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Courses offered exclusively through the Honors College:

Honors Seminar (FRESHMEN ONLY -You will only be registered if you did not take HNRS 200 during the Fall 2007 Term)
Instructor: Various Faculty/Staff
Honors 200, Multiple Times, 1.0 credits
CRN –Multiple
Offers intensive discussion of a subject of significant intellectual interest.  Subjects vary from section to section and are meant to engage entering Honors students with one another under the guidance of Drexel’s best faculty.

The Culture of Respect
Instructor: Philip Poczik
Honors 201, Section 502, Wednesdays 6:00PM – 8:50PM, 3.0 credits
CRN - 22258
This course is an examination of systems of oppression. In particular we will be exploring: racism, sexism, classism, heterosexism, ableism, ageism, and religious oppression. The approach we will take to study these topics is one of experiential learning. As the students in the class, you will essentially be the textbooks for our study. Much of our time will be spent exploring the misinformation and stereotypes that enable systems of oppression to exist and perpetuate.

Intermediate Ballroom Dancing
Instructor: Samantha Bellomo
Honors 201, Section 501, Mondays 6:00PM - 8:50PM, 3.0 credits
CRN - 24991
Prerequisite --You must have successfully completed Introduction to Ballroom Dancing to register for this course.
Learn by DUing! This is an interactive dance class not a lecture.
To register for this course come to the Honors lounge to sign-up. The sign-up sheet is on the bulletin board.  The class will fill on a first-come, first served basis.

Publishing in the Digital Age
Instructor: Jason Wilson
Honors 202, Section 501, Wednesdays 6:00PM - 8:50PM, 3.0 credits
CRN - 24984
This will be a practical, hands-on class in which we'll explore various elements--writing, design, photography/illustration, audio, video--and explore ways in which "publishing" and "journalism"--magazines, books, newspapers, blogs, etc--are evolving and changing. The class will be taught by editors and designers at The Smart Set and will include a number of notable guest speakers from publishing and related industries.

Teaching for Change
Instructor: Phillip Poczik
Honors 202, Section 503, Wednesdays 6:00PM – 8:50PM, 3.0 credits
CRN - 24986
This course is a Teaching Colleagues Practicum. It allows a group of students to serve as mentees under a professor outside of the classroom, while then teaching information alongside a professor inside of the classroom. You will do this by serving as a Teaching Colleague for "The Culture of Respect."
Students must have taken The Culture of Respect to register for this class.

Evolution of American Colleges and Universities
Instructor: Shannon Gary
Honors 202, Section 504, Wednesdays 6:00PM - 8:50PM, 3.0 credits
CRN - 25180
This is a survey course that will examine the historical evolution of American Higher Education. We will discuss how and why institutions transformed from the original colonial colleges to the colleges and universities that exist today. This course will highlight pivotal points in American history and how these moments were critical to changes that took place in the American higher education landscape. We will also discuss the future of America’s higher education system. Once, and arguably still, touted as the best post-secondary educational system in the world, will the higher education system in the United States maintain this distinction? Especially given the increasingly global environment and America’s reputation in a post- 9/11 world.

Special attention will be paid to the development and proliferation of historically Black colleges and universities, women’s colleges, Hispanic serving institutions and tribal colleges. We will examine the need for these institutions and why they still exists in today’s post-segregation era.

Legal Reasoning and Analysis in Cases, Literature, and Film
Instructor: Andrew Majeske
Honors 301, Section 001, Tuesdays, 9:00AM - 11:50 AM, 3.0 credits
CRN - 25020
This course is designed as an introduction to legal reasoning and analysis in cases, literature, and film. In the course you will learn how to read legal opinions (cases) and “brief” them. The writing assignment will most likely consist of a personal statement that could be used for applying to law school (or other graduate programs). You will also perform the research necessary for applying to law school (or other graduate programs. In addition to the “legal” readings, you will read about a fictional trial in To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee. We will also watch the movie version of this book, as well as the movie Anatomy of a Murder. This course will be particularly helpful to those who are seriously considering law school, though the critical thinking, precise writing, and close reading skills you will acquire would be useful in a wide variety of disciplines.

Workshop - Reading and Writing Poetry
Instructor: Henry Isreali
Honors 302, Section 501, Wednesdays, 6:00PM - 8:50PM, 3.0 credits
CRN - 24987
Study poetry writing in a workshop designed for beginning and advanced writers with the publisher of an award winning independent press, Saturnalia Books.  Learn why, according to a survey administered by the Poetry Foundation, "the vast majority of American readers (90%) highly value poetry."  Delve into your imagination with exercises and routines designed to help you write poems that take advantage of the less commercial demands of small presses. Honors credit and Writing Intensive.

Workshop - Fiction Writing
Instructor: Cordelia Frances Biddle
Honors 302, Section 502, Mondays 6:00PM - 8:50PM, 3.0 credits.
CRN - 24988
WRITING KILLER SUSPENSE STORIES
Tales of mystery and suspense place characters in situations of heightened conflict and danger; protagonists and antagonists possess clear and opposing moral codes; and narrative arcs permit justice to triumph. A fictional character's traditional journey of self-discovery becomes a public as well as a private search for truth. Mystery stories are among the earliest creations of humankind; they are survival lessons and morality plays rolled into one. Using a combination of techniques such as speed-sketching, "ghosts" and sense-memory exercises, students will be encouraged to enter fully into their protagonists and antagonists' problematic inner lives, to build suspense and narrative organically, and to fashion written works that are both visceral and visual. Personal voice and choice will be stressed, as will the ability to make quick and potent decisions concerning defining moments, compelling settings, and fictional characters' emotional and physical struggles. The difference between specific subgenres in the mystery field (True Crime, Historical, Traditional and Thriller) and the varying intersections of character and plot will be examined.

UNIVERSITY COURSES
WILL COUNT TOWARDS REQUIRED HONORS CREDIT

Great Works Symposium -
THE MECHANICAL BODY: Building Humans, Challenging Humanity
Instructors - Lloyd Ackert, Alisa Clyne, and James Schafer
UNIV 241, Section 001, 002 and 003, Tuesdays and Thursdays 3:30PM - 4:50PM, 3.0 credits
CRN - 24660, 24661, and 24662
The artificial heart, dexterous artificial limbs, genetic engineering, the Terminator—these are no longer figments of the science-fiction writer’s fertile mind. This course considers the many ways that machines and the human body have shaped each other in recent history, and will do so into the future.
Machines have become integral to medical care and human life. Machines not only to extend the power and reach of the human body - scientists, biomedical engineers, and physicians also routinely use mechanistic metaphors to describe the proper function of the human body. But, what are the limits? Has the line between human and machine become blurred?
This course examines the evolving relationship between human bodies and machines through a close examination of medical technology and theory from early prosthetics to the artificial heart, from the Scientific Revolution to the Human Genome Project. We will address not only technological change, but also ethical, legal, and social implications of machine-body interfaces using a rich combination of scientific, medical and engineering literature, as well as critical works from philosophy and science fiction.
This course counts as Honors credit, and as a liberal studies elective for Engineering majors.

This team-taught course features a different guest speaker every week, and a weekly discussion section.
Find this course on-line under “University-wide Courses.” For further information, contact Scott Knowles, sgk23@drexel.edu.

Peer Tutoring in Writing Workshop
Instructor: Harriet Levin Millan
UNIV 320, Section 001, Tuesdays and Thursdays 12:30PM- 1:50PM, 3.0 credits
CRN - 24989

Instructor: Dylan Dryer
UNIV 320, Section 501, Tuesdays 6:00PM- 8:50PM, 3.0 credits
CRN - 24990

UNIV 320 is a writing course that gives you the opportunity to reflect on writing and to grow as a writer. We will approach the subject of writing and creativity through the question of how and what it means to help others with their writing. We will read and discuss many aspects of writing as it pertains to a university environment, society at large, and to our personal lives. Furthermore, as a member of UNIV 320, you will take part in a unique program to bring a culture of writing to Drexel University. As such, the course will train you to work as a peer tutor in the University Writing Program. After successful completion of the course, you will be assigned to a particular writing intensive course and paid $715.00 per term. UNIV 320, along with continuing in-service training during each term will give you an introduction to the pedagogy and experience you will need to be an effective peer tutor.

Find this course on-line under “University-wide Courses.” For further information and enrollment approval, contact Harriet Millan, millanhl@drexel.edu

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