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Fall 2010 Downtown Honors Courses
HON 171: The Human Event
Section 1: Professor: Eric Susser, 3 credits, Tu/Th 12:00PM ‐ 1:15PM, Course number: 77572
Section 2: Professor: Eric Susser, 3 credits, Tu/Th 1:30PM ‐ 2:45PM, Course number: 77573
Section 3: Professor: Eric Susser, 3 credits, Tu/Th 9:00AM ‐ 10:15AM, Course number: 79855
Section 4: Professor: Mirna Lattouf, 3 credits, W 4:40PM ‐ 7:30PM, Course number: 81326
Course description: Landmarks in the social and intellectual development of the human race, with emphasis on
critical thinking and argumentative writing.
HON 497: Community Encounters
Professor Robert Kane, 1 credit, Fridays: 10:45AM ‐ 12:45PM *only 8 class sessions*, Course number: 77956
Course description: This seminar provides opportunities to engage in and with our community. The course
objective is to extend perspectives of community and urban life, through a series of visits with local officials and
leaders and to the places that form our community’s fabric. The course requires more than just participation: it
requires critical interpretation and integration of material/experiences. Transportation will not be provided.
HON 394: The Barrett Experience
Professor Diane Facinelli, 1 credit, Thursdays: 4:40‐5:30pm, Course number: 80209
Course description: This one credit course is designed with second‐year students in mind to help keep you
connected to Barrett and its faculty while allowing you to receive upper‐division honors credit for attending,
participating in, and discussing College events. It also allows you to become directly involved in the thesis process
through discussions with the professor, observing actual thesis defenses, and attending the Celebrating Honors
festivities that highlight student theses. Attendance at selected Barrett events also is required.
HON 394: Art, Writing, and the Act of Creation
Professor Eric Susser, 3 credits Tuesdays: 4:40‐7:30 pm, Course number: 85539
Course description: The aim of this course is to develop your personal as well as your critical relationship to art,
aesthetics and the art of creation. To do this, we must negotiate between understanding art as esoteric artifacts
housed in museums (the temples of art) and art as subjective expressions of creativity, where anything produced
could be called art and anything goes. Each week we will read and discuss a theoretical text or texts about
contemporary culture and art and discuss it in class; we will have local artists come speak as guest lecturers; we
will research and give class presentations on a 20th or 21st century artist, movement or artistic period; we will
attend at least one local cultural event each week and write structured and focused critical journal responses; we
will contribute to Blackboard, sharing with the class what we attended and why.
CRJ394/ HON 394: The New Crisis in American Imprisonment
Professor Travis Pratt, 3 credits, Wednesdays: 4:40‐7:30pm
*Need CRJ credit? Enroll in the CRJ section! CRJ 394 course number: 86065
*Need an HON 394 course? Enroll in the HON 394 section! HON 394 course number: 86034
Course description: This course examines the nature, extent, and consequences of the contemporary practice of
incarceration in the United States. In addition to an historical overview of American punishment practices, specific
attention is devoted to understanding the role of competing value systems in the construction of crime control
policies that have influenced incarceration rates in recent decades. The course also places a heavy emphasis on
critically examining the growing body of empirical literature that has assessed both the costs and benefits of rapid
increases in the imprisoned population.
ENG 102 Honors Section
Professor Ebru Erdem, 3 credits, T/Th: 10:30‐11:45am , Course number: 76499
Course description: Critical reading and writing; emphasizes strategies of academic discourse. Research paper
required.
JMC 301 Honors Section: Intermediate Reporting and Writing
Course number: 77327
M/W 11:50 – 1:40 pm
(Print/PR/Digital)
Professor: TBD
Intermediate news reporting and writing techniques.
JMC 305 Honors Section: Online Media
Course number: 72951
T/Th 12:00‐1:50 p.m.
Professor: TBD
Focuses on the Internet from the perspective of the journalist‐‐the best way to tell a story using words, photos,
video, and audio. Lecture, Lab. (required course)
JMC 366 Honors Section: Journalism Ethics and Diversity
Course number: 85774
M/W 3:30‐4:45 p.m.
Professor: TBD
Explores contemporary news media ethical problems in a seminar setting. Uses journalism ethical perspectives to
obtain keys to unlock contemporary dilemmas surrounding the news media. Seminar
MCO 531 Honors Section: Advanced Television Reporting
Course number: 84582
T/Th 4:30‐6:20 p.m.
Professor: TBD
Writing, reporting and editing for television. Fee