PIERRE LACLEDE HONORS COLLEGE University of Missouri-St. Louis Spring 2013 Courses AHG=fulfills American History & Government requirement; CD=fulfills Cultural Diversity requirement; GA=fulfills Global Awareness requirement; H=fulfills Humanities requirement; MS=fulfills Math/Science requirement; NS=fulfills Natural Science requirement; SS=fulfills Social Science requirement; WC=fulfills Writing Certificate HONORS 1100 -001 #11391 HONORS 1201 -004 #11396 (H) Freshman Composition Freshman Symposium: Cultural Traditions II MW 11:00-12:15 Baldus, K. Villa 155 TR 12:30-1:45 Friedline, G. Villa 155 (See Section 006 for course description) Freshman Composition: This course, the first in the Honors College writing sequence, is required and should be HONORS 1201 -005 #11397 (H) taken during freshman year. Through formal and informal Freshman Symposium: Cultural Traditions II writing assignments, discussion, instruction, and research, TR 2:00-3:15 Dwiggins, K. Seton students will improve their critical reading, thinking, and (See Section 006 for course description) writing skills, and their research techniques. The course is designed to help students meet the rigorous challenges of HONORS 1201 -006 #13264 (H) college writing across the disciplines by emphasizing Freshman Symposium: Cultural Traditions II intellectual inquiry, logic, style, correct and concise expression, TR 9:30-10:45 Dwiggins, K. Seton and formal research and documentation. Students will write 4 to 5 formal papers, and informal reading and writing assignments This course will continue our introduction to college and will be required. our reflections on different approaches to education that we started in Cultural Traditions I. By surveying Western and Non- HONORS 1110 -001 #14249 (H) Western cultures from 1750 to the present, it will examine the Western Traditions: Humanities intellectual traditions of a wide variety of cultures through their TR 2:00-3:15 Balogh, M. C309 major works of philosophy, literature, and science and seek a better understanding of how people from diverse regions have Magical Realism: Some of the most exceptional works of perceived and explained the world around them. By comparing modern Latin American literature are found in the literature of and contrasting Western and Non-Western attitudes toward magical realism. Starting in the early 20th century and still alive issues such as the interplay of reason and emotion, the structures today, the fictional tales, essays, and poetry of authors such as of social and natural environments, and the role of humans in Miguel Ángel Asturias, Gabriel García Márquez, Isabel society, this course will help us see these and other fundamental Allende, & Jorge Luis Borges, among others, have portrayed the human concerns in a global context. Readings will explore magic ingrained in all of Latin American culture. In this course, topics such as colonialism, modernism, and globalization and we will first familiarize ourselves with definitions and terms will include acknowledged classics from Western Europe, the related to the theories of magical realism, and then read selected Near East, China, India and Japan. works from some of these authors. There will be class discussions after all of the readings and students will be asked to HONORS 1230 -001 #11398 (SS, AHG) write reflective and/or research papers on the works read. Each American Traditions: Social & Behavioral Sciences student will be asked to find a piece of Latin American magical TR 11:00-12:15 Hankinson, C. C307 realism, not covered in class, and present it to the class. Honors American Politics: Whether we want to believe it HONORS 1201 -001 #11393 (H) or not, politics is a part of our lives and we need to understand Freshman Symposium: Cultural Traditions II it. Whether your future is taking you into business, or law, into MW 2:00-3:15 Noll, B. Seton education, or the arts or the natural sciences, politics will touch (See Section 006 for course description) your lives in many ways. The purpose of this course is to introduce the fundamentals HONORS 1201 -002 #11394 (H) of American government and politics, particularly the major Freshman Symposium: Cultural Traditions II institutions and processes. Further, it aims to develop skills and MW 11:00-12:15 Noll, B. Seton abilities in analyzing and evaluating issues and public policies in (See Section 006 for course description) American politics. On the one hand, this course wants to stimulate interest in American politics and impart tools that can HONORS 1201 -003 #11395 (H) be of use to all life-long students of politics. On the other hand, Freshman Symposium: Cultural Traditions II this course hopes to develop critical (that is, analytical) citizens, MW 9:30-10:45 Torrusio, A. Seton so that each of us will have examined reasons for the choices we (See Section 006 for course description) make. **While this class is not cross-listed, it will count as 1 Political Science 1100 for SOME majors. Contact your and writing, agriculture and infection, tea and opium, and corn advisor to inquire about this.** and cannibalism. Other important topics include the modern fusion of foods and globalization. Why do some peoples eat HONORS 1230 -002 #11399 (SS, AHG) the things they eat? How does food influence politics? American Traditions: Social & Behavioral Sciences economics? health? Class discussion will be supplemented MW 12:30-1:45 Weber, K. Villa 155 by demonstrations and tasting of regional cuisines. (Note: while we will have food demonstrations, this is not a ‘cooking class.’) The American Experience: Is America the Land of Grades will be based on active class participation, journals, Liberty Part II: Join us as we investigate controversial several short papers, and a presentation. American topics after the Civil War such as the KKK, Big Business, Japanese Internment, McCarthyism, The Civil Rights HONORS 1310 -003 #14250 (H, CD) Era, The Counter Culture and the Patriot Act. Non-Western Traditions: Humanities Many people have used phrases to describe America as TR 11:00-12:15 Lakshmanan, S. Seton the “Land of Liberty,” the “Land of the Free,” or the “Land of Opportunity.” One of the most recognizable symbols of this Tradition and Modernity in South Asia: This course country is the Statue of Liberty which stands as a symbol of introduces students to South Asia - Afghanistan, Bangladesh, freedom, but a strong argument can be made Bhutan, India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. In order to get a that “liberty” has not always applied to everyone. better understanding of the nexus between cultural traditions This class is designed to introduce students to various and ‘modernity,’ the course will include the history of the political, economic, religious and social ideas that have region, the major religions, and some of its cultural traditions. manifested in the life of a developing nation since the Civil Juxtaposed against this background, we will read novels, short War. “Liberty, Part I” is not a prerequisite for this course as this stories, and watch films dealing with contemporary issues. course will explore the concept of liberty during the last one Readings include The Bhagavad Gita, The Reluctant hundred and fifty years of America’s development. Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid, and Nine Lives by William Although this course will satisfy the state requirement, it Dalrymple. The course format will include presentations, will not be a comprehensive study of American history, but discussions, and group activities. There will be an equal instead the course will focus on key social struggles of society. emphasis on the textual and visual aspect of cultures. By Each topic will be assigned a book on the subject as well as a drawing on history, religion, music, literature, and cinema, this selection of primary documents that the students will use for course seeks to provide students with an interdisciplinary critical analysis. Through these documents, students will framework for understanding the diverse and often conflicting interpret and explore the events and ideas of those who played a ways through which South Asia is portrayed and understood. part in shaping America. HONORS 1330 -001 #13026 (SS, CD) HONORS 1310 -001 #11400 (H, CD) Non-Western Traditions: Social & Behavior Sciences Non-Western Traditions: Humanities MW 9:30-10:45 Weber, K. Villa 155 MW 2:00-3:15 Torrusio, A. C309 Men and Women in Non-Western Popular Culture: Literature of Africa: This course examines African Over the summer and early fall of 2012, Korean pop star Psy’s literature within its sociopolitical and cultural contexts in order single “Gangdam Style” has charted on the American Billboard to understand the conflicts and transformation integral to the Top 100, and has almost dethroned “Call Me Maybe” from most making of modern Africa. Texts for the course will include viewed video of the summer on YouTube. His single is not just African accounts of European colonialism and of the new popular, its lyrics and the dancers and actors appearing in the societies that emerged after colonial rule ended. Through video represent specific ideas of the kinds of gender roles its novels, poetry and film, students will also explore the challenges writer values in women and men. It is also but one of the many of politics and corruption, and the changing place of women in examples of the importance of gender roles in Asian popular African society. culture and what they can tell us about the gendered values of those cultures. We will consider issues of gender and sexuality, HONORS 1310 -002 #11401 (H, CD) their intersection with the local history and politics of the Non-Western Traditions: Humanities different nations and governments and how they appear in the TR 12:30-1:45 Walterscheid, K. C209 films, music, and television of various Asian nations. Subjects of study include Bollywood musicals, Japanese horror films, Non-Western Culture and Cuisine: This is an Korean pop music, and Thai comedy films.