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Smittcamp Honors College

BIOL 10H. Life Science

Not open to students with credit BIOL 1A. Shows how living things work and why they work that way. Discusses biology from chemical and physical foundations through ecological and evolutionary processes. Examines biology and its relationship to human affairs. (2 lecture, 2 lab hours) G.E. Breadth Area B2.

Units: 3
GE Area: B2

CFS 38H. Honors Lifespan Development

Open to Smittcamp Honors College Students only. Basic theories, research, and principles of physical, cognitive, and psychological development from conception to death presented from the perspective of diverse families. This honors course emphasizes reading original theoretical and empirical works by prominent developmentalists and student conducted research project. G.E. Breadth E.

Units: 3
GE Area: E

CHEM 10H. Chemistry & Society

Prerequisites: G.E. Foundation B4. Not open to students with credit in college chemistry; for non-science majors. Discusses significance of chemical principles in contemporary society; benefits adn hazards relative to areas such as energy, health, diet, environment and agriculture. (3 lecture, 3 lab hours) G.E. Breadth B1.

Units: 4
GE Area: B1

CHEM 160H. Research Techniques

Prerequisites: Admission to the chemistry honors program or permission of instructor. Concepts of experimental design and the development of practical research expertise and communication skills through the planning, completion, and presentation (written and oral) of a short laboratory project (1 lecture, 6 lab hours.

Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring

CHEM 165SH. Peer Instruction in Chemistry

The development of improved oral communication, reinforcement of foundational chemistry knowledge, and development of teaching skills through service as a peer-instructor in chemistry.

Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall

CHEM 180H. Honors Seminar in Chemistry

Prerequisites: Admission to the chemistry honors program or permission of instructor. Development of critical evaluation skills of presentations and current literature and research in various chemistry disciplines.

Units: 1-2
Course Typically Offered: Fall

CHEM 199. Undergraduate Thesis

Prerequisites: CHEM 190 or 160 or 160H. Preparation, completion, and submission of an acceptable thesis based on undergraduate research in chemistry.

Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

COMM 6H. Rhetoric for Autonomy and Collaboration in the Marketplace of Ideas

Open for students in the Smittcamp Family Honors College only. Explores invitational rhetoric and its civic function in contemporary public discourse; experiences designed to enhance fundamental communication skills-- research, organization, reasoning, empathic listening and problem-solving-- through series of oral presentations. G.E. Foundation A1.

Units: 3
GE Area: A1

DRAMA 75H. Theatre in Contemporary American Culture

Open only to Smittcamp Honors College students. Introduction to the practice and scholarship of American theatre today. Application of critical methodology to four areas of theatrical production (1) Theatre architecture, (2) Acting, (3) Directing, (4) Design. Attendance at 2-3 theatre performance required.

Units: 3
GE Area: C1

EES 8H. Natural Disasters and Earth Resources

Prerequisite: G.E. Foundation B4. Processes and materials that produce the different geologic resources and hazards (earthquakes, volcanoes, floods, landslides). Plate tectonic theory (including continental drift) as the unifying model to explain geologic phenomena. Emphasizes the relationship between geology and humans. (3 lecture, 2 lab hours: required field trip(s)). Open to Honor Students Only.

Units: 4
GE Area: B1

ENGL 10H. Honors Accelerated Academic Literacy

Open to students in the honors college only. Reading and writing in academic and public genres, special attention to rhetorical decision-making and critical analysis. Guided instruction in reading and responding to texts. Participation in public and academic conversations via research in primary and secondary sources. Portfolio Assessment. A grade of C or better is required to satisfy the University's English composition requirement. G.E. Foundation A2.

Units: 3
GE Area: A2

ENGL 42H. Creative Writing

Open to students in the Smittcamp Family Honors College only. Beginning workshop in the writing of poetry and fiction; appropriate readings and analysis. G.E. Breadth C1.

Units: 4
GE Area: C1

HIST 15H. Trials of Century

Studies celebrated legal trials from 1896 to 2000 as windows for understanding larger historic context. Cases address issues such as racial discrimination, freedom of speech and religion, reproductive rights, consumer protection, war crimes, treason and capital punishment. G.E. Breadth D1.

Units: 3
GE Area: D1

HONOR 1. Honors Colloquium

Colloquium for students in the Smittcamp Family Honors College. Overview of the university. Presentation and discussion of current topics. Special presentations by faculty, campus guests, and senior honors project students.

Units: 1, Repeatable up to 6 units

HONOR 10. Beginning Workshop in the Writing of Poetry - Global Culture, History and Values

Open only to students in the Smittcamp Family Honors College. Beginning workshop in the writing of poetry; appropriate reading and analyses. This course will encourage students to discover creative and innovative ways to ameliorate conditions while deploying cultural diversity and vitality found in our Valley and University. G.E. Breadth C1.

Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall
GE Area: C1

HONOR 11. Introduction to the Humanities - Global Culture, History and Values

Prerequisite: G.E. Foundation A2. Open only to students in the Smittcamp Family Honors College. Inter-relationships among art, literature, music, and philosophy, from Antiquity through the present. This course will encourage students to discover creative and innovative ways to ameliorate conditions while deploying cultural diversity and vitality found in our Valley and University. G.E. Breadth C2.

Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall
GE Area: C2

HONOR 12. U.S. in the Twentieth Century World - Global Culture, History and Values

Open only to students in the Smittcamp Family Honors College. This course studies the role of the United States in the world during the long twentieth century. This course will encourage students to discover creative and innovative ways to ameliorate conditions while deploying cultural diversity and vitality found in our Valley and University. G.E. Breadth D1.

Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall
GE Area: D1

HONOR 13. Human Fragility and Cultural Transcendence-Global Culture, History and Values

Open only to students in the Smittcamp Family Honors College. This course explores human nature through an interdisciplinary lens, drawing primarily upon the social sciences but also garnering insights from the natural sciences and the humanities. This course will encourage students to discover creative and innovative ways to ameliorate conditions while deploying cultural diversity and vitality found in our Valley and University. G.E. Breadth D2.

Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall
GE Area: D2

HONOR 20. Public Communication and Civic Engagement

Open only to students in the Smittcamp Family Honors College. In this course, you will learn how to develop informative and persuasive messages on topics relating to science and how to present messages effectively in face-to-face and mediated contexts. G.E. Foundation A1.

Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring
GE Area: A1

HONOR 21. Science Communication

Open only to students in the Smittcamp Family Honors College. This course showcases life sciences through topics such as nutrition, vaccination, and conservation to help you make informed decisions and communicate your point of view to the public. G.E. Breadth B2. (2 lecture, 3 lab hours)

Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring
GE Area: B2

HONOR 101. Emerging Voices After Colonialism: Revolution in Theory, Revolution in Practice

This course will explore the expanding field of postcolonial studies. Postcolonialism critically analyzes the dialectic between Western imperialism and resistance to colonialism in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean. Readings will include primary sources, essays of criticism and theory, colonial literature, and a diverse selection of novels from formerly colonized nations. This course focuses on G.E. Integration IC and blends with G.E. Integration ID and Multicultural/International.

Units: 4

HONOR 102. Revolutions in Natural and Social Sciences

Prerequisites: G.E. Foundation, Breadth Area D and PLSI 2. This course examines fundamental changes in natural and social sciences. It focuses first on revolutions in natural sciences, particularly in physics and biology. It then surveys major changes in economic theory with an emphasis on the so-called marginal revolution. G.E. Integration ID. This course focuses on G.E. Integration ID and blends with Multicultural/International.

Units: 4
GE Area: ID

HONOR 103. Ecological and Social Effects of the Industrial Revolution on the Third World

This course will examine the impact of the Industrial Revolution and the accompanying industrialized nations' demand for tropical products on Third World nations. By integrating biological, geographical, ecological, historical, and social effects we will put the Industrial Revolution into a global perspective by integrating biological, geographical, ecological, historical, and social effects. This course focuses on G.E. Integration IB and blends with G.E. Integration ID and Multicultural/International.

Units: 4

HONOR 180. Special Projects in Honors

Individual projects in the Smittcamp Family Honors College. Projects related to Honors College courses; for example internships, research papers, community service projects, new classroom approaches and learning communities.

Units: 1-3, Repeatable up to 9 units

HUM 10H. Intro Humanities of the Western World

Not open to students outside the Honors College. Prerequisites: G. E. Foundation A2 (ENGL 5B or ENGL 10). Accelerated survey of the relationships between the art, literature, adn philosophy of classical antiquity, from classical Greece to the dawn of the Renaissance. G.E. Breadth C2

Units: 3
GE Area: C2

LATIN 1AH. Honors Elementary Latin

Honors Latin 1A. Not open to students outside the Smittcamp Family Honors College. An accelerated introduction to the Latin language, its practical relation to Romance Languages and English, with study of Roman culture and its enduring influence. G.E. Breadth C2

Units: 3
GE Area: C2

MUSIC 60H. Music in Social Context

Exploration of various settings in which music has been an important indicator of social class and class values. Emphasis on western classical music and American jazz. Attendance at 2-3 performances of music required. G. E. Breadth C1.

Units: 3
GE Area: C1

NSCI 4H. Science and Nonsense; Critical thinking and the philosophy of science

Shows the use of language, rational inquiry, and logic in science, distinguishing science fact from science fiction. Inductive and deductive methods, judgement, opinion, origins of knowledge, belief of actions. A critical examination of contemporary pseudoscientific issues (creation science, UFO's, astrology, etc.) G. E. Foundation A3

Units: 3
GE Area: A3

NUTR 53HS. Nutrition and Health

Application of chemical and biological principles to carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, minerals, and water in human nutrition. This course is offered as a Service-learning which is an essential component for this course since it will allow students to ?learn by doing.? In this course ?learning by doing? is accomplished through students? educational presentations, guided reflection assignments, and participation in a comprehensive diet analysis project where students will collect, analyze and compare their own intakes and some other designated sample group in different communities. G.E. Breadth E.

Units: 3
GE Area: E

PHIL 32H. Life,Death, and Afterlife

Diverse reflections (religious and philosophical) on the meaning of life, death, and afterlife. The nature of the soul (e.g. immortal/mortal); connection to the body; implications of an afterlife (if any) for this life; includes Western and non-Western perspectives. G.E. Breadth E

Units: 3
GE Area: E

PHIL 35H. Logic for Autonomy and Collaboration in the Marketplace of Ideas

Explores techniques for analysis of reasoning in contexts ranging from interpersonal communication through scholarly and political discourses. Theoretical grounding for these techniques, including both central ideas from philosophy of logic and readings from classicaland contemporary sources on freedom of thought, freedom of conscience, and the autonomy of reason. G.E. Foundation A3.

Units: 3
GE Area: A3

PLSI 2H. American Government and Institutions

Meets the United States Constitution requirement and the federal, California state, and local government requirement. Not open to students with credit in PLSI 101. Development and operation of government in the United States; study of how ideas, institutions, laws and people have constructed and maintained a political order in America. U.S. and California Government Graduation Requirement.

Units: 3
GE Area: PRE21D2

PLSI 71H. Introduction to Environmental Politics

Introduction to the study of environmental politics and policy making in the United States; a brief history of environmentalism; basic principles in environmental policy making including interest groups, legislatures, and levels of government selection of current topics in environmental issues. G.E. Breadth D2.

Units: 3
GE Area: D2

PSYCH 62H. Introduction to Social and Cultural Psychology

Interaction between social environments and behavior with an emphasis on culture and cultural differences. Includes topics such as social influence and beliefs, conformity, the self, attitude change, group influence, prejudice and racism, aggression, attraction and intimacy, altruism and helping. G.E. Breadth D2.

Units: 3
GE Area: D2