Honors Contracts Due Friday 1/29

Honors ContractIf you’re taking a contract course, make sure to get your Honors Contract complete.
How do you know if you need to complete an Honors Contract? If any of these apply to you:

  • Internship for Honors credit,
  • Undergraduate Research,
  • Research Assistantship,
  • Senior Thesis (Not the same as Special Honors in your degree — that’s a different form found here)

Get the RTF-EZ here and the Contract Form here.  Don’t forget your proposal!
You’ve got until COB Friday, January 29th, 2016.
Confused?  Make an appointment.

New Spring Class and SR&D Update

Check out our recently added Self and Society course, as well as changes to a Scientific Reasoning and Discovery section (with the changes in red!), just in time for Spring 2016 registration!


Gender Activism in the Muslim World

Professor Kelly Pemberton
HONR 2048.MV – 3 Credits
CRN: 77947
R 1:00-3:30 PM
Course Description:  This undergraduate course is suitable for students who have little to no background in Islamic studies or the Muslim world. It focuses on women’s rights activism and activists in Muslim-majority countries and Muslim communities in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and North Am. We will explore this activism with respect to the intersection of history, society, and geopolitics, using the theoretical lens of socio-cultural anthropology, and in consideration of of cultural complexes and social relationships within their particular historical contexts and geographic environments. These perspectives will give us a unique vantage point for exploring some of the present characteristics of women’s rights activist communities in Muslim-majority lands and communities, including coalitions among secularists, Islamic, and non-Muslim religious groups, while we investigate some of the major cultural and ideological factors that are shaping these movements. The course will feature at least one guest speaker who is a Muslim activist for women’s rights, and will also offer an opportunity for an off-campus visit to a local mosque or Muslim community center.


Human Biology- The Nutrition Edition

Professor Carly Jordan
HONR 1034:MV2 – 4 Credits
CRN: 77382
TR 9:00-10:50 AM
Fulfills: CCAS: Natural/Physical Science with Lab, ESIA: Science, GWSB: Science
Course Description: Every day we hear all sorts of claims about how to live a healthy life. From what to eat to whether or not to get a vaccine or take a certain drug, we are constantly bombarded with advice about how to live our lives.Who do you listen to? How do you know if the claims you hear are true? In this course, you will develop science literacy and critical thinking skills necessary to make sense of the information you encounter every day. You will learn quantitative skills and basic statistics that will help you interpret data. The major project in this course will be to find a claim and investigate its validity. You will determine the legitimacy of its makers, learn where to find primary sources to support or refute the claim, propose additional studies to help clarify confusing information, and create a dissemination piece to share your understanding with your peers. In this course, we will analyze serious medical claims and silly urban legends, but we will do it all using sound logic and the scientific method. At the end of the semester, you will be armed with the knowledge and skills to make informed decisions about your health.
Note: Spring 2016 will focus on the science of nutrition, metabolism, and exercise.