Courses

Students will explore scholarship about peer mentoring and tutoring in the college setting, developing an understanding of the practice and theory of mentoring/tutoring and the purpose of their role as mentors within the Honors College. The course will provide theoretical framework for the interrogation and implementation of mentoring and tutoring while providing the students the chance to use those practices in tutoring sessions.

A course in the theory of integration with special emphasis on the Lebesgue integrals. A course in the theory of real variables, with a knowledge of point set theory, is desirable as a background for this course. A considerable amount of mathematical maturity is required.

Understanding social change helps us to better anticipate, prepare for, and shape the future. Examination of how and why human societies have changed so profoundly since prehistoric times; focus on information and technology as catalysts for change; patterns of change in contemporary societies from world system and comparative perspectives. This course meets Blazer Core Humans and their Societies with a flag in Global/ Multicultural Perspectives. SOC 210.

What does it mean to think in a transdisicplinary way? What does it mean to be transdisciplinary? How does a transdisciplinary approach to education and the world make you a better scholar? How does it make you a better person?

Children who have experienced one or more traumatic events have an increased risk for academic, social, behavioral, and emotional problems. Trauma-informed teaching starts with understanding how trauma can impact learning and behavior.

This course will examine cancer cell physiology in terms of the tumor microenvironment, nutrients and angiogenesis and will explore how these influence cancer cell survival, invasion and metastasis.

An examination of the personalities and reigns of the 'Twelve Caesars' (31 BC-AD 96) that compares the approaches of ancient historians (Tacitus and Cassius Dio) and biographers (Suetonius and Plutarch) in order to understand the impact of the Emperor on the Roman World.

In a period dominated by the personalities of the Roman Emperors such as Caligula and Nero, this course explores the personalities and reigns of the 'Twelve Caesars' (3 1 BC-AD 96) comparing the approaches of ancient historians (Tacitus and Cassius Dio) and biographers (Suetonius and Plutarch) in order to understand the impact of the Emperor on the Roman World.

This course introduces critical debates on culture and society in twentieth-century Korea (1900 to the present). The course will examine core issues in modern Korean society—colonization, the Korean War, economic development, gender dynamics, social movements, and the most recent phenomena of the so-called Korean Wave.

This interdisciplinary course focuses on the concept of the uncanny (Unheimlich) and its expression in the poetological and philosophical texts as well as in visual arts starting in the Romantic period. However, the uncanny elements, from ghosts and Doppelgänger to artificial life, lasted beyond Romanticism and are manifest across the literary movements of Realism, Modernism, and Postmodernism.