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Colloquia can be found under the course number UH 3004H in the course timetable, and each colloquia has a different CRN number. Colloquia offerings usually change every semester.

The Beatles: Myth, Memory, and History
CRN #15581

It has been more than half a century since four young, working-class boys from Liverpool swept onto the international scene and captured the imagination of a generation. The Beatles’ rise to the top of the charts is significant not only because of the lasting cultural and commercial legacy of the group and its members, but also because the rise and fall of the Beatles’ allows us to examine the profound social and cultural transformations wrought by the cultural revolution of the sixties. This course will introduce students to the history and cultural legacy of the Beatles, including their music, films, and subsequent post-Beatles work. It will be interdisciplinary: a mixture of history, literature, biography, musicology and film studies. In addition to weekly readings, short papers, and discussions, students will take part in individual and group research and presentations.

• Instructor: Robert Stephens
• Credit: 3 hours
• Day/Time: T, 1:00 – 3:00 p.m.
• Location: 132 HILL

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The Legend of King Arthur
CRN #15582

The Legend of King Arthur continues to this day to capture our imagination. Why is this so? This course will examine some of the more well known telling of the Arthur legend from Mallory to the present in an effort to find out what it is about the story that gives it an almost universal appeal over the ages. There will be a lot of readings, fun reading, but a lot of it.

• Instructor: Joe Pitt
• Credit: 3 hours
• Day/Time: T, 1:50-3:50 p.m.
• Location: 225 MAJWM

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Interviewing Techniques
CRN #15425

This class will examine the techniques used by professional theatre, film and television performers that can be used in other disciplines during interviews for jobs, scholarships and life. The competition among actors for jobs in the “business” is highly fierce and competitive. Over the years, performers have developed very sophisticated interview techniques to help them land a job or win the role. Many of the techniques used by actors can be adapted for interviews in other disciplines. This course will allow students to learn and practice some of these skills and techniques.

• Instructor: Greg Justice
• Credit: 3 hours
• Day/Time: T, 3:30 – 5:15 p.m.
• Location: 204 Hend

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Biomedical Ethics
CRN #15584

The American health care system is the best that money can buy. Yet, many ethical questions have arisen because of this superior technology: Who is in charge of the switches in intensive care? Should health care be rationed by a priority system? Will the human genome project help cure genetic diseases or will it become a eugenic screen? Who are the legal guardians of the children produced by in vivo fertilization procedures? Should research with fetal cells be sanctioned? Is there a need for an ethicist in a hospital? Should the U.S. have a national health care system which includes ethical standards? The course will include readings from the works of Lewis Thomas, Norman Cousins, etc…, plus participation by departmental faculty and local physicians.

• Instructor: Thomas Sitz
• Credit: 3 hours
• Day/Time: R, 4:00 – 6:00 p.m.
• Location: 134 HILL

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The Unexamined Life is Not Worth Living CRN#15585

This colloquium is limited to students who will graduate in December, 2009 or May, 2010. To add, you must see either Ms Wooddell or Ms Craft. They will add you if your graduation date qualifies. The limit of 15 students requires a selection process.

The purpose of the colloquium is to prepare you for your senior year. If you plan to apply for a national scholarship, graduate school, law or medical school, or you seek a great job, this colloquium will help prepare you for an extraordinary opportunity. PLEASE NOTE: there will be considerable writing and reflection. Plan to spend several hours a week on the assignments. Also, we will seek to create a perfect personal statement and curriculum vita—so be prepared for many drafts. An additional goal is to work on your personal writing style. Practice interviews will also be conducted.

• Instructor: Jack Dudley
• Credit: 3 hours
• Day/Time: T, 4:00 – 6:00 p.m.
• Location: 104 M CAMPBELL

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Chinese Medicine
CRN #15587

Chinese medicine is among the oldest health care systems, having been practiced for over 5000 years. Arising out of Daoism, the goal of Chinese medicine is to restore balance, thus creating an environment in which illness can not take root. Classically, a Chinese doctor was only paid as long as the patient remained healthy. This course will examine the principles guiding Chinese medicine. Other topics of discussion will include how tuina, also known as Chinese massage, qi gong, Thai massage, and internal martial arts work to improve health.

• Instructor: D Denbow
• Credit: 3 hours
• Day/Time: T; 3:30 – 5:20 p.m.
• Location: 1890 LITRV

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Engineering & Business Issues in the Real World
CRN #15588

This class will introduce Honors students to topics they will not see in a regular curriculum or to look at topics with a bit of a different view. A two-hour session will be built around each topic with a planned fourteen or so sessions in all. The titles are intended to be “starters” and we will go where the discussions take us. For the discussions to be meaningful, each student will be expected to have researched the topics and to bring his/her own thoughts to the meetings. A paper further developing one of the topics will be required. Topics to be discussed include:

• Ethical Issues for Engineers;
• Engineering Licensure;
• Differences in Engineering Training – now versus 20 and 40 years ago;
• Occupational Safety and Health Issues; and
• Giving back to Society.

There are additional topics based on class input and availability of expertise.

• Instructor: Rick Knack
• Credit: 3 hours
• Day/Time: TBA.
• Location: HILL 132

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Men’s Issues
CRN #15589

This course is not restricted to men. We will examine the various issues that contribute to our understanding of what it means to be a man. This course will cover the message we receive in our life from our mothers and fathers, men’s emotions and how they are expressed, differences in communication between women and men, male bonding, sports and violence, sexual identity, sexual attraction, and aging. Each week students will be given copies of papers to read and a homework assignment to raise awareness of male issues. Even in your brief lifetime, you will be asked to draw on your life experiences as we discuss the various issues.

• Instructor: Art Buikema
• Credit: 3 hours
• Day/Time: T, 3:30 – 5:20 p.m.
• Location: 126 MCB

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Biomusical Engineering
CRN #15591

Human survival depends on the maintenance within very narrow limits of physiologic variables critical to life, a condition known as homeostasis.  Homeostasis is achieved by cascading networks of sophisticated anatomic feedback/feedforward control systems that operate in accordance with prescribed reference set-points.  In diagnosed populations (such as Autistic), these set points often deviate from those that optimize physiologic performance.  Coupled with misinterpretation of sensory information, these deviant set-points maintain the body in a perpetual survival mode that derives from fear responses.  In these cases, clinicians prescribe therapy to re-set the reference control quantities.  Recent research and clinical applications suggest that Music Therapy is a particularly effective clinical intervention to accomplish this goal.  Its effectiveness derives from its ability to function through sub-cortical, non-cognitive pathways that are indigenous to fundamental physiological response mechanisms.  The instinct to track music is innate, paralleling and reflecting the human condition through six basic elements: rhythm, melody, harmony, dynamics, timbre, and form.

In this course, we shall develop and examine a control-model paradigm to explain how and why these music elements can be utilized, in combination or individually, as a medical intervention to specifically target sensory integration dysfunction and re-set system operating parameters, i.e., redirect fear responses.  We shall examine the physics of sound as manifest specifically in the elements of music ... talking about what they are and how (and why) they have evolved over centuries of development.  We shall examine how the body receives and responds to sensory inputs, in general, and those manifest in the elements of music, in particular.  Then we shall explore how, applied clinically as a continuous disturbance to malfunctioning feedback control pathways, music therapy succeeds in stimulating functional adaptation, driving the physiologic system towards more optimal responses to sensory inputs.

• Instructor: Daniel J. Schneck
• Credit: 3 hours
• Day/Time: W, 10:00 – 12:00 p.m.
• Location: 132 HILL

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Introduction to Opera
CRN #17497

I have chosen six operas which fit this category for detailed study in class, one German, one French and four Italian. They are, in chronological order

1. The Magic Flute. W.A. Mozart (German)
2. The Barber of Seville. G. Rossini (Italian)
3. Lucia di Lammermoor.  G. Donizetti (Italian)
4. Carmen. G. Bizet (French)
5. Aida. G. Verdi (Italian)
6. Madame Butterfly. G. Pucccini (Italian)

In addition to watching videos in class, there will be discussions of the musical and dramatic aspects of the operas as well as their literary backgrounds.

Three class periods will be devoted to student presentations of other operas not included on the above list. The class will be divided into teams of three students each, who will work together to discuss the dramatic and musical backgrounds of the opera they choose to present, and to illustrate with selections from the video. The choice of opera is up to the team members, but the instructor will be on hand to assist and advise, and will provide the videos. Each team will have about 1¼ hours for its presentation. (Exact time depends on number of students enrolled.) For more information, the syllabus for this course is posted on the instructor’s website - pzweifel.com.
Grades will be based on participation in classroom discussions and on final presentations.

• Instructor: Paul Zweifel
• Credit: 3 hours
• Day/Time: M 3:30 - 5:30 pm
• Location: TBD

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UH 2984H-Oral Health Education

CRN: 17707

1 credit A-F, not honors restricted, on-line class.

Other Departmental Honors Courses

BIOL 1206H #90928 Honors Biology
11:15-12:05 MWF DER 3092
Additional Times: 9:30-12:15 R DER 1033

BIOL 1206H #17343 Honors Biology
11:15-12:05 DER 3092
Additional Times: 2:00-4:45 R DER 1033

CHEM 1056H #11663 General Chem. For Major
10:10-11:00 MWF CHEMP 140
Additional Times: 3:00-3:50 R WMS 209

CHEM 2566H #11715 Principles Org. Chem.
9:05-9:55 MWF DAV 3

CHEM 3616H #11719 Honors Physical Chem.
9:30-10:45 TR DAV 303

ENGL 1204H #12749 Honors Freshman English
4:00-5:15 MW MCB 209

ENGL 1204H #12750 Honors Freshman English
2:00-3:15 TR PAM 1001

ENGL 1204H #12751 Honors Freshman English
3:30-4:45 TR PAM 3010

IDST 3114H #17507 The Good Life
11:15-12:05 MWF MCB 302

MATH 1114H #13883 Elementary Linear Algebra
1:25-2:15 MW MCB 308

MATH 2214H #13972 Intro Diff Equations
9:05-9:55 MWF MCB 231

MATH 2224H #13990 Multivariable Calculus
10:10-11:00 MWF MCB 240

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