UNIVERSITY HONORS PROGRAM

SPRING 2004 SCHEDULE OF CLASSES

 

 

 

          

             SUBJECT    COURSE    SECTION   DESCRIPTION                                               DAYS                    TIME            ROOM                        INSTRUCTOR                                                     

 

First-Year Rhetoric

 

              ENGL         2312                        001H                        Honors Rhetoric                        MWF                9-9:50                        203 VSNI               SHATTLES

                                                                                                                                                                                                         303 VSNI               STONE                                             

              ENGL         2312                                         002H                        Honors Rhetoric                        MWF                10-10:50       203 VSNI             HOUSEHOLDER

                                                                                                                                                                                              303 VSNI               STONE

 

              ENGL         2312                        003H                        Honors Rhetoric                        MWF                9:30-10:50    337 DALL               HODGE

                                                                                                                                                                                                              351 DALL               READ

                                                                                                                                                                                                              203 VSNI               HAMILTON

                                                                                                                                                                                                              303 VSNI               GOYNE   

 

              ENGL                                 2312                                         004H                        Honors Rhetoric                        TTH                  11-12:20       303 VSNI               SUDAN

                                                                                                                                                                                                          120 DALL     READ                            

 

              ENGL                                 2312                                         005H                        Honors Rhetoric                        TTH                  12:30-1:50    120 DALL               HODGE

Study of ethical questions derived from history, literature, psychology, anthropology, and philosophy, focused on what constitutes a meaningful life, historical challenges to the bases of ethics, racism, individual freedom, and community responsibility. Restricted to students in the University Honors Program. Prerequisite: ENGL 2311, ENGL 1302 or departmental approval.

 

Arts

 

THEA           1380         701H            Mirror of the Ages                   M     6:30-9:20      2020 OFAC   SMITH          Introduction to theatre emphasizing the role of the audience in the experience of performance. Semiotic and communications models are used to explore the dynamic interaction and changing relationship between performance, audience and society. Theatre-going experiences are discussed and analyzed.

Literature

 

             ENGL          2306     001H          Ethics and Literature            MWF    10-10:50       102 DALL               SATZ

             ENGL         2306                         003H                        Ethics and Literature                        TTH                  3:30-4:50      137 DALL     TRAVIS

                        Analysis, interpretation, and appreciation of fiction, with attention to critical theory.

 

            ENGL           2327            001H     Literary Studies TTH      2-3:20            102 DALL    SUDAN

An introduction to the study of literature, teaching students how literary study provides a way of reading analytically and sensitizing them to the role of literature plays in creating the social world that surrounds them.  Our topic: What is “progress”?  How has the definition of progress changed over time?  There may be no definite answers to these questions.  Our goal, however, is to develop our interpretive skills by talking and writing about these issues.  Writing assignments: frequent short essays, final examination.  Reading: Defoe, Robinson Crusoe; Smith, The Wealth of Nations; Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women; Shakespeare, King Lear; Freud, Totem and Taboo.

 

Religious/Philosophical Thought

 

              PHIL           1305                        002H                        Introduction to Philosophy                        TTH                  11-12:20       111 HYER     HOWELL

A general introduction to the central questions of philosophy. We will discuss topics from such areas as the theory of knowledge, philosophy of religion, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, ethics, and political philosophy. Typical questions might include: Can we know the world outside our minds? Is it rational to believe in a God who allows evil to exist? Do the laws of physics allow for human freedom? Is morality more than a matter of opinion? Can there be unequal wealth in a just society? Readings will include classical authors such as Plato, Descartes, Locke, Hume, and Mill, as well as contemporary philosophers. The focus of the course will be on arguments for and against proposed solutions to key problems of philosophy.

 

              PHIL           1318                        006H                        Contemp. Moral Problems                        TTH                  9:30-10:50    TBA                      SVERDLIK

An examination of current moral and legal issues. Topics may include abortion, euthanasia, animal rights, affirmative action, racism, sexism, drug legalization, censorship, and homosexuality.

 

            RELI             1304            001H     Intro to Western Religions    MWF    2-2:50           107 HYER     COGLEY

A historical introduction to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Topics include Moses and ancient Israelite religion; Jesus and early Christianity; rabbinic Judaism; Muhammad and classical Islam; the birth of Protestantism; and Jewish, Christian, and Islamic modernism.

 

History/Art History

 

            HIST             1322            001H     Queens & Mistresses         W         2-4:50           303 VSNI               WELLMAN

This seminar will focus on officially designated royal mistresses and queens as a vehicle to explore the history of Renaissance France and the history of women.  It will treat the story of their lives and the myths constructed around them by looking at memoirs, paintings, chronicles, and poetry to understand the process of historical writing.  It will also explore the ways these women have been used in French history since the Renaissance to explore the development of historiography.  This seminar will concentrate on these specific women to explore the broader culture of the French Renaissance.

 

              HIST           2312                                         004H                        History Since 1877                 TTH                  2-3:20           303 VSNI               DOYLE

The course will follow the history of the United States from the aftermath of the Civil War and Reconstruction through the Civil Rights movements of the 1950s and 1960s.  Political, economic, and social history will all serve as important ways to recognize historical change and trends in institutions and individual people, paying particular attention to gender, race, class, and region.

                          

              HIST           3310                        002H                        Problems in American Hist:                        MWF                2-2:50           149 DALL      DOYLE

                                                                                                                                Changing Sex/Gender Systems

Most historians today argue that gender and sexuality are socially constructed categories--our readings will test this hypothesis by studying men and women in the multiplicity of societies found throughout the course of American history.  This course will emphasize how gender and sexuality are two separate--if occasionally overlapping--categories.

 

Politics/Economics

 

            ECO             1312            001H            Macroeconomic Principles            TTH      9:30-10:50    303 UL        SAGGI

The second term of a liberal arts education sequence discusses issues such as inflation, unemployment, and growth from both national and global perspectives. Tools of economic analysis include models of open economies. Prerequisite: ECO 1311.

 

            PLSC           1320            005H     Intro. to Amer. Gov./Politics            TTH      9:30-10:50    306 FLOR              IPPOLITO

The organization, functions, and processes of our national government, with particular attention to parties, pressure groups, and other forces that influence its course. Attention will also be given to the Texas Constitution.

 

              PLSC         1340                        004H                        Intro. to Amer. Gov./Politics                        TTH                  12:30-1:50    301 FLOR     LUSZTIG

Analyzes and contrasts different patterns of national political development in Western, Marxist-Leninist, and Third World countries. Political dilemmas confronting each type of system will be examined.

        

Behavioral Sciences

 

              ANTH          2301       001H           Cultural Anthropology                    MWF                   9-9:50                        343 DALL       BISSO

Basic theories and methods of cultural anthropology. Explores variations in cultural values, social practices, religion, rules of law, etc., in different cultures around the world. Focuses on understanding the forces that shape cultures and societies, and how they adapt to a rapidly changing world. Fulfills cocurricular requirement for Diversity.

 

              ANTH          2302                        001H           People of the Earth                        TTH                   2-3:20           132 DLSB               WILLIAMS

Human biological and cultural evolution from the appearance of ancestral humans in Africa, to agricultural origins and the rise of the world's great civilizations. Fulfills cocurricular requirement for Diversity.       

 

              PSYC         3341                                         004H                        Social Psychology                        TTH                  2-3:20           357 DALL      BURMEISTER

Effect of social conditions individual behavior; includes topics such as attitude change, conformity, attraction, aggression, and small-group behavior.

 

 Cultural Formations            

 

            CF                3323     001H            Studies in Theatre: Gender  TTH            3:30-4:50                       SMITH

This seminar will be an in-depth exploration of the use of “gender” (masculinity and femininity) as tools in/to performance.  Plays, films, journal articles, and popular culture will be sources for exploration.

 

            CF                3324     001H            Archaeology of Self/Ethics            TTH      11-12:20       138 DALL                FOSTER

Following a line of writers from Kant to Freud to Baudrillard, the course explores the rocky development of the self in relation to history, economic and moral values, and rapidly transforming social relations in the modern period.

                                                                                                   

              CF              3349                        701H                        Literature of Negritude              T                      6:30-9:20      134 CLH                 BEAUCHAMP

Black literature played an important role in bringing on the collapse of the European colonial order, and it remains a major force in the struggle against neocolonialism today. This course explores links between literature and politics, literature and history, and thought and action in 20th-century Africa and the Caribbean. Readings and lectures will be supplemented by class discussion, films, and videotapes about the Caribbean and Africa. Meets Human Diversity corequirement.

                                                                                                                  

      CF                3351      001H            Pilgrimage:  Medieval Cult.      TTH      11-12:20       156 DALL          WHEELER

This course presents an exploration of the medieval world through one of its own literal and metaphorical images. Moving from Jerusalem, the earthly and heavenly city, students set out through time and space on a pilgrimage to Constantinople, the exotic empire of New Rome. From there they travel to Rome itself and flow across the map of Europe on the pilgrimage roads of the Middle Ages, investigating the pleasures of the way: the music, art, monuments and literature of that thousand years of human experience called the Middle Ages.

 

              CFA           3312                        001H                        Making History                        MWF                12-12:50       153 DALL                STONE

Interdisciplinary course examining ethical issues associated with the writing of "historical fictions" and the production of historical exhibits.  The course particularly focuses on the presentations of the assassination of John F. Kennedy in literature, museums, and historical works. 

 

              CFA           3316                        001H                        Immigrant Experience                        TTH                  11-12:20       110 HYER      BRETTELL

An interdisciplinary focus on the issue of immigration in the United States. The course will explore the historical, ethical, social, cultural, and political dimensions of the immigrant experience, as well as America's attitudes toward the immigrant. Controversial issues such as bilingual education and illegal immigration will be examined.