Fall 2014 First-Year Experience Courses
Note: All first year entering the Honors College Fall 2014 are required to take one (and only one) of the First-Year Experience courses listed below. If you need assistance in selecting the FYE course which may be the best fit for you, feel free to contact an Honors Advisor.
FALL 2014 FIRST-YEAR EXPERIENCE COURSE OFFERINGSARCH 1311-H01 Design, Environment, and Society (CRN# 31302) Prof. U. Flueckiger MW 10:00-11:20 AM Jerry Seinfeld once stated that “According to most studies, people's number one fear
is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right?
This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the
casket than doing the eulogy.” Come learn how to master the art of public speaking!
Communication is more than just getting a message from point A to point B; true communication
happens on a deeper level to create more positive results. Join us as we discover
ways to communicate more effectively personally and professionally. THIS COURSE FULFILLS 3 HOURS OF THE CORE CURRICULUM ORAL COMMUNICATION REQUIREMENT. Principles of Economics I introduces students to the principles of microeconomics.
This part of economics examines individual economic units and markets for products
and resources. The course consists of three parts. The first part deals with the
nature of economics and the economizing problem and the methods of handling this
problem. This part analyzes the decision-making by households and firms, and the
constraints facing them while maximizing their objectives. The second part focuses
on the various aspects of the product market. These include pure competition, pure
monopoly, monopolistic competition, and oligopoly. The last part covers the resources
market. Emphasis is on labor and capital and the prices for these resources, which
result in incomes to people in the form of wages, rent, interest, and profit. THIS COURSE FULFILLS 3 HOURS OF THE CORE CURRICULUM SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
REQUIREMENT. Prerequisites: ENGL 1301 and ENGL 1302 Prerequisite: ENGL 1301 and ENGL 1302 Prerequisite: ENGL 1301 and ENGL 1302 Note: This course is open to all Honors engineering and non-engineering majors and
may be substituted for the following discipline-specific Introduction to Engineering
courses: CH E 1305, CE 1305, EE 1304, IE 1305, ME 1315, and PETR 1305. This course
should also be of interest to non-engineering majors who have an interest in technology
or a desire to learn more about an engineering discipline. ______________________________________________ ENGR 1315-H02 Introduction to Engineering (CRN# 20135) Prof. D. Ernst MWF 1:00-1:50 PM Note: This course is open to all Honors engineering and non-engineering majors and
may be substituted for the following discipline-specific Introduction to Engineering
courses: CH E 1305, CE 1305, EE 1304, IE 1305, ME 1315, and PETR 1305. This course
should also be of interest to non-engineering majors who have an interest in technology
or a desire to learn more about an engineering discipline. ______________________________________________ This is not a typical geography class where you learn how much it rains in Outer
Zambodia, how many bananas are produced in Eastern Tropicalistan, or what the capital
of Monotinia is. GEOG 2300 is organized around the theme of human well-being. This
means that we look at how well-off people are in different places. We do this at
different scales—for the local area (Lubbock and West Texas), for the United States,
and for the world. We look at where rich and poor people live and at some of the
factors that cause differences in human well-being from place to place. Human well-being
is more than just what the average family income of a place is. We look at health,
education, quality of housing, access to healthy food and water, and a wide variety
of other indicators well-being. In order for students to experience differences in
human well-being first hand, this class will require everyone enrolled to perform
at least 20 hours of volunteer service with a local agency that provides services
to an economically disadvantaged population. Part of the coursework will involve
writing reflection papers based on your volunteer experience. THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE CORE CURRICULUM SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE REQUIREMENTS.
Intimate relationships are a part of every person's life. These relationships come in many shapes and sizes (parents, siblings, friends, romantic partners, etc). All relationships are developed, are sustained or come to an end. Would you like to better understand intimate relationships, how relationships develop, how they can be maintained, difficulties that arise in relationships and how to overcome conflict? Then this course is for you. This course is designed to provide an overview of intimate relationships from adolescence through adulthood, with an emphasis on relationship processes, diversity in types of partnering, and developmental/contextual variations in relationships. The course will review the various phases of relationship development (e.g., attraction, maintenance, dissolution, reconfiguration), and address the ways in which relationships are affected by individual (e.g., cognition, personality), couple (e.g., love, sexuality, conflict, communication), and contextual (e.g., social network) factors. THIS COURSE FULFILLS 3 HOURS OF THE CORE CURRICULUM SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES REQUIREMENTS. _______________________________ Note: You need not take HIST 2300 before taking HIST 2301. _________________________________________ Note: You need not take HIST 2300 before taking HIST 2301. __________________________________________ This course is a seminar on themes (windows) in World War I (1914-1918). This, “the war to end all wars”, was a major watershed in the Western World. Massive armies of conscript soldiers employed and suffered from sophisticated and terrible technology. Yet the conduct of the war, especially on the Western Front, was for the most part static along a 450 mile line from the North Sea to Switzerland. During periods of inactivity, soldiers wrote, sang, and drew, expressing their feelings and reactions to this human catastrophe in ways which ennobled them as soldiers and as humans and which have left a wondrous record of their experiences. Beginning with an in-depth section of lecture and discussion of the history of the war, we will probe the social and literary history of soldiers on the Western Front. The remainder of the course will consist of class presentations and written reports. Topics will be selected during the first weeks of the term. THIS COURSE FULFILLS 3 HOURS OF THE CORE CURRICULUM LANGUAGE, PHILOSOPHY, AND CULTURE REQUIREMENT. _______________________________ HONS 1301-H02 Wonder Woman; Gender, Power, and the Nation in American Popular Culture
Although Wonder Woman has yet to get the repeated box office treatment awarded to Superman, the two comics address many of the same themes. Wonder Woman initially did so from a unique perspective, one that argued that “beautiful and brave” women were the only people who could rescue “a world torn by the hatreds and the wars of men.” This original Wonder Woman from the 1940s reflected the heavy social emphasis on women's labor and patriotism during World War II, and later versions of Wonder Woman similarly reflected the roles prescribed for and available to women in contemporary society. In this class, we will use Wonder Woman as the primary text through which we explore changing ideas about gender and American cultural identity since the World War II era. We will use the Wonder Woman comic to explore the following aspects of American ideas about gender: pop cultural representations, body image, sexuality and sexual orientation, masculinity, the politics of marriage and family, labor and class, social movements, patriotism, American exceptionalism, partisan politics, foreign policy and warfare, and the so-called “American dream.”THIS COURSE FULFILLS 3 HOURS OF THE CORE CURRICULUM LANGUAGE, PHILOSOPHY, AND CULTURE REQUIREMENT. __________________________________________ Note: After the first class, some class meetings will be held outdoors. If you cannot
attend the first session, contact the instructor immediately. HONS 1304-H02 Introduction to Symphony (CRN# 24835) Prof. T. Cimarusti TR 12:30-1:50 PM What do Mozart, Beethoven, and Brahms all have in common? Not only are the considered three of the most important composers in music history, but each of them also composed some of the most significant symphonies that changed the course of the symphonic tradition. In this course, we will define the genre of the symphony and discuss its evolution from the Baroque period to the 20th century. Highlights of the course will include attendance of live performances of the TTU Symphony Orchestra, the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra, and special visits by professional orchestra members and conductors! THIS COURSE FULFILLS 3 HOURS OF THE CORE CURRICULUM CREATIVE ARTS REQUIREMENTS. ________________________________________ HONS 2406-H02 Honors Integrated Science (CRN# 34410) Prof. M. San Francisco TR 4:00-5:20 PM IE 2311-H01 Engineering Economic Analysis (CRN# 34495) Prof. J. Carrell MWF 11:00-11:50
AM Prerequisite: MATH 1451. Evaluation of economics of engineering proposals for cost and profitability. THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE CORE CURRICULUM SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE REQUIREMENTS. _________________________________________ Prerequisite: Score of 7 on Math Placement Exam; or score of 3 on the AP AB Calculus
exam and a score of 5 on the MPE; or 660/29 on the Math section of the SAT/ACT; or
MATH 1350 or 1550 with B- or better; or score of 5 on MPE and MATH 1321 with B- or
better. So how ought persons behave toward one another? And does it even make any sense
to reason about moral questions in the first place? After all, perhaps morality is just
an individual subjective response, like one's taste in ice cream. Or maybe it's
just a matter of religious dogma, so that one needn't think for oneself or bother
trying to reason about it at all. Or perhaps all behavior boils down to self-interest
anyway, so that talk of "moral obligation" is merely empty rhetoric. And, if it
is not empty talk, what could possibly ground moral obligation? Imagine having one
of those heavy late-night dorm discussions, but with Plato, Thomas Hobbes, John Stuart
Mill, and Immanuel Kant chiming in. You will find that, even though those folks
are long dead, it turns out that they had a lot to say about matters of morality
that still concern us deeply today. In this course, we will explore the potential
of thinking carefully and creatively about morality, and we will do so in the company
of some of the giants of Western moral philosophy. (Did you know that the 17th Century
philosopher, Thomas Hobbes, even came up with a theory to explain why people stay
late at parties?) THIS COURSE FULFILLS 3 HOURS OF CORE CURRICULUM LANGUAGE, PHILOSOPHY, AND CULTURE
REQUIREMENT. Have you ever wondered why people do the things they do? Have you ever wondered why they think the way they think? This course is designed to introduce the field of psychology and its many topics, theories, and contributions to understanding human behavior and thought. Application of psychology to various aspects of everyday life, investigation of the impact of culture on psychological processes, and critical analysis of research will be emphasized. Topics will include emotion, motivation, sensation and perception, personality formation, social behavior, intelligence, and psychological disorders. This course is an engaging, fun, and thought-provoking course that has real-life applicability in virtually every discipline. THIS COURSEFULFILLS 3 HOURS OF THE CORE CURRICULUM SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES REQUIREMENT. |
FALL 2014 FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE COURSES
ARCH 1311-H01 Design, Environment, and Society, Prof. U. Flueckiger MW 10:00-11:20 AM; LCG M 4:00-5:20 PM COMS 2300-H01 Introduction to Public Speaking, Prof. N. Carter MWF 10:00-10:50 AM; LCG M 4:00-5:20 PM ECO 2301-H01 Principles of Economics I, Prof. R. Al-Hmoud TR 9:30-10:50 AM; LCG W 4:00-5:20 PM ENGL 2305-H01 Introduction to Poetry, Prof. W. Wenthe TR 11:00 AM-12:20 PM; LCG W 4:00-5:20 PM ENGL 2391-H01 Introduction to Critical Writing, Prof. M. Borshuk TR 2:00- 3:20 PM; LCG W 4:00-5:20 PM ENGL 2391-H02 Introduction to Critical Writing, Prof. K. Caswell TR 2:00- 3:20 PM; LCG M 4:00-5:20 PM ENGR 1315-H01 Introduction to Engineering, Prof. D. Ernst TR 11:00 AM-12:20 PM; LCG W 4:00-5:20 PM ENGR 1315-H02 Introduction to Engineering, Prof. D. Ernst MWF 1:00-1:50 PM; LCG M 4:00-5:20 PM GEOG 2300-H01 Introduction to Human Geography, Prof. G. Elbow MWF 8:00-8:50 AM; LCG M 4:00-5:20 PM HDFS 2322-H01 Partnering: The Development of Intimate Relationships, Prof. S. Jackson MWF 11:00-11:50 AM, LCG W 4:00-5:20 PM HIST 2300-H01 History of the U.S. Before 1877, Prof. G. Bell MW 1:00-2:20 PM; LCG M 4:00-5:20 PM HIST 2301-H01 History of the U.S. Since 1877, Prof. M. Levario MWF 11:00-11:50 AM; LCG W 4:00-5:20 PM HONS 1301-H01 Windows on World War I, Prof. J. Brink TR 9:30-10:50 AM; LCG W 4:00-5:20 PM HONS 1301-H02 Wonder Woman; Gender, Power, and the Nation in American Popular Culture, Prof. K. Williams TR 12:30-1:50 PM, LCG W 4:00-5:20 PM HONS 1301-H03 The Mother Earth Chronicles, Prof. S. Tomlinson TR 11:00 AM-12:20 PM; LCG M 4:00-5:20 PM HONS 1304-H02 Introduction to Symphony, Prof. T. Cimarusti TR 12:30-1:50 PM; LCG M 4:00-5:20 PM HONS 2406-H01 Honors Integrated Science, Prof. M. McGinley MWF 10:00-10:50 AM; LCG W 4:00-5:20 PM HONS 2406-H02 Honors Integrated Science, Prof. M. San Francisco TR 5:00-5:20 PM; LCG M 4:00-5:20 PM IE 2311-H01 Engineering Economic Analysis, Prof. J. Carrell MWF 11:00-11:50 AM; LCG M 4:00-5:20 PM MATH 1451-H02 Calculus I with Applications, Prof. C. Seaquist TR 12:30-1:50 PM; LCG W 4:00-5:20 PM PHIL 2320-H01 Introduction to Ethics, Prof. D. Nathan TR 2:00-3:20 PM; LCG W 4:00-5:20 PM PSY 1300-H01 General Psychology, Prof. J. Clopton TR 9:30-10:50 AM; LCG M 4:00-5:20 PM |
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