of Modern Landscape Architecture (A&H / SSc)
SLN 16538 (View UW registration info »)
Office: 348F Gould Hall, Box 355734
Phone: 206 685-2523
Email: tway@uw.edu
Credits: 5
Limit: 5 students
You must register for lecture and section
What makes a good urban landscape? A great public park? An inspiring work of landscape art? This course will explore the history of designing and creating gardens and landscapes in diverse cultures and
places as the profession and practice of landscape architecture has become a leading field in the design and creation of newly imagined city spaces and places. We will begin in the 19th century with Central Park, in New York City, one of the first public parks designed for the public and work our way up to the postindustrial parks and landscapes of the late 20th century. We will study small gardens that inspire the poet and large nature preserves, as well as city plazas, corporate roof gardens,
and the neighborhood park.
We will explore how modern art and architecture influence landscape design and in turn how environmental thinking influenced the push for sustainable cities. What does it mean to be modern? How does creativity shape the design of natural landscapes? This course provides an historic and critical overview of the evolution of modernism and modernist designs in terms of aesthetic, technological, social, and spiritual concerns in the built landscape. Moving between practice and theory, between design, as a creative art and as a way of thinking, we will consider diverse modernisms across the Americas and Europe.
MATH 135: Accelerated Honors Calculus (NSc)
MATH 135: Accelerated Honors Calculus (NSc)
SLN 17255 (View UW registration info »)
Credits: 5
Students must have completed or be in Honors MATH 134.
MATH 335: Honors Accelerated Advanced Calculus (NSc)
MATH 335: Honors Accelerated Advanced Calculus (NSc)
SLN 17322 (View UW registration info »)
Credits: 5
See Math Department for add code/ more info.
PHYS 122 B: Honors Electromagnetism (NSc)
PHYS 122 B: Honors Electromagnetism (NSc)
SLN 19221 (View UW registration info »)
Credits: 5
See Physics department for more info.
Special Topics (2)
HONORS-prefix courses
HONORS 398 A: Experiencing Music: Symphonic and Chamber Music in Seattle (A&H)
HONORS 398 A: Experiencing Music: Symphonic and Chamber Music in Seattle (A&H)
SLN 15440 (View UW registration info »)
Phone: 206 604-1831
Email: marini@uw.edu
Credits: 3, c/nc
Limit: 23 students
HONORS 398 B: Honors Jazz Workshop (A&H)
HONORS 398 B: Honors Jazz Workshop (A&H)
SLN 15441 (View UW registration info »)
Email: sinibald@uw.edu
Credits: 1, c/nc
Limit: 7 students
Audition is required for this class and will consist of playing a pre-selected jazz standard and/or a blues. Lead sheets and charts will be proÂvided for all playÂers at the audiÂtion. Please contact Greg Sinibaldi (sinibald@uw.edu) for more information and to schedule an audition.