Honors Summer 2024 Courses
Honors 398 Topics Courses
High Performance Leadership
CRN 40929 | Online-asynchronous | May 20- June 20 | Professor Tom Connolly
This course focuses on building and developing high performing leaders. Students will learn and review modern leadership theory and practical application. The course will walk students through common pitfalls of leading teams, how to overcome these obstacles and how to work efficiently as a team. The course will also require students to reflect upon themselves as leaders in a diverse community.
Nutritional Intelligence
CRN 40930 | Online-asynchronous | May 20- July 10 | Professor Stephen Sowulewski
In this course, students will examine the latest Intelligence (Intel) as it relates to nutrition as a multidisciplinary field involving biochemistry, mathematics, psychology, sociology, history and anthropology. Students will be able to tailor their learning outcomes to align to their chosen discipline.
Leading Through Change
CRN 40815 | Online-asynchronous | June 10- July 31 | Professor Sombo Muzata
This course will explore personal and organizational leadership concepts to prepare students for their leadership journey. At a general level, students will learn why leadership matters. Various leadership models will be discussed in detail, including their application. Students will learn about challenges with leading through changing contexts and work on a semester-long project to develop a possible solution to a leadership problem.
Honors Summer Variants
ENGL 385: Fiction Into Film
CRN 41328 | Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday | Face-to-Face | 10:30am-12:45pm | Professor Kate Nash | Course dates: 5/20/2024-6/20/2024
A study of the translation of literature into film. Topical approaches vary from semester to semester. Consideration is given to the literature in its original form and to the methods of translating it into film.
GSWS 301: Feminist Theory
CRN 39818 | Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday | Face-to-Face | 10:30am-12:45pm | Professor Kate Nash | Course dates: 5/20/2024-6/20/2024
This course will introduce students to areas of generative struggle and critique within feminist theory. Will examine these conflicts not as moments of danger, but as constituting a key genealogy of feminism. Will be structured around important debates that constitute this genealogy of feminist theory, including: early woman of color critiques of the notion of “universal sisterhood,” debates over the “proper object” of feminist inquiry, post-structuralist approaches to theorizing the subject, queer theory’s shift toward a “subject-less critique” and transnational feminist praxis.