Honors Courses 2024-2025 Overview
2024-2025 Courses (Subject to change)
NOTE: This page is for planning purposes only. All courses subject to change without notice. Do not use this page for registration. SEE TIME SCHEDULE AND OUR UPCOMING/CURRENT COURSES PAGE FOR ACCURATE DESCRIPTIONS AND UPDATED ENROLLMENT INFORMATION.
*Honors prefix courses award “W” credit. You may find more information about “W” credit here.
Autumn Courses 2024
Honors 100 (1 credit, required of all incoming students)
Lilian Tang, Honors Program
Humanities (5 credits)
Honors 210A (A&H, DIV, “W”)
Black Sound Studies and the Archive
Sonnet Retman, American Ethnic Studies
Honors 210B (A&H, “W”)
Babylon Berlin: Gender, Identity and Sexuality Between the Wars
Kye Terrasi, German Studies
Honors 210C (A&H, DIV, “W”)
Artists’ Books: Reading with the Mind and Body
Ileana Marin, Jackson School of International Studies
Honors 210D (A&H, DIV, “W”)
Aristotle’s Concept of The Tragic in Theory and Practice
James Clauss, Classics
Natural World/Science (5 credits)
Honors 220A (Nsc, “W”)
Storytelling in the Sciences
Oliver Fraser, Astronomy
Honors 220B (Nsc, “W”)
Biology for Leaders
Audrey Ragsac, Biology
Honors 220C (Nsc, “W”, DIV)
Evolution and Human Behavior
Jon Herron, Biology
Honors 220D (Nsc, “W”)
Math That Lies (Calderwood Seminar)
Neal Koblitz, Mathematics
Social Sciences (5 credits)
Honors 230A (Ssc, “W”)
Leadership, Democracy, and a More Thoughtful Public
Roger Soder, College of Education
Honors 230B (Ssc, “W”, DIV)
Music on the Move: Sound, Mobility, and Meaning
James Morford, School of Music
Honors 230C (Ssc, “W”, DIV)
Education & Power
Nadra Fredj, Comparative History of Ideas
Interdisciplinary (5 credits)
Honors 345 (“C”; Honors Interdisciplinary)
Narratives of Self and Society
Nicole Peters, English
Honors 391 (A&H/Ssc/Nsc, ‘W”)
The Art of Understanding Science
KC Cole, Physics
Honors 394A (A&H/Ssc, “W”, DIV)
Women in Greek and Roman Antiquity
Catherine Connors, Classics
Honors 394B (A&H/Ssc, “W”)
The Idea of the University
Tony Lucero, Comparative History of Ideas
Seminars
NOTE: No Honors 496 Portfolio Senior Capstone offered during autumn quarter (WINTER and SPRING only)
Other Honors Courses (count toward Honors electives)
Law 100: Introduction to Law (H), 5 credits
Theo Myhre, LAW
ENGL 182 (“C”) Honors elective
First-year priority
Multimodal Composition: Study and practice of strategies and skills for effective writing
Instructor TBA, English Dept
ENGL 282 (“C”) Honors elective
Intermediate Multimodal Composition
English, instructor TBD
Biochem 450
Honors Biochemistry, 4 credits
CSE 122 (with CSE 390) (Nsc)
Computer Programming I, 4 + 1 credit of CSE 390 for Honors
CSE 123 (with CSE 390) (Nsc)
Computer Programming II, 4 + 1 credit of CSE 390 for Honors
Chem 145: Honors General Chemistry (Nsc), 5 credits
Chem 335: Honors Organic Chemistry (Nsc), 4 credits
Math 134: Accelerated Honors Calculus (Nsc), 5 credits
Math 334: Honors Accelerated Advanced Calculus (Nsc), 5 credits
Physics 141B: Honors Physics Mechanics (Nsc), 5 credits
Winter Courses 2025
Humanities (5 credits)
Honors 211 A (A&H, “W”)
Queer and Trans* Film
Daniel Roberts, English
Honors 211 C (A&H, “W”)
Situating Publishing in the Twenty-First Century – From Penny Dreadfuls to Booktok
Nicole Peters, English
Natural World/Science (5 credits)
Honors 221 A and 221 B (Nsc, “W”)
DNA and Evolution
Jon Herron, Biology
Honors 221 C (Nsc, “W”)
The Science of Human Values
KC Cole, Physics
Social Sciences (5 credits)
Honors 231 A (Ssc, “W”, DIV)
Grand Challenges for Entrepreneurs
Emily Pahnke, Foster School of Business
Honors 231 B (Ssc, “W”, DIV)
Reproductive Justice in Practice: Movements, Methods, and Meaning
Damarys Espinoza, Nursing & Health Studies
231 D (Ssc, “W”, DIV)
Western Civilization and Global Public Policy
LaShawnDa Pittman, American Ethnic Studies
Interdisciplinary (5 credits)
Honors 345 A (Interdisciplinary, “C”)
How to Read E-Literature
Ileana Marin, Comparative History of Ideas
Honors 345 (Interdisciplinary, “C”)
Writing Speculative Fiction from Life and Research
Rachel Sobel, Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering
Honors 394B (A&H, Ssc, “W”, DIV)
Indigenous Dispossession & Racial Slavery: Twin Tools of US Settler Colonialism
Stephanie Smallwood, History/ Honors
Honors 394C (A&H/Ssc, “W”, DIV)
Ways of Feeling
Katarzyna Dziwirek, Slavic Languages & Literature
496 Seminars (portfolio capstone)
Honors 496 (A and B) graduating seniors
Integration of the Honors Experience
Other Honors Courses (count toward Honors elective)
ENGL 182 H (“C”), Honors elective) priority to freshmen
Multimodal Composition: Study and practice of strategies and skills for effective writing
English, instructor TBD
ENGL 281 C (“C”, Honors elective)
Intermediate Expository Writing
English, instructor TBD
CSE 122 (with CSE 390) (Nsc)
Computer Programming I, 4 + 1 credit of CSE 390 for Honors
CSE 123 (with CSE 390) (Nsc)
Computer Programming II, 4 + 1 credit of CSE 390 for Honors
Biochem 451 A (Nsc), 4 credits
Honors Biochem
Chem 155 A: Honors General Chemistry (Nsc), 5 credits
Chem 258 A: Honors Organic Chemistry (Nsc), 4 credits (3 credits for 261 = lab)
Math 135 A: Accelerated Honors Calculus (Nsc), 5 credits
Math 335 A: Honors Accelerated Advanced Calculus (Nsc), 5 credits
Physics 142 A: Honors Electromagnetism (Nsc), 5 credits
Spring Courses 2025
Humanities (5 credits)
Honors 212A (A&H, “W”, DIV)
Native NW Online: Connecting Communities and Collections
John Vallier, Ethnomusicology
Honors 212B (A&H, “W”, DIV)
Modern Japan Through Cinema
Ted Mack, Asian Languages and Literature
Natural World/Science (5 credits)
Honors 222A (Nsc, “W”)
Polar Places and Spaces: Exploring the Greenland Ice Sheet
Michelle Koutnik, College of the Environment, Earth and Space Sciences
Honors 222B (Nsc, “W”)
Navigating the Tides in the Salish Sea: Integrating Indigenous Knowledge in Marine Ecology and Governance
Amina Cesario
Honors 222D (Nsc, “W”)
Natural History and Culture Museums in the 21st Century
Melissa Frey, Biology, Burke Museum
Social Sciences (5 credits)
Honors 232A (Ssc, “W”, DIV)
The Record of Us All
Joseph Janes, Information School
Honors 232B (Ssc, “W”, DIV)
Safety-Net Hospitals in the US: Past, Present, and Future
Maralyssa Bann, Medicine
Honors 232C (Ssc, “W”, DIV)
Ecology of Urban Seattle: Field and Classroom Experience
Richard Conlin, Urban Design and Planning
Interdisciplinary (5 credits)
Honors 345 (A&H, “W”)
Oral History: Immigrants from the Middle East
Melike Yucel Koc, Middle Eastern Languages & Culture
Honors 393A (A&H/Nsc, “W”)
Rhetoric of Health and Medicine
Amanda Friz, Communication
Honors 394 (A&H/Ssc, “W”)
Feminists in the Borderlands
Michelle Habell-Pallan, Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies
Honors 394A (A&H/Ssc, “W”, DIV)
Lovework: an unfinished syllabus
Jeanette Bushnell, Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies
Seminars
Honors 398A (A&H, “W”)
The Brain and the Healing Power of Poetry
Arthur Ginsberg, Classics
496 Seminars (portfolio capstone)
Honors 496 (two sections A and B) graduating seniors
Integration of the Honors Experience
Nicole Peters, English
Other Honors Courses (count toward Honors Electives)
ENGL 382 (Interdisciplinary, “C”)
TBD
BIOC 442 Honors Biochemistry (Nsc), 4 credits
CSE 122 (with CSE 390) (Nsc)
Computer Programming I, 4 + 1 credit of CSE 390 for Honors
CSE 123 (with CSE 390) (Nsc)
Computer Programming II, 4+1 credit of CSE 390 for Honors
Chem 165: Honors General Chemistry (Nsc), 5 credits
Chem 337: Honors Organic Chemistry (Nsc), 5 credits
Math 136A: Accelerated Honors Calculus (Nsc), 5 credits
Math 336: Honors Accelerated Advanced Calculus (Nsc), 5 credits
Physics 143B (Honors): Waves (Nsc), 5 credits