[Agvisors] FW: Honors priority reg week is ending--and NEW courses are open! "Culture of Surveillance", and more!!!

Fri Oct 28 16:41:03 MST 2011

For your reference. (This message has already been sent out to honors
students)

From: UAAC Listserv [mailto:UAAC at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU] On Behalf Of Reed,
Julie M - (jmreed)
Sent: Friday, October 28, 2011 1:19 PM
To: UAAC at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Subject: FW: Honors priority reg week is ending--and NEW courses are open!
"Culture of Surveillance", and more!!!
Importance: High

Colleagues,

Here is some information about some Honors-only courses offered in spring,
as well as syllabi for two new courses that students have been having
questions about. 

Please let me know if you have questions. 

Thanks, and happy weekend!
Julie

Julie Reed

Academic Advising Coordinator

The Honors College

The University of Arizona

Slonaker House

1027 E. 2nd St.

PO Box 210006

Tucson, AZ 85721-0006

To schedule an appointment, call (520) 621-4262

Fax: (520) 621-8655

From: Reed, Julie M - (jmreed) 
Sent: Friday, October 28, 2011 1:18 PM
To: Reed, Julie M - (jmreed)
Subject: Honors priority reg week is ending--and NEW courses are open!
"Culture of Surveillance", and more!!!
Importance: High

Dear Honors students,

Got your Halloween costumes ready? I'm still trying to decide. My son's
going as a ninja, my daughter as a ladybug-robot, and they want me to be a
spy-kitty (not sure what that even would look like) but I'm trying to
resist. Suggestions? 

Anyway-down to business:

Course information and registration
<http://registrar.arizona.edu/schedule2121/rsvp/rsvp.htm>  reminders:

All Honors students can register in up to 19 units through UAccess until 8pm
on Sunday, October 30th. 

On Monday, October 31st, starting at 6am, UAccess is only open to sophomores
(including Honors sophomores). This registration period ends at 8pm on
November 6th*

On Monday, November 7th, starting at 6am, UAccess is only open to freshmen
(including Honors freshmen). This registration period ends at 8pm on
November 11th.*

Starting Monday, November 14th, UAccess is open to ALL students, and the
enrollment limit will be 19 units for all students.

*during sophomore and freshmen weeks, students are limited to 16 units on
UAccess (including Honors students), so if you are currently above 16 units
and are trying to swap classes, you will run into problems. It may be best
to wait until November 14th to make changes if you are taking more than 16
units. 

If you are looking to declare, change, or add a major or minor, the best
time to do this is from the middle of November and onward. Once priority
registration is over, major and minor advisors
<http://www.advising.arizona.edu/contact_an_advisor>  have more time to meet
with prospective students. Many courses are restricted to majors/minors
only, so you might be making changes to your spring schedule after declaring
or changing your major or minor. You are allowed to make changes to your
spring schedule through the first week of the spring semester.

Without further ado, here is a review of some Honors-only courses available
for spring-many of them are being offered for the first time and promise to
be AMAZING. 

HNRS 205H-001 (90904): Culture of Surveillance- Tier 2 Individuals &
Societies

T/Th 11am-12:15pm 

Focusing on the cultural, political, and ethical dilemmas posed by new
information and communication technologies, this course examines the
'culture of surveillance,' i.e., the practical application of information
and communication technologies to identify, track, and monitor the
attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors of individuals and groups in contemporary
societies. Particular attention will be given to the historical/cultural
development and use of the recording, imaging, storage, and transmission
technologies that have made modern surveillance possible and their
application in the fields of health care, law enforcement, the military,
business, education, government, and many other areas of social life.

ENGL 280-004 (90396): Introduction to Literature-Tier 2 Humanities course
-also counts in the English major or minor!! (you can "double dip" Tier 2
courses with a minor) (this course is appropriate for all levels of
students, first year through senior!)

T/Th 11am-12:15pm

To take ENGL 280, Women Writing Science, you don't have to be a woman or a
scientist! This class is about writing across all genres -- nonfiction,
journalism, even poetry -- that's written by women on scientific topics.
Why? Both writing AND science were male-dominated worlds for so long; what
happens to the language, to the craft, to literature of this type, when
women are behind the wheel? Together we will analyze and imitate our
subjects as readers and writers. We'll look at female scientists conveying
their work, and we'll explore a wide range of sciences through the work of
science writers and journalists, as well as writing about science for
political and poetic purposes, rather than educational -- finding the poetry
in advocacy and the advocacy in poetry. The course is taught by Jennifer
McStotts, an essayist and poet, as well as an editor of Terrain.org: A
Journal of the Built & Natural Environments and the International Journal of
Heritage Studies.

HNRS 311-002 (90402): Investigative Poetics-Counts in English and Creative
Writing majors AND minors (even if you have not yet declared English or
Creative Writing as a major or minor, you can take this class and it will
count once you are in the major/minor) (syllabus attached)

T 9:30am-12pm

In this class you will be asked to suspend conventional notions of how to
engage in reading and writing poetry. We will approach our time together
with an emphasis on process and experimentation as in a collective writing
laboratory. Together we will approach literary texts as a means to discover
various perspectives and modes of writing. We will discuss each other's work
based upon a process of inquiry that is exploratory and generative as well
as critical.  Students will also be asked to imagine and execute a final
project of their invention with the intent to build poetic community.
Collaboration and involvement in literary activities outside the classroom
will be strongly encouraged. 

HNRS 400-001 (90002) The Multilingual Subject (syllabus attached) (counts in
French, Italian, German, Classics, Africana Studies, Linguistics, Russian
and Slavic Studies, and possibly more majors-and of course provides upper
division AND Honors units required for graduation)

MW 4-5:15pm 

What does it mean to live in more than one language? Is being multilingual a
personal talent, a burden of circumstances, a civic necessity, a source of
pleasure and knowledge, or a curse of history? In this honors seminar, we
will work with a range of philosophical, literary, historical, and filmic
texts in order to gain a richer understanding of the human condition in
multiple-language situations. 

RSSS 275 (83683): The Balkans: Identity in Crisis- Tier 2 Individuals &
Societies

T/Th 9:30-10:45am 

A cultural-historical overview of the cultures of the Balkans focusing on
the development of national identity as seen by the people themselves and
others. 

SPAN/LAS 350-002 (88343): Reading in Literary Genres

MWF 11-11:50- Spanish and Portuguese Majors/Minors only.

LING/PSY 201-001 (74127): Introduction to Linguistics (intro/core course for
linguistics majors/minors, but open to all!)

T/Th 11am-12:15pm 

Fundamentals of linguistics; phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax,
semantics and language acquisition; provides basis for further study in the
field. 

POL 150A1-001 (86901): The Politics of Difference- Tier 1 Individuals &
Societies

MW 1-1:50 and F 11-11:50/12-12:50/1-1:50 -This course examines the politics
(understood broadly as differential access to material and symbolic
resources) of difference (understood as institutionalized social hierarchies
that oppress individuals.) We will focus on the hierarchies of
ethnicity/race, class, gender and sexualities and how these interact to
shape individual and collective experience.

Anthropology 200-002 (90052): Cultural Anthropology

Thursday 3:30-6pm

A core course for the anthropology major and minor, but open to all, and a
great way to explore the field (no pun intended)! Contemporary theories and
methods in use among cultural anthropologists. 

Have a wonderful weekend! 

-Julie

Julie Reed

Academic Advising Coordinator

The Honors College

The University of Arizona

Slonaker House

1027 E. 2nd St.

PO Box 210006

Tucson, AZ 85721-0006

To schedule an appointment, call (520) 621-4262

Fax: (520) 621-8655

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