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Honors Course Archive: Spring 2008

    • ART 140 C: Honors Basic Photography
      SLN 10358

        Carrie Kapp (Art)
        ckapp@u.washington.edu
      MW
      2:30-5:20
      ART 116
      Credits: 5
      Limit: 20 students

      ***COURSE FULL*** $77 additional course fee is required

      This course is an introduction to the theory, techniques and processes of still photography with a digital camera. The class emphasizes photography's potential for self-expression and creative problem solving in an artistic context.

      Student learning goals:
      -Understand the potential of photography as a fine art practice.
      -Achieve technical competence in basic photographic techniques.
      -Develop an awareness of meaning in visual art and contemporary photographic work
      -Develop creative responses to assignments
      -Think and speak critically and objectively about your work and that of your peers.

      General method of instruction:
      -Presentation/lectures will be given about different themes in contemporary art and photography.
      -Technical lectures and workshops will introduce camera operation and digital image processing.
      -Critiques and group reviews of assignments will occur regularly.

      Recommended preparation:
      There are no prerequisites for this class, however, it is required for those wanting to go on to study in the Photography program within the BFA degree. Any background in art is helpful. Students must provide a digital cameral with lens, shutter, aperture and focus controls, with a minimum 4 Mega pixel capacity, and 512 memory card. No disposable and/or fixed focus cameras.

      Class assignments and grading:
      Each assignment is designed to stimulate consideration of a specific conceptual approach but may be realized with a vast range of creative solutions. Assessment is ongoing throughout the quarter. Regular group reviews of your photographic assignments are a valuable and essential component of this class. Evaluation will be based upon the conceptual development and adventurousness of your ideas, the quality and creativity of the assignments turned in and individual progress. In addition to the merit of your photographic work, assessment will also be based upon your level of contribution to discussion, your written review and your on-line contributions as reflections of engagement and critical thinking.

      See course website for more information: http://courses.washington.edu/honor140

    • H A&S 253 A: Teaching What You Know to Others: A Service Learning Course
      SLN 13554

        Frances McCue (Writer in Residence, UW Honors Program)
        frances@francesmccue.com
      MW
      230-420
      MGH 248
      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 253 B: Dialogue and Dissent: Demosthenes' Oratory in Democratic Athens
      SLN 13555

        Benjamin Crotty
        kcrotty@u.washington.edu
      MTWTHF
      11:30-12:20
      DEN 206
      Credits: 5
      Limit: 35 students

      At the end of the 4th century BCE, Philip of Macedon conquered Greece, ending the hegemony of city-states such as Athens and Sparta and ultimately leading to the empire of Alexander. In the decades prior, the Athenian orator Demosthenes delivered a series of speeches attempting to goad Athens into war. Some were policy speeches urging Athens to send assistance to other city-states under attack by Philip; others consisted of a series of personal attacks against Philip. One of the most famous was delivered in a court of law, during a trial of Demosthenes himself. Despite the number and variety of the appeals, Demosthenes was ultimately unsuccessful; when Athens did go to war, defeat was swift.

      This course will explore the rhetorical strategies of Demosthenes in these various appeals. The focus of the course will be the relationship between Demosthenes and the Athenian citizenry. From the standpoint of rhetorical theory, we will consider the rhetorical tropes and the persuasive tactics that he employed, particularly as they were deployed in various arenas for different audiences and ends. However, we will also consider the citizen identity which Demosthenes constructs and appeals to, analyzing the grammar of civic responsibility and the continuing negotiations which occur between the orator who gives counsel and the citizen body that makes decisions. In addition, we will read several works in various genres by other Athenian orators and intellectuals, through which we will consider other methods of influencing political decision-making. These authors will help us to consider
      modes of political dissent and provide a context for understanding Demosthenes' oratory. By the end of the course, students will have a basic knowledge of the Athenian direct democracy and the use of rhetoric in such a system. We will also consider questions of civic responsibility in any democracy, and how citizen bodies should hear, interrogate, and respond to its leaders and advisors.

      Each week will be organized around a particular event or theme, and class sessions will center on discussion of daily readings. Each week we will read 2-4 primary works. Readings will include some modern scholarship, usually 1 article each week. Students will be assessed via several short writing projects and a final paper. In addition, students (in pairs) will be responsible for leading class discussions during the quarter, which will contribute the balance of the grade.

    • H A&S 253 C: Past Futures: From the Liberal Age to the Consumer Age and the Quest for Peace, Freedom and Justice
      SLN 13556

        Taso Lagos (International Studies)
        Office: 400 Thomson Hall, Box 353650
        Phone: (206) 543-4370
        taso@u.washington.edu
      T TH
      2:30-4:20
      MGH 254
      Credits: 5
      Limit: 25 students

      *** COURSE FULL ***

      The class explores the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st from technlogical, social, political and moral perspectives. It asks questions like: Is a "consumer democracy" the best way to run a modern society? What role does morality play in today's world? Is technology changing our behavior? And can our dream for dignity and peace be achieved in a fractuous, tense reality? The class explores these and other questions in a spirit of discussion and inquiry. There are short writing assignments, two exams and a group writing project.

    • H A&S 253 D: World Religions and the Environment
      SLN 18442

        Neil Banas (Oceanography)
        neil@ocean.washington.edu
      TTh
      1030-1220
      MGH 284
      Credits: 5
      Limit: 25 students

      **COURSE FULL**

      This course will explore intersections between religious belief and practice and the natural world, on both grand and intimate scales. Grand like the all-encompassing vision of interconnectedness in Mahayana Buddhism, or the message of glory and salvation John Muir brought down from the Sierra mountains, or the quiet ferocity of the lords of the undersea world in Haida mythology. Intimate like the
      ethical dilemma posed by mosquitoes in a zen center in the woods, the poet Gary Snyder's reflections on Grace before meals, or the message of "creation care" spreading among contemporary evangelical
      congregations.

      We will discuss the debate over whether the biblical tradition is the root cause of our environmental crisis, the solution to the crisis, or both; how religious belief shapes current environmental activism in Seattle, Thailand, and beyond; and parallels between religious thought and the "deep ecology" of naturalists like Aldo Leopold. The course will be driven by student discussion, writing, and close reading of compelling primary texts.

    • H A&S 253 E: HIV/AIDS: Issues and Challenges
      SLN 18847

        Danuta Kasprzyk (Senior Research Scientist)
        kasprzyk@battelle.org
        Dan Montano (SPHCM Global Health)
        montano@battelle.org
      T TH
      2:30-4:20
      SIG 228
      Credits: 5

      JOINTLY LISTED WITH H A&S 222 A

      See course description for H A&S 222 A. Course can be taken for either CIV (H A&S 253 E) or SCI (HA&S 222 A) credit.

    • H A&S 263 A: Producing Knowledge/Power: The University in Critical Perspective
      SLN 13557

        Nickola Pazderic (UW Honors)
        pazderic@yahoo.com
      T TH
      1:30-3:20
      MGH 238
      Credits: 5
      Limit: 35 students

      General Aim:

      This course will consider the university in historical and cultural perspective as a site for the production of knowledge and power.

      General Structure:

      The course will be divided into five main parts; each will correspond to a primary text. In the first part, we will consider the historical social forces that have shaped university curriculums in American universities. In addition to the main text (Carnochan 1993), other readings on the history and promise of the university will be included.. In the second part of the course, we will consider the university under conditions of neoliberal economics. In addition to the main text (Twitchell 2004), other readings will consider the problems and predicaments of academic labor, marketing and academic achievement, and the general inflation of expectations of academic production. In the third part, in addition to the main text (Douthat 2005), we will consider other readings that describe the role of universities in creating social hierarchies of power and privilege. The fourth part main reading (Roth 2001) will continue the focus on the place of individuals in the institutions, but it will shift focus to faculty who struggle to with issues of language in a post-colonial context in which identity politics have come to replace previously normalized national culture preoccupations in the humanities. Additional reading will consider the role of tenure and academic politics in the production of knowledge. In the final section, we will take our most theoretical turn via the reading (Readings 1996). We will consider the university in all its imperfections, constraints and broken promises as a site for continual intellectual discovery. Other readings will further help us to summarize the course in this final section.

      Requirements:

      1. Every two weeks, students will be given an essay topic related to the texts and discussions. The essays are expected to run 500 to 750 words. They are to be, therefore, terse but informed reflections on the problems central to the course. (40%)

      2. The major project for the class will be individual or group ethnographic research projects. Students will be asked and then coached to investigate pertinent issues through "hands on" observation of specific manifestations of university life. Students are not merely limited to UW for their fieldwork. They may venture elsewhere to gather data. But most important to this exercise is the regular engagement with the issues of the course via personal experience in a given fieldwork setting. These settings will be decided upon in cooperation with the instructor. Students will make at least two, and perhaps three, presentations of their developing research. The instructor and classmates will provide constructive criticism, guidance and further questions for inquiry during the preliminary presentations. At the final presentation, students will take questions about their research and findings from classmates and the instructor alike. (40%)

      3. General participation (20%). See above for guidelines.

      About the Instructor:

      Nickola Pazderic is a cultural anthropologist, trained at the University of Washington. Dr. Pazderic has taught at the University of Washington, Yale University and several universities in Taiwan, where he conducts field research. He has written for scholarly and popular audiences on contemporary religion, media transformation, photography, cultural politics, and neoliberal economics and tertiary education in Taiwan. He resides in Seattle with his family.

    • H A&S 263 B: Global and local perspectives on social work and development: Focus on Horn of Africa and its Diaspora
      SLN 13558

        Nancy Farwell (School of Social Work)
        Phone: 616-2339
        nfarwell@u.washington.edu
      T TH
      3:30-5:20
      SWS B014
      Credits: 5
      Limit: 20 students

      Offered jointly with SISAF 490 C

      This course will introduce you to global and local perspectives on social work and development, with an area focus on the Horn of Africa and its Diaspora. The course will be framed within the broad topic of globalization and global trends that affect social well-being. We will pay particular attention to the processes that characterize the transitions of refugee and immigrant women, children, youth, and families within their country of origin, upon resettlement in the United States, and transnationally, including: a) an overview of the historical events and processes that have resulted in the mass displacement of people; b) selected policies and service programs that have been developed with respect to migration; and c) trauma, coping, agency, and integration during and after repatriation or resettlement. A wide array of strengths-based and empowerment approaches to social work practice in home, school, agency, and community contexts constitute the interventive focus of this course.

      In exploring these issues, we will read, view, and analyze a variety of sources, including newspaper and magazine articles, novels, government documents, research reports, oral histories, and films. We will also pay attention to interventions across a variety of community settings and agency programs, with a focus on a) mutual assistance, psychosocial support, gender and family issues, youth assets development, and community mobilization, b) participatory approaches to program development, and c) the importance of multicultural understanding in global social work practice.

    • H A&S 263 C: Beyond History? The Cultural Production of Spatialization via the Religious Imagination of Path, Time, Space, and Boundary in Sierra Leone.
      SLN 13559

        Clarke Speed (Anthropology)
        landogo@u.washington.edu
      MW
      12:30-2:20
      MGH 251
      Credits: 5
      Limit: 35 students

      *** COURSE FULL ***

      This Honors course rethinks Sierra Leonian History as one with multiple and complex historical flows that converge in violent clash. Such crises and clash reveal layer and layer of contradiction but never resolve those same contradictions. Our work is synthetic of ideas in Anthropology, History, Geography, and Religious Studies. We follow a Marxian cultural grid established by David Harvey in Spaces of Capital (2001); but we do so with a major Hegelian 'tweak' - simply, while the material flows in the region externalize relations of power and domination, it is the religious imagination that comes to sustain boundaries of difference into distinct domains of consciousness. We seek to explore how religious realities are nested within material flows as lived cultural spaces. Such nesting generates violent conflicts. Hence, the religious imagination in Sierra Leone is far from false consciousness.
      Rather, it is the lens through which particular histories are made. Texts include works from David Harvey, Akintola Wyse, Rosiland Shaw, Mariane Ferme, and Paul Richards. Required work includes student Precis and Presentations, and three short concise analytical concept papers. The course is Socratic and there are NO right answers only well argued political positions.

    • HIST 113 AC: Europe and the Modern World
      SLN 13593

        Raymond Jonas (History)
        Office: 210B Smith Hall, Box 353560
        Phone: 543-5790
        jonas@u.washington.edu
      F
      1030-1120
      EEB 054
      Credits: 5
      Limit: 25 students

      Students must also register for HIST 113 A lecture (SLN 13590)

      An entry level course on Europe and its global engagements since the wars of religion. The course is organized around key themes and events. These include: absolutism, Enlightenment, Romanticism, the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, European expansion and empire, gender and family, competition for European hegemony, the Russian Revolutions, fascism, feminism, liberalism, socialism, and nationalism, European empire in theory and practice, the World Wars, the European city, religion and identity, the European Union, Europe in a post-European age.

    • HIST 113 AG: Europe and the Modern World
      SLN 13597

        Raymond Jonas (History)
        Office: 210B Smith Hall, Box 353560
        Phone: 543-5790
        jonas@u.washington.edu
      F
      1130-1220
      FSH 109
      Credits: 5
      Limit: 25 students

      Students must also register for HIST 113 A lecture (SLN 13590)

      An entry level course on Europe and its global engagements since the wars of religion. The course is organized around key themes and events. These include: absolutism, Enlightenment, Romanticism, the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, European expansion and empire, gender and family, competition for European hegemony, the Russian Revolutions, fascism, feminism, liberalism, socialism, and nationalism, European empire in theory and practice, the World Wars, the European city, religion and identity, the European Union, Europe in a post-European age.

    • HUM 208 AC: Violence, Myth, and Memory: Southeast Asia at the Crossroads of Modernity
      SLN 13788

      F
      100-220
      EEB 042
      Credits: 5
      Limit: 25 students

      Students must also register for HUM 208 A lecture (SLN 13785)

      Built around films and readings. Explores ideas of violence, narrative, and global modernity in U.S. relations with Vietnam, the Philippines, and Indonesia. Examines the ways these films evoke founding myths of Southeast Asian societies.

    • RUSS 323 AB: Russian Literature and Culture of the Twentieth Century
      SLN 16996

        Jose Alaniz (Slavic Languages and Literatures)
        Office: M256 Smith Hall, Box 353580
        Phone: 543-7580
        jos23@u.washington.edu
      TF
      1030-1120
      SWS B010
      Credits: 5
      Limit: 20 students

      Students must also register for RUSS 323 A lecture (SLN 16994)

      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 202 AI: Cultural Interactions in an Interdependent World
      SLN 17047

        Cabeiri Robinson (International Studies)
        Office: 429 Thomson Hall, Box 353650
        Phone: (206) 543-1693
        cdr33@u.washington.edu
      TTh
      830-920
      CHL 025
      Credits: 5
      Limit: 15 students

      Students must also register for SIS 202 A lecture (SLN 17038)

      Modern political and economic systems are founded and maintained by combinations of subtle workings of ideas and overt violence. This course examines how the systems of meaning and social organization we call 'culture(s)' organize the experiences, ideologies, and institutions of power which we call 'politics' at the local, national, and international level. This course introduces a critical approach to understanding the relationship between culture and politics by examining the problem of political violence and armed conflict and its relationship to society and culture in the post-WWII world. The questions this course will address include: In what ways are strategies of power produced through forms of knowledge that are culturally organized? How does power become internalized and personalized so that people actively reproduce it? What does it mean for a society to become 'militarized'? What are 'cultures of terror' and what does it mean to rule by fear rather than by consent or coercion? How is torture and the violent inscription of the body a 'modern' political practice? How do cultural expectations shape international recognition of conflicts as 'war', 'civil insurgency', or 'terrorism' and of impacted people and populations as 'victims', 'refugees', 'perpetrators' or 'terrorists'? What is the distinction between modern and postmodern warfare and how do their political economies differ? How do post-cold war peace-making paradigms of accountability and reconciliation rely on the transformative possibilities of political culture? We adopt an ethnographic perspective to examine the these questions through the examination of processes of political violence and armed conflict in the daily lives of ordinary people, drawing on case studies from the US, South Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

    • SIS 202 AJ: Cultural Interactions in an Interdependent World
      SLN 17048

        Cabeiri Robinson (International Studies)
        Office: 429 Thomson Hall, Box 353650
        Phone: (206) 543-1693
        cdr33@u.washington.edu
      TTh
      1130-1220
      MLR 302A
      Credits: 5
      Limit: 15 students

      *** COURSE FULL*** Students must also register for SIS 202 A lecture (SLN 17038)

      Modern political and economic systems are founded and maintained by combinations of subtle workings of ideas and overt violence. This course examines how the systems of meaning and social organization we call 'culture(s)' organize the experiences, ideologies, and institutions of power which we call 'politics' at the local, national, and international level. This course introduces a critical approach to understanding the relationship between culture and politics by examining the problem of political violence and armed conflict and its relationship to society and culture in the post-WWII world. The questions this course will address include: In what ways are strategies of power produced through forms of knowledge that are culturally organized? How does power become internalized and personalized so that people actively reproduce it? What does it mean for a society to become 'militarized'? What are 'cultures of terror' and what does it mean to rule by fear rather than by consent or coercion? How is torture and the violent inscription of the body a 'modern' political practice? How do cultural expectations shape international recognition of conflicts as 'war', 'civil insurgency', or 'terrorism' and of impacted people and populations as 'victims', 'refugees', 'perpetrators' or 'terrorists'? What is the distinction between modern and postmodern warfare and how do their political economies differ? How do post-cold war peace-making paradigms of accountability and reconciliation rely on the transformative possibilities of political culture? We adopt an ethnographic perspective to examine the these questions through the examination of processes of political violence and armed conflict in the daily lives of ordinary people, drawing on case studies from the US, South Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

    • CHEM 165 A: Honors General Chemistry
      SLN 11471

      MWF
      230-320
      BAG 260
      Credits: 5
      Limit: 72 students

      This course does not require an entry code until Period 3, but students must have the prerequisite of 2.2 in CHEM 155

      Students must also sign up for a corresponding section. Check time schedule for available sections.

      Introduction to systematic inorganic chemistry: representative elements, metals, and nonmetals. Includes coordination complexes, geochemistry, and metallurgy. Additional material on environmental applications of basic chemistry presented. Laboratory included.

    • CHEM 337: Honors Organic Chemistry
      SLN 11541

      MWThF
      1030-1120
      BAG 261
      Credits: 4
      Limit: 40 students

      No add code required. Students must meet the prerequisite: 2.2 in CHEM 336

      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. Includes introduction to membranes, enzyme mechanisms, prosthetic groups, macromolecular conformations, and supramolecular architecture. No more than 4 credits can be counted toward graduation from the following course groups: CHEM 239, CHEM 337. Prerequisite: 2.2 in CHEM 336.

    • H A&S 222 A: HIV/AIDS: Issues and Challenges
      SLN 13551

        Danuta Kasprzyk (Senior Research Scientist)
        kasprzyk@battelle.org
        Dan Montano (SPHCM Global Health)
        montano@battelle.org
      T TH
      2:30-4:30
      SIG 228
      Credits: 5
      Limit: 25 students

      ***COURSE FULL***

      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 be summarized in a 10-page paper: including a summary of the book, and providing the implications of information in the book in terms epidemiology (disease transmission and spread), prevention (medical and psychosocial), and impact (individual, family, community or world). In addition, students will have to contrast the AIDS epidemic with another infectious disease epidemic. 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 22). Outlines regarding paper, will be due two weeks before the end of the quarter (week of May 22), and must be approved by course instructors to make further progress on paper required. Papers will be due Finals Week.

    • H A&S 222 B: Global Biogeochemical Cycles
      SLN 13552

        Richard Gammon (Program on the Environment, Oceanography, Chemistry)
        Phone: 221-6744
        gammon@u.washington.edu
      MW
      TH
      1:30-250
      1:30-2:50
      OSB 425
      MGH 206
      Credits: 5
      Limit: 25 students

      Pre-requisite: Chem 142 and Chem 152. Course is jointly listed with OCEAN 401 H and OCEAN 523

      In this course, we will consider the origin and evolution of the the earth and the co-evolution of climate and life. There will be a particular focus on microbial metabolic processes, and microbial control of climate via cycling of trace gases of microbial origin. We will consider in detail the natural and perturbed global biogeochemical cycles of carbon, nutrients (nitrogen, phosphorus), and sulfur. We conclude with a discussion of anthropogenic climate change, possible engineering solutions, and estimates of the future habitability of our planet.

      Lectures by experts from across the campus will be supplemented by discussions of text and other assigned readings, and several problem sets. In addition, the Honors section will meet separately from the larger lecture class, and treat this material at the appropriate level in discussion with the instructor and some of the guest speakers. Honors students will write an additional paper on an approved topic.

    • H A&S 222 C: Animal Behavior
      SLN 13553

        Michael Beecher (Psychology)
        Office: 327 Guthrie, Box 351525
        Phone: (206) 543-6545
        beecher@u.washington.edu
      T TH
      1:30-3:20
      MGH 288
      Credits: 5
      Limit: 25 students

      ***COURSE FULL***

      This course takes an evolutionary approach to animal behavior. Discussion will be emphasized over lecture. An important part of the course is observational study of animals at the Woodland Park Zoo. (WPZ is an easy 20-min trip from UW on Metro 44; students get zoo passes.)

      Students will also give a group presentation on an animal group that shows interesting divergent or convergent behaviors (e.g., 3 different primates, or 3 different species with sex-role reversal, or 3 different big-game predators). The course grade will be based on class participation, two exams, a zoo project and the group presentation.

    • H A&S 396 B: Honors Biology seminar
      SLN 13566

        Tolga Bilgen (Zoology)
        Office: 430 Hitchcock, Box 355320
        Phone: (206) 616-4029
        tolga@u.washington.edu
      F
      10:30-12:20
      MGH 206
      Credits: 2, c/nc
      Limit: 30 students

      Students must be concurrently enrolled in BIOL 220

      This course will focus on discussions of various topics relevant to Biology 220. Readings will include articles from varied sources. Working in groups, students will complete weekly in-class assignments. Working in pairs, students will also give a short seminar, on a topic of their choice.

    • H A&S 396 C: Honors Biology seminar
      SLN 13567

        Tolga Bilgen (Zoology)
        Office: 430 Hitchcock, Box 355320
        Phone: (206) 616-4029
        tolga@u.washington.edu
      TH
      2:30-4:20
      SIG 230
      Credits: 2, c/nc
      Limit: 30 students

      Students must be concurrently enrolled in BIOL 220

      This course will focus on discussions of various topics relevant to Biology 220. Readings will include articles from varied sources. Working in groups, students will complete weekly in-class assignments. Working in pairs, students will also give a short seminar, on a topic of their choice.

    • MATH 126 CA: Calculus with Analytic Geometry III
      SLN 14623

      TTh
      1030-1120
      CDH 105
      Credits: 5
      Limit: 40 students

      Add codes are available from MATH dept (C36 Padelford) NOT in Honors office. Students must also register for Honors MATH 126 C lecture (SLN 14622)

      Third quarter in calculus sequence. Sequences, series, Taylor expansions, and an introduction to multivariable differential calculus.

    • MATH 126 CB: Calculus with Analytic Geometry III
      SLN 14624

      TTh
      1130-1220
      CDH 105
      Credits: 5
      Limit: 40 students

      Add codes are available from MATH dept (C36 Padelford) NOT in Honors office. Students must also register for Honors MATH 126 C lecture (SLN 14622)

      Third quarter in calculus sequence. Sequences, series, Taylor expansions, and an introduction to multivariable differential calculus.

    • MATH 136 A: Accelerated [Honors] Calculus
      SLN ?

      MTWThF
      10:30-11:20
      AND 010
      Credits: 5
      Limit: 40 students

      Add codes are available from Math Department (C36 Padelford) NOT in Honors office.

      Covers the material of 124, 125, 126; 307, 308, 318. First year of a two-year accelerated sequence. May not receive credit for both 126 and 136. For students with above average preparation, interest, and ability in mathematics.

    • MATH 336 A: Accelerated [Honors] Advanced Calculus
      SLN 14661

      MWF
      930-1020
      SIG 230
      Credits: 5
      Limit: 30 students

      No entry code required - must have prerequisite: 2.0 in MATH 335

      Introduction to proofs and rigor; uniform convergence, Fourier series and partial differential equations, vector calculus, complex variables. Students who complete this sequence are not required to take 309, 324, 326, 327, 328, and 427. Second year of an accelerated two-year sequence; prepares students for senior-level mathematics courses. .

    • OCEAN 280: Honors Introduction to Oceanography
      SLN 18691

        Anitra Ingalls (Oceanography)
        Office: 511 OSB, Box 355351
        Phone: 221-6748
        aingalls@u.washington.edu
      MWF
      T TH
      1230-120
      10:30-12:30
      KNE 220
      TBA
      Credits: 5
      Limit: 20 students

      Offered jointly with OCEAN 200 A

      "America is a nation intrinsically connected to and immensely reliant on the ocean. All citizens—whether they reside in the country's farmlands or mountains, in its cities or along the coast—affect and are affected by the sea."
      This quote is from a recent report entitled "Ocean Blueprint for the 21st Century" (http://www.oceancommission.gov/) that was commissioned by President Bush and serves as the basis for future ocean policies. We have 4 main goals for students taking this course: 1) to gain an understanding of the importance of ocean processes for the functioning of our planet, 2) to acquire the basic skills required to understand how the ocean works, 3) to experience the excitement of ocean studies through exposure to the latest findings and to people producing some of these findings, and 4) to illustrate the interdisciplinary nature of ocean processes through examination of 3 case studies.

      To accomplish these goals, the course is divided into three sections. In the first section, you will learn about how ocean basins are formed, about the connection between the sea and global elemental cycles, and about the organisms that depend on dissolved compounds in the ocean. In the second section, you will learn about large scale circulation, waves and tidal cycles, and about the influences of circulation on invertebrates, fishes and marine mammals. In the third section, you will learn about interactions between humans and oceans. We will look at these interactions by examining in more detail three cases studies: the potential human manipulation of open ocean communities through iron fertilization, coral communities, and Puget Sound. Each case study will build upon what has been learned in the previous sections and will examine in more detail how humans are influencing these systems.

      In the honors section students will have the opportunity to gain hands-on experience with oceanographic sampling equipment, experimental techniques, aquatic organisms, and global datasets. The honors laboratory for ocean 200 is a brand new course offering this year, thus we also expect students enrolled in this section to be active participants in the evaluation of the lab materials in order to refine the course for future students.

    • PHYS 123 B: Honors Physics: Waves
      SLN 16352

        Joseph Rothberg (Physics)
        ROTHBERG@PHYS.WASHINGTON.EDU
      MWF
      930-1020
      PAA A118
      Credits: 5
      Limit: 66 students

      Students should contact instructor for add code (ROTHBERG@PHYS.WASHINGTON.EDU) NOT Honors office.

      Students must also sign up for a corresponding Honors PHYS 123 B section. See time schedule for section availability.

      Electromagnetic waves, optics, waves in matter, and experiments in these topics for physical science and engineering majors. Lecture tutorial and lab components must all be taken to receive credit.

    • ENGL 121 B: Composition: Linguistic Identity, Language Learning, and Community Belonging
      SLN 12717

        Anne Dwyer (English)
        dwyera@u.washington.edu
      TTh
      930-1120
      RAI 116
      Credits: 5
      Limit: 22 students

      COURSE IS FULL - This course satisfies the UW English Composition requirement but does NOT satisfy any Honors core requirements

      Students in this course will not only explore what an ethic of active citizenship and community engagement entails while strengthening their writing skills, but will also have the opportunity to interrogate the role that language plays in defining various communities and the even category of citizenship itself. This class will navigate the tensions among: language as it is used to define and exclude the racial and cultural other, language as it is embraced to lay claim to a particular communal and personal identity, and language in its potential to be employed subversively. In examining how language acquisition might empower English Language Learners, we will simultaneously ask how such empowerment might work to successfully evade an imperative to cultural assimilation. As many students will be volunteering at agencies and organizations serving immigrant and refugee communities, we will also face up to the structural inequality these demographics face, examine the assumptions and interests motivating current immigration debates in the US as well as their historical antecedents, and interrogate the articulation of immigrant status and other modalities of difference such as race, class, and gender. Readings that will provide a framework for students' service learning and written work may be chosen among those by Paulo Freire, Richard Rodriguez, Gloria Anzaldua, Etienne Balibar, and others.

      Although students will dialogue with several theoretical and literary texts in their written work, the primary 'text' for this class will be students' service experience. The theoretical texts should provide a framework through which students might examine their volunteer experience, and likewise, students' service should provide them will a critical lens through which to view the written texts. As students will be working in some capacity with community partners dedicated to community literacy, their volunteer experience should also assist them in examining their own acquisition of language skills and the discourse communities to which they belong.

    • H A&S 100: Leadership and Citizenship at the UW and Beyond: Lessons from Alums
      SLN 13550

        Tara Olson (UW Honors Peer Instructor)
        tarao@u.washington.edu
      TH
      3:30-4:20
      MGH 231
      Credits: 1, c/nc
      Limit: 40 students

      This course will meet every other Thursday beginning on April 3rd

      This course invites a diverse group of UW alums who are also prominent community leaders to participate in a biweekly lecture series focusing on the process of becoming a leader. Through their lectures, we will hear how their time at the University of Washington influenced the way they undertake leadership projects and the type of leader and citizen they are today. By the end of the course students will develop a deeper understanding of the "how" of leadership and citizenship, and craft a definition that feels comfortable, no matter what they do.

      *********
      There is an option to take this lecture series and also participate in an Honors seminar by enrolling in H A&S 350 C instead. Those enrolled in HA&S 350 will also participate in biweekly discussion sections with the guest lecturers and two day-long service learning experiences. The discussion sections allow for a deeper engagements with the topics, and a chance for a more intimate conversation with the alumi lecturer that week. The service learning portion will allow students to see leadership/citizenship in action and more deeply experience and question what it means to be a community leader and citizen. Space is limited in this seminar. See an Honors advisor if you would like an add code for this course instead.

    • H A&S 397 A: Urban Native, Digital City: Pre-departure seminar for students in the Honors in Amsterdam study abroad program
      SLN 13568

        Jessica Burstein (English)
        Office: A312 PADELFORD, Box 354330
        Phone: 616-4181
        JB2@u.washington.edu
        Clifford Tatum (Communication, Honors)
        Office: 211 Mary Gates Hall, Box 352800
        clifford@u.washington.edu
      M W
      5:30-6:20
      TBA
      Credits: 3
      Limit: 17 students

      Students must be participating in the Honors study abroad to Amsterdam, Summer 2008

      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. In addition to a series of readings having to do with Amerstam culture and society, students will choose topics and work in groups of 2 to 3 students, focussed around a single research question--dividing work among the group participants--or around a particular topic--with each group member developing an individual research topic within the larger domain. In both cases, students will work collaboratively both in Seattle and in Amsterdam.

      Throughout the seminar you will be introduced to a number of research methods from the social sciences and humanities 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.

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

    • H A&S 397 B: Berlin Viewpoints: Assimilation and Aspiration in Art
      SLN 13569

        Shanga Parker (Drama)
        Office: 215 Hutchinson Hall, Box 353950
        Phone: 206 543-4220
        shangap@u.washington.edu
        Julie Villegas (UW Honors)
        Office: MGH 211, Box 352800
        Phone: 543-7172
        villegas@u.washington.edu
      Th
      3:30-6:20
      MGH 085
      Credits: 2
      Limit: 20 students

      Student must be participating in Honors study abroad in Berlin, Summer 2008.

      This preparation seminar is required of all students enrolled in the Honors Study Abroad to Berlin Program, summer 2008. The seminar will provide an interdisciplinary introduction to German culture, history and politics, arts, and urban development. Experts from various departments will speak on topics relevant to the Berlin Program. Students will also be introduced to the theatre-creation method of Viewpoints training and begin working within small groups.

      This spring preparation seminar will provide background to begin exploring city as text--city as art--city as performance. Similar to the summer component, the spring seminar will include classroom instruction, theatre and music performances, city walks, and possibly museum tours.

      Students will learn about the city of Berlin as an object of study and will choose research groups (approximately 5 students per group), decide on the focus of their research projects, and create a proposal which they will then use as a guide during their time in Berlin.

    • ENVIR 439 AD: Sustainable Society
      SLN 13016

        Jim Karr (Aquatic and Fishery Sciences)
        Office: 214 Fishery Sciences, Public Affairs, Box 355020
        Phone: (206) 685-4784
        jrkarr@u.washington.edu
      W
      3:30-4:50
      MGH 284
      Credits: 3
      Limit: 7 students

      Cross listed with FISH 439 AD. Email Michelle Hall in POE for add code hallm@u.washington.edu

      Email Michelle Hall in POE for add code hallm@u.washington.edu

      You will discuss diverse environmental issues, the importance of all areas of scholarship to evaluating environmental challenges, and the connections between the past and the future, to reveal integrative approaches to protect the long-term interests of human society.

    • FISH 439 AD: Sustainable Society
      SLN 13283

        Jim Karr (Aquatic and Fishery Sciences)
        Office: 214 Fishery Sciences, Public Affairs, Box 355020
        Phone: (206) 685-4784
        jrkarr@u.washington.edu
      W
      330-450
      MGH 284
      Credits: 3
      Limit: 8 students

      Email Lin Murdock in FISH for add code linm@u.washington.edu/ Cross listed with ENVIR 439 AD

      Email Lin Murdock in Fisheries for add code linm@u.washington.edu

      You will discuss diverse environmental issues, the importance of all areas of scholarship to evaluating environmental challenges, and the connections between the past and the future, to reveal integrative approaches to protect the long-term interests of human society.

    • H A&S 350 A: Street Newspapers, Poverty and Homelessness
      SLN 13561

        Tim Harris (Real Change)
        rchange@speakeasy.org
      F
      9:30-11:20
      MGH 211 B
      Credits: 2, c/nc
      Limit: 15 students

      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 the issues through the lens of the street newspaper movement, and provide tools to develop a critical perspective on efforts to end homelessness. Students will visit the Seattle newspaper (realchangenews.org), explore local controversies on homelessness in the context of regional and national trends, 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 350 B: The Basic Problem in Science and Society
      SLN 13562

        Vladimir Chaloupka (Physics)
        Office: B309 Physics-Astronomy Bldg, Box 351560
        Phone: 543-8965
        vladi@u.washington.edu
      TH
      3:30-5:20
      PAA A212
      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 350 C: Leadership and Citizenship: Lessons from UW Alums
      SLN 13563

        Tara Olson (UW Honors Peer Instructor)
        tarao@u.washington.edu
      TH
      3:30-4:20
      4:30-5:20
      MGH 231
      MGH 206
      Credits: 2, c/nc
      Limit: 15 students

      This course will meet every other Thursday beginning on April 3rd

      This course invites a diverse group of UW alums who are also prominent community leaders to participate in a biweekly lecture series focusing on the process of becoming a leader. Through their lectures, we will hear how their time at the University of Washington influenced the way they undertake leadership projects and the type of leader and citizen they are today. By the end of the course students will develop a deeper understanding of the "how" of leadership and citizenship, and craft a definition that feels comfortable, no matter what they do.

      Students will also participate in biweekly discussion sections with the guest lecturers and two day-long service learning experiences. The discussion sections allow for deeper engagement with the topics, and a chance for a more intimate conversation with the alumi lecturer each week. The service learning portion will allow students to see leadership in action and more deeply experience and question what it means to be both a leader and citizen in one's community.

    • H A&S 350 D: Language and Method for Encounters in Sierra Leone (2008)
      SLN 13564

        Clarke Speed (Anthropology)
        landogo@u.washington.edu
        Brook Kelly (Honors)
        Office: MGH 211, Box 352800
        Phone: 221.6131
        bbkelly@u.washington.edu
      TH
      11:30-1:20
      MGH 211 B
      Credits: 2, c/nc
      Limit: 15 students

      Students must be participating in the Honors Exploration seminar to Sierra Leone, Summer 2008

      This seminar on Sierra Leonian languages and ethnographic methods is restricted to participants in the UW Honors Program Exploration Seminar/Sierra Leone (June 2008). Our work includes laying a foundation in Sierra Leone Krio (the lingua franca) and basic greetings in Landogo (the language spoken in Kagbere). We also engage ethnographic theory and method which includes participant observation, interview techniques, writing field notes, and revealing hidden semantic domains. The required texts are Emerson, Fretz, and Shaw's Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes (1995) and a UW Sierra Leone 'Krio Language Learning Manual' found at Professional Copy and Print on the Ave. Course requirements include doing an ethnographic project here in Seattle and a Concept Notebook.

    • H A&S 396 A: Transformational Technologies for Biology, Medicine, and Health
      SLN 18412

        John Gennari (Medical Education and Biomedical Informatics)
        Phone: 616-6641
        gennari@u.washington.edu
      MW
      1:00-2:20
      MGH 206
      Credits: 3
      Limit: 15 students

      In this course, you will learn how information technology is transforming the study and practice of biology, medicine, and health care. We introduce the field of biomedical & health informatics through four modules that focus on current technologies in the field: (1) Electronic personal health records, (2) Medical imaging informatics, (3) Bioinformatics and information retrieval, and (4) Public health surveillance systems. The technologies we cover in these modules arose from multi-disciplinary research—some blending of computer science, information science, biology research, and clinical research.

      Each module includes (a) some hands-on experience with a specific software application, (b) discussion of the pragmatic uses and implications of the software, (c) discussion of the theory and concepts underlying that application, and (d) a hands-on assignment where students (or teams of students) must use, modify or adapt the software to a particular setting or purpose. In addition, across the modules, we will learn common themes and open research problems that hold in the field of biomedical informatics.

    • H A&S 397 C: Womanly Mysteries: The evolutionary biology of female sexuality
      SLN 13570

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

      **COURSE FULL**

      We will be considering a number of human female sexual mysteries in an evolutionary context, exploring various hypotheses that purport to explain such biological enigmas as why do women ... menstruate, conceal their ovulation, develop prominent nonlactating breasts, experience orgasm, experience menopause, and so forth. To do so, we'll read a forthcoming book ms, just written in draft form, scheduled for publication by Columbia University Press in fall, '08, and we'll talk about it. There is no text other than this book manuscript, which will be distributed.

      This course is open to all: The only pre-requisite (other than interest in the subject) is - and I mean this quite seriously! - the ability to discuss human sexuality honestly, openly and without giggling or embarrassment. Thus, if you cannot say the words penis, vagina, clitoris, orgasm, breast, nipple cunnilingus, fellatio, sexual intercourse, etc., in a semi-public, academic setting, you would be well-advised not to attend.

    • H A&S 397 D: The Nature of Living Well
      SLN 18363

        Bennett Barr
        bbarr@u.washington.edu
      TTH
      2:30-4:00
      MGH 211 B
      Credits: 3
      Limit: 15 students

      * COURSE IS FULL* See Sarah Childers to be put on the waitlist schilder@u.washington.edu *Academy for Young Scholars students only*

      Course Content:

      In this course we will inquire as to what constitutes a good human life. We will attempt to determine which, if any, objective conditions a life must meet for it to be going well. We will explore the relationship between one's beliefs and desires concerning living well and one's actually living well. We will attempt to determine the extent to which one's core commitments and values determine the shape and structure one's life must meet for it to go well. We will attempt to determine which character traits, if any, are necessarily possessed by anyone living well and whether the possession of any set of character traits guarantees a good life. Along the way we will explore the historical development of ancient and modern conceptions of human flourishing, moralistic and hedonistic conceptions of the good life, and contemporary philosophers' attempts to wrestle with these fundamentally important issues.

      Assessment:

      This class is oriented around discussion, and our discussions will be structured around salient material from the readings, lectures, and class presentations. Like any philosophy course, our currency will be reasons and arguments. Students should be prepared to raise objections to the views presented in the course material, provide reasons in support of their own views, and to defend their views against objections. An open and critical mind is crucial for success in this course, as are consistent attendance, preparation, and contributions to class discussion.

      There are no exams in this class. Students will be assessed on the basis of an in-class presentation and either three short (4-5 pg.) critical response papers or one long (12-15 pg.) term paper on a topic relevant to the content of the course.

    • H A&S 397 E: Community Cultural Development through the Arts
      SLN 18407

        Michelle Burce (Honors)
        mcburce@u.washington.edu
      T
      TH
      12:30-2:20
      12:30-1:20
      MGH 206
      MGH 206
      Credits: 3, c/nc
      Limit: 8 students

      A theater piece in and about a rural town in California.
      A mosaic sculpture garden in a derelict neighborhood in Philadelphia.
      A dance program in a prison in San Francisco.
      A nation-wide program to connect youth to their watersheds through painting and poetry.

      What do all of these projects have in common? They are all community cultural development through the arts. Known alternately as "community-based art," "participatory arts projects," or just "cultural work," this emerging field is an intersection of activism, social work, community building, and art in all its disciplines. In this quarter-long seminar, we will be exploring what it means to do art in, with, and for a community, how to engage non-artists in the artmaking process, and what outcomes can be achieved that go beyond the scope of "art for art's sake."

      Community Cultural Development can be defined as, "a broad term covering an enormous range of activities that give communities the opportunity to tell their story, build their creative skills and be active participants in the development of their culture." (ccd.net)

      Students will be engaging with this process through weekly readings on theories of collaboration and representation, as well as "case studies" and narratives by artists in the field. In-class seminar discussion will start where the readings leave off and move into students' personal interests and goals, drawing connections between the community-based arts process and other fields. Frequent guest speakers will bring real-world experience and application into the classroom.

      In-class discussions and guests will ultimately serve to give students a base upon which to construct their final project - a group community collaboration project culminating in a short performance piece.

      No previous performance or community engagement experience is necessary, just an interest in the process.

    • H A&S 397 F: Cultivating Creativity
      SLN 18384

        Iain Robertson (Landscape Architecture)
        Office: 348F Gould Hall, Box 355734
        Phone: 543-9246
        iainmr@u.washington.edu
      T
      TH
      9:30-10:20
      9:30-11:20
      MGH 206
      MGH 206
      Credits: 3, c/nc
      Limit: 15 students

      Creativity is neither a body of knowledge nor a specific technique or skill set; rather, it is an attitude of mind. Thus, its 'cultivation' necessarily differs from educational methods used to acquire disciplinary knowledge and skills. Its 'method' is best described as 'exploration' though that term does little to explicate the seminar's content or activities, so, let me try again:

      Through individual and collective 'exercises', ranging from short in-class work to longer individual projects, the seminar will explore and 'cultivate' participants' creativity. Students enrolling in the seminar will be expected to suspend judgment and take risks wholeheartedly as they engage in activities, discussions and readings. Without realizing it, we shall work hard and think intensively. The seminar's curriculum, it is to be hoped, will be 'a mind-altering device.'

      "The point here is that the kind of deliberately designed tasks students are offered in school help define the kind of thinking they will learn to do. The kind of thinking students learn to do will influence what they come to know and the kind of cognitive skills they acquire. . . the curriculum is a mind-altering device. Each of the fields or disciplines that students encounter provides a framework, that is, a structure, schema, and theory, through which the worlds is experienced, organized, and understood." Eisner, Elliot The Arts & the Creation of Mind

    • H A&S 397 G: The study of consciousness
      SLN 18697

        Kate Noble (Women Studies)
        Office: Guthrie Annex 2, Box 351630
        Phone: (206) 543-4160
        kdnoble@u.washington.edu
      W
      3:30-5:20
      MGH 206
      Credits: 2, c/nc
      Limit: 15 students

      Students must have taken H A&S 262 B in Winter, 2008. Add code by Instructor Permission only

      This seminar is a continuation of HA&S 262b: The Farther Reaches of (Human) Nature, with special emphasis on the ethical issues raised in the study of consciousness