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The newsletter of Wichita State's
Honors College
Spring Seminars
The Dynamic Universe
HNRS 153B|3 Credits|M: 12:30-3:00pm
Focuses heavily on current space
missions and astronomical events. It will
cover a variety of topics including the solar
system, the sun, the stars, stellar evolution,
galaxies, and cosmology.
Volume 2, Issue 2
Fall 2014
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Honors seminars are a great way to fulfill your general education
credits and to explore topics from an interdisicplinary perspective.
Set up an advising appointment through honors@wichita.edu.
The Arts in Wichita
Governing Women's Bodies in the
HNRS 304E|3 Credits|R: 11:00-12:15pm
20th Century
The course will explore the role of the HNRS 306G|3 Credits|MW: 9:30-10:45am
audience and patronage, the impact of the This course examines the legal, medical,
arts in the local community, arts
and media-driven cultural attempts to
management, and marketing by meeting at govern women’s bodies throughout the
various art events or venues in Wichita
20th century in the United States.
and meeting with local arts managers and
artists in class.
Honors Research Seminar
Survey of Leadership
Social Problems and Solutions
HNRS 485|3 Credits|M: 3:30-4:20pm
HNRS 351|3 Credits|TR: 2:00-3:15pm
HNRS 306B|3 Credits|TR: 9:30-10:45am
Students majoring in various disciplines
students should be able to recognize the
In this course students identify a social
meet together to discuss practices in
main leadership theories, identify different
problem, assess why it is not being solved
academic research, differences in research
leadership perspectives, recognize
currently by public or private action, and
applications of leadership, and understand expectations in different subject areas, the
then propose a solution.
research process (grant writing to
the benefits and challenges of leadership.
publication), research ethics, project
management, and other issues related to
academic research.
HNRS 410 - Independent Study
(1-4 Credits)
HNRS 481 - Cooperative Education
(1-4 Credits)
HNRS 481 - Cooperative Ed. Internship
(1-4 Credits)
CSD 416H - Intro to Language Disorders
TR : 1:00 - 2:15pm
CSD 506H - Acous/Percep Phonetics
TR : 8:00 - 9:15am
CSD 517H - Communication in Aging
TR : 9:30 - 10:45am
HMCD 308H & PSY 413H - Leadership
MW : 9:30 - 10:45am
COMM 111H - Public Speaking
TR : 12:30 - 1:45pm
ENGL 323H - World Literature I
MW : 11:00 - 12:15pm
Looking
Ahead
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ENGL 385H - Advanced Comp Honors
MW : 9:30 - 10:45am
FREN 111H - Elem French I
MWF : 9:30 - 11:00am
MWF : 11:30 - 12:55pm
MW : 4:30 - 6:50pm
FREN 112H - Elem French II
MWF : 9:30 - 11:00am
MTWRF : 11:30 - 12:20pm
MTWRF : 1:30 - 2:20pm
FREN 210H - Inter French
MWF : 11:30 - 12:55
FREN 300H - Inter French Reading 2
W : 4:30 - 6:50pm
FREN 324H - Intr Conv/Comp Honors
TR : 2:30 - 3:50pm
SPAN 220H - Inter Span Gram/ Comp
MWF : 9:30 - 10:20am
Oct. 8: WHEAT (formerly
ELS) Meeting at 7:00pm in
Honors Seminar Room.
Open to all Honors
students.
SPAN 223H - Sel Spanish Reading
MWF : 10:30 - 11:20pm
MATH 243H - Calculus II
MTWRF : 10:30 - 11:20am
MATH 555H - Differential Equations
MWF : 9:30 - 10:20am
PHIL 311H - Philosophy of Law
TR : 11:00 - 12:15pm
POLS 232H - Pol Theory and Philosophy
TR : 11:00 - 12:15am
POLS 337H - Causes of War and Peace
MW : 9:30 - 1-:45am
PSY 111H - Gen Psychology Honors
MW : 12:30 - 1:45pm
PSY 323H - Social Psychology
MW : 11:00 - 12:15pm
PSY 324H - Psychology of Personality
TR : 9:30 - 10:45am
Oct. 29: Honors Halloween
Party. 4:00-6:00pm in the
Honors
Office/Lounge.
Wear your costume, bring
some food and have some
fun.
Nov 10: Enrollment begins!
Remember: Honors students
recieve priority enrollment. All
Honors students can enroll on
Monday,
regardless
of
academic standing.
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Honors 101 student find
themselves,
friends
49th Annual Conference
The Thrill of the Climb
Denver, Colorado
November 5 - 9
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Honors 101 is a class
designed for first-year students with
the goal of succeeding in college.
The course has all the same goals of the regular Introduction to
the University course: teaching time management skills, building
connections on campus, knowing where to locate and how to use
the University’s resources, but Honors 101 has one key difference:
it helps students discover what it means to be an Honors Student
and how they can fulfill their role within the Honors College.
This class best suits students on a quest to truly
understand how the Honors College meets their needs while
giving them the resources to pursue each individual’s unique goals.
Although each class is structured differently, based on professor
preference, each section is united by the overall goal of helping
students help themselves. In addition to traditional instruction
by a professor, each class shares two peer academic leaders whose
sole goal is to aid the students. These peer leaders provide one on
one peer mentoring sessions, answers about Honors and other
questions students may have concerning their respective majors at
all Honors 101 students. Every month the peer leaders put
together an event for the students. The previous session included
information about student involvement, resources available,
scholarships, and on campus jobs. The next event is a True Colors
personality test. The first 25 students that RSVP for the event will
receive a special gift. The final event in November will be a crossmajor discussion over a topic soon to be determined. Honors 101
meets for 50 minutes once a week and counts for one credit hour.
--Tracia Banuelos
Honors Undergraduate Fellow
Letter from the Dean: Don't Blame the Boat
Almost five years ago, I climbed into a
single sculling boat for the first time. It
was late in the season, and the big
Arkansas River had turned cold and
murky brown. The boat wobbled as I
struggled to hold the two oars in one
hand, crouched down on the dock, and
stretched one foot out to reach the shoes.
As I settled onto the seat, my instructor
said, “Just remember. Never let go of the
oars. And, if something is going wrong,
don’t blame the boat.” This is useful
advice for someone setting out relatively
inexperienced in a craft that depends on
the rower to keep it upright. “Don’t
blame the boat” is another way of saying
that the balance of the boat is in your
hands, not that the problem is never the
equipment you’ve been given but that
each wobble will teach you something
about your technique.
I am thinking about this advice now as
we all embark on a new semester and the
first academic year as an Honors College.
The balance of this boat is in all of our
hands. In spring 2015, we are launching
the new Leadership Survey course along
with several 300-level seminars that will
engage you in history, policy, and the
contemporary arts.
Several Honors
students are working on developing
internships with non-profit organizations.
What ideas do you have for the future of
Honors?
Remember you are always welcome to
stop by Shocker Hall to talk with an
Honors Undergraduate Fellow, Advisor,
or the Dean. We all look forward to
hearing more ideas that will push our
Honors community to reach top speed!
--Kimberly Engber
Honors College Dean
The Honors College is located in Shocker Hall on Wichita
State University's main campus. Inspired by the 1963-1968
President of WSU and Rhodes Scholar, Emory Kemper
Lindquist's commitment to others and the common good,
Honors emphasizes high achievement, and innovative
problem-solving to create lifelong, passionate learners.
-- Singapore 2010 Youth Olympics
Rowing advice applies to students also.
Contact Us:
email: honors@wichita.edu
telephone: 316.978.3375
Shocker Hall A
Wichita State University
Wichita, KS 67260
Send in a tip! | Rachel Tuck, 2014-15 Honors Undergraduate Fellow, Editor of The Innovator | honorsUGfellow@wichita.edu