*Fall 2023 courses, instructors, and meeting times are subject to change. Check back, as we will be updating course information regularly.
HONS 110: Honors Academic Writing is a four-credit, accelerated introduction to the writing, analytical and research skills necessary for composing college-level texts that address issues of academic and social importance in a number of genres. Remember that…
- All Honors College students are required to complete HONS 110 Honors Academic Writing during their first year in the Honors College.
- The course is offered in both the fall and spring semesters.
- This course fulfills the College’s General Education First Year Writing requirement.
- Students may not receive credit for both HONS 110 and ENGL 110.
- All HONS 110 courses cover similar content, but faculty typically focus on a specific theme for their individual course.
HONS 110-01/02 Honors Academic Writing: Communication and Context
Instructor: Elizabeth Baker
Section 01: MWF 10:00 – 10:50 a.m., fourth hour asynchronous
Section 02: MWF 11:00 – 11:50 a.m., fourth hour asynchronous
The term academic writing refers to genres and styles of communication that vary depending on context (including specific academic disciplines). Since all communication (written and otherwise) is contextual, understanding context enables us to analyze and evaluate rhetorical choices. In turn, we can become more adept at making effective choices as we consider what specific writing situations are asking of us. The course uses a variety of texts and assignments that reflect an understanding of writing as a process and a tool for inquiry, critical thinking, and analysis.
HONS 110-03 Honors Academic Writing: Sustainable Futures
Instructor: Anton Vander Zee
Section 03: T 12:15 – 1:30 p.m., fourth hour asynchronous
This course is about sustainable futures: your world’s, your community’s, and your own. Although loosely themed around questions of what it means to live and work sustainably, this is fundamentally a course about writing: analyzing it, understanding its contexts, exploring its modalities, and composing it in various environments. More specifically, this course asks you to think about writing as a process, a series of conscious choices used to craft an appropriate response to the variety of tasks and situations that you will encounter as a writer. In short, this course is aimed at making you aware of your writing as writing. One way that we will cultivate this awareness is by engaging scholarly texts about writing and undertaking a variety of projects that ask you to understand and deploy important concepts you can use in the classroom and beyond such as reading like a writer, literacies, the rhetorical situation, disciplinarity and genre. Sustainability, then, enters the picture less as a set of need-to-know facts and concepts and more of a flexible guide that will help you focus your approach to the major projects in this course, all of which will relate to artifacts, debates, and academic conversations of your own choosing.
HONS 110-04/05 Honors Academic Writing: The Rhetoric of Service and Community Engagement
Instructor: Jesslyn Collins-Frohlich
Section 04: TR 10:50 – 12:05 p.m., fourth hour asynchronous
Section 05: TR 1:40 – 2:55 p.m., fourth hour asynchronous
What does it mean to engage a community, to serve the people in it? How are our ideas of service and citizenship shaped by public rhetoric or narratives of power? How do community organizations negotiate the rhetoric about social issues and the people they serve? Where do you, as an Honors student, fit into this larger discussion? This course uses reflection, and research to begin to answer these questions and understand your own Honors Engaged experience. Class readings and discussions provide critical frameworks and analytical skills, and direct engagement with a community partner or issue gives valuable opportunities for service learning. These frameworks and experiences will be synthesized in several essays, a multimodal project, and reflective activities. For example, you will begin the semester by writing your own engagement narrative, which interrogates how you came to your current understanding of civic engagement and service. In the second half of the semester, you will take on written assignments that ask you to synthesize class discussions, research, community engagement and personal reflection for a number of different audiences and modalities.
HONS 110-06/07 Honors Academic Writing: Writing as a Process
Instructor: Meg Scott-Copses
Section 06: TR 10:50 – 12:05 p.m., fourth hour asynchronous
Section 07: TR 1:40 – 2:55 p.m., fourth hour asynchronous
Honors 110 is a course about writing, specifically the analytical and process skills that will help you write effectively in a variety of situations. Rather than simply introducing you to the genres of college writing or providing a series of formulas for writing a research paper, this course asks you to think about writing as a process, a series of conscious choices used to craft an appropriate response to the variety of tasks and situations you’ll encounter as a writer. We will use scholarly texts about writing, literacy, and language as well as student and peer writing samples to develop as writers. Together, we will come to understand writing as a process that involves invention, critical thinking, drafting, revising, researching, synthesizing, and working with new media. We will undertake a variety of projects that challenge you to read like a writer, to explore your literacy and language practices, and to better understand your rhetorical situation in diverse genres. Your writing will be central to the work of the course. You should expect to be submitting writing on a weekly basis and spending a significant amount of time discussing writing related ideas and questions in class and online.
HONS 110-08 Honors Academic Writing: Communication and Context
Instructor: Elizabeth Baker
Section 01: MWF 12:00 – 12:50 a.m., fourth hour asynchronous
The term academic writing refers to genres and styles of communication that vary depending on context (including specific academic disciplines). Since all communication (written and otherwise) is contextual, understanding context enables us to analyze and evaluate rhetorical choices. In turn, we can become more adept at making effective choices as we consider what specific writing situations are asking of us. The course uses a variety of texts and assignments that reflect an understanding of writing as a process and a tool for inquiry, critical thinking, and analysis.
*Please note that Fall 2023 course offerings are tentative, and are subject to change