HONORS COURSE ADDENDUM – SPRING 2015
(INCLUDING ENGL 105 AND ENGL 205 COURSE DESCRIPTIONS)
ANTH 162
Hours: 3
Class: 50246
Varieties of Human Experience
Goal: AE42 / GE3H / GE3S / NW / S / W
Instructor(s): Metz,Brent E
Time: W 2:00 -2:50 PM
Description: This course offers “(a) global perspective on the variety of ways in which people organize their
lives and conceptualize their world. Sample religious beliefs and philosophical ideas from Africa, Asia, the
Pacific, native America, and Western Civilization are examined with the purposes of appreciating different
ways of being human and considering how different cultures can co-exist and communicate peacefully in the
contemporary world.” In this era of globalization and expanding communication, in which virtually everything
we buy, sell, and express enmeshes us in global social webs, it is more imperative than ever that we
understand the world’s populations. Anthropology is unique in its unprejudiced attention to all populations
throughout history and around the globe – rich and poor, powerful and disadvantaged. To make sense out of
the varieties of human experience, you’ll need a toolkit of anthropological concepts provided in class lectures
and the readings. Any concepts and information that help us understand others will help us understand
ourselves as humans, so they will be useful not only to any future anthropology courses that you might take,
but to your careers and lives beyond the classroom. We will approach different societies not as fascinating
curiosities, but as varying expressions of our common humanity that inform our own potential and limitations.
By the end of the semester, you should be better able to appreciate human cultural diversity, your place in
world history, and the responsibility that goes with it. If you apply yourself in this course, you will enhance
your social sensitivity, curiosity about the world, ability to “think outside the box”, sense of human history,
accuracy in interpreting others’ behaviors, organizational skills, critical reading skills, and logical thinking. Two
major challenges will be to overcome a) the naïve assumption that our way of life is inevitable, progressive,
and superior to all others, and b) the equally invalid proposition that all other cultures lead to perfectly
functioning societies.
ENGL 105
Hours: 3
Class: 57846
Freshman Honors English: The Short Story
Goal: Satisfies Goal 2.1 of the CORE
Instructor(s): Carothers, James Time: MWF 10:00 -10:50 AM
Description: This course will examine the development of the American short story.
ENGL 205
Hours: 3
Class: 51878
Freshman Honors English: Ways of Seeing
Goal: Satisfies 1.1, 2.1 and 3.1 of the CORE
Instructor(s): Klayder, Mary
Time: MWF 10:00 -10:50 AM
Description: The course will focus on the concepts of perception, perspective, and vision in literature. How do
we see things? How do we view the world? How does literature show our different ways of seeing? We will
consider different perceptions of art, nature, gender, and culture; we will investigate various cultural and
personal perspectives; and we will address the notion of vision as a metaphor in literature. There will be four
papers, a final exam, a project, and assorted short assignments throughout the semester.
Texts: Lakoff and Johnson, Metaphors We Live By; Donne, Selected Poetry; Dickinson, The Collected Poems;
Edson, Wit; Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; Woolf, To The Lighthouse; Whitehead, The
Intuitionist; Garcia, The Aguero Sisters; Silko, Storyteller, selected essays and poetry handouts.
ENGL 205
Hours: 3
Class: 63798
Freshman Honors English: Digitizing Faulkner
Goal: Satisfies 1.1, 2.1 and 3.1 of the CORE
Instructor(s): Lester, Cheryl
Time: TR 11:00 -12:15 PM
Description: The seminar will focus on William Faulkner's 1929-1932 novels from Flags in the Dust to The
Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Sanctuary, and Light in August as well as a few of Faulkner’s short stories in
view of current methods in the digital humanities for the organization and interpretation of literary texts. As a
Faulkner scholar, the instructor is currently collaborating with the University of Virginia’s Digital Media Lab,
Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, and SHANTI, to create a database and visual resources
from the 15 novels and 48 stories that Faulkner set in the mythical Mississippi county of Yoknapatawpha.
Students can expect to discuss and write about one of the most significant and influential authors of the 20th
century and about innovative uses of technology in the field of literary studies.
ENGL 205
Hours: 3
Class: 61803
Freshman Honors English: Literature of Race in America
Goal: Satisfies 1.1, 2.1 and 3.1 of the CORE
Instructor(s): Fowler, Doreen Time: TR 11:00 -12:15 PM
Description: Course description: What is race? What is whiteness? Is race an essential identity? Is it socially
constructed? Is race a form of ethnicity? And what role does political struggle play in the construction of
race? These are questions that theorists of race are currently debating. In “The Literature of Race in America,”
our objective will be to locate the theories of race difference that inform the works of white and black, fiction
and non-fiction writers. We will examine how these writers question, critique, and counter the troubling
Western notion that racial identities depend on difference and that difference is secured by the exclusionary
tactics of racism. The course will be discussion-based.
Course requirements will include two papers (approximately 5-6 typewritten pages); response papers; quizzes;
and a midterm and take-home final exam.
Texts: Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave; Mark Twain,
Puddn’head Wilson; Nella Larsen, Passing; William Faulkner, Selected Short Stories; Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man;
John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me; and Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark and "Recitatif."
ENGL 205
Hours: 3
Class: 63799
Freshman Honors English: Nature, Technology and Literature
Goal: Satisfies 1.1, 2.1 and 3.1 of the CORE
Instructor(s): Drake, Phillip
Time: TR 11:00 – 12:15 PM
Description: This course examines the ways conceptions of both nature and humanity develop and evolve
alongside technological changes in recent centuries, as well as the implications of these changes in both
historical and contemporary contexts. We will explore these issues through a diverse set of texts that include
environmental literature, science fiction, science writing, and more. These genres each introduce conventions
and perspectives that texture articulations of natural-ness and human-ness. Our inquiries and discussions will
cover a range of subjects, including questions about literary and rhetorical conventions, scientific practices,
economic enterprise, colonialism, globalization, gender, race, and individuality. The broader goal of the course
is to foster critical tools and perspectives to better conduct ourselves as social and ecological actors.
Assignments will include three major papers, a final exam, a presentation, and several informal reaction
papers.
Texts: Shelley, Frankenstein; Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau, Le Guin, Word for World is Forest, Dick, Do
Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?; Gibson, Neuromancer; and shorter works will be posted on Blackboard.
ENGL 205
Hours: 3
Class: 61653
Freshman Honors English: Writing the Self
Goal: Satisfies 1.1, 2.1 and 3.1 of the CORE
Instructor(s): Graham, Maryemma Time: MW 7:35-8:50 AM
Description: This course will look at the literature of autobiography and involve students in writing both
criticism and autobiography.
ENGL 360 / HNRS 492 Travel Writing and Costa Rica (otherwise known as Pura Vida)
Instructor(s): Klayder, Mary
Description: Winter break plus Monday 5-6 between October 20 and December 1. The spring 2015 course and
overseas twelve-day program offers students the opportunity to investigate a variety of current issues in Costa
Rican politics, culture, ecology and tourism through lectures, field trips to sites of interest and individual
research projects.
ENGL 492 / HNRS 492 The London Review
Instructor(s): Klayder, Mary
Description: The London Review will allow students to plan and research a visit to London, to spend Spring
Break of 2015 visiting London, and to create a publication of reviews and essays about their stay. Students will
spend the weeks in the semester before Spring Break deciding on the productions and exhibits they plan to
visit. They will conduct research on those events, each student specializing in a particular aspect of the visit.
After returning from London, the class will spend the remainder of the semester publishing the London Review
2015. Each student will be responsible both for writing reviews and for helping to put together the journal.
ENGL 598
Honors Pro-Seminar: Mapping London: The City, The Century, and The Literature of Change
Hours: 3
Class: 61463
Goal: Satisfies Goal 6 of the CORE
Instructor(s): Klayder, Mary
Time: MW 11:00 -12:15 PM
Description: This course will examine London through literature of the twentieth century, beginning with
Virginia Woolf and ending with Zadie Smith and Ian McEwan. We will discuss the effect of war and political
change on the long and pervasive history of the London landscape. We will also explore how that space has
absorbed and accommodated demographic and cultural differences. We will read a number of books together
including such titles as Mrs. Dalloway, The Heat of the Day, The Buddha of Suburbia, Small Island, White Teeth,
Life after Life, and Saturday (some of these titles might change). We will also discuss the ways in which
different genres have both presented and critiqued the London spaces. In class discussions and assignments
and through individual projects, we will look at various forms of fiction, including the popular British mystery,
as well as drama, nonfiction, poetry, and film as vehicles for the London experience. In addition to weekly
readings, students will write two short responses, provide leadership in at least two discussions, and complete
an independent project within the framework of the topic. This course fulfills the Honors Pro-seminar
requirement for Departmental Honors in English as well as the English 314 or equivalent requirement for the
English major.
ENGL 598
Hours: 3
Class: 61462
Honors Pro-Seminar: Reading and Writing Autobiography
Goal: Satisfies Goal 6 of the CORE
Instructor(s): Graham, Maryemma Time: MW 3:00 -4:15 PM
Description: This course will look at the genre of autobiography theoretically, critically, and creatively.
HNRS 492
Hours: 3
Class: 63118
Infomania: Information Management
SAME AS JOUR 302 CLASS #62514
Goal: U
Instructor(s): Ward,Douglas B Time: TR 1:00 -2:15 PM
Description: Information forms the heart of modern society, and individual success depends on developing
solid strategies for finding, scrutinizing, interpreting, and presenting information. That’s the focus of
Infomania. The class emphasizes the use of research, creative thinking and digital tools to solve problems and
answer questions, challenging students to develop individual and group projects to meet learning goals they
set for themselves. The class helps students become better researchers, better consumers of information, and
better users of digital tools to help them make sense of their disciplines and the world. Prerequisite: JOUR 101.
Students must be admitted to the School of Journalism or Journalism minor or in an approved concentration in
order to enroll in JOUR 302. Not open to seniors.
HNRS 492
Hours: 3
Class: 64699
Citizen Philanthropy
Goal: U
Instructor(s): Stroup,Kala Mays Time: TR 2:45 -4:00 PM
Description: Service learning and civic leadership need to be grounded in knowledge about nonprofit and
philanthropic organizations. This diverse, dynamic, and vital social sector has over 13 million paid
professionals, $1.6 trillion in annual revenue and $4 trillion in assets with over 65 million volunteers who go to
Darfur, work in food banks, deliver health services, protect our environment, uphold laws, defend basic human
rights, work with youth, families and children and enrich our communities. Citizen generosity is a shared value
and an investment in the health of our democracy and our future. This senior level honors course will explore
the historic and economic roots of citizen generosity and the role the nonprofit/philanthropic sector has
played in the development of this country.
This capstone course is an interdisciplinary exploration of the social context and structure of nonprofit
organizations. This class will assist college students in transitioning to a lifetime of meaningful civic
engagement as volunteer and community leaders. Basic research skills utilizing original materials and web
sites, advanced communication strategies in interviewing and presentations, competencies needed for
effective volunteer leadership, integration of disciplines, and knowledge about the nonprofit and philanthropic
sector will be the learning outcomes. This course could be preparation for meaningful consideration of
working professionally in nonprofit/philanthropic organizations or engaging in community service internships.
There is no textbook, students will utilize multiple sources of data and information. This course meets the
requirements of a service-learning component for KU certification.
Kala M. Stroup, a national leader in the nonprofit sector and former University President, will teach this
course. Kala M. Stroup was a KU Watkins Scholar and participated in the early days of the KU Honors program
as student, faculty and staff adviser. She has served as a faculty member at four universities and has served as
a consultant at numerous universities in designing courses and academic programs around this
subject/professional area.
HNRS 495
Hours: 3
Class: 60677
Exploring Public Service Internships
Goal: U
Instructor(s): Stroup,Kala Mays Time: By Appointment
Description: Identifying academic interests and the right internship opportunities in the public service might
be a challenge: this tutorial is meant to help students articulate service and learning experiences. Using her
contacts and experience as a national leader in the nonprofit/philanthropic/public service area, Dr. Stroup
assists students in identifying internship opportunities in the public service arena that will be meaningful and
have a significant impact both in a students’ academic career and beyond
HNRS 495
Hours: 3
Class: 63089
Non-Profit Leadership
Goal: U
Instructor(s): Stroup,Kala Mays Time: By Appointment
Description: Designed to be a follow-up to Honors 492: Citizen Philanthropy for research or more in depth
development of competencies and leadership in public service.
JOUR 302
Hours: 3
Class: 62514
Infomania: Information Management
SAME AS HNRS 492 CLASS #63118
Goal: GE11
Instructor(s): Ward,Douglas B Time: TR 1:00 -2:15 PM
Description: Information forms the heart of modern society, and individual success depends on developing
solid strategies for finding, scrutinizing, interpreting, and presenting information. That’s the focus of
Infomania. The class emphasizes the use of research, creative thinking and digital tools to solve problems and
answer questions, challenging students to develop individual and group projects to meet learning goals they
set for themselves. The class helps students become better researchers, better consumers of information, and
better users of digital tools to help them make sense of their disciplines and the world. Prerequisite: JOUR 101.
Students must be admitted to the School of Journalism or Journalism minor or in an approved concentration in
order to enroll in JOUR 302. Not open to seniors.
LAT 109
Hours: 3
Class: 61282
Elementary Latin II
Goal: U
Instructor(s): Scioli, Emma
Time: TR 10:00 -10:50 AM
Description: Course Goals are to learn the basics of Latin grammar, to develop an appreciation for the beauty,
influence, and value of Latin, to develop oral comprehension of Latin and to learn its pronunciation, to
understand the cultural context of the Latin language, and to develop and exercise certain mental disciplines,
such as attention to detail, logic, and critical thinking.
MGMT 499
Hours: 3
Class: 64580
Business Policy & Strategy
Goal: AE61 / GE11
Instructor(s): Curless,Cathleen S
Time: MW 9:30 -10:45 AM
Description: Business Policy & Strategy is a “capstone” class. It draws from the knowledge acquired through
other required business classes including marketing, finance and quantitative methods and exposes students
to the role of general management in business organizations. General Managers must view a business entity
as a whole while participating in the analysis, decision-making and implementation of strategic choices that
allow the business to create and sustain competitive advantages.
Reading List: Strategic Management (text and cases) by Dess, Lumpkin, Eisner & McNamara
REL 125
Hours: 3
Class: 66001
Understanding The Bible
Goal: AE42 / GE3H / H / HR
Instructor(s): Zahn, Molly
Time: TR 9:30-10:45 AM
Description: This course is designed to introduce you to the academic study of the literature of the Hebrew
Bible (Jewish Tanakh/Christian Old Testament) and the New Testament. The Bible is not a single book in our
modern sense of the word. Rather, it is a collection of books that vary widely in age, form, purpose, and point
of view. We will concentrate on recovering and analyzing the perspectives and goals of various texts within
their original historical context: Why were they composed? What situations did they address? What issues
were their authors particularly concerned about? How do they relate to other texts both inside and outside the
Bible? We will also consider what it means to “understand” the Bible and how ways of understanding vary
across historical and cultural contexts.
SPAN 213
Hours: 3
Class: 62017
Intermediate Spanish I
Goal: AE42 / U
Instructor(s): Postma-Carttar,Rosalea Time: MWF 11:00 -11:50 AM
Description: Spanish 213 is a web-based intermediate language course designed to expand upon elementary
Spanish communicative proficiency with an emphasis on using and enhancing your Spanish language skills to
achieve a more global understanding of the issues faced by the many unique groups that share Spanish as a
common language. Overall, Spanish 212/213 aims to weave together content language learning and interactive
information-exchange tasks to enhance your communicative proficiency.
Assignments: There are online practice activities assigned as homework, and in-class task-based activities
based on content from Acceso. (See Reading List.)
Reading List: SPAN 213 uses our open access online curriculum Acceso -- www.spanish.ku.edu
Take a look!
THR 305
Hours: 3
Class: 64812
Science & Theatre Arts
Goal: H
Instructor(s): Staniunas, John Time: MW 1:00 -2:15 PM
Description: Are plays about science firmly grounded in historical accuracy? What is “discovery in science” and
why is it so important for a scientist to be first? The last ten years have seen an explosion of plays about
science written for the theatre. This course will explore plays related to science and scientific theory. Of special
interest is the playwright’s intent in writing about the subject matter and how science is presented through
dramatic events, real or fabricated.