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Honors (HON) 1 Honors (HON) 1 HON 2110A. Soundscape Research and Environmental Listening. HONORS (HON) How might we understand environmental sound as a kind of music? In this interactive short course, students will explore the research and HON 1390C. Greek Civilization: The Trojan War and the Western scholarship of the "World Soundscape Project," understood both as a Imagination. historical movement and a contemporary practice. We will examine The course will introduce students to Greek civilization and its impact primary and secondary source literature from musicians, sound artists, on the western world by examining how one theme central to the Greek and environmentalists—including R. Murray Schafer, Barry Truax, and literary imagination-the Trojan War-influenced the development of later Hildegard Westerkamp. And, through a series of workshops, we will western literature. The course studies major texts in the Greek literary describe basic principles of environmental listening, analyze the local canon. (WI) (MULT). soundscape, and assess the aural conditions and qualities of San Marcos 3 Credit Hours. 3 Lecture Contact Hours. 0 Lab Contact Hours. and central Texas. Course Attribute(s): Exclude from 3-peat Processing|Honors|Multicultural 1 Credit Hour. 2 Lecture Contact Hours. 0 Lab Contact Hours. Content|Topics|Writing Intensive Course Attribute(s): Exclude from 3-peat Processing|Honors|Topics| Grade Mode: Standard Letter Writing Intensive Grade Mode: Standard Letter HON 1390D. Ideal Societies I: The Greek Experience. Culture and Civilization in 5th century Athens. The Greek Experience: HON 2110B. Research Experience. towards a new vision of human nature and of society. (WI) (MULT). This course will provide students direct engagement with research at 3 Credit Hours. 3 Lecture Contact Hours. 0 Lab Contact Hours. Texas State and in the surrounding region. Students will interact with Course Attribute(s): Exclude from 3-peat Processing|Honors|Multicultural faculty and graduate students, recognize different levels of research Content|Topics|Writing Intensive engagement, and gain an understanding of the role that research plays in Grade Mode: Standard Letter graduate school. Students will also explore how undergraduate research can enhance and expand future learning and career opportunities by HON 1390F. Economic Thinking: Personal Values, Social Choice & interacting with professionals and/or Texas State alumni. Rational. 1 Credit Hour. 1 Lecture Contact Hour. 0 Lab Contact Hours. This class explores the sociological and philosophical effects operating Course Attribute(s): Exclude from 3-peat Processing|Honors|Topics| in conjunction with economic decision-making. (WI). Writing Intensive 3 Credit Hours. 3 Lecture Contact Hours. 0 Lab Contact Hours. Grade Mode: Standard Letter Course Attribute(s): Exclude from 3-peat Processing|Honors|Topics| Writing Intensive HON 2301A. Writing to Change the World. Grade Mode: Standard Letter This course examines communication through writing to promote positive change in the world. This course will enable students to HON 1390H. Understanding Communication & Technology. communicate their own arguments appropriate to the subject, occasion The course is designed to focus on skills, research and theories about and audience. Students will choose a global issue on which to focus their the relationships bwtween technology and communication behavior. writing, and perform related community service. (WI). It teaches face to face communication skills in the contemporary 3 Credit Hours. 3 Lecture Contact Hours. 0 Lab Contact Hours. technological environment. (WI). Course Attribute(s): Communication Core 010|Exclude from 3-peat 3 Credit Hours. 3 Lecture Contact Hours. 0 Lab Contact Hours. Processing|Honors|Topics|Writing Intensive Course Attribute(s): Exclude from 3-peat Processing|Honors|Topics| Grade Mode: Standard Letter Writing Intensive Grade Mode: Standard Letter HON 2301B. Writing Yourself into Academia: Creating Portraiture. By studying a person, a group of people, an institution, or a concept, HON 1390I. Role of the Storyteller in Society: Promoter, Protector or students will create carefully researched written "portraits" that integrate Provcateur. personal narrative, interviews, and academic research. Students will The course focuses on the role of the storyteller from ancient times to communicate their own arguments and develop ideas about the effect of the present. Students will cultivate an appreciation for the oral tradition in the message to foster understanding and to communicate persuasively. the shaping of history, cultural identity, social mores and personal values. (WI). (WI). 3 Credit Hours. 3 Lecture Contact Hours. 0 Lab Contact Hours. 3 Credit Hours. 3 Lecture Contact Hours. 0 Lab Contact Hours. Course Attribute(s): Communication Core 010|Exclude from 3-peat Course Attribute(s): Exclude from 3-peat Processing|Honors|Topics| Processing|Honors|Topics|Writing Intensive Writing Intensive Grade Mode: Standard Letter Grade Mode: Standard Letter 2 Honors (HON) HON 2302A. Elementary Number Theory. HON 2303D. Everyday Biology. This course engages students in the systematic study of problems in This course provides the non-science major with a strong foundation of elementary number theory using definitions and logical deductions from scientific methods and basic biological concepts. Special emphasis is these definitions. Emphasis will be on developing critical thinking and placed on reviewing biological concepts relevant to everyday life (both applications to modern problems. (WI). current and future) including disease, evolution, genetics, biotechnology, 3 Credit Hours. 3 Lecture Contact Hours. 0 Lab Contact Hours. diet, and environmental biology. Course Attribute(s): Mathematics Core 020|Exclude from 3-peat 3 Credit Hours. 3 Lecture Contact Hours. 0 Lab Contact Hours. Processing|Honors|Topics|Writing Intensive Course Attribute(s): Life & Phys Sciences Core 030|Exclude from 3-peat Grade Mode: Standard Letter Processing|Honors|Topics|Writing Intensive Grade Mode: Standard Letter HON 2302B. Graph Theory and Applications. This course engages students in the study of important topics in HON 2304A. The Meaning of Death. graph theory through it's applications and through proofs designed By examining the moral and existential questions raised by our own to strengthen mathematical techiques. The course will emphasize mortality, students in this course will practice critical thinking and developing critical thinking and applications to modern problems. (WI). examine the variety of human responses to and understanding of death 3 Credit Hours. 3 Lecture Contact Hours. 0 Lab Contact Hours. by focusing on how ideas, values, beliefs, and other aspects of culture Course Attribute(s): Mathematics Core 020|Exclude from 3-peat express and affect human experience. (WI). Processing|Honors|Topics|Writing Intensive 3 Credit Hours. 3 Lecture Contact Hours. 0 Lab Contact Hours. Grade Mode: Standard Letter Course Attribute(s): Lang, Phil & Culture Core 040|Exclude from 3-peat Processing|Honors|Topics|Writing Intensive HON 2303A. Teaching Physical Science to Children. Grade Mode: Standard Letter Course content includes both physics concepts and research findings on physics teaching and learning. Students will develop a deep HON 2304B. Eating Animals in America: Historical and Philosophical understanding of fundamental concepts in physical science and how Perspectives. these concepts relate to making sense of everyday experiences. This This course examines the changing nature of, and views about, the studio-styled physics course is ideal for pre-service K-8 teachers. (WI). production and consumption of animals in America from the 18th century 3 Credit Hours. 2 Lecture Contact Hours. 4 Lab Contact Hours. to the present. The course will focus on the ethical and philosophical Course Attribute(s): Life & Phys Sciences Core 030|Exclude from 3-peat issues raised by eating animals. (WI). Processing|Honors|Topics|Writing Intensive 3 Credit Hours. 3 Lecture Contact Hours. 0 Lab Contact Hours. Grade Mode: Standard Letter Course Attribute(s): Lang, Phil & Culture Core 040|Exclude from 3-peat Processing|Honors|Topics|Writing Intensive HON 2303B. Astronomy in Art, History, and Literature. Grade Mode: Standard Letter In this class, students will combine astronomy and the humanities. They will create computer simulations of past celestial events. These HON 2304C. Nonviolence and Sustainable Social Change. results will be combined with evidence gathered from primary sources to This course examines nonviolence as the systematic endeavor to investigate how astronomy affected history or appeared in the historical break cycles of violence, poverty, and racism. The course will focus art or literature. (WI). on investigating the ongoing force of such cycles and to formulate 3 Credit Hours. 3 Lecture Contact Hours. 0 Lab Contact Hours. effective understandings for subverting and reversing such trends to offer Course Attribute(s): Life & Phys Sciences Core 030|Exclude from 3-peat productive contributions toward more sustainable human development. Processing|Honors|Topics|Writing Intensive (WI). Grade Mode: Standard Letter 3 Credit Hours. 3 Lecture Contact Hours. 0 Lab Contact Hours. Course Attribute(s): Lang, Phil & Culture Core 040|Exclude from 3-peat HON 2303C. Building a Greener Future: One Home at a Time. Processing|Honors|Topics|Writing Intensive Students will use basic scientific principles to investigate resource usage Grade Mode: Standard Letter in
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