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Honors Course Archive: Spring 2007

    • CHEM 335: Honors Organic Chemistry
      SLN 11601

      M W F
      11:30-12:20
      BAG 261
      Credits: 4
      Limit: 40 students

      See below

      For chemistry majors and otherwise qualified students planning three or more quarters of organic chemistry. Structure, nomenclature, reactions, and synthesis of organic compounds. Theory and mechanism of organic reactions. Studies of biomolecules. No organic laboratory accompanies this course. No more than 5 credits can be counted toward graduation from the following course groups: 221, 223, 237, 335. Prerequisite: either CHEM 155 or CHEM 162. Offered: A.

    • H A&S 222A: HIV/AIDS: Issues and Challenges
      SLN 13453

        Danuta Kasprzyk (Senior Research Scientist)
        kasprzyk@battelle.org
        Dan Montano (SPHCM Global Health)
        montano@battelle.org
      TTH
      230-420
      MGH 238
      Credits: 5
      Limit: 35 students

      Priority to Juniors and Seniors. Sophomores must have permission from instructor.

      This course will provide an overview of virological, epidemiological,
      medical, behavioral, prevention (including medical, vaccine,
      behavioral), and psycho-social issues in regards to the HIV/AIDS
      epidemic. Both national (US) and international perspectives will be
      presented. As part of course requirements, students will be required to
      read a book pre-approved by course instructors. The book will have to be
      summarized in a 10-page paper that includes a summary of the book, and
      provides the implications of information in the book in terms the impact
      of HIV and AIDS from either individual, family, community, societal, or
      world perspectives. Choice of books will come from a list provided by
      course instructors. Selection of books must be pre-approved by course
      instructors. Books not on the list may be selected by students, but must
      be approved by course instructors. Approval of books must occur by
      mid-quarter(April 23). Outlines regarding paper, will be due two weeks
      before the end of the quarter (week of May 21), and must be approved by
      course instructors to make further progress on paper required. Papers
      will be due Finals Week. Junior or Senior standing is recommended to
      take this course. Sophomores must get permission from course instructors
      to sign up.

      There will be an international internship related to this course in Fall
      2007. Students selected will participate in a University of Zimbabwe
      program
      (ZiCHIRe), working in the area of HIV and AIDS. This AIDS course is a
      pre-requisite for consideration for the internship. Internship priority
      will be given to
      students with Junior or Senior standing.

    • H A&S 222B: Life and Death: The Physiology of Humans and Other Animals
      SLN 13454

        Kathleen Hunt
        Phone: (206) 543-7444
        hunt@u.washington.edu
      TTH
      1130-120
      MGH 287
      Credits: 5
      Limit: 35 students

      For university honors students only.

      Physiology is the study of how bodies work - how we manage to stay alive from day to day, and what happens when things go wrong. We will start with an overview of the design and abilities of the animal body, exploring how humans and animals survive (or don't) in extreme environments where the body is pushed to its limits, such as at the top of Everest or the bottom of the sea. In the second part of the
      course we'll see how our bodies deal with the ongoing daily challenges of life, such as french-fry diets, all-nighters, diseases, and the occasional lion attack.

      Along the way, we'll ponder such questions as: Why don't desert gazelles pass out from heat stroke? How can a chickadee survive the Alaskan winter? Is salt really bad for you? Does the Zone diet really work? Are human sperm counts declining? Are final exams bad for your health?

      My goal is for students to appreciate the abilities and limits of their mammalian heritage, arrive at a detailed understanding of some modern health controversies, and, above all, gain confidence in their ability to tackle advanced topics in biology (or in any field).

      Course assignments will emphasize critical reading, synthetic thinking, and clear writing. The major class assignments will probably be 2 research papers and 2 exams. Students will read primary, secondary, and popular literature, monitor their own diet, exercise, sleep and stress patterns, research and write about their own interests, and develop their own opinions.

    • H A&S 222C: The Big Deal about Little Things: Ecology and Evolution of the Microbe
      SLN 13455

        Claire Horner-Devine (Aquatic and Fishery Sciences)
        mchd@u.washington.edu
      TTH
      130-320
      MGH 206
      Credits: 5
      Limit: 20 students

      Microbes are the oldest, most abundant and diverse group of organisms on Earth. In this course students will gain an understanding of the fundamentals of ecology and evolution by exploring the role of microbes in disease, ecosystem functioning and extreme environments.

      We will begin with an introduction to the incredible diversity of microbes and methods used to study these communities of tiny organisms. The rest of the quarter will be comprised of three units.

      1) Microbes and disease: We will explore the current understanding of the role that microbial species and communities play in diseases of humans, plants and animals. This section will emphasize human health, agriculture and fisheries.

      2) Microbes and ecosystems: Next, we will explore the role that microbes play in the functioning of both aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. We will then examine the impact that anthropogenic changes, such as invasive species and climate change, have on microbial community structure and function.

      3) Microbes at the extremes: We will investigate the ability of microorganisms to live in extreme environments such as deep sea vents, geothermal hotsprings, Antarctic ice and possibly on other planets.


      We will use lectures, discussions and lab demonstrations to explore each topic. Each week, students will read primary and secondary literature and work in teams to present this information and facilitate discussion. Each student will write a term paper on an approved topic and present their findings in a poster at the end of the quarter.

    • H A&S 222D: Introduction to Energy and Environment (Life Under the Pale Sun)
      SLN 13456

        Peter Rhines (Oceanography)
        Office: 319 Ocean Science Bldg, Box 355351
        Phone: 543-0593
        rhines@ocean.washington.edu
      MWF
      1030-1120
      MGH 242
      Credits: 5
      Limit: 13 students

      H A&S 222 D is cross listed with H A&S 253 E. Students can take 222D for science core credit OR 253 E for civilization core credit.

      Course website: http://www.ocean.washington.edu/courses/as222d/

      This course explores the global environment and energy resources, yet in the context of Arctic native life. It has a 'science core' yet is designed so that non-scientists can compete equally with science majors. The core will teach some of the essential ideas that underlie our environment: primarily from physics, but also with some chemistry and biology. We begin with a scientific account of energy in nature, from the sun to the atmosphere and ocean, thence to global energy resources for humans. In parallel we study the natives living round the rim of the Arctic, where the environment and energy are central to survival. We consider changes in our global environment brought about by humans in the 20th Century, debate the 'end of oil', and present some 'can-do' strategies for the new century.

      Students will write essays and work out quantitative problems for each of three units. We have numerous resources to supplement lectures. Our laboratories in the School of Oceanography will be available for demonstrations exploring some basic physical properties of energy: its generation, transmission and conversion in Nature and by humans (from the sun to the fuel cell, for example). We will describe our field work in the Arctic, which relates to the science of the North.

    • H A&S 222E: Humans and Other Animals
      SLN 18150

        Neil Banas (Oceanography)
        neil@ocean.washington.edu
      TTh
      10:30 - 12:20
      MGH 238
      Credits: 5
      Limit: 17 students

      H A&S 222 E is cross listed with H A&S 253 C. Students can take either 222 E for science core credit OR 253 C for civ credit.

      The last few hundred years of Western history have forced non-human animals off much of their traditional range, both environmentally and psychologically. Animals now inhabit only the margins of our communities, our daily awareness, and our understanding of our own identity. This dispossession continues in spite of all we know from biology and about the animal roots of human nature and the ecological ties that bind us. What would a rediscovery of these ties look like, though? Does the path lie through politics and the spirit--animal rights and vegetarianism, say--or through the flesh, as in the bloody intimacy of the family farm? How can we reconcile these urban and rural ideas about what it means to "love nature?"

      To address these questions, this class will navigate a path through both the sciences and the humanities: through criticism (Paul Shepard, Mary Midgley, Jean Baudrillard), first-hand reports by naturalists and scientists (Barry Lopez with a pod of beached whales in Oregon; Penny Patterson and Koko the gorilla, conversing in sign language), and fiction by John Berger and J. M. Coetzee. Students will be encouraged to experiment with all the genres we read in their own writing, and to refine their efforts, workshop-style, through conversation and peer review. We will also go on a field trip to the Woodland Park Zoo, and spend some time watching both the animals inside the cages and the ones looking in.

    • H A&S 396B: Special Topics Natural Science
      SLN 13466

        Tolga Bilgen (Zoology)
        Office: 430 Hitchcock, Box 355320
        Phone: (206) 616-4029
        tolga@u.washington.edu
      F
      9:30 - 11:20
      MGH 206
      Credits: 2, c/nc
      Limit: 30 students

      Students must be concurrently enrolled in bio 220 SLN 10961

      This course will focus on discussions of various topics relevant to biology 220. Readings will include articles, from varied sources. Students will also give a short seminar, on some newsworthy biological issue.

    • H A&S 396C: Special Topics Natural Science
      SLN 13467

        Tolga Bilgen (Zoology)
        Office: 430 Hitchcock, Box 355320
        Phone: (206) 616-4029
        tolga@u.washington.edu
      F
      11:30 - 1:20
      MGH 206
      Credits: 2, c/nc
      Limit: 30 students

      Students must be concurrently enrolled in bio 220 SLN 10961

      This course will focus on discussions of various topics relevant to biology 220. Readings will include articles, from varied sources. Students will also give a short seminar, on some newsworthy biological issue.

    • OCEAN 220 B: Introduction to Field Oceanography
      SLN 15591

        Mark Warner (Oceanography)
        Office: 415 Ocean Science Bldg, Box 355351
        Phone: 543-0765
        mwarner@ocean.washington.edu
      M
      F
      130-420
      230-420
      OTB 014
      OTB 014
      Credits: 5
      Limit: 20 students

      STUDENTS MUST CONTACT MICHELLE TOWNSEND (mtown@u.washington.edu) FOR AN ADD CODE

      Design and conduct a field study in oceanography. Field trip required (usually during Spring break). Focus on active learning, deployment of instruments, data collection, interpretation, and presentation. Honors section incorporates additional field experimentation and study in marine biology. Writing class. Prerequisite: either OCEAN 210 or OCEAN/FISH 250, BIOL 250.

    • ENGL 131A3: Composition: Exposition
      SLN 12649

      TTH
      830-1020
      MGH 076
      MGH 082A
      Credits: 5
      Limit: 22 students

      Honors Students Only

      Study and practice of good writing: topics derived from a variety of personal, academic, and public subjects.

    • H A&S 397A: Paradox and Progress: Exploring Urban Culture in Amsterdam through Interdisciplinary e-Research
      SLN 18152

        Julie Villegas (UW Honors)
        Office: MGH 211, Box 352800
        Phone: 543-7172
        villegas@u.washington.edu
        Clifford Tatum (Communication, Honors)
        Office: 211 Mary Gates Hall, Box 352800
        clifford@u.washington.edu
      MW
      3:30 - 4:50
      MGH 206
      Credits: 3
      Limit: 17 students

      Course is limited to those participating in the Honors summer study abroad in Amsterdam

      The objective of this seminar is to introduce students to the city of
      Amsterdam as an object of study and to develop interdisciplinary
      research designs that enable students to collaborate in small group
      research projects.

      Students will choose topics and work in groups of 2 to 3 students.
      There are a couple of ways this can work. You can work together to
      identify a single research question. In this case the work would be
      divided up among the group participants. Alternatively, a group can
      be formed around a particular topical domain. In this case each group
      member would develop an individual research topic within the larger
      domain. In both cases, students will work together, collaboratively,
      both in Seattle and in Amsterdam.

      Throughout the seminar you will be introduced to a number of research
      methods intended to provide a practical means of conducting research.
      E-Research practices will augment these methods and will be
      incorporated into your research designs. Data collection and analysis
      techniques will include still image photography, sound and voice
      recordings, short video clips, and the use of geo-location tagging
      (eg. Google Earth and Geographical Information Systems software.)
      Each student will start a blog to use as a lab notebook to publish
      research progress as well as a kind of travel journal while in
      Amsterdam. We will experiment with video pod-casting as the end
      product of your research.

      We will look critically at our assumptions about knowledge. This
      means being reflexive about how we collect data, the methods we use,
      and how our assumptions about reality influence research designs.
      International research is an interesting way to do this because many
      of our assumptions, particularly the unconscious ones, are put into
      relief as a result of being outside of our cultural context. Our use
      of e-Research collaborative practices makes this reflexivity all the
      more salient.

      http://depts.washington.edu/uwhonors/international/amsterdam.htm

    • H A&S 253A: Ethnographies of Education
      SLN 13457

        Clarke Speed (Anthropology)
        landogo@u.washington.edu
      TTH
      11:30 - 1:20
      MGH 251
      Credits: 5
      Limit: 35 students

      This course is a Socratic theory and method of radically transformative
      'learning environments.' As a kind of 'educ-tion' we seek to map how some
      teachers 'educe' students via shared ethno-otherness and theory into the
      identity of difference. Since knowledge and power are always linked, we
      use radical ethno-graphics to document the ways various learners are moved
      across domains of knowledge without re-situating self in the historical
      web of social asymmetry. As a project based class, students pick an
      educational environment, generate an abstract, participate in its meanings
      with agents,find spaces of capacity, present findings to class, and write
      a provisional ethno-graphics. Texts include: The Constitution of Society,
      Geek Love, and Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes.

    • H A&S 253B: A Short History of Love
      SLN 13458

        Marshall Brown (English/CHID)
        mbrown@u.washington.edu
      MW
      11:30 - 1:20
      MGH 254
      Credits: 5
      Limit: 35 students

      How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

      Love is an object choice or a destiny. It is intensely private or it
      binds society together. It is directed by the mind, by the senses, or by
      the instincts. It is the passion of a moment or the emotion of a
      lifetime. It unites the sexes or it consecrates their inequality. It is
      infernal, beastly, earthly, humane, or divine. It directs the good and
      drives the bad.

      Love is a many-splendored thing.
      Or maybe, as Henry Fielding accuses some of thinking, love is the desire
      of satisfying a a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate
      white flesh.

      What is love? How has the understanding of love's purposes and effects
      changed over the centuries? We will investigate these questions through a
      sample of European and Euro-American literary masterpieces and essays from
      the Renaissance to the present. Three novels, three plays, two operas
      (including a performance of Puccini's La Bohème with the Seattle Opera),
      selections of poems and classic essays and a short book by Freud.

      The course will be writing intensive, with frequent mini-essays and a
      final 10-page overview of the readings from the perspective of Gabriel
      García Márquez's novel Love in the Time of Cholera, which you should try
      to read through before the quarter begins.

    • H A&S 253C: Humans and Other Animals
      SLN 13459

        Neil Banas (Oceanography)
        neil@ocean.washington.edu
      T TH
      10:30 - 12:20
      MGH 238
      Credits: 5
      Limit: 18 students

      cross listed with H A&S 222E SLN 18150. Students should register for H A&S 253 C for Civilization credit OR 222 E for Natural Science credit

      The last few hundred years of Western history have forced non-human animals off much of their traditional range, both environmentally and psychologically. Animals now inhabit only the margins of our communities, our daily awareness, and our understanding of our own identity. This dispossession continues in spite of all we know from biology and about the animal roots of human nature and the ecological ties that bind us. What would a rediscovery of these ties look like, though? Does the path lie through politics and the spirit--animal rights and vegetarianism, say--or through the flesh, as in the bloody intimacy of the family farm? How can we reconcile these urban and rural ideas about what it means to "love nature?"

      To address these questions, this class will navigate a path through both the sciences and the humanities: through criticism (Paul Shepard, Mary Midgley, Jean Baudrillard), first-hand reports by naturalists and scientists (Barry Lopez with a pod of beached whales in Oregon; Penny Patterson and Koko the gorilla, conversing in sign language), and fiction by John Berger and J. M. Coetzee. Students will be encouraged to experiment with all the genres we read in their own writing, and to refine their efforts, workshop-style, through conversation and peer review. We will also go on a field trip to the Woodland Park Zoo, and spend some time watching both the animals inside the cages and the ones looking in.

    • H A&S 253D: Alternative Perspectives in Western Civilization
      Civilization
      SLN 13460

        Al Black (Sociology)
        Office: 117 C Savery, Box 353340
        Phone: (206) 685-7284
      TTH
      130-320
      MGH 254
      Credits: 5
      Limit: 25 students

      For university honors students only.

      The primary focus of this course, given the condition of inner city black
      communities today, is the effect of the denial of equal access in the labor
      market on the structure and integrity of the African American family and
      community. In this context, we use the research of leading scholars in the
      field, for example Professor Jacqueline Jones in all three of her
      monographs, Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow a must read), The Dispossessed,
      and American Work. Professor Jones is one of the best labor historians in
      her discipline. We will also use the analyses of William J. Wilson in two
      of his books, The Truly Disadvantaged, and When Work Disappears, as well as
      Donald Massey and Nancy Denton's American Apartheid. Wilson, Massey and
      Denton are the leading scholars on the African American underclass.

      In this course then we will cover the following issues:

      1. The effects of the Civil War and its aftermath, Northern betrayal,
      Southern white violence, and Black Codes and Jim Crow legislation on key
      institutional access issues (recently I have been focusing on all the major
      wars before and including the Korean conflict and therefore this discussion
      is likely to be expanded);
      2. The relationship between the past and the present attempting to render
      the implicit processes and patterns of systematic and institutional
      discrimination in African American history explicit (as I often say in class
      to render the implicit explicit);
      3. The denial of equal access to the labor market and its effect, the
      destabilization of the African American family and community;
      4. The impact of spatial segregation and de-industrialization on African
      American people and their neighborhoods;
      5. The history of the use of violence as a primary mechanism to establish
      and maintain racial and racial gender preference;
      6. The history of estate and caste discrimination and there consequences;
      7. The denial of equal access to the labor market and its sociological and
      economic consequences;
      8. Demonstrating that the American opportunity structure has always been
      based on affirmative action, that is racial gender preference and that this
      practice continues to this very day;
      9. The introduction of a new and more precise analytical model in the field
      of race relations, the monopoly resource zero-sum model as contrasted to the
      social injustice model.

    • H A&S 253E: Introduction to Energy and Environment (Life Under the Pale Sun)
      SLN 18151

        Peter Rhines (Oceanography)
        Office: 319 Ocean Science Bldg, Box 355351
        Phone: 543-0593
        rhines@ocean.washington.edu
      MWF
      10:30 - 11:20
      MGH 242
      Credits: 5
      Limit: 12 students

      cross listed with H A&S 222D 13456. Students can take 222 D for Natural Science credit OR 253E for Civilization credit

      Course website: http://www.ocean.washington.edu/courses/as222d/

      This course explores the global environment and energy resources, yet in the context of Arctic native life. It has a 'science core' yet is designed so that non-scientists can compete equally with science majors. The core will teach some of the essential ideas that underlie our environment: primarily from physics, but also with some chemistry and biology. We begin with a scientific account of energy in nature, from the sun to the atmosphere and ocean, thence to global energy resources for humans. In parallel we study the natives living round the rim of the Arctic, where the environment and energy are central to survival. We consider changes in our global environment brought about by humans in the 20th Century, debate the 'end of oil', and present some 'can-do' strategies for the new century.

      Students will write essays and work out quantitative problems for each of three units. We have numerous resources to supplement lectures. Our laboratories in the School of Oceanography will be available for demonstrations exploring some basic physical properties of energy: its generation, transmission and conversion in Nature and by humans (from the sun to the fuel cell, for example). We will describe our field work in the Arctic, which relates to the science of the North.

    • H A&S 263 A: Teaching What You Know to Others: A Service Learning Course
      SLN 13461

        Eugene Edgar (Education, Honors Faculty Scholar 2006-2007)
        Office: MGH 211 B (Office hours: Tuesdays 2:00-3:30), Box 352800
        Phone: 221-3431
        ebedgar@u.washington.edu
        Frances McCue (Writer in Residence, UW Honors Program)
        frances@francesmccue.com
      MW
      12:30 - 2:20
      MGH 206
      Credits: 5
      Limit: 25 students

      Restricted to students who have completed HA&S 262A in 2007 or by instructor permission.

      In this course students will be placed in community sites and will implement the lesson plans they developed in HA&S262A. The entire class will meet for four group reflection sessions during the regular scheduled class time. The rest of the class sessions will take place in community settings. The major products for this course will be: 1) an ongoing reflective journal on the teaching; 2) a final summary paper including all the lesson plans used in the community setting, an evaluation of the teaching in terms of learner outcomes and satisfaction, and a reflection of what modifications would be needed if the project were replicated.

    • H A&S 263 B: How to Read Write and Speak
      SLN 13462

        Shawn Wong (English)
        Office: A503 Padelford Hall, Box 354330
        Phone: (206) 543-6201
        homebase@u.washington.edu
      T TH
      1:30 - 3:20
      MGH 228
      Credits: 5
      Limit: 25 students

      This course will be a fun, relevant reinvention of civics. Students will spend intensive time learning three core skills of engaged citizenship: how to read the newspaper (by dissecting articles in the paper to determine the agendas of the protagonists and of the journalists, to detect bias, to see how issues have been framed); how to write an argument (by composing essays and op-eds on social and political issues and by assessing models of effective written advocacy); and how to deliver a speech (by practicing and
      getting critiqued on short persuasive speeches). Students will tie all three skills together by working collaboratively on projects that involve them in current civic life and the political process.

    • H A&S 263 D: HIV/AIDS: Issues and Challenges
      SLN 18524

        Danuta Kasprzyk (Senior Research Scientist)
        kasprzyk@battelle.org
        Dan Montano (SPHCM Global Health)
        montano@battelle.org
      T TH
      2:30-4:20
      MGH 238
      Credits: 5
      Limit: 15 students

      COURSE IS CROSS LISTED WITH H A&S 222 A

      This course will provide an overview of virological, epidemiological,
      medical, behavioral, prevention (including medical, vaccine,
      behavioral), and psycho-social issues in regards to the HIV/AIDS
      epidemic. Both national (US) and international perspectives will be
      presented. As part of course requirements, students will be required to
      read a book pre-approved by course instructors. The book will have to be
      summarized in a 10-page paper that includes a summary of the book, and
      provides the implications of information in the book in terms the impact
      of HIV and AIDS from either individual, family, community, societal, or
      world perspectives. Choice of books will come from a list provided by
      course instructors. Selection of books must be pre-approved by course
      instructors. Books not on the list may be selected by students, but must
      be approved by course instructors. Approval of books must occur by
      mid-quarter(April 23). Outlines regarding paper, will be due two weeks
      before the end of the quarter (week of May 21), and must be approved by
      course instructors to make further progress on paper required. Papers
      will be due Finals Week. Junior or Senior standing is recommended to
      take this course. Sophomores must get permission from course instructors
      to sign up.

      There will be an international internship related to this course in Fall
      2007. Students selected will participate in a University of Zimbabwe
      program
      (ZiCHIRe), working in the area of HIV and AIDS. This AIDS course is a
      pre-requisite for consideration for the internship. Internship priority
      will be given to
      students with Junior or Senior standing.

    • H A&S 263C: Sierra Leone 07: Readin, Writin, and Speakin!
      SLN 13463

        Clarke Speed (Anthropology)
        landogo@u.washington.edu
      MW
      12:30 - 2:20
      MGH 241
      Credits: 5
      Limit: 35 students

      **Note: This Sierra Leone Studies course is required for all students participating in the Sierra Leone Exploration Seminar (2007); however, it is also open to all other interested students.

      Our goal is 'readin, writin, and speakin' the ordinary and everyday in the rural and urban continuum. As pragmatic preparation for work in Sierra Leone, or any other postcolonial
      environment, we will formulate projects, survey library sources, make theory into explicit method, and write up a research proposal. Please know that we will initiate language work - where class is often taught in Krio (the linqua franca) with lots of Landogo words, phrases, and greetings sprinkled in. The goal is to otherize self - essentially, to prepare for the observed-observing-observers. Texts weave a tapestry of daily life - including Greene's “The Heart of the Matter,” a Krio learning manual, Ferme's “The Underneath of Thing,s” Jackson's “Path Toward a Clearing,” and a recent novel about women's experiences in the rebel war.

    • HIST 113AC: Europe & The Modern World
      SLN 13492

      F
      MTWTh
      12:30 - 1:20
      12:30 - 1:20
      BAG 331A
      SMI 120
      Credits: 5
      Limit: 25 students

      Students must also register for the lecture SLN 13489

      Political, economic, social, and intellectual history of modern Europe. Cannot be taken for credit toward a history major if HSTEU 302 or 303 previously taken.

      Class description

      A survey of European history from the 17th century to the present. Emphasis will be placed on reading, analyzing, and discussing primary sources.

      General method of instruction

      Apart from the textbook, students will read a collection of primary documents, as well as a novel and a memoir or two.

      Recommended preparation

      No prerequisites.

      Class assignments and grading

      A midterm examination, a final examination, a short paper (5 to 7 pages), and participation in class discussions.

      Midterm 25% Paper 25% Final 25% Discussion 25%

    • HIST 113AH: Europe & The Modern World
      SLN 13497

      F
      MTWTh
      1:30 - 2:20
      12:30 - 1:20
      THO 331
      SMI 120
      Credits: 5
      Limit: 25 students

      Students must also register for the lecture SLN 13489

      Political, economic, social, and intellectual history of modern Europe. Cannot be taken for credit toward a history major if HSTEU 302 or 303 previously taken.

      Class description

      A survey of European history from the 17th century to the present. Emphasis will be placed on reading, analyzing, and discussing primary sources.

      Student learning goals

      General method of instruction

      Apart from the textbook, students will read a collection of primary documents, as well as a novel and a memoir or two.

      Recommended preparation

      No prerequisites.

      Class assignments and grading

      A midterm examination, a final examination, a short paper (5 to 7 pages), and participation in class discussions.

      Midterm 25% Paper 25% Final 25% Discussion 25%

    • HUM 203 AE: The World in Motion: Animation in Theory and Practice
      SLN 13696

        Phillip Thurtle (Comparative History of Ideas Program)
        Office: B102 Padelford Hall, Box 354300
        Phone: 616-3545
        thurtle@u.washington.edu
        Stephanie Andrews (DX Arts)
        Office: 207J Raitt Hall, Box 353414
        Phone: 543-9420
        stephnet@u.washington.edu
      M
      W
      2:30-3:50
      4:00-5:20
      SAV 153
      OUG 102
      Credits: 5
      Limit: 25 students

      STUDENTS MUST ALSO REGISTER FOR HUM 203 LECTURE (SLN 13691)

      This class studies animation to explore what it means to live in a world of constant change and transformation. Students will learn by viewing a diverse selection of animated work, reading about how media informs our perceptions of time and space, and working on creative projects. They will finish the quarter with a piece of creative digital animation that develops the themes of the class in innovative directions. More specifically, students will ask: What does it mean to be animated? What techniques are used to create the illusionary gestures of animation? How do animation practices differ in different parts of the world? How has time-based media developed in the West? How can technology expand our perceptions about animation? Join us as we span the globe from Africa to Asia to Europe, pondering what it means to live in an animated world and exploring possibilities for putting this world in motion.

    • RUSS 323AB: Russian Literature and Culture of the Twentieth Century
      SLN 16919

        Jose Alaniz (Slavic Languages and Literatures)
        Office: M256 Smith Hall, Box 353580
        Phone: 543-7580
        jos23@u.washington.edu
      TF
      1030-1120
      CHL 105
      Credits: 5
      Limit: 20 students

      Students must register for lecture SLN 16917

      Literature as an element in modern Russian culture. Art, architecture, and music also treated. Periods covered include symbolism, revolution, postrevolution, Stalinist, the "thaw," and contemporary.

    • SIS 202AI: Cultural Interactions
      SLN 16971

      MWF
      T Th
      11:30 - 12:20
      8:30 - 9:30
      KNE 220
      SAV 144
      Credits: 5
      Limit: 15 students

      Students must also register for the lecture, SLN 16962

      Cultural interaction among societies and civilizations, particularly Western and non-Western. Intellectual, cultural, social, and artistic aspects; historical factors.

      Class description

      This course takes seriously the cultural factors that create the preferences, biases, behaviors, moral forms that shape and guide everyday thinking and behaving. The course will introduce students to the ways scientific knowledge (whether humanistic, social or scientific) always assumes a personal basis. We first understand our own cultural constructions that shape our perspectives and then expand and make a more sophisticated analysis of global cultures using reflexive sociology and anthropology. We tackle social and cultural interactions on a comparative basis on the topic of culture and violence. We focus on violence as it relates to race, gender, class, war and everyday life; ending with a section on violence and religion. Violence is the theme of the course in the sense that violence or forms of coercion are one of the fundamental ways culture is created, maintained and destroyed—whether in developed or less developed societies. It is also helps to show us how to deconstruct our cultural and social worlds in order to understand, explain and even to change them. In this sense, cultural analysis is a moral enterprise in that we recognize our own moral suppositions—reconstruct and develop new ones, and then use them to judge culture and if necessary, to change it based on a sense of what is needed and wanted.

      Student learning goals

      General method of instruction

      The teaching method will include lectures and interactive discussions, as well as a series of movies related to violence and culture. The teaching goals will be to create an environment where questions and dialogue are expected; to logically unfold how theoretical approaches are constructed; to be a resource for critical and creative thinking, and responsible action.

      Recommended preparation

      One or two of the SIS core courses.

      Class assignments and grading

      Student participation; short critiical papers on reading assignments; one group project and a take home written exam that calls for critical and creative reflection on readings, lectures and the movies assigned for the course.

    • SIS 202AJ: Cultural Interactions
      SLN 16972

      MWF
      T Th
      11:30 - 12:20
      11:30 - 12:20
      KNE 220
      LAW 213
      Credits: 5
      Limit: 15 students

      Students must also register for the lecture, SLN 16962

      Cultural interaction among societies and civilizations, particularly Western and non-Western. Intellectual, cultural, social, and artistic aspects; historical factors.

      Class description

      This course takes seriously the cultural factors that create the preferences, biases, behaviors, moral forms that shape and guide everyday thinking and behaving. The course will introduce students to the ways scientific knowledge (whether humanistic, social or scientific) always assumes a personal basis. We first understand our own cultural constructions that shape our perspectives and then expand and make a more sophisticated analysis of global cultures using reflexive sociology and anthropology. We tackle social and cultural interactions on a comparative basis on the topic of culture and violence. We focus on violence as it relates to race, gender, class, war and everyday life; ending with a section on violence and religion. Violence is the theme of the course in the sense that violence or forms of coercion are one of the fundamental ways culture is created, maintained and destroyed—whether in developed or less developed societies. It is also helps to show us how to deconstruct our cultural and social worlds in order to understand, explain and even to change them. In this sense, cultural analysis is a moral enterprise in that we recognize our own moral suppositions—reconstruct and develop new ones, and then use them to judge culture and if necessary, to change it based on a sense of what is needed and wanted.

      Student learning goals

      General method of instruction

      The teaching method will include lectures and interactive discussions, as well as a series of movies related to violence and culture. The teaching goals will be to create an environment where questions and dialogue are expected; to logically unfold how theoretical approaches are constructed; to be a resource for critical and creative thinking, and responsible action.

      Recommended preparation

      One or two of the SIS core courses.

      Class assignments and grading

      Student participation; short critiical papers on reading assignments; one group project and a take home written exam that calls for critical and creative reflection on readings, lectures and the movies assigned for the course.

    • H A&S 350A: Street Newspapers, Poverty and Homelessness
      SLN 13464

        Tim Harris (Real Change)
        rchange@speakeasy.org
      F
      9:30 - 11:20
      MGH 211B
      Credits: 2, c/nc
      Limit: 10 students

      THIS COURSE IS CROSS LISTED WITH CHID 498 B

      Street newspapers such as Seattle's Real Change build for a more just society while helping to meet the immediate needs of those most affected by poverty. More than 200 such papers now exist in at least 27 countries, offering opportunity for self-help and political action by homeless people and their allies. This focus group will examine poverty and homelessness through the lens of the street newspaper movement. Students will visit the Seattle newspaper (realchangenews.org), learn about local efforts to end homelessness, and engage as activists to become part of the solution. The focus group is led by Timothy Harris, who is the Founding Director of Real Change and a leader in the international streetpaper movement. Internship opportunities will be available with street newspapers both locally and abroad.

    • H A&S 350B: The Basic Problem in Science and Society
      SLN 13465

        Vladimir Chaloupka (Physics)
        Office: B309 Physics-Astronomy Bldg, Box 351560
        Phone: 543-8965
        vladi@u.washington.edu
      Th
      3:30 - 5:20
      PAA A110
      Credits: 2, c/nc
      Limit: 15 students

      Priority given to Juniors and Seniors

      Many thinkers have pointed out the ever-increasing gap between the cumulative, exponential progress in science and technology on the one hand, and on the other hand, the lack of comparable progress in our ability to use our new technological tools thoughtfully and responsibly. This gap cannot keep increasing forever. Some people think that we might be in the process of acquiring powers that we should not have, and that catastrophic consequences are not only possible, but probable or even inevitable. We will explore these issues, evaluating developments in Physics, Molecular Biology
      and Genetics, Nanotechnology, and Computer Science, including the potential for accidental or intentional misuse. The emphasis will be on critical evaluation of the likelihood of various outcomes. Students from technical disciplines, as well as students from the Arts and Humanities, are encouraged to participate - we will not hesitate to talk about Philosophy (Philosophy of Science in particular) and Religion, and - for good measure - about Music. There will be an extensive reading list, with assignments to be presented in class. Students will write a term paper summarizing and arguing their position on the issues discussed during the Quarter.

    • H A&S 350C: The Science of Sleep and Dreaming
      SLN 18441

        Kathleen Hunt
        Phone: (206) 543-7444
        hunt@u.washington.edu
      W
      2:30 - 4:20
      MGH 211B
      Credits: 2, c/nc
      Limit: 15 students

      Spending a third of your hours unconscious, paralyzed and hallucinating might sound like a description of a terrible neurological disease, but we all do this every night. We take it so much for granted that we overlook how bizarre it truly is. Sleep is one of biology's great unsolved mysteries. Why do we sleep? Why do we need to spend so much time at it? Does it really accomplish anything? Is it possible, or desirable, to live without sleep? What are dreams, and do they really mean anything?

      At the interface of psychology, neurology, medicine, and physiology, sleep science draws on all these disciplines to explore this peculiar realm of body, mind and consciousness. Through readings and guest lectures, we will explore and discuss current knowledge of sleep. Topics will include:

      Classic sleep stages and their historical discovery

      Daily and annual cycles in sleep and alertness

      Sleep deprivation and its effects

      The interpretation of dreams

      Lucid dreaming

      Animal sleep and hibernation

      Sleep-related diseases (sleep apnea, narcolepsy, restless-legs syndrome)

      Causes and cures for insomnia

      Students will keep sleep and dream logs throughout the quarter. We will read an assortment of papers and articles and will hear from invited guest lecturers from sleep medicine clinics. Each student will write a paper, contribute to discussions, and will also be responsible for leading one of the class discussions.

    • H A&S 397B: Special Topics in Evolutionary Psychology
      SLN 18294

        David Barash (Psychology)
        Office: 311 Guthrie, Box 351525
        Phone: (206) 543-8784
        dpbarash@u.washington.edu
      W
      12:30 - 1:20
      MGH 211B
      Credits: 1, c/nc
      Limit: 15 students

      THIS COURSE WILL COUNT TOWARD THE HONORS SEMINAR REQUIREMENT, BUT WILL NOT SATISFY IT. STUDENTS MUST COMPLETE AT LEAST 2 CREDITS OF SEMINAR COURSEWORK TO SATISFY THE REQUIREMENT.

      We'll talk about a number of issues derived from applying evolutionary biology to human behavior, such as altruism, selfishness, morality, communication, game theory, male-female differences in penchant for violence, etc. We'll do so by reading and discussing the text of my forthcoming book, "Natural Selections: selfish altruists and honest liars, or How I learned to stop worrying and love evolution." No previous background in either evolution or psychology required, But an interest in relating the two, a willingness to read about 25 pp per week, and the chutzpah to criticize/comment/rant in a free-for-all seminar atmosphere.

    • H A&S 397C: American Attitudes Towards Big Business: Selected Works in the Making of Public Opinion
      SLN 18351

        Scott Montgomery (International Studies)
        scottlm@u.washington.edu
      Th
      1:30 - 3:20
      MGH 211B
      Credits: 3, c/nc
      Limit: 15 students

      America is well-known as the origin of giant corporations, an institution that altered profoundly the modern world in the late 19th century. Big Business began with the railroads, spread to monopoly enterprise in a number of industries, and reached its apex in the vast and sprawling behemoth of Standard Oil. Corporations like Standard Oil were both the agents and the icons of a transformation that took the U.S. from a largely agrarian past into a more technological, urban future. Yet American attitudes have never fully embraced Big Business. On the contrary, public opinion towards large corporate enterprise, Big Oil most of all, has remained ambivalent, conflicted, even assertively negative. Such ambivalence is also reflected in the history of government-business relations, with its ardent struggle for power and control. What are the origins and the history of these attitudes? What forms have they taken? What connections might exist between our views of Microsoft or Exxon and those of “gilded age” citizens toward the railroads, or Jacksonian democrats toward the Second National Bank?

      To answer such questions, this seminar will study a diversity of selected works that were instrumental in forming and framing public attitudes towards Big Business during the past 200 years. Sources will include nonfiction, fiction, scholarly and popular writings, artworks, and at least one film.

      There are no prerequisites for this course. Students will be graded on the basis of class participation, one short paper, one oral discussion, and one major project (paper, class presentation, or more extended oral discussion with the professor).