Fall '09 Courses
Registration for Fall 09 Honors classes begins in the Honors Office at 8am, Tuesday, February 17th, 2009. Students must reserve a seat an Honors course by picking up a Reservation Card. Registration for both Honors and non-Honors courses is completed with the student’s regular advisor.
Fall reservation cardss are valid only until April 17th. Students who fail to register by April 17th will forfeit their seat in any Honors class. Waitlisted students will be contacted after the April 17th deadline.
Anatomy of Loss: Death & Dying, Grief & Grieving
Death is an event none of us can avoid—not our own deaths, the deaths of our beloveds, or the deaths of our co-workers, neighbors, and acquaintances. It is everywhere. This course not only explores the process of dying, but hot the investigation of dying informs the process of living and how we LIVE until the moment of our deaths.
Molly Edwards-Britton, Theater
Tuesday and Thursday, 2-3:15pm, Morris Library 112
UHON 351I-002, Interdisciplinary Studies
UHON 351M-002, Multicultural/Diversity
UHON 351U-003, Humanities
Body Awareness
An educational technique designed to enable anyone to discover and change habitual, harmful patterns of behavior. Benefits include a greater ease in movement, more freedom of action, improved coordination, and increased energy.
Elizabeth Paula, BA, Certified Alexander Teacher
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 12-12:50pm, Altgeld 116
UHON 351L, Human Health
A Clockwork Nightmare: Everyday Life in the Third Reich
Rise and fall of German Nazism, Versailles to Nuremberg. Emphasis on personal experiences of actual witnesses and current Nazi-inspired movements. SS, Gestapo, concentration camps, and technology and media as tools of control (2-3) films. Readings include Elie Wiesel's Night and William Shirer's Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.
Thom Thibeault, Foreign Languages and Literatures
Wednesday, 3-5:30 pm, Morris 112
UHON 351M-003, Multicultural/Diversity
UHON 3510O-002, Social Science
(The) Earth Around You
Focus on the impact of earth processes on our everyday lives. The course will cover earth system hazards including earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, tsunamis, and hurricanes. The honors course will provide the opportunity to present and discuss case studies and timely issues relevant to earth system science. The course will also include, through the use of web sites, discussion of recent research and development on methods of study and prediction.
Nicholas Pinter, Geology
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 10-10:50 am, Parkinson 215
UHON 351S, Laboratory Science
First Freedoms
New course! The First Amendment protects five freedoms that define wihat it is to be an American. every citizen--and especially every honors student at SIUC should understand how the U.S. Supreme Court goes about defining the boundaries of those freedoms, and how they play out in the lives of Americans.
Bill Frievogel, School of Journalism
Tuesday and Thursday, 9:35-10:50, Morris 112
UHON 351I-001, Interdisciplinary Studies
UHON 351O-001, Social Science
UHON 351U-002, Humanities
Leadership and Moral Responsibility
Two questions: “How do individuals legitimize their lives through action?” and “What are you doing on earth, and why?” Leadership, its purpose, and its elements, in the context of politics, society, and life work; readings with themes of moral responsibility and leadership.
John Haller, History
Thursday, 6-8:30 pm, Morris 112
UHON 351I-004, Interdisciplinary Studies
UHON 351O-003, Social Science
UHON 351U-005, Humanities
Life Stories: 'Performing' the Ties that Bind
New course! "What's your story?" Personal experience narratives, or "lifestories" are the ties that bind us to our families, our communities, and our own evolving sense of identity. This inter-active, workshop-based course explores the relationship between narrative and identity as it undolfs across interpersonal, familial and cultural contexts. By analyzing, composing and 'performing' their own and others' lifestories students will develop critical and communicative skills aplicable across a wide variety of contexts and majors.
Elyse Pineau, Speech Communication
Tuesday and Thursday, 11 am-12:15 pm, Comm 2012
UHON 351F-001, Fine Arts
UHON 351M-001, Multicultural/Diversity
UHON 351U-001, Humanities
Masked Avengers, Costumed Crimefighters and Superheroes
New course! A consideration of vigilante justice and superhero history as expressed in comic books in American from their inception in 1938 to the present, with examinations of related material in film, novels, and essays.
Ed Brunner, English
Tuesday and Thursday, 12:35-1:50 pm, Morris 112
UHON 351F-002, Fine Arts
UHON 351I-003, Interdisciplinary Studies
UHON 351U-004, Humanities