Registration for SPRING 2010 COURSES

Courses for Spring 2010, which offer Honors Credits toward your 21 credits needed for graduation. There are Honors Seminar Courses (I: HONR), Honors Sections of regularly offered courses (II: e.g., INTD 333-H01), and Honors General Education Sections (III: e.g., ENGL 111-H06).

I. HONR Courses

HONR 202 and 302 are required for your honors degree. They are usually offered in alternating semesters.

1. HONR 101: Clinical Ethics

Honors First-Year Seminar - 20397 - HONR 101 - 001

1 credit

taught by Dr. H. Russell Searight

Time: TBA

CRN: 20397

• Course Description:

  This course is an overview of current ethical dilemmas in health care. Students completing this course should have an appreciation of the dimensions underlying ethical reasoning in medicine and mental health. Additionally, they should be able to apply multiple approaches to ethical reasoning (e.g., utilitarianism, Kantian, virtues, principlism, feminism) in analyzing clinical cases. Upon completion of the course, students should be able to demonstrate a systematic approach for articulating and prioritizing dimensions of ethical reasoning when addressing “real world” clinical dilemmas.

Clinical Ethics Syllabus

2. HONR 202: The Philosophy of Science

(HONR 202 and 302 are required for your honors degree. The two are usually offered in alternating semesters. )

Honors Contemp Iss:Phil of Sci - 20398 - HONR 202 - 001

• 3 credits
• taught by Drs. Jason K. Swedene and George Denger
• Time: T, R 12:30-1:50
• CRN: 20398

 

• Course Decription:

  The Honors student body is made up of members from across disciplines. The Philosophy of Science is a fascinating topic with significant appeal to those in the sciences, social sciences, and professional studies, such as nursing.  The philosopher of science, among other things, critiques the methods and consequences of science, using what may be broadly referred to as “the philosophical method.”  With respect to the scientific enterprise, philosophers are concerned with how we know what we claim to know, the limits of applying human logic to natural phenomena, the role of subjectivity in ascertaining truth, and how historical trends can influence collective deliberation. This course will be of service to the interdisciplinary Honors Program will serve the campus in general as it provides another tangible connection between the arts and the sciences.

3. HONR 401: Honors Senior Thesis (1 to 4 credits)

• All junior honors students need this class as part of the 21 credits to earn an honors degree.
• See the Honors Director if you are an upperclassman and need this class.

 

• Objectives:

  1) To develop and defend a succesful honors senior thesis proposal.

  2) To enter into your summer and senior year with the knowledge and direction required to complete the written document and oral defense of the senior thesis in April of 2011.

  
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• Course Requirements:

To fulfill all assignments leading up to the April 2010 thesis proposal, which include the following:

              A.  Becoming comfortable with honors thesis policy as noted in the Honors Handbook and Website

              B.  Finding a topic

              C.  Conducting a literature review

              D.  Identifying a thesis adviser

              E.   Developing a viable thesis

              F.   Becoming comfortable with the style manual appropriate for your discipline (e.g., Chicago Manual of Style, APA,    

                        MLA, etc.)

              G.  Writing a proposal, which contains a sufficient list of sources, which demonstrates your knowledge of the topic, and

                        which enumerates what will be accomplished in the finished product (i.e., the 2011 thesis).

              H.  Designing a ten minute power point (or acceptable alternative) presentation to be delivered to the Honors Council.

              I.   Having your proposal approved by your honors thesis adviser and the Honors Council.

II. Honors sections of regularly offered courses

There are no Honors sections of regularly offered courses this SPRING 2010 semester. However, Honors Contracts offer a great opportunity to earn Honors credits for regular courses. See the Honors director for more details.

 

 

III. Honors sections of General Eduction courses

1. ENGL 111-H02: Honors English Composition II

ENGL 111 is required for a general education course. Why not take it for Honors credit too?

Honors First-Year Comp II - 20279 - ENGL 111 - H13

• 3 credits •
• taught by Dr. Chad Barbour •
• Time: M, W, F  9 —10:50 am
• CRN: 20279

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email from Oct 30, 2009:

Students,

The Spring offerings are on the website (http://www.lssu.edu/honors/Register.php).

A few IMPORTANT things to keep in mind:
1) Honors students can register November 9th, but you should drop in for advising prior to the 6th to make sure you have been cleared for early registration.

2) Prior to registering for Honors courses, you must be permitted by me. The reason for this is to prevent the classes filling up with non-honors students.

3) Juniors must register for HONR 401 for 1 credit. The senior thesis is a significant project and is begun junior year.

4) Freshmen are welcome to register for HONR 202. I think you can handle it.

5) The HONR 202 for this semester is The Philosophy of Science taught by myself and Dr. Denger (team taught).

6) Every honors student needs HONR 202 and HONR 302. They are usually offered in alternating semesters.

7) I will be in my office every morning next week from 8:30-10:30. Stop by with questions and to make sure you are on the early registration list.

Have a good weekend!

JKS

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Registration for FALL 09 COURSES

Courses for Fall 09, which offer Honors Credits toward your 21 credits needed for graduation. There are Honors Seminar Courses (I: HONR), Honors Sections of regularly offered courses (II: e.g., INTD 333-H01), and Honors General Education Sections (III: e.g., ENGL 110-H06).

I. HONR Courses

1. HONR 101: Controversy

1 credit

taught by Dr. Barbara Evans

Time: Fridays from 2-3:40 pm

CRN: 10523

• Course Description:

  The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

  - Albert Einstein

  The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best -- and therefore never scrutinize or question.

  - Stephen Jay Gould

 

Controversies come in a variety of forms. Many books have been written on many topics, but with the advent of the internet, an immense amount of information is now at our fingertips. Although we can quickly look up information to support or refute any claim, the ability to sift through this data rationally is an art. Some topics may seem unusual others convincing, but it is up to the individual to decide if the content is valid. Some topics are dismissed out of hand and not pursued. The course will examine a number of these topic areas in an effort to determine if they are reality, myth or hoaxes. Topic areas may include origins of pyramids and megalithic structures, crop circles, sacred geometry, or sacred documents as historical documents. Each week, students will choose a topic area to research and come to class with an essay, and prepared for a discussion.

For example:

see http://cropcirclemeanings.blogspot.com/

---consider these recent images of crop circles:

 



 

2. HONR 302: Slavery: A World History

• 3 credits
• taught by Dr. James Schaefer
• Time: M, W, F from 1-1:50 pm
• CRN: 10524

 

• Course Decription:

  This course examines how slave trades and slavery were initiated, maintained and rationalized in multiple ways by those who benefited from the systems. It also examines how ideological, social, economic, and institutional racism was both a cause and a long-term consequence of slavery and the slave trade. Some questions to be examined include:

1. How is historical information about slavery problematic? What are the politics of production?
2. How is transatlantic slavery distinctive among the various kinds of slavery in world history?
3. Whose perspective about slavery should we take when studying the subject?
4. What role did religion play in the cultural survival of enslaved people?
5. How did cultural institutions transfer to other cultural institutions?
6. How did the slave trade operate on a multitude of continents?
7. How did African cultural transfers shape American culture?
8. How did the system of slavery differ according to the culture, economy, gender, and age of those involved in it?
9. How did the nature of racialized slavery change over time?
10. How did racialized slavery shape the psychology of Americans and Europeans?
11. How was slavery supported by the American legal and judicial system?
12. How was racialized slavery of the Americas shaped by European antecedents?
13. How did enslaved people resist slavery?
14. How did free people resist slavery?
15. By what legal and extralegal measures did people become free? How did they celebrate?
16. How are slavery and anti-slavery commemorated in the mainstream story of history?
17. How have slavery and anti-slavery shaped Americans’ view of their exceptionalism?

3. HONR 401: Honors Senior Thesis (1 to 4 credits)

• • See the Honors Director if you are an upperclassman and need this class

II. Honors sections of regularly offered courses

1. INTD 333-H01: The Origins of Human Nature •

• 4 credits •
• taught by Dr. Gary Johnson
• Time: T, R  3:30 — 5:10 pm
• CRN: 10559

This course will explore the origins of human nature from an interdisciplinary perspective.  We will draw upon contemporary biology, ethology, anthropology, psychology, sociology, political science, history, and philosophy.  Many of the great issues of human social and political life will be reassessed from this broad interdisciplinary perspective.  The class will examine the origins of a wide variety of phenomena, including sexual behavior, marriage and family life, crime, social stratification, leadership, government, politics, patriotism, nationalism, racism, ethnocentrism, aggression, genocide, war, ideology, religion, and morality.  It will conclude with an examination of the likely future of humankind. 

We will not examine any of these issues in depth—that is not the purpose of the course.  Our goal, instead, is to investigate the very roots of human nature.  We will be seeking a common framework—based on a few underlying principles—that both unites and elucidates all of these old issues.   

In addition to the obvious goal of acquainting you with contemporary ideas on a variety of important and fascinating issues—and from an interdisciplinary perspective—the course will serve to enhance your writing skills, your oral communication skills, your analytical skills, and your capacity for critical thinking.  It will also enhance your capacity to synthesize—to integrate information from a variety of sources in an effort to answer complex questions.   

 

III. Honors sections of General Eduction courses

1. COMM 101-H15: Honors Fundamentals of Speech/Communication

• 3 credits •
• taught by Dr. George Denger •
• Time: 12:30-1:50 T, R •
• Course Registration Number (CRN): 10771

2. ENGL 110-H02: Honors English Composition I

• 3 credits •
• taught by Dr. Chad Barbour •
• Time: M, W, F  10 —10:50 am •
• CRN: 10389

Recent Addition:

3. ENGL 110-H03: Honors English Composition I

 

• 3 credits •
• taught by Dr. Chad Barbour •
• Time: M, W, F  9 —9:50 am •
• CRN: 10831

 

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