2003-2004 Honors Courses and Honors Challenge Sections

Spring 2004

American Studies (AMS) 10 (4 units)
Introduction to American Studies
Carolyn De la Pena
HNR 90X-01 (1 unit) W 10:00-10:50 am 203 Wellman
GE: Arts & Humanities or Social Sciences; Diversity; Writing

Anthropology (ANT) 1 (4 units)
CANCELLED

Biological Sciences (BIS) 1A (5 units)
Introductory Biology
Karen Gerhart
HNR 90X-03 (1 unit) M 1:10-2:00 pm 123 Wellman

Biological Sciences (BIS) 1C (5 units)
Introductory Biology
Deborah Cannington
HNR 90X-15 (1 unit) M 4:10-5:00 pm 283 Robbins
GE: Science & Engineering, Writing

Economics (ECN) 1B (5 units)
Principles of Macroeconomics
Garland Brinkley
HNR 90X-13 (1 unit) R 5:10-6:00 pm 144 Olson
GE: Social Sciences

Geology (GEL) 1 (4 units)
CANCELLED

History (HIS) 10C (4 units)
19th-20th Century World History
Bill Hagen
HNR 90X- 04 (1 unit) R 11:00-11:50 am 123 Wellman
GE: Arts & Humanities

History (HIS) 9A (4 units)
East Asian Civilization
Don Price
HNR 90X- 11 (1 unit) R 2:10-3:00 pm 176 Kerr
GE: Arts & Humanities, Diversity, Writing

Humanities (HUM) 15 (4 units)
Language and Identity
Carlee Arnette
HNR 90X- 14 (1 unit) M 11:00-11:50 am 5 Wellman
GE: Arts & Humanities, Diversity, Writing

Mathematics (MAT) 16B (3 units)
CANCELLED

Mathematics (MAT) 21B (4 units)
CANCELLED

Physics (PHY) 7 (4 units)
General Physics
Phil Yager
HNR 90X-10 T 1:10-2:00 pm 151 Olson
Open to students in any section of PHY 7A, 7B, or 7C

Plant Biology (PLB) 12 (3 units)
CANCELLED

Science and Society (SAS) 15 (4 units)
AIDS and Society
Kathryn Radke
HNR 90X-07 (1 unit) T 2:10-3:00 pm 176 Kerr
GE: Science & Engineering or Social Sciences; Diversity; Writing

Statistics (STA) 13 (4 units)
Elementary Statistics
Christiana Drake
HNR 90X-08 (1 unit) F 3:10-4:00 pm 176 Kerr
GE: Science & Engineering

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Winter 2004

American Studies (AMS) 1C (4 units)
CANCELLED

Biological Sciences (BIS) 1A (5 units)
Introductory Biology
Karen Gerhart
HNR 90X-01 (1 unit) M 1:10-2:00 pm 123 Wellman

Classics (CLA) 10 (3 units)
Greek, Roman, and Near Eastern Mythology
Emily Albu
HNR 90X-09 (1 unit) T 4:10-5:00 pm 176 Kerr
GE: Arts & Humanities

Comparative Literature (COM) 2 (4 units)
Great Books of Western Culture: From the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment
Jocelyn Sharlet
GE: Arts & Humanities, Writing

Geology (GEL) 1 (4 units)
The Earth
Ken Verosub
HNR 90X-03 (1 unit) T 3:10-4:00 pm 175A Physics/Geology
GE: Science & Engineering

Mathematics (MAT) 16B (3 units)
Short Calculus
Ali Dad-del
HNR 90X-04 W 3:10-4:00 pm 201 Wellman
GE: Science & Engineering

Mathematics (MAT) 21B (4 units)
Calculus
Duane Kouba
HNR 90X-05 W 9:00-9:50 am 271 Kerr
GE: Science & Engineering

Medieval Studies (MST) 20C (4 units)
CANCELLED

Physics (PHY) 7 (4 units)
General Physics
Mani Tripathi
HNR 90X-11 M 3:10-4:00 pm 176 Kerr
Open to students in any section of PHY 7A, 7B, or 7C

Political Science (POL) 1 (4 units)
American National Government
Bob Huckfeldt
HNR 90X-08 M 2:10-3:00 pm 176 Kerr
GE: Social Sciences, Writing

Political Science (POL) 4 (4 units)
Basic Concepts in Political Theory
Christopher Baldwin
HNR 90X-07 W 10:00-10:50 am 5 Wellman
GE: Social Sciences, Writing

Sociology (SOC) 2 (4 units)
Self and Society
John Hall
HNR 90X-02 R 11:00-11:50 am 2234 Social Sciences & Humanities
GE: Social Sciences, Writing

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Fall 2003

African American Studies (AAS) 10 (4 units)
CANCELLED

Art History (AHI) 1A (4 units)
Ancient Mediterranean Art
Lynn Roller
Lecture: TR 10:30-11:50 am 176 Everson
Discussion: Select Lecture/Discussion Section from Schedule & Directory
HNR 90X-02 (1 unit) M 11:00-11:50 am 210 Art
GE: Arts & Humanities
Course Description: Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Introduction to the art and architecture of the ancient Mediterranean world, including Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome.

Animal Science (ANS) 1 (4 units)
Domestic Animals and People
Thomas Famula
Lecture: MWF 11:00-11:50 am 2205 Haring Hall
Laboratory: Select Lecture/Laboratory Section from Schedule and Directory
HNR 90X- 03 (1 unit) F 2:10-3:00 pm 244 Olson
GE: Science & Engineering, Writing
Course Description: Lecture—3 hours; laboratory—3 hours. Animal domestication and factors affecting their characteristics and distribution. Animal use for food, fiber, work, drugs, research and recreation; present and future roles in society. Laboratory exercises with beef and dairy cattle, poultry, sheep, swine, laboratory animals, fish, horses, meat and dairy products.

Anthropology (ANT) 1 (4 units)
Human Evolutionary Biology
Henry McHenry
Lecture: TR 9:00-10:20 am 194 Chemistry
Discussion: Select Lecture/Discussion Section from Schedule & Directory
HNR 90X- 04 (1 unit) R 10:30-11:20 am 210 Young
GE: Science & Engineering, Diversity, Writing
Course Description: Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Processes and course of human evolution; primatology; biological and social diversity within Homo Sapiens; human paleontology.

Biological Sciences (BIS) 10 (4 units)
General Biology
Jack Goldberg
Lecture: MWF 8:00-8:50 am 176 Everson
Discussion: Select Lecture/Discussion Section from Schedule & Directory
HNR 90X- 14 (1 unit) F 1:10-2:00 PM 176 Kerr
GE: Science & Engineering, Writing
Course Description: Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Concepts and issues in biology. Emphasis on composition and structure of organisms; regulation and signaling; heredity, evolution and the interaction and interdependence among life forms and their environments. Significant writing is required. Designed for students not specializing in biology. Not open for credit to students who have completed course 1A or 10V.

Chicano Studies (CHI) 10 (4 units)
CANCELLED

Chicano Studies (CHI) 21 (4 units)
CANCELLED

Classics (CLA) 10 (3 units)
Greek, Roman, and Near Eastern Mythology
Charlayne Allan
Lecture: MWF 12:10-1:00 pm 2 Wellman Section 001 only!!
HNR 90X- 05 (1 unit) W 3:10-4:00 pm 176 Kerr
GE: Arts & Humanities
Course Description: Lecture—3 hours. Examination of major myths of Greece, Rome, and the Ancient Near East; their place in the religion, literature and art of the societies that produced them; their subsequent development, influence and interpretation.

Comparative Literature (COM) 2 (4 units)
Great Books of Western Culture: From the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment
Yvette Kisor
Lecture: TR 4:10-6:00 pm 261 Olson Section 003 only!!
This course is a combined Lecture/DHC Discussion Section (DHC office will issue PTA numbers.)
GE: Arts & Humanities, Writing
Course Description: Lecture/discussion—4 hours. Prerequisite: completion of Subject A requirement. An introduction, through class discussion and frequent written assignments, to some of the great books of western civilization from Dante’s Inferno to Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. (Cannot be used to satisfy a college or university composition requirement and GE writing experience simultaneously.)

Comparative Literature (COM) 3 (4 units)
Great Books of Western Culture: The Modern Crisis
Donna Reed
Lecture: TR 12:10-2:00 pm Location TBA Section 004 only!!
This course is a combined Lecture/DHC Discussion Section (DHC office will issue PTA numbers.)
GE: Arts & Humanities, Writing
Course Description: Lecture/discussion—4 hours. Prerequisite: completion of Subject A requirement. An introduction, through class discussion and frequent written assignments, to some of the great books of western civilization from Goethe’s Faust to Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. (Cannot be used to satisfy a college or university composition requirement and GE writing experience simultaneously.)

Engineering (ENG) 6 (4 units)
CANCELLED

English (ENL) 3 (4 units)
Introduction to Literature
Lecture: TR 12:10-2:00 pm 70 Social Sciences & Humanities Section 23 only!!
This course is a combined Lecture/DHC Discussion Section (DHC office will issue PTA numbers.)
GE: Arts & Humanities, Writing
Course Description: Lecture—2 hours; discussion—2 hours. Prerequisite: completion of Subject A requirement. Introductory study of several genres of English literature, emphasizing both analysis of particular works and the range of forms and styles in English prose and poetry. Frequent writing assignments will be made. (Cannot be used to satisfy a college or university composition requirement and GE writing experience simultaneously.)

History (HIS) 17B (4 units)
History of the United States
Lorena Oropeza
Lecture: TR 3:10-4:30 pm 1322 Storer
Discussion: Select Lecture/Discussion Section from Schedule & Directory
HNR 90X- 20 (1 unit) R 10:00-10:50 am 176 Kerr
GE: Arts & Humanities, Diversity, Writing
Course Description: Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. The experience of the American people from the Civil War to the end of the Cold War. Not open for credit to students who have completed course 17C.

Mathematics (MAT) 16A (3 units)
Short Calculus
Ali Dad-del
Lecture: MWF 11:00-11:50 am 1100 Social Sciences Section 004 only!!
HNR 90X- 07 (1 unit) W 1:10-2:00 pm 176 Kerr
GE: Science & Engineering
Course Description: Lecture-3 hours. Prerequisite: one and a half years of high school algebra, plane geometry, place trigonometry, and satisfaction of the Mathematics Placement Requirement. Limits; differentiation of algebraic functions; analytic geometry; application, in particular to maxima and minima problems. Not open for credit to students who have completed course 21A.

Mathematics (MAT) 21A 4 units
Calculus
Duane Kouba
Lecture: MWF 9:00-9:50 am 2205 Haring
Discussion: Select from Sections B-01 through B-07 only!!
HNR 90X- 08 (1 unit) M 10:00-10:50 am 271 Kerr
GE: Science & Engineering
Course Description: Lecture-3 hours; discussion-1 hour. Prerequisite: two years of high school algebra, place geometry, plane trigonometry, and analytic geometry or course 12 and satisfaction of the Mathematics Placement Requirement. Functions, limits, continuity. Slope and derivative. Differentiation of algebraic and transcendental functions. Applications to motion, natural growth, graphing, extrema of a function. Differentials. L'Hospital's rule. Two units of credit to students who have completed course 16A.

Medieval Studies (MST) 20A (4 units)
Early Medieval Culture
Kevin Roddy
Lecture: MWF 1:10-2:00 pm 194 Young
Discussion: Select Lecture/Discussion Section from Schedule & Directory
HNR 90X- 09 (1 unit) W 4:10-5:00 pm 109 Olson
GE: Arts & Humanities, Writing
Course Description: Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Readings (in translation) in early medieval culture, such as the Codes of Justinian, the Confessions of Saint Augustine, The Consolation of Philosophy of Boethius, Beowulf, the Nibelungenlied, and the Song of Roland.

Plant Biology (PLB) 12 (3 units)
Plants and People
Kent Bradford
Lecture: MWF 9:00-9:50 am 101 Bowley
HNR 90X- 10 (1 unit) R 5:10-6:00 pm 113 Mann Lab
GE: Science & Engineering, Diversity, Writing
Course Description: Lecture—3 hours. Prerequisite: high school biology. Plants as a resource for food, recreation, and environmental enhancement. Emphasis on how our relationship to plants has changed through history and how the growth and development of plants affect their utility. Not open for credit to students who have completed Plant Science 10. (Former course Plant Science 10.)

Political Science (POL) 4 (4 units)
Basic Concepts in Political Theory
Larry Peterman
Lecture: MWF 1:10-2:00 pm 66 Roessler
Discussion: Select Lecture/Discussion Section from Schedule & Directory
HNR 90X- 11 (1 unit) M 2:10-3:00 pm 176 Kerr
GE: Social Sciences, Writing
Course Description: Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Analysis of such concepts as the individual, community, liberty, equality, justice, and natural law as developed in the works of the major political philosophers.

Psychology (PSC) 1 (4 units)
General Psychology
Matt Traxler
Lecture: MW 2:10-4:00 pm 206 Olson Section 003 only!!
HNR 90X- 12 (1 unit) F 2:10-3:00 pm 3 Wellman
GE: Social Science
Course Description: Lecture—4 hours. Introduction emphasizing empirical approaches. Focus on perception, cognition, personality and social psychology, and biological aspects of behavior. Only 2 units of credit allowed for students who have completed course 15 or 16. Not open for credit to students who have completed course 15 and 16.

Psychology (PSC) 41 (4 units)
CANCELLED

Sociology (SOC) 1 (5 units)
Introduction to Sociology
David Kyle
Lecture: MW 8:00-9:50 am 179 Chemistry
Discussion: Select from Sections D-01 through D-06 only!!
HNR 90X- 15 (1 unit) W 10:00-10:50 am 176 Kerr
GE: Social Sciences
Course Description: Lecture—4 hours; discussion—1 hour. Principles and basic concepts of sociology. The study of groups, culture, collective behavior, classes and caste, community and ecology, role, status, and personality.

Sociology (SOC) 2 (4 units)
Self and Society
Brian Paciotti
Lecture: TR 10:30-11:50 am 179 Chemistry
Discussion: Select from Sections A-01 through A-06 only!!
HNR 90X- 16 (1 unit) T 1:10-2:00 pm 203 Wellman
GE: Social Sciences, Writing
Course Desciption: Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Principles and basic concepts of sociological social psychology. Includes the study of the character of the self, identity, roles, socialization, identity change, emotion and social interaction.

Statistics (STA) 13 (4 units)
Elementary Statistics
Christiana Drake
Lecture: MWF 4:10-5:00 pm 3 Kleiber
Discussion: Select from Sections D-01 through D-04 only!!
HNR 90X- 22 (1 unit) M 5:10-6:00 pm 176 Kerr
GE: Science & Engineering
Course Desciption: Lecture 3 hours; discussion 1 hour. Prerequisite: two years of high school algebra or the equivalent in college. Measures of central tendency and dispersion; binomial, normal, Student-t, and chi-square distributions; testing hypotheses; confidence intervals, regression and correlation analysis. Not open for credit to students who have completed any statistics course numbered higher than 13, except for course 102.

Textiles and Clothing (TXC) 6 (4 Units)
CANCELLED

Women's Studies (WMS) 50 (4 units)
Introduction to Women's Studies
Leslie Rabine
Lecture: TR 12:10-1:30 pm 100 Hunt
Discussion: Select Lecture/Discussion Section from Schedule & Directory
HNR 90X- 17 (1 unit) R 4:10-5:00 pm 2120 Hart Hall
GE: Arts & Humanities OR Social Sciences, Diversity, Writing
Course Description: Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour or term paper (instructor’s option). Interdisciplinary introduction which will survey and integrate literary, anthropological, psychological, historical, sociological and biological perspectives on the study of sex roles.

 

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