Honors Courses (Fall 2007)

FALL 2007 COURSES

PFORZHEIMERHONORSCOLLEGE, PLEASANTVILLE CAMPUS

                       

Honors courses are designed to be innovative and challenging. They may be interdisciplinary, focus on great works and ideas, cover issues of keen interest, or present a topic in great depth with a faculty member who has expertise in the subject. Honors courses are open only to students in the Pforzheimer Honors College. Students who are not in the Honors College may be permitted to register for an Honors course with written permission from the Director of Honors, contingent upon the student’s QPA and space availability in the course. Each Honors course carries Honors credit which will appear on the student’s transcript and will count toward completing the requirements of the Honors College. For additional information, contact Dr. Janetta Rebold Benton, Director, Pforzheimer Honors College, Mortola Library, third floor, Pleasantville campus, at 914 773-3848 or JBenton@pace.edu.

 

LEARNING COMMUNITY: Monsters, Madmen and Multinationals: Technological Change and Cultural Anxieties, 7 credits total

Both courses fulfill Foundation requirements

ENG 120  CRITICAL WRITING, 4 credits

Fee: $20

Day, T 9:05-11:05; R 9:05-10:00 (3 hours in class, one hour online) , Jane Collins

CIS 101  INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTING, 3 credits

Fee: $30

Day, R, 10:10-12:05 (2 hours in class, one hour online), Constance Knapp

Course Description: Material from the computing course will help students evaluate the way in which literature about technology reflects our culture and the anxieties introduced by technological change. Students will master basic computing and essay writing skills by completing a series of assignments that combine the analysis of literature and culture with hands-on computer skills.  Exploration of  recurring themes of technology’s attractions and threats in the past will be followed by study of science fiction works on robotics and the new genres of Cyberpunk and online fiction.  

 

LEARNING COMMUNITY: THE PERSON, 6 credits total

Prerequisite: None

PSY 111 fulfills AOK 5; PHI 110 fulfills AOK 2 or 5

PHI 110  INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY, 3 credits

Day, T 2:30-3:25, R 2:30-4:30, Lawrence Hundersmarck

PSY 111  INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY, 3 credits

Day, M,T,R 1:25-2:20, Robert Keegan.

Course description: This course will examine the most influential ideas regarding what it means to be human that have emerged from the traditions of religion, psychology, and philosophy.

 

LEARNING COMMUNITY: INT 296H, HOLLYWOOD DOES HISTORY, 4 credits

Prerequisite: None

AOK 2 or 4, Writing-Enhanced,

Evening, W 6:00-8:45 pm and one hour outside of class, Ellen Skinner and Rebecca Martin (Dr. Skinner is Chair of the History Department; Dr. Martin is Chair of the English Department)

Course description: This course examines major “works of the human imagination” in 20th-century and early 21st-century American films. The interdisciplinary framework gives students an opportunity to explore movies in terms of their social and historical contexts, as well as foster aesthetic perception and visual literacy. Students learn how the techniques of film can enrich the viewers’ understanding of history and even create historical meaning. Students journey back in time to the formative years of the movie industry and examine the relationship between movies and the political, social and cultural context of the eras in which the films were produced.  Through the interpretive lens of a wide range of Hollywood films students also study depictions of race, ethnicity, class, gender and sexuality. 

 

 

 

ART 186 BASIC DIGITAL DESIGN,  3 credits

Prerequisite: None

Fee: $35

AOK 4, Writing-Enhanced

Day, M 1:25-4:30, Will Pappenheimer

 

ENG 120   CRITICAL WRITING, 4 credits

Prerequisite: None

Fee: $20

Fulfills Foundation requirement

Day, W, F 1:25-3:15 , Zachary Snider

 

ENG 201  WRITING IN THE DISCIPLINES, 3 credits

Prerequisite: ENG 120

Fee $20

Fulfills Foundation requirement (suggested for sophomores and juniors)

Day, M 4:40-5:35, W 3:35-5:35,  Linda Anstendig

 

MAT 104  FINITE MATHEMATICS, 3 credits

Prerequisite: None

Fulfills Foundation requirement

Day, M, W, F, 9:05-10:00, Carmen Vlad

 

MGT 396__ ETHICS: FROM DESCARTES TO WALL STREET, 3 credits

Prerequisite: None Writing Enhanced,  AOK 1,

Day, T, 12:20-3:25, Joseph Pastore (Dr. Pastore is former Provost of Pace University)

Conflicting forces of economic performance, ethical behavior, legal compliance, and social responsibility have been recorded for centuries and remain a matter of global concern today. Organizations such as Enron, WorldCom, Adelphia, Tyco, Arthur Andersen, all provide testimony to the dire consequences resulting from a failure to match ethical behavior with economic performance. Through the use of lecture/discussions, case studies, classical and contemporary readings, videos, and experiential learning exercises, this course will explore such topics as fair competition, moral leadership, truth, power and greed, social responsibility, compassion, discrimination, cultural relativism, and civil disobedience, in the pursuit of individual and organizational prosperity.

 

SCI 160  METEOROLOGY, 3 credits

Prerequisite: None

Fulfills Foundation requirement

Evening, T, R 5:30-7:30 (includes lab), Tim Maloy

 

THR 151 ACTING, 3 credits

Prerequisite: None

AOK 4, Writing-Enhanced

Day, T 9:05-12:10, Ruis Wortendyke (Dr. Woertendyke is Chair of the Theater Department)

 

UNV 101  INTRODUCTION TO THE UNIVERISTY COMMUNITY, 1 credit

Prerequisite: First-year student

Required course for first-year students

Day, F 10:10-12:10, Christopher Walther (Prof. Walther is the Honors College Advisor)

 

UNV 101  INTRODUCTION TO THE UNIVERISTY COMMUNITY, 1 credit

Prerequisite: First-year student

Required course for first-year students

Day, F 10:10-12:10, Harold Ford 

 

HONORS INDEPENDENT RESEARCH COURSES, 3 credits

Prerequisite: Junior or Senior standing, 3.3 QPA minimum

With the written approval of the appropriate professor, the department chairperson, and the Director of Honors, a student may select a topic for guided research that is not included in the usual course offerings. The student meets regularly with the professor to review progress. To receive Honors credit, the results of this independent research must be presented at the Honors Conference held each April. Students may have their papers published in Transactions, the journal of the Dyson Society of Fellows.

 

HONORS OPTION COURSES, 3 credits

Prerequisite: None

The Honors Option is designed for Honors-level work in a non-Honors course. To receive Honors credit, an additional paper (10-20 pages), project, or presentation is required. Written approval of the appropriate professor and the Director of Honors are necessary. Depending upon the number of credits completed prior to entering the Honors College, Honors students are limited to either one or two Honors options; other Honors course requirements must be completed in Honors courses.

 

 

Note about Lubin Leaders courses:

2006-07, two Lubin Leaders courses may be used to satisfy your Honors College course requirements.

2007-08, the same will apply to junior and senior Lubin Leader courses.

2008-09, this will apply only to seniors taking Lubin Leaders courses.

Thereafter, all Honors requirements must be fulfilled in Honors courses.

The Lubin Leaders 495 course for seniors may also count as an Honors College course if you present the results of your research at the annual Honors Independent Research Conference held every April.