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Honors Program - Honors Courses - Spring 2008
  • Honors 1110 Introduction to Honors - Course ID#  20709
    • 3 credit hours
    • 11:00-11:50am MWF
    • Carl Porter
    • Course objectives are based on the Mission Statement. . ."to enhance the undergraduate experience by providing a challenging and creative curriculum, to provide a preparation for post graduate education through a program of seminars, independent study, and individual research, and to enrich the post graduate life of all students by fostering intellectual curiosity and a love of learning."  The Introduction to Honors course introduces students to portfolios, community service, and involvement in Honors activities.

  • Honors PS1500 Perspectives in Physical Science-  - Course ID# 20710
    • 3 credit hours
    • 9:00-9:50am MWF
    • Adam Johnston
    •  A practical and interactive way to learn about physics.  
  • Honors LS1510 Perspectives in Life Sciences - "Diseases that Changed the World" - Course ID# 20711
    • 3 credit hours
    • 10:00-11:15am TR
    •  Karen Nakaoka
    • A class that looks at the way our society has been shaped by the diseases of the past. 

 

  • Honors SS1520 Perspectives in the Social Sciences:   "The Econimics of Poverty and Discrimination"- Course ID#  20714
    • 3 credit hours
    • MWF
    • Cliff Nowell
    • Is there a solution to poverty?  Come and find out. 

 

  • Honors CA1530  Perspectives in Creative Arts - "Exploring Creativity Through Textile Dyeing & Quilt Making" - Course ID# 20719
    • 3 credit hours
    • 12:00-2:50pm W
    • Judy Elsley
    • This class gives you an opportunity to explore your creativity, play with fabric and dyes, and produce a work of art.  As well as reading, writing, and talking about creativity, we will practice what we discuss by dyeing and printing several yards of fabric which we'll then make into quilted wall hangings.  Have fun, explore your own creative process, and earn your creative arts General Education credit.

 

  • Honors HU1540 Perspectives in Humanities - "Workplace Gossip" - Course ID# 20729
    • 3 credit hours
    • 8:30-9:45am TR
    • Susn Hafen
    • Have you ever had a job where people did NOT gossip?  It holds organizational memories that are essential social knowledge:  Who has been promoted, fired, reprimanded, rewarded, fought with whom, dated whom, and so on.  Gossip can be very helpful--and very hurtful.  In this course you will do a class project on workplace gossip, as well as develop your personal gossip "ethos" or principles to help you both use and avoid certain gossip in any workplace.

 

  • Honors HU/SS2120 (A & B) "Great Ideas of the West in the Classical and Medieval Eras"  - 2120A - Course ID# ; 2120B - Course ID# HU 20740 / SS 20743
    •  3  credit hours 
    •  MWF 
    •  Donna Cheney
    • A foundation survey class on Western culture

 

  • Honors 2130 (A & B) Intellectual Traditions:  Great Ideas of the East- 2130A - Course ID# ; 2130B - Course ID#
    • 3 credit hours
    • 11:30-12:45pm TR
    • Steve Clark
    • In this class we will explore selected writing of the Dahlia Lama and Deepak Chopra.  We will also practice meditation and learn a few fundamental movements in a Southern style of Karate.


  • Honors 3900 Colloquium:   "A Good Look at the Good Book"  - Course ID#
    • 3 credit hours
    • 1:00- 2:15 TR
    • Mark LeTourneau
    • In this class, we'll try to make the Bible more accessibleby looking at it as we would other works of literature, without losing sight of its stature as scripture.

 

  • Honors 3900 Colloquium:   "One of Utah's Seven Wonders:  The Great Salt Lake"  - Course ID#  20840
    • 3 credit hours
    • 8:00 - 8:50am MWF
    • Dan Bedford
    • Learn more about the Great Salt Lake from the perspectives of art, science, politics and history.  We'll embark on several field trips to the Great Salt Lake to find out why is was recently voted as one of Utah's Seven Wonders.

 

  • English 1010 - Course ID# 21379
    • 3 credit hours
    • 10:00-10:50am MWF
    • Sylvia Newman
    • he required foundation course in Engish that will help to fill your university Core requirements.  This course is limited to 15 students.

 

  • Honors Communications 2110Course ID# 22029
    • 3 hours    
    • 10:00 - 11:15am TR
    • Richard Sline
    • Learn how to improve your interpersonal relationships as well as communicate better in a variety of private and public contexts in "Interpersonal and Small Group Communication."  This course is organized as a mix of traditional lectures and active, in-class experiences and discussions.  Because it's an Honors class, we will also focus on what contemporary research can teach us about effective teamwork.
  • Honors 4830 Directed Readings  - Course ID# 20834
    • 1 credit hour
    • TBA, LI 225
    • Judy Elsley
    • YOU MUST HAVE INSTRUCTOR'S APPROVAL TO REGISTER FOR THIS CLASS


  • Honors 4990 Senior Thesis/Project  -  Course ID# 20840
    • 3 credit hours 
    •  LI 225 
    •  Judy Elsley
    • YOU MUST HAVE INSTRUCTOR'S APPROVAL TO REGISTER FOR THIS CLASS

Weber State University, Honors Program
Ogden, Utah 84408-2904
mdiamond@weber.edu, 626-7336