All honors students who begin as entering first-year students will be required to take at least 20 credit hours of lower-division honors courses over the course of their undergraduate career at CSU (i.e., 4 four-credit courses and 4 one-credit honors colloquia series courses), selected from a broad spectrum of disciplines. When honors students reach upper-division status, they will register for courses in accord with an individual Honors Academic Plan Contract approved by their academic adviser and the Honors Program Director. Honors courses are designed to be interdisciplinary and participatory.

See also the Universal Honors Experience courses page.

SPRING 2010

1. ENG 241H – WRITING LITERATURE: FICTION AND DRAMA

Instructor: Rachel Carnell
Time: T Th 8-950 AM

Successful completion of ENG 101 and ENG 102 or ENG 102H is required for eligibility. This course teaches students how to analyze, discuss and write critically about fiction and drama at a level appropriate for honors level English majors. While all sections of ENG 241 teach students the skills of critical thinking and writing about literature, this honors course will also help students understand the histories and ideologies behind the types of analyses they are learning to perform on literature. Students will engage with critical sources at a sophisticated level, in preparation for their senior honors project.

Humanities; Writing Across the Curriculum

2. MTH 182H – HONORS CALCULUS II

Instructor: Ivan Soprunov Time: MWF 945-1050

Topics to be covered include applications of integration, techniques of integration, improper integrals, infinite series, power series, polar coordinates, conic sections, and vectors. This course covers the same basic topics as MTH 182, but with greater emphasis on rigorous treatment of the underlying mathematical ideas and real world applications.

Mathematics

3. MUS 260H – PERFORMING ARTS/CLEVELAND

Instructor: Eric Ziolek
Time: MWF 11AM-1205PM

A course designed to examine original sources for works of art that are presented during the regular seasonal offerings of performing arts organizations in Cleveland and on the Cleveland State University campus. Students will attend concerts, plays, dance recitals, ballet, musical theater, and opera. In preparation for each event, the historical, social, and aesthetic context of each work will be studied along with related topics that enhance the appreciation of the event. May be repeated for credit for a total of 8 credit hours.

Humanities

4. PHL 213H – ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS

Instructor: Alyson Robichaud
Time: T Th 10-1150 AM

Course will examine different conceptions of nature, and different theories about the relationship of humans to their natural environment, that have shaped historically important moral theories as well as from contemporary philosophical writings in the area of environmental ethics and works of literature. Questions addressed will include: What are rights? Who/what should have them? What kinds of things, if any, are intrinsically valuable? What responsibilities do we have to future generations

Humanities; Writing Across the Curriculum

5. PHY 244H - HONORS UNIVERSITY PHYSICS II

Instructor: Kiril Streletzky
Time: T Th 1-250 PM (Lecture)
Th 3-4:50 PM (Lab)

Calculus based honors physics with lab: electricity, magnatism, optics.

Natural Science; Writing Across the Curriculum

6. REL 235H – ORIGINS CHRISTIAN RELIGION

Instructor: Matt Jackson-McCabe

Time: MWF 12:15 – 1:20 PM

An introduction to the critical study of Christian origins and the New Testament as seen from the perspective of comparative religion. After a brief introduction to religion in the ancient Mediterranean world, the course investigates the evolution of early Christian religion from Jesus to his earliest followers in this context, with special attention to issues of myth, ritual, spirit possession, ethics, social identity, and institutional authority. Underlying themes include the relation of the first Christians to other groups of the ancient Mediterranean world, and the question of unity and diversity in the New Testament. Emphasis on close, critical analysis of primary texts.

Humanities; Writing Across the Curriculum

7. SCI 220H – SCIENCE AS A WAY OF THINKING

Instructor: Michael Gates

Time: T Th 10-12

An introduction to scientific reasoning, the nature of scientific evidence, and the foundation of major scientific theories. Examples from the major scientific disciplines will be used to illustrate how scientists create, use, and update thier views of the world.

Natural Science

8. SOC 280H – SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY

Instructor: Peter Meiksins
Time: MWF 9:45 – 10:50 AM

This course uses concepts and methods from the social sciences to explore the relationship between science and technology and society. How do culture and social structure affect the production of scientific and technical knowledge? How do scientific and technological developments affect society? Social Science; Writing Across the Curriculum