Spring Quarter 2008 Honors Seminars
(formerly called honors special topics courses)

Please note:
Courses with the course numbers listed in red have a travel component immediately following spring quarter. 

Course Number	Course Title	Call Number	Day/Time	Professor	BoK	Arts & Sciences Checklist
23SAID399H	Paris: Reading the City	610023	Thursdays 9:00am-11:50am	R. Williamson	FA,  HP	Behavioral/Social Sciences
In this course students will study texts by authors whose observations about the city of Paris and its systems (of transportation, commerce, social relations, hygiene, etc.) complement the traditional view of the city as a formal, visual construction. At the core of this investigation is the notion of the city as an organism or body, animated by patterns that relate to but ultimately transcend the brick and mortar city. This class will culminate in a 1 week visit to Paris during the vacation following the quarter in which the course is offered. Tentative travel dates are Saturday, June 14 (evening) - Saturday, June 21. Expected cost is $2000 per student, including airfare, lodging, tours, 3 group meals, and other program expenses. This does not include other meals or transportation to and from the airport in Paris (expected taxi cost of $20 each way). Honors will provide each student with a travel grant to offset the cost (amount TBA). Students are encouraged to apply for grants from UC International. Learn more.
32INTR346H	Math and Architecture of the Ancient Maya Civilization	601762	Tuesdays 5:30-7:50pm	Paul Jones	DC,  HP	Behavioral/Social Sciences
Using a hybrid model, students will study the math, architecture and culture of the Maya. Students will work collaboratively to discover the unique contributions of the Maya civilization to our present world. The course will culminate with a required visit to Chiapas, Mexico where students will experience these interrelations. Information about the travel component and cost will be added soon. Questions? Contact the professor, Paul Jones at jonespt@uc.edu or 556-2923.
15CHEM322H	Chemical Aspects of Forensic Science	601978	TH 11:00am-12:15pm	A. Pinhas	NS	Natural Sciences
This course is designed for honors students interested in forensic science, regardless of  their majors. They will concentrate on the chemistry involved in forensic investigations. The chemistry will include analyzing auto glass, auto paint, links used in forgery, blood types, drugs, poisons, and DNA. Students will perform many tests themselves. Students must have permission from Jen Lile, the Honors academic advisor, in order to register for this course. Contact Jen at jen.lile@uc.edu to express your interest.
15COMM349H	Cincinnati, Poverty, and Intercultural Communication	609781	Wednesdays 3:00-5:40pm	M.J. Woeste	DC	Behavioral/Social Sciences
This course provides honors students with an introduction to current intercultural communication theory through experiential involvement with local marginalized communities (those living in poverty).
15GEOL399H	Global Climate Change: Future Greenhouse or Ice Age?	607555	MWF 1-1:50pm	T. Algeo	SE	Natural Sciences
A study of the global climate system, including the records of past and present climate change and the prospects for future change as a function of natural and anthropogenic influences on climate.
15ENGL381H	The American Campus in Film, Fiction, and Reality	610139	TH 9:30-10:45am	B. Dziech	HU	Literature
This course is designed to provide students with a basic overview of contemporary higher education and representative debates, problems, and challenges it faces in the present and future. It will employ film and fiction depictions of the American campus so that students can compare and contrast them with "real life" in higher education as they know it from class assignments and their personal experiences.
15ENGL383H	Law, Literature, and the Search for Elusive Truths	609025	TH 2:00-3:15pm	C. Ris	SE,  LT	Literature
Examines law, its origins and representations in literature and popular culture, and its influences. Students will explore texts including literature, court documents, news articles, and television shows and will (re)create laws, propose arguments on current hot topics, and present and decide cases to practice critical thinking, argumentation, and compromise.
15ENGL384H	Madness and Literature at the Melancholy Mad Cafe	610391	Mondays 6:30-9:15pm	S. Kartsonis	LT,  SS	Literature
While examining the work of writers dealing with mental illness, the course will discuss diagnosis and treatments and how they have changed over time. Other activities include: looking at scans of brain images, responding to readings, films, with our own poems and stories. This course is directed at anyone interested in social sciences, literature, or creative writing.
15EVST399H	Sustainable Development: History, Concept, and Practice	600704	Mondays 6:30-9:00pm	G. Honadle	SE,  SS	Behavioral/Social Sciences
Traces sustainable development ideas from the 1950's to the present. Introduces ecological economics and its challenge to traditional thinking about growth and development.  Different experiences with sustainable development strategies by international organizations and low-income countries, by selected high-income countries such as the Netherlands, Canada and the United States, and by the State of Minnesota will be examined.
15HIST397H 15AFAM397H (cross-listed)	African Americans and State Sponsored Injustice/Inequality	602121 (HIST) 604699 (AFAM)	*new meeting time* TH 12:30-1:45pm	N. Taylor	DC,  HP	History
Relationship African Americans have had with the state in the modern era. Focuses on several aspects of the state which have helped to define or reinforce racial injustices and inequality. Among themes to be covered are the justice system, welfare system, public schools and military.
*Newly Listed* 15JOUR626	Women in Journalism	Contact professor for permission to take course	Thursdays 4:00-6:45pm	E. Sonnenberg	N/A	TBA
This course will be research and interview-based as we explore the role and impact of women on the field of journalism, both historically and today. Students will utilize primary research techniques, participate in lectures and learn from guest speakers and do field work by speaking with local female journalists. During the quarter, the journalism program will be hosting a panel discussion on the topic, so students may have an opportunity to have their work displayed as part of the program.
*Newly Listed* 15ORGL502	Lessons in Leadership	607811	Thursdays 5:30-8:10pm	S. Furst	SS, DC	TBA
Designed to cover current leadership issues facing private and public, for profit and not-for-profit organizations. A wide variety of corporate, government and other organizational leaders will serve as guest speakers and discuss current leadership issues. Students have the opportunity to examine multiple theories and ideas of leadership in order to develop insights for their own personal leadership development.
15PHIL394H	Art and Emotion	609852	TH 11:00am-12:15pm	J. Robinson	HU	Humanities
The ways in which emotions enter into the creation and the experience of works of painting, literature, music and other art forms.
15PHIL395H	The Infinite	609870	MWF 12:00-12:50pm	J. Martin	HU	Humanities
The concept of the infinite from Greek philosophy and mathematics, through the Middle Ages and Western religion, to modern logic and mathematics. Topics include Zeon's paradoxes; Aristotle's extension; Medieval matter and continuity; Leibniz and Newton's on the calculus; numbers (the naturals, integers, and reals) in modern mathematics; modern set theory's transfinite sets; and the continuum hypothesis.
15POL395H	Globalization and Its Discontents	609838	Thursdays 2:00-4:50pm	T. Moore	SS,  DC	Behavioral/Social Sciences
This course provides an interdisciplinary examination of the economic, social, and political consequences of globalization in the contemporary world. Topics will cover the implications of globalization both for national policy and international relations.
*Newly Listed* 20ENFD119	The Schneider Series: Practical Aspects of Building Energy Audits	610968	Tuesdays 5:00-8:00pm	D. Oerther	TBA	TBA
The course will cover practical aspects of building energy audits.  The course will be very exciting in that: 1) as a Professional Engineer Joe Harrell (Director of the UC Utility Plant) will be a co-instructor on this course; 2) the course will be taught using the utility plant at UC as a model for how to conduct energy audits (class will met inside the Utility Plant); 3) Eric Gruenstein has funding from the Greater Cincinnati Foundation to hire graduates of the course to do mini-coops after the course is complete so that they can go out into the community and conduct supervised energy audits on buildings. The class will meet in room 204 of UC’s Central Utility Plant (located right between east and west campus).
TBA	Live Well Collaborative	Contact Jen Lile (jen.lile@uc.edu) for more information.	See below	See below	N/A	N/A
Live Well Collaborative studios are open to juniors and seniors of all majors with an interest in creating new product and service innovations for those aged 50 and over. Students work with faculty and corporations to conduct research and develop ideas within an interdisciplinary environment encompassing design, engineering, business, medicine, anthropology and social science. The following focus areas are available in spring quarter: 1) P&G, Mon & Wed  9am to Noon, focus is environmental packaging. Lead Faculty is Craig Vogel (DAAP) and  Ric Sweeney (COB). 2) General Mills, Tues and Thurs 2 to 5pm, waiting for GM to determine focus. Lead Faculty is Peter Chamberlain (DAAP) and Chris Allen (COB). Read more about the Live Well Collaborative on DAAP's website.
38HNRS365H	Women and Music: World Perspective	610209	Mondays 6:30-8:50pm	R. Templeman	DC,  FA	Humanities
A survey of the creativity, participation, social and ensemble roles, and visibility, of women as they perform, compose, lead ensembles, and consume music. Students will learn about music as it relates to women in Asia, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas, and some art musics, sacred musics, and popular musics from the same parts of the world. Students will be given readings as well as assignments to listen to field recordings made by ethnomusicologists and commercial recordings (for pop and art music), which were generated by the music industry.
38HNRS380H	Gateway to Research and Creative Arts	601749	Tuesdays 2:00-4:20pm	J. Murdock	SS	Free elective
By method of guest speakers, class lecture, and discussion students will be introduced to the people, problems, and process of conducting research in multiple disciplines.  This course is suitable for all majors as it will cover research in multiple disciplines.
38HNRS390H	Gateway to Community Engagement	600617	TH 3:30-4:45pm	E. Al Hearn	SE	Free elective
Students will develop a more sophisticated understanding of community, service, civic engagement, and the relationship between academic institutions and communities. Through critical analysis of social issues, reflection, and community involvement students should develop a personal philosophy of service and civic responsibility. As a result of this course students should cultivate a spirit of mutual accountability for building community and affecting social change.
38HNRS394H	In Teaching Others, We All Learn...	610294	Mondays 12:00 - 2:30	C. Lottman, J. Lile	DC,  SE	Behavioral/Social Sciences
Provides students with the opportunity to explore and learn the theoretical concepts of emotional intelligence, resilience, learning theory, group dynamics, and literacy. Students will engage in active learning in the classroom and will also apply and integrate these concepts while engaging in work with students from a local elementary school. *Please note that this class will meet at the elementary school, so students will need to walk, bike, drive or ride the bus off campus each week. (The school is approximately 1 mile from UC.) Additionally, all students in the class will need to undergo a background check prior to the beginning of spring quarter in order to work with elementary school students; the instructors will provide more detail in February.
38HNRS398H	Developing Leadership through Service	609755	Wednesdays 4:00-6:20pm	M. Kreppel	SE,  SS	Behavioral/Social Sciences
An experiential study of service organizations from the inside, this seminar challenges students to learn and serve a nonprofit business; they will develop leadership skills and abilities while they contribute.  Advanced undergraduate students will practice service and leadership through on-site fieldwork in a service organization. Students will analyze fieldwork experiences against their readings in leadership research, compare them to others' experiences, and develop recommendations to the host organization Students must apply for permission to enroll in this class. To do so, please submit the following to Professor Maria Kreppel (maria.kreppel@uc.edu): 1) A current resume 2) An email statement, of no more than 250 words, that summarizes what local experiences you've already had (communities that you've lived in, schools attended, etc.); volunteer jobs and ‘non-academic’ skills and interests that are not on your resume; and what you might  like to experience in this community that you haven't had a chance to try yet. Please contact Professor Kreppel with questions at maria.kreppel@uc.edu.