UNIVERSITY HONORS PROGRAM – FALL 2015 COURSES for INCOMING STUDENTS
Updated: May 5, 2015
Have questions or need permission to enroll in an Honors course?
Just call (785) 532-2642 or come to 215 Fairchild Hall for assistance.
***020 – UNIVERSITY HONORS PROGRAM (0 credits)
College
Agriculture
Education
Engineering
College and Prefix Number
Class Number
GENAG 020
DED 020
DEN 020
11767
11079
11093
UHP students enrolling in the College of Agriculture, College of Education, or College of Engineering should enroll
in the corresponding 020 course for tracking purposes.
***189 – INTRODUCTION TO THE UNIVERSITY HONORS PROGRAM (1 credit)
College
College and Prefix Number
Class Number
Agriculture
GENAG 189
11770
Arts & Sciences
DAS 189
11063
Business Administration
GENBA 189
11778
Education
DED 189
11087
Engineering
DEN 189
11100
Human Ecology
DHE 189
11110
All entering UHP students should sign up for this course. Two spring sections will also be offered; students in
Engineering are particularly encouraged to undertake in the spring. Enroll in the section that corresponds with the
college of your current major. Times will be assigned in July in order to avoid scheduling conflicts.
Description: Introduction to the University Honors Program (UHP) emphasizes interdisciplinary perspectives while inspiring
intellectual curiosity about the world, its wonders, and its “wicked” (intractable and complex) problems. Students meet other
UHP freshmen from across the university and, through a combination of readings and activities, seek to discover (or
rediscover!) the joy of learning. While primarily an intellectual skills-centered course, Intro to the UHP also orients students
to various UHP opportunities and resources (e.g., the Cultural Passport Program, experiential field trips, and Crossing
Borders: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Undergraduate Scholarship).
AGEC 121 – Honors Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness (3 credits) – Incoming freshmen only
Lecture
Class #13121 TU
9:30 – 10:45 a.m.
Throckmorton 1012
K-State 8: Empirical & Quantitative Reasoning, Social Sciences
Description: Suggested for all UHP students interested in the agricultural economy. A study of economic principles, with
emphasis on their application to the solution of farm, agribusiness, natural resource and agricultural industry problems in
relationship to other sectors of the United States economy and foreign countries. The course will include extensive
discussion, writing, and computer assignments on application of economic principles to real-world problems and issues.
ANTH 210 – Introduction to Cultural Anthropology – Honors (3 credits) – Incoming freshmen only
Lecture
Class #15833 MWF
9:30 – 10:20 a.m.
Waters 350
Jessica Falcone
K-State 8: Global Issues & Perspectives, Social Sciences
Description: Introduction to basic ethnology and ethnography; technical, social, and religious characteristics of cultural
systems; discussion and independent study.
ARCH 301 – Appreciation of Architecture (3 credits)
Lecture
Class #14107 MWF
3:30 – 4:20 p.m.
K-State 8: Aesthetic Interpretation, Historical Perspectives
Seaton 063
David Seamon
Description: An analysis of the evolution of architectural styles to determine the relation of architectural expression to the
needs of society.
CHM 220 – Honors Chemistry 1 (5 credits)
Lecture
Class #10750 MTWU
8:30 – 9:20 a.m.
King 004
Recitation
Class #10751 F
8:30 – 9:20 a.m.
King 004
Quiz
Class #10753 M
7:30 – 8:45 p.m.
Lab 01B
Class #10752 T
2:30 – 5:20 p.m.
Chem/Biochem 236
Lab 03B
Class #13386 W
2:30 – 5:20 p.m.
Chem/Biochem 236
Lab 04B
Class #13814 W
11:30 a.m. – 2:20 p.m. Chem/Biochem 236
Lab 05B
Class #14161 U
2:30 – 5:20 p.m.
Chem/Biochem 236
Lab 06B
Class #14867 F
11:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. Chem/Biochem 236
K-State 8: Natural & Physical Sciences, Empirical & Quantitative Reasoning
Christer Aakeroy
Christer Aakeroy
Christer Aakeroy
Michael Hinton
Michael Hinton
Michael Hinton
Michael Hinton
Michael Hinton
Description: First course of a two-semester study of chemical principles. Intended for students with a strong background in
Chemistry. Honors Chemistry I &II (CHM 250) is equivalent to CHM 210, CHM 230, and CHM 371 (Chemistry I, Chemistry II
and Chemical Analysis).
COMM 109 – Honors Public Speaking (3 credits)
Lecture
Class #13415 TU
8:05 – 9:20 a.m.
Seaton 161
Fulfills an All-University Rhetoric Requirement (substitute for COMM 105 or 106)
Craig Brown
Description: Honors speech preparation and delivery; a survey of topics basic to rhetoric, communication and linguistics.
DAS 300 – The Great Conversation: Primary Text Certificate Core Course (3 credits)
Lecture
Class #13304 TU
1:05 – 2:20 p.m.
Myers 211
K-State 8: Historical Perspectives
Laurie Johnson
Description: This team-taught course will provide students with the intellectual equipment needed to read significant primary
texts that have informed important themes in intellectual history. The class will show students how these primary texts form
the basis of an ongoing historical “conversation.” Focusing on the theme of civic virtue (how various regimes promote a
particular virtue and endeavor to help citizens to be better people, to be fully human) students will learn how great ideas in
fields ranging from philosophy to literature to science can be traced though history, and how thinkers from other eras
respond to and argue with thinkers from the past, using their arguments as the foundation and/or proving ground for their
own ideas. Students should come away with a better ability to read and appreciate the significance of the primary texts that
they will encounter in their classes and throughout their lives.
ENGL 210 – Honors English (3 credits)
Recitation
Class #13423 TU
11:30 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.
Eisenhower 121
Mark Crosby
Honors English: Espionage, or how to play the Great Game
Description: In June 2010, the presence of a clandestine network of Russian agents operating on US soil was reported to the world. While
the discovery of these spies seemed a throwback to the cold war era and the novels of John Le Carré and Robert Ludlum, the shadowy
world of espionage continues to captivate the popular imagination. In this course, we will focus on literary representations of spies and the
ethical and psychological implications of spying. As literary scholars, we are familiar with some of the terms and practices associated with
spying: we decipher and decode texts and collect information from indirect and typically unreliable sources. We will read texts that cover a
broad range of literary styles, from non-fiction news reports and memoirs, and fiction in the form of novels and short stories. These texts
will allow us to examine the formal and ethical strategies used by individual authors. Our goals include the development of techniques of
literary analysis and the translation of these techniques into writing skills. During the semester, you will write and revise three essays and
several shorter assignments.
Recitation
Class #17384
MWF
1:30 – 2:20 p.m.
Eisenhower 121
Anne Phillips
Honors English: Close Encounters of the Literary Kind
Description: The literary critic Edward Said defines education in the Humanities as “a sustained encounter with the actualities
of reading and interpretation.” This course asks students to question what it means to be a reader encountering a text. What
kind of expectations do we carry? How do texts reinforce or subvert these expectations? And, paraphrasing Ben Jonson, how
do we “read [texts] well: that is, to understand”? In this course, we will focus on literary classics continually referenced by
popular culture, from Jack Black’s 2010 cinematic romp through Gulliver’s Travels, to Homer Simpson’s misquotation of a line
from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (“Water, water everywhere, now let’s have a drink”), to the countless adaptations of
Frankenstein in film, TV, and theater. How are our encounters with texts shaped, for better or worse, by the cultural
consciousness? What is it about these texts that make them popular and relevant? How do allusions to other works operate
meaningfully within the texts we encounter? In addition, we will consider how these texts portray encounters in the more
traditional sense. These works not only chronicle travel to foreign lands and contact with the “other,” but also attempt to
destabilize the familiar, blurring the boundaries between natural and supernatural, ancient and modern, moral and immoral,
society and self, and calling into question what it means to be human. Students will submit three essays and several short
writing assignments, as well as keep a critical reading blog and participate actively in class.
ENGL 210 Fulfills an All-University Rhetoric Requirement. May substitute for either ENGL 100 or ENGL 200
**** 297 -- Honors Introduction to the Humanities (3 credits) –Incoming freshmen only
ENGL 297
Recitation
Class #11547 TU
9:30 – 10:45 a.m.
ECS 121
Michael Donnelly
HIST 297
Recitation
Class #16619 MWF
3:30 – 4:20 p.m.
Eisenhower 211
Albert Hamscher
K-State 8: Aesthetic Interpretation, Historical Perspectives. Additional note: any section will fulfill either the
Philosophy, Western Heritage or Literary & Rhetorical Arts requirement in the College of Arts and Sciences
curricula.
Description: Content is the same in both sections. Discussion-survey of some seminal works in the Western literary,
philosophical, and cultural tradition. Students will be encouraged to engage their minds with important works of literature,
history, and philosophy representing germinal and controversial views of the human condition, the nature of humanity and
society, and the Good Life. Emphasis on class discussion and the exchange and testing of ideas and interpretations;
concentration on developing clarity and forcefulness in written and spoken discourse concerning issues and ideas. Readings
include Homer’s Iliad, Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, Machiavelli’s The Prince, Goethe’s Faust, Marx and Engles’ The
Communist Manifesto, and Freud’s Civilization and its Discontents. Two papers 4-6 pages, with conferences and revisions, one
term paper 6-9 pages, and a take-home final consisting of three essays of 3-4 pages on a choice of set topics. Class
participation will be a substantial component in the course grade.
CNRES 529 – Understanding Trauma and Traumatic Stress – Section B (3 credits)
Lecture
Class #15447 TU
1:05 - 2:20 p.m.
Justin 149
K-State 8: Social Sciences
Briana Goff
Description: This course will introduce and review the theoretical and historical beginnings of the concept of trauma, which
includes inclusion of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a diagnosis in the DSM III. It will highlight the other forms of
recognized traumatic events and stressors that have more recently been brought to light. It will discuss various trauma
reactions, effects of stressful events, as well as the treatment of trauma. Resilience and transcendence of trauma will be
outlined, with an emphasis on the importance of self-care for clinicians and helping professionals working in this area.
LEAD 251 – Honors Leadership I (3 credits) – Incoming freshmen only
Marcia Hornung
Lecture
Class #16344 MW
1:30 – 2:45 p.m.
Leadership 112
LEAD 251 will fulfill a Leadership Studies minor elective requirement and LEAD 252 (Honors Leadership II offered
Spring 2016) will substitute for LEAD 212 in the Leadership Studies minor.
Description: LEAD 251 and 252 were developed as part of a national curriculum and research project aimed at supporting the
next generation of responsible leaders. The four tenets of leadership are citizenship, stewardship, humanitarianism, and
purposeful passion. Students who pursue these classes will have additional opportunities through the Soaring with Eagles
Foundation for mentoring and project development. Note: students are expected to commit to both 251 and 252.
MUSIC 250– Introduction to Music (3 credits) – Incoming freshmen only
Lecture
Class #15277 MWF
12:30 – 1:20 p.m.
McCain 104
Elizabeth Robinson
Description: Elements of music as represented in selected masterpieces of the standard concert repertory, designed to
heighten the perception and the enjoyment of the listener who has limited musical knowledge.
PHILO 230 – Honors Introduction to Moral Philosophy (3 credits)
Recitation
Class #16548 MWF
12:30 – 1:20 p.m.
K-State 8: Ethical Reasoning and Responsibility
Dickens 203
Amy Lara
Description: Philosophical issues arising in and about morality. Topics selected from: the nature of moral judgments, moral
knowledge, moral justification, and the relation of morality to religion.
WOMST 105 – Introduction to Women’s Studies (Section B) (3 credits) – Incoming freshmen only
Lecture
Class
MWF
11:30 – 12:20 pm Leasure 001
Tom Sarmiento
#13114
K-State 8: Human Diversity within the U.S., Ethical Reasoning & Responsibility
Description: In this introductory course to the interdisciplinary field of Women’s Studies, we shall explore gender as a
category of social, cultural, and political analysis as it intersects with other social formations, including sexuality, race,
ethnicity, nationality, socioeconomic class, and ability. Primarily focusing on the US context, but in dialogue with the
translocal and the global, we shall survey the herstories of the women’s movement, the parameters and possibilities of
feminist inquiry, and feminism’s contributions to social change. We shall also analyze how power operates through gender,
sexuality, and race in our contemporary moment, particularly engaging the site of popular culture.
COURSE BY CONTRACT
YEAR-LONG CAT COMMUNITY: Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost– Incoming freshmen only
*Students must enroll in all parts of the CAT community. Call 532-1501 to get course permission and then touch
base with Dr. Yates during the fall about earning Honors credit for LEAD 502: Global Citizenship in Spring 2016.
Featuring:
LEAD 502 – Leadership for a Globalizing Community (Fall 2015) (1)
IND
Class #15461 U
3:30 – 4:20 p.m.
Leadership 111
Matthew Yates
LEAD 212 – Introduction to Leadership Concepts (Fall 2015) (2)
LEC
Class #11381 W
11:30 a.m. – 1:20 p.m. Leadership 114
Leigh Fine
LEAD 502 – Global Citizenship (Spring 2016) (3)
Time and section information will not be available until October 2015.
Description: This CAT Community will encourage students to explore and practice what it means to be a global citizen. In the
two fall courses, students will examine some of the major concepts and global forces that shape identities and cultures. In the
spring course, students will prepare for and travel over Spring Break 2016 on a study tour to Hong Kong, where they will
develop their sense of global citizenship as they engage critically with the history, culture, society, economy, and
environment of one of the world’s most cosmopolitan cities.