Course Offerings
THEO 10000 - Search for Faith: Honors
This course invites students to understand and use theological language to address challenges to faith offered by the human struggle to answer questions about identity, community, life and death, meaning, and God.聽 Christian attempts to answer these questions will be explored in comparison to other worldviews. This course fulfills the General Education Catholic and Lasallian Heritage requirement for Theology 10000-level course.
3 Credits
MUSC 11550 - Sex, Race, and Power in Pop Music: Honors
This course introduces influential examples of popular songs by examining the music, lyrics, instrumentation, performance practice, and accompanying visual media and how they contribute to the relationship between music and social identity.
3 Credits
ENGL 11100 - College Writing 1: Honors
College Writing 1 is an introduction to the ways texts work, in terms of both rhetorical features of texts and writers' writing processes. This course provides instruction and practice in critically reading and strategically composing a variety of texts for authentic purposes and audiences and analyzing how the rhetorical situation guides writers' rhetorical choices, including voice, structure, and the use of appeals and other persuasive strategies. Students will also learn about and practice writing effectively and persuasively, especially for an academic context; enact the full range of writing processes - invention/discovery strategies, organizing, drafting, revising, peer review, editing, and publishing; and practice the established community conventions of genre, source documentation, and language use. Major projects include the use of multiple sources and multimodal composing features. College Writing 1 is a prerequisite for all 20000-level courses in English.
3 Credits
ENGL 11200 College Writing 2: Honors
College Writing 2 is an introduction to the making of knowledge through inquiry, research processes, and researched writing for authentic purposes and audiences. This course provides instruction and practice in research processes, including primary and secondary research, and evaluating the validity of research and texts as sources for writers to strategically and accurately analyze, synthesize, and otherwise integrate for their own rhetorical aims and multi-source research projects. Students will also learn about and practice the full range of writing processes - invention/discovery strategies, organizing, drafting, revising, peer review, editing, publishing - and established community conventions of genre, source documentation, and language use. Major projects include the use of multiple sources and multimodal composing features.
3 Credits
THEO 28400 - Introduction to Islam: Honors
This course provides a basic introduction to Islam, including topics such as: the origins of Islam, the prophecy of Muhammad, the Qur’an, and the five pillars of Islamic belief and practice. The course focuses on Islam as living tradition and will engage with diverse contemporary practices of Muslim communities around the world. This course fulfills the General Education Globalization requirement, and Catholic and Lasallian Heritage requirement for Theology 20000-level course.
3 Credits
Interdisciplinary Seminar: Wicked Problems: Honors
Wicked problems are social problems that are difficult or seemingly impossible to solve due to their complexity and interconnected nature. Examples include poverty, climate change, education, immigration and mass incarceration. In this course, students will learn the definitions and critiques of the concept of wicked problems, develop an understanding of one or more wicked problem and how it is situated within the social and cultural context, and use critical and creative thinking skills to propose innovative solutions. Analyses of the wicked problems will draw on three or more relevant disciplinary perspectives, such as sociology, political science, psychology, natural sciences, theology, and philosophy.
3 credits
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