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Fall 2013 Honors Seminars
The listings below are tentative and subject to change. Please contact your honors academic advisor with questions.
Seminars with course number and title underlined have a study tour component.
| Course Number | Title | Call # | Day/Time | Instructor | BoK |
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| HIST TBA | Global History of World War II: Ideology, Culture, Politics | TBA; permission required. |
TBA, includes required study tour to UK/France. | J. Zalar | TBA |
| This course examines the Second World War in its global contexts. It emphasizes the comprehensive impact of warfare not only on the battlefield, but also on the intellectual, cultural, and political life of belligerent states, above all Germany, the Soviet Union, Japan, and the United States. It attends to everyday life during the war, to the experience of women and children, and to the “barbarization of warfare” that led to the enslavement, murder, and genocide of millions of noncombatants. It addresses, finally, developments that portended the division of Europe and the world after 1945. Application required. Includes required study tour to the UK (London) and France (Normandy). Learn more. |
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| INTB3094 | Social Entrepreneurship: Sustainable and Profitable Solutions to Global Challenges | TBA | TBA, includes required weekend study tour to Montreal. |
C. Polychroniou | DC, SE |
This multidisciplinary course introduces and promotes entrepreneurial thinking for effectively responding to key challenges in our new global economy. The course centers on global issues such as environment, health, poverty, education, sanitation, agriculture, trade and migration/immigration. The focus is on social entrepreneurship and how to develop an offering (a product or service) that would be responsive to a societal need, produce a social benefit and make a nominal profit. Students will work in teams to develop a product or service that meets the triple bottom line of profit, environment, and social good. These low cost, innovative products or services will be for consumers who make between just $2.00-$5.00 a day and will contribute to solutions to complex global problems. UC students will collaborate with University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM) students to develop the products/services, working in cross-national and cross-discipline teams through video conferences and direct meetings in Cincinnati and Montreal. These student teams will create entrepreneurial solutions to above-mentioned challenges, using critical thinking in bringing about economically sound decisions to solve contemporary global challenges. |
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| SOC3009 | Water Justice | TBA, permission required. | TBA, includes required study tour to Mexico. |
A. Parr | DC, SE |
| Water is the source of all life on earth and in this respect it is an important 'commons'. However, climate change, privatization, and poor management are placing the world's water resources under stress. For the world's poor the right to access affordable clean water is becoming increasingly difficult. Similarly the health of water ecosystems is being compromised. This course will study the economic, cultural, social, environmental, and political importance of water. Students will compare different cultural approaches to the conservation of water resources; they will be encouraged to critically assess different modes of water governance all the while studying the daily struggles encountered by people, communities, and animals the world over to access scarce water resources. Application required. Includes required study tour to the Maya Riveria in Mexico. Learn more. |
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| CI3010 | Save Our Schools! Education Controversy and Change | TBA | TBA | S. Stitzlein | SE, SS |
| Students will delve into educational issues central to improving schools, many of which are marred in controversy: from school vouchers to national standards and charter schools to teacher merit pay. Students will work with teachers, community groups, and elected officials to save our schools using knowledge of good education reform. | |||||
| FAA3090 | Greenly Spirits: Nature, Culture, Art | TBA | TBA | D. Burge | FA, HU |
| In this Seminar, students will examine ways in which we relate to the natural environment, and how that relationship manifests as cultural imagination. We will approach the subject from the vantage points of philosophy, literature, and art. Students will research both on-and off-campus, and will create a culminating art project. Open to students across disciplines regradless of artistic ability. All welcome and encouraged to enroll! |
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| FAM3097 | Music and Architecture: Correlation and Comparison | TBA | TR 9:30-10:50am | T. Milligan | FA |
| “Music and Architecture: Correlation and Comparison,” will introduce the students to the spatiotemporal correlations that are common to both architecture and music, will demonstrate that these art forms are related superficially as well as fundamentally, will compare elements that are common to both art forms, and will focus upon various artistic styles that have been prevalent during certain periods of history. Rather than attempting to provide an exhaustive history of various global trends, this course will focus on certain principles found in these two art forms as they have developed with the Western world. Among other topics, for example, the course will examine the influence of Classical thought and the effect of golden Proportion, the importance of form when applied to music and architecture, and the influence of societal demands and desires upon the architect and the composer or performing musician. The course is unified in part through the overarching examination of these two art forms from an historical perspective. | |||||
| HIST TBA | Health, Sex, and Birth: Using the Past to Change the Future | TBA | TBA | W. Kline | TBA |
| This honors course will integrate historical readings on women’s health with community action through service learning. Students will read and conduct research on particular historical aspects of women’s reproductive health and then share their findings with the Prematurity Initiative (suggested topics include the history of nursing, the politics of midwifery, feminism and the women’s health movement, the birth control pill, and the history of adoption). | |||||
| HIST TBA | Making the Metropolis | TBA | TBA | D. Stradling | TBA |
| This course examines the evolution of American cities. Focusing on the physical metropolis and using Cincinnati as a case study, the course analyzes changing ideas about cities as revealed in urban planning, the creation of public spaces, the development of transportation systems, and neighborhoods segregated by race and class. | |||||
| HNRS2040 | Exploring Community Engagement | TBA | Wednesdays 6:00-8:50pm | J. King | DC, SE |
| Designed especially for first and second year students (but open to all). Coursework and experiential learning activities provide students with a forum to explore their place within our campus and city communities. UC's urban environment provides many advantages and confronts us with many challenges as we seek to enhance community. Class sessions will be held at various locations on and around campus and in the city of Cincinnati. | |||||
| RELG3010 | Understanding Religious Intolerance | TBA | TBA | D. Griffith | DC, SE |
| The course examines the phenomenon of religious tolerance and intolerance through readings, guest speakers from a wide range of religious backgrounds in the Cincinnati area, and an experiential learning component where students visit various religious communities in the area and come to fuller understandings of particular religious beliefs, individuals who hold them, and any instances of intolerance the community may have faced. | |||||