Spring 2024

Class Course Title CRN# Time Instructor
BIOL 135 Principles of Cellular & Molecular Biology 10700 W (Wed) 10-10:50am (lecture) RC 370
W (Wed) 11am-12:50pm (lab) RC 345		 Heather Seitz
COMS 120 Interpersonal Communications 11749 TR (Tue/Thur) 12:30-1:45 pm MTC 332 Haley Vellinga
COMS 121 Public Speaking 11768 TR (Tue/Thur) 11am-12:15 pm MTC 325 Ashley Rader
ECON 231 Microeconomics 12306 MWF 11-11:50am GEB 238 Dan Owens
ENGL 122 Composition 2 (ENGL 121 prereq) 11496 MWF, 1-1:50pm LIB 307 Michael Carriger
ENGL 223 Creative Writing (ENGL 121 prereq) 11612 T (Tue) 6-8:50pm MTC 122 Danny Alexander
LEAD 130 Leadership & Civic Engagement 12517 MWF 2-3:30pm GEB 238 Melissa Nolan
MATH 181 Statistics (MATH 171 or MATH 173 or Accuplacer score prereq) 10274 MWF 10-10:50am GEB 238 Elaine Hembree
REL 120 Exploring World Religions 11229 TR (Tue/Thur) 12:30-1:45pm GEB 238 Sarah Aptilon
SOC 125 Social Problems 10419 TR (Tue/Thur) 9-10:25am GEB 238 Eve Blobaum

 

Class Course Title CRN# Time Instructor Section Description
HON 100 Honors Seminar: What is Pop? 12534 Thur, 11am-12pm GEB 238 Daniel Alexander From American pop’s origins in the racist tradition of blackface minstrelsy to the mass culture trend to label “pop” as that which appeals to a feminine audience, we will interrogate the dialogue (historically driven by a white male press) around American popular music, its origins, and its current and future tendencies.
HON 100 Honors Seminar: Become a Scholar 12515 Wed, 6-7pm Online (synchronous Zoom) Anne Dotter Absence and erasure This course will introduce you to new approaches to what knowledge is, how it is constructed and how to engage critically and creatively in its production. You will thereby be introduced to the many ways in which honors education allows you to think outside of the box and to the supportive environment that empowers you to forge your unique path forward.
HON 270 Honors Forum:    A Good Life: Cooperation, Kindness, and Well-Being 10646 Tue/Thur, 9:30-10:45am, GP 102 Bill McFarlane In this Honors forum we will consider what living a good life requires of us. Drawing on research from a number of disciplines, including Anthropology, Biology, Economics, Literature, and Philosophy we will explore the ways in which humans are good to one another and also how we can be good to ourselves. Our primary topics will be cooperation, kindness, and well-being. The scope of this course will be broad and we will examine the origins of cooperation and its expression beyond humans, the qualities of a good society, the balance between empathy and reason, and the search for meaning and purpose across a life well-lived. Following a series of introductory lectures and discussions, students will propose their own project and share their results with the class.
HON 270 Honors Forum:    The New Flint 12523 Wed 4-7pm (Hyflex) – SCI 220 or synchronous zoom Amanda Glass & Kristy Howell An interdisciplinary approach to the problem of ageing water infrastructure in the US. Development of skills in research design and the science of equity and policy issues contributing to the problem will give students the ability to create an evidence-based argument. Students will build research literacy skills showing proficiency in the selection and use of academic databases, science communication, and incorporating in their argument the analysis of water chemistry research they perform as part of the course.