Spring 2022 Foundation Courses

All Honors College students are required to complete at least one Honors Foundations course. Foundations courses count towards the 25 HONS credit requirement, and students may take additional Foundations courses as an Honors elective.

HONS 152 Honors Biology II (Professor TBD)
TR: 3:05-4:20

A course for Honors science majors covering life and living systems. It emphasizes the evolution, form and function of organisms. It provides an introduction to primary literature and practice evaluating this literature. This course helps prepare students for upper level courses in organismal biology. Lectures three hours per week. This is the Honors course version of BIOL 112. Students may not receive credit for both.

Prerequisite(s): HONS 151 Corequisite(s): HONS 152L

This course counts towards the College's natural science general education requirement

HONS 156 Honors Geology II (Professor John Chadwick)
MWF: 10:00-10:50

This class reviews the 4.6 billion-year Earth history revealed by scientific analysis of rocks, the atmosphere, oceans, and fossils. We learn how scientists find and use evidence to understand Earth’s history and its life, discuss physical and biological changes over time, explore Earth’s major systems to understand how they change and interact, and discuss the fossil record and observe how and why life evolves.

Prerequisite(s): HONS 155 Corequisite(s): HONS 156L

This course counts towards the College's natural science general education requirement

HONS 158 Honors Physics II (Professor Ana Oprisan)
MWF: 10:00-10:50

A continuation of Honors Physics I. Topics covered are Electricity, Magnetism, Light, Relativity, Atomic Physics, Quantum Physics and Nuclear Physics. Lectures emphasize the application of these topics in interdisciplinary areas. Examples of interdisciplinary applications are electric potentials in biology and medicine, magnetic field in medicine, or optics and the biology of human vision and possibly visual arts.

Prerequisite(s): HONS 157/HONS 157L or PHYS 111/PHYS 111L, MATH 120, or permission of the instructor Co-requisite(s): HONS 158L

This course counts towards the College's natural science general education requirement

HONS 160 Honors Astronomy II (Professor Ana Uribe)
MWF: 12:00-12:50

A continuation of Honors Astronomy I. Subjects covered include: instruments used in astronomy, stars (binary, variable), star clusters, interstellar matter, galaxies and cosmology. A working knowledge of high school algebra is assumed. 

Prerequisite(s): HONS 159 and HONS 159L. This course assumes a working knowledge of algebra and trigonometry. Co-requisite(s): HONS 160L 

This course counts towards the College's natural science general education requirement

 

HONS 167 Introduction to Sociology (Professor Brenda Sanders)
TR: 12:15-1:30

Have you ever wondered why people behave the way they do? In this class you will gain a scientific understanding of the social world by observing human behavior, including culture, socialization, social inequality, and more, through the window of the sociological perspective-the deeper understanding of how society affects you and how you affect society. This is the Honors course version of SOCY 101. Students may not receive credit for both.

This course counts towards the College's social science general education requirement

HONS 169 Language and Culture (Professor Christine Finnan)
MW: 2:00-3:15

This course involves a study of language in its social and cultural context. It stresses the relationships between language and the transmission of meaning, worldview, and social identity. This is the Honors course version of ANTH 205. Students may not receive credit for both.

This course counts towards the College's social science general education requirement

HONS 170 Honors Intro to Philosophy (Professor Todd Grantham)
MWF: 11:00-11:50

An examination of problems in central areas of philosophy, including metaphysics, epistemology and ethics. This is the Honors course version of PHIL 101. Students may not receive credit for both.

This course counts towards the College's humanities general education requirement

HONS 192 Honors Organic Chemistry: Applications of Molecular Structure and Properties (Professor Mike Guiliano or Brooke Van Horn)
MWF: 9:00-9:50

An introductory course utilizing theoretical principles and fundamental facts to form an understanding of the structure, characterization, properties and reactivities of organic compounds. Functional groups, fundamentals of reaction mechanisms, and spectroscopy are included. This is the Honors course version of CHEM 231. Students may not receive credit for both.

Prerequisite(s): HONS 190 and HONS 190L with a grade of D+ or higher Co-requisite(s): HONS 192L Co-requisite(s) or Prerequisite(s): MATH 120 is recommended as a pre-or co-requisite.

This course counts towards the College's natural science general education requirement

HONS 205 Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice (Professor Lancie Affonso)
TR: 9:25-10:40
This course provides an introduction to theoretical and experiential issues in entrepreneurship including the language of entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation, lean startups, business models, entrepreneurship, and learning from both successful and unsuccessful ventures. Readings, lectures, and live case discussions with entrepreneurs will be used to explore these and related issues. This is the Honors course version of ENTR 200. Students may not receive credit for both.

HONS 281 Making Meaning with Form and Style (Professor Brooke Permenter)
MWF: 9:00-9:50

This course is a hybrid survey and methods course introducing students to the discipline of art history.  We will consider key works of art from the western canon while we explore the development of the canon itself.  Focusing first on materials and form, students will develop a recognition of valued stylistic periods and the means for re-examining their validity.  A combination of images and art historical scholarship will be the basis for students’ individual assessment of the western art history survey for contemporary audiences.  This course counts for General Education Humanities credit and is open to students of all levels.

This course counts towards the College's humanities general education requirement

*Please note that Spring 2022 course offerings are tentative, and are subject to change