Honors Courses 2022-2023 Overview
2022-2023 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 2022
Honors 100 (2 sections, required of all incoming freshmen)
1 credit, decimal graded
Claire Grant & Nadra Fredj, Honors Program
Humanities (5 credits)
Honors 210A (VLPA, “W”)
New Literary Studies: The Politics of Translation
Joe Wilson, English
Honors 210B (VLPA, DIV, “W”)
American Sabor: Latinos and Latinas in US Popular Culture
Marisol Berrios Miranda, Music
Honors 210C (VLPA, DIV, “W”)
Black Sound Studies and the Archive
Sonnet Retman, American Ethnic Studies/CHID
Natural World/Science (5 credits)
Honors 220A (NW, “W”)
Storytelling in the Sciences
Oliver Fraser, Astronomy
Honors 220B (NW, “W”)
Evolution and Human Behavior
Jon Herron, Biology (2 sections)
Honors 220C (NW, “W”)
Evolution and Human Behavior
Jon Herron, Biology
Honors 220D (NW, “W”)
Artificial Intelligence and Robots Meet Modern Society: what could go wrong? answer: everything
Richard Freeman, Physics
Social Sciences (5 credits)
Honors 230A (I&S, “W”)
Leadership, Democracy, and a More Thoughtful Public
Roger Soder, Education
Honors 230B (I&S, “W”, “DIV”)
Safety-Net Hospitals in the US: Past, Present, and Future
Maralyssa Bann, Medical School
Honors 230C (I&S, “W”, “DIV”)
How to Write the History of the Aztecs
Adam Warren, History
Honors 230D (I&S, “W”)
Parks in Progress or Peril? An exploration of the mission, values, and future of the US National Park System
Aley Mills Willis and Laura Harrington, Honors
Fine Arts (5 credits)
Honors 240A (VLPA, “W”)
Russia’s Big Books: ANNA KARENINA
Gayla Diment, Russian Language and Literature
Other Honors Courses (without Honors Prefix)
ENGL 182K (Composition credit) freshmen priority
Multimodal Composition: Study and practice of strategies and skills for effective writing
Instructor TBA, English Dept
Interdisciplinary (5 credits)
Honors 345A (Composition, DIV)
Oral History: Immigrants from the Middle East
Melike Yucel Koc, Near Eastern Languages and Literature
Honors 393A (VLPA, NW, “W”)
Rhetoric of Health and Medicine
Amanda Friz, Communication
Honors 394A (VLPA/I&S, “W”, “DIV”)
Are Do-Gooders Doing Good? Critical Perspectives on Community Engagement and Civic Leadership
Kathryn Pursch-Cornforth, Community Engagement and Leadership Education (CELE) Center
Seminars
Honors 397A (I&S)
Peer Educators Seminar (credits combine with spring 397 seminar to equal one Honors Additional Any credits, 4 credits total), Honors Program
NOTE: No Honors 496 Portfolio Senior Capstone offered during autumn quarter (WINTER and SPRING only)
Other Honors Courses (5 credits, counts for Honors “additional any”)
Law 100: Introduction to Law (H), 5 credits
Theo Myhre, Law School
Biochem 450A (NW)
Honors Biochemistry, 4 credits
CSE 122 (with CSE 390) (NW)
Computer Programming II, 4 + 1 credit of CSE 390 for Honors
Chem 145: Honors General Chemistry (NW), 5 credits
Chem 335: Honors Organic Chemistry (NW), 4 credits
Math 134: Accelerated Honors Calculus (NW), 5 credits
Math 334: Honors Accelerated Advanced Calculus (NW), 5 credits
Physics 141B: Honors Physics Mechanics (NW), 5 credits
Winter Courses 2023
Humanities (5 credits) (See Fine Arts below for more VLPA courses)
Honors 211A (VLPA, “W”)
Disenchantment of the West
Jack Whelan, Foster School
Honors 211B (VLPA, “W”)
Authoritarianism and its Appeal in Ancient Rome
Michael Ritter, History
Honors 211C (VLPA, “W”, “DIV”)
Text Technologies: Manuscript Cultures
Beatrice Arduini, Romance Languages and Literatures
Natural World/Science (5 credits)
Honors 221A (NW, “W”)
DNA and Evolution
Jon Herron, Biology
Honors 221B (NW, “W”)
Calderwood Seminar in Public Writing: Math that Lies: communicating why some quantitatative arguments are misleading or bogus
Neal Koblitz, Math
Honors 221C (NW, “W”)
Game Theory and its Applications
Jake Cooper, Biology
Social Sciences (5 credits)
Honors 231A (I&S, “W”, “DIV”)
Grand Challenges for Entrepreneurs
Emily Pahnke Cox, Foster School of Business
Honors 231B( I&S, DIV, “W”)
Gender, Diplomacy, and Human Rights
Elise Rainer, Scandinavian Studies
Fine Arts (5 credits)
Honors 241A (VLPA, “W”) (cross-listed with Russian 120)
Russian Crime Fiction
Galya Diment & Svetlana Ostroverkhova, Slavic Languages and Literatures
Other Honors Courses (without Honors Prefix)
ENGL 182 (Composition credit) freshmen priority (tentative, check back!)
Multimodal Composition: Study and practice of strategies and skills for effective writing
Instructor TBA, English Dept
ENGL 282 (Composition credit) priority to freshmen
Intermediate Multimodal Composition
English
Interdisciplinary (5 credits)
Honors 345A (Composition) Priority to juniors and seniors (by year)
How to Read E-Literature
Ileana Marin, Jackson School
Honors 391A (VLPA/I&S/NW, DIV, “W”)
Race, Gender, Diaspora in Population Health /or/ COVID-19: a year of living dangerously (TBD)
Clarence Spigner, Health Services
Honors 391B (VLPA/I&S/NW, “W”, “DIV”)
Visions of the Land: Cultural Landscapes of Seattle and the Salish Sea Region
Tim Billo, Program on the Environment
Honors 394B (VLPA/I&S, DIV, “W”)
Women in Greek and Roman Antiquity
Catherine Connors, Classics
496 Seminars (portfolio capstone)
Honors 496 graduating seniors
Integration of the Honors Experience
Juliana Villegas, Honors & English
Other Honors Courses (5 credits, counts toward Honors“additional any”)
CSE 123 (with CSE 390) (NW)
Computer Programming I, 4 + 1 credit of CSE 390 for Honors
Biochem 451H (NW), 4 credits
Honors Biochem
David Morris & Alan Weiner, Biochemistry
Chem 155: Honors General Chemistry (NW), 5 credits
Chem 336: Honors Organic Chemistry (NW), 4 credits (3 credits for 346 = lab)
Math 135: Accelerated Honors Calculus (NW), 5 credits
Math 335: Honors Accelerated Advanced Calculus (NW), 5 credits
Physics 142B: Honors Electromagnetics (NW), 5 credits
Spring Courses 2023
Humanities (5 credits)
Honors 212A (VLPA, DIV “W”)
Modern Japan through Cinema
Ted Mack, Asian Languages and Literature
Honors 212B (VLPA, “DIV”, “W”)
Music and Community (working title, TBA)
Marisol Berrios Miranda, Music
Natural World/Science (5 credits)
Honors 222A(NW and “W”)
Pain
John Loeser, Neuroscience & Jonathan Mayer, Geography
Honors 222B (NW, “W”)
Artificial Intelligence and Robots Meet Modern Society: what could go wrong? answer: everything
Richard Freeman, Physics
Honors 222C (NW, “W”)
The Science of Human Values
KC Cole, Physics
Social Sciences (5 credits)
Honors 232A (I&S, DIV, “W”)
Technologies of Race, Gender, and the Body
Kessie Alexandre, Geography
Honors 232B (I&S, “W”, “DIV”)
Reproductive Justice in Practice: movements, methods, and meaning
Damarys Espinoza, Anthropology
Fine Arts (VLPA) (5 credits)
Honors 241A (VLPA, “W”, “DIV”)
Seattle Sounds: critically archiving our local musical heritage
John Vallier, Ethnomusicology
Other Honors Courses (without Honors prefix)
ENGL 382 (Composition) (NOTE! tentative, please check back closer to spring quarter)
Special Topics in Multimodal Composition
Interdisciplinary (5 credits)
Honors 345C (VLPA, DIV, “W”) priority to juniors and seniors (by year)
Calderwood Seminar in Public Writing: Seattle ‘color line’ and Mediterranean imprints on the Pacific Northwest
Devin Naar, History
Honors 391A (VLPA/I&S/NW, “W”)
Climate Change: An Interdisciplinary Perspective: Science, Art, and Activism
Bob Pavia, College of the Environment & Arctic Studies/Canadian Studies
Honors 391B (VLPA/I&S/NW, “W”)
Music, Birdsong, and the Limits of the Human
Mark Rodgers, Music
Honors 394A(VLPA/I&S, DIV, “W”)
Feminism in the Borderlands
Michelle Habell-Pallan, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies
Seminars
Honors 397A (I&S)
Honors 100 Peer Educator Seminar
Claire Grant & Nadra Fredj, Honors Program
Honors 398A (VLPA, “W”)
The Brain and the Healing Power of Poetry
Arthur Ginsberg, Neuroscience
496 Seminars (portfolio capstone)
Honors 496 graduating seniors
Integration of the Honors Experience
Juliana Villegas, Honors
Other Honors Courses (5 credits, counts for “additional any”)
BIOC 442 Honors Biochemistry, 4 credits
Chem 165: Honors General Chemistry (NW), 5 credits
Chem 337: Honors Organic Chemistry (NW), 5 credits
Math 136A: Accelerated Honors Calculus (NW), 5 credits
Math 336: Honors Accelerated Advanced Calculus (NW), 5 credits
Physics 143B (Honors): Waves (NW), 5 credits