<p>FALL Honors College classes on page 3 of this link</p>
<p><a href=“http://honors.cbhp.ua.edu/uploads/forms/Current%20Students/honorscourses_interim_summer_fall2012.pdf[/url]”>http://honors.cbhp.ua.edu/uploads/forms/Current%20Students/honorscourses_interim_summer_fall2012.pdf</a></p>
<p>Below are just a very small example of some of the Honors course offerings that might work out… *There are many others (see above link…starting on page 3)</p>
<p>HONORS SURVEY:MORAL FORUM (HU) (3 credits)
Moral Forum: This course is primarily concerned with developing the skills to evaluate and respond to moral claims and engage</p>
<p>in moral discourse. To these ends, this class will be organized around the analysis of one particular controversial “moral” resolution which changes each semester. In teams of two, students will conduct research, attend a 6-part lecture series and a weekly breakout session; and construct position statements, in preparation for a Moral Forum debate tournament taking place at the end of the semester with scholarship money presented to the top participants. (3 hrs)</p>
<p>HONORS SURVEY: EDUCATION THROUGH ARTS (HU) (3 credits) Engaging in Education Through The Arts
UH 101 021 47668 T, R 09:30 – 10:45</p>
<p>In this course, students will gain a better understanding of current education trends with emphasis on engagement in arts education. As a service component of this class, students will work with local high school students, teaching basic photography and film making techniques and collaboratively producing short films. This course will stress the connections between theory and practice as well as provide technical knowledge about basic photography, digital storytelling and filmmaking techniques. The combination of theory, application and technical skills will give students the practical knowledge they need to plan their own future individual initiative for change.</p>
<p>(THE NEXT 3 CLASSES ARE FROSH COMMON BOOK EXPERIENCES)</p>
<p>HONORS EXPLORATIONS (1 credit)
Book: Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky</p>
<p>UH 120 006 48078 F 03:00-5:00</p>
<p>This course is devoted to reading and discussing Fyodor Dostoevsky’s masterpiece The Brothers Karamazov, a book that arguably might be the greatest novel ever written. Meeting schedule: 8/24, 9/7, 9/14, 9/28, 10/5, 10/12,</p>
<p>HONORS EXPLORATIONS (1 credit) Book: Cognitive Surplus by Clay Shirky</p>
<p>UH 120 007 46595 T 04:00-6:00 Aldridge, W. 123 BD</p>
<p>This book is recommended for anyone who wants to understand the social media and mass collaboration phenomenon. This book is strongly recommended as a first book to start reading about social media. Shirky argues persuasively that this cognitive surplus- rather than being some strange new departure from normal behavior-actually returns our society to forms of collaboration that were natural to us up through the early twentieth century. He also charts the vast effects that our cognitive surplus-aided by new technologies-will have on twenty-first-century society. Meeting schedule: 9/11, 9/18, 9/25, 10/2, 10/9, 10/16, 10/23</p>
<p>HONORS EXPLORATIONS (1 credit)
Book: The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You by John C. Maxwell</p>
<p>UH 120 008 46596 R 05:00-07:00 DeFrance, J. 231 GP</p>
<p>Revealing, analyzing and capitalizing on our individual abilities as new leaders on campus and in the surrounding community through the readings of Maxwell. Evaluating our personal talents, interests and strengths will help us set goals for who we want to become and how we will attain those goals through leadership.</p>
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<p>FRESHMAN SEMINAR: Judicial Procedure (HU) (3 credits)
UH 155 001 43228 T, R 09:30 – 10:45 Watkins, J 283 NT
Course content includes legal reasoning, court structures, trial procedures, the jury and jury trials, legal education, the structure of the legal profession, criminal procedure and criminal punishment, including the capital punishment question.</p>
<p>FRESHMAN SEMINAR: International War Crimes (HU) (3 credits)
UH 155 002 43384 T, R 11:00 – 12:15 Watkins, J 292 NT</p>
<p>Course covers international war crime trials from WW-I through recent U.S Supreme Court decisions after 9/11 to include emphasis on the Nuremberg Trials and the Tokyo trials after WW-II, Vietnam, the Balkan Cases and the international terrorism issue as well as the formation of the International Criminal Court in l998. NOTE: Course open to UHP ENTERING FRESHMEN ONLY.</p>
<p>HONORS CLASSICS AND WESTERN CULTURE I (HU) (3 credits)
UH 201 002 47407 T, R 12:30-1:45 Tuggle, B 173 NT</p>
<p>This course explores some of the early foundational texts of Western literature and philosophy. It focuses on major contributions from Greek, Roman, Hebraic, and Christian cultures. Readings may include selections from Homer, Aeschylus, Plato, the Bible, Virgil, Augustine, and Dante.</p>
<p>HONORS FINE ARTS (FA) (3 credits)
Arts and Parody</p>
<p>UH 210 001 42246 M, W, F 11:00 – 11:50 Cary, L 283 NT UH 210 002 42247 T, R 11:00 – 12:15 Cary, L 283 NT</p>
<p>Arts and Parody will explore both parodies and the works parodied, using examples from literature, music, the visual arts, and architecture in an attempt to define parody as a genre.</p>
<p>HONORS FINE ARTS (FA) (3 credits)
Behind the British Mask
UH 210 003 42248 T, R 08:00 – 09:15 Florey, B 283 NT</p>
<p>We will examine the role British theatre has played in British culture and in American society. Because London is the theatre capital of the world, we will explore the political and cultural elements in modern British drama, emphasizing its artistic and creative components. Students will discuss plays, view clips, write critical analyses (or an original work), and attend a University of Alabama play. Some of the plays we’ll read include Copenhagen, Billy Elliot, Take Me Out, Frozen, and two plays from the Fall 2010 London theater season.</p>
<p>HONORS FINE ARTS (FA) (3 credits) The Arts of Tuscaloosa</p>
<p>Following a traditional honors methodology, we will take “the place as text” and immerse ourselves in the fine arts of the University and its community. Among genres studied will be architecture, painting, sculpture, gardens, music, theatre, dance, and literature. Students will be required to attend lectures by experts on art, to attend performances and exhibitions, to take walks and field trips, to read, to discuss, and to write. This course will be a delightful part of UA’s “Creative Campus” initiative.</p>
<p>HONORS FINE ARTS (FA) (3 credits)
Alexander the Great
UH 210 010 44205 M 03:00-05:30 Summers, T 375 BD</p>
<p>Alexander’s expedition to the East was a major cultural event the effects of which still reverberate today. His long journey took him from Greece through modern Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and as far as the Hindu Kush mountain range (a sub-range of the Himalayas) and India. Encountering a foreign and strange world, he sought to comprehend it through his Western eyes. The same astonishment at the Greek culture he introduced to his subjects, the conquered people, overcame them as well, since most them came in contact with the Western civilization for the first time. Somehow Alexander managed not only to conquer the hostile terrain and its rough natives, but also to meld the two worlds and create an amalgamated culture, tolerable enough to the Eastern people of his empire. For an amazing 300 years after his death, the Greek culture remained in place under various Greek kings and dynasties. Many Western leaders have since tried to repeat Alexander’s conquest of these same people and the same geographical areas but without success. From the Romans, a major force in the Mediterranean after the 2nd century B.C., to the Russians and the Americans most recently, no foreign conqueror has been able to take control and maintain those parts of the world for any significant length of time. Comprehending the magnitude of Alexander’s achievement requires a close study of his legacy and the lingering effects his expedition has today. Our exploration of his expedition will aim at expounding his particular modus operandi and the reasons behind the failures of subsequent attempts along with his tremendous cultural impact in the East.</p>
<p>HONORS FINE ARTS (FA) (3 credits)
Overview of Egyptian Culture
UH 210 019 49529 W 03:00-05:30 El-Karaksy, H. 375 BD</p>
<p>This course will provide an excellent learning experience for students of all majors. The students will have the opportunity to gain an understanding of the Egyptian civilization by examining and analyzing important topics including: economics, politics, culture, history, religion, demography, and geography. The course will focus on the influences of these topics on the development of Egypt, from past to present. The goal of the course is to provide insight into the seemingly complex culture of Egypt. The course content will incorporate lectures, guest speakers, class discussion, current events, educational videos, and student presentations.</p>
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