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  • HONOR 2300: Outdoor Rec & Ldrshp

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    The idea behind this initiative is to inspire students through education and active participation to develop a more balanced academic lifestyle that integrates service, health, community engagement and leadership into a more meaningful and enriching University of Utah experience. Prerequisites: Member of Honors College.
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  • HONOR 2311: Writing and Health

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Writing and Health offers students opportunities to engage critically and creatively with historical and contemporary topics in public and/or global health, medicine, bioethics, and related fields. This course emphasizes the careful study and analysis of writing generated by and about such fields for both specialist and non-specialist audiences. Course assignments and activities position students to communicate through writing observations, questions, reflections, and arguments in response to complex and pressing health-related issues. Students will have opportunities to approach writing as a process, practice research-based inquiry, and collaborate with peers. Prerequisites: Member of Honors College
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  • HONOR 2400: Politics of Abstraction

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Abstraction, within the context of Greenbergian High Modernism, was characterized as quintessentially apolitical'important precisely for what it could communicate about universal truths and the human condition irrespective of its contemporary context. Revisionist accounts tell how this form of abstraction was used for political purposes, to demonstrate cultural superiority and exemplify freedom. But even abstraction itself, and the language it used to legitimize its practice and pursuits, materialized in specific social, cultural, and economic, not to mention political, conditions. This class will consider the politics of abstraction in this vein; discussing how abstraction and its discourses themselves contained and communicated different ideologies and ways of understanding the world that are laden with political significance. There will be readings from contemporary artists, critics, and philosophers' writings, through which students will not only learn about these artistic and social movements, but will also practice reading primary sources as themselves works to be analyzed. Lectures and in-class assignments will draw upon later analyses that substantiate these ideas. We will discuss individual artists and representative art movements from Europe and the United States of America from the mid 19th century through the Second World War. In addition to learning about Modern art, students will also learn visual analysis skills, and be better equipped to evaluate larger phenomena within visual culture.
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  • HONOR 2455: Soc. Determ. of Health

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    The conditions in which people are born, live, work, and learn shape a wide range of health risks and outcomes. In this class, we will explore disparities in health across communities and population groups, and seek to understand the social, economic, and political structures that foster these inequities. We will apply what we learn about social determinants of health to consider interventions across the ecological framework that have the potential to improve individual and population health.
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  • HONOR 2470: Conservation and Place

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    This course introduces students to elements of conservation planning and environmental policy through place-based case studies of conservation issues such as human/livestock-wildlife conflict, the impact of recreation or tourism, climate change, invasives, overharvesting, population control, disease control, and restoration. Students will have the opportunity to engage in social and scientific analyses of environmental conservation and to practice solving complex conservation problems with attention to the communities and stakeholders involved.
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  • HONOR 2500: Evidence for Evolution

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Evolution is widely accepted by scientists but about half of the US population is skeptical. this course will review the argument about evolution from a historical perspective. The course is organized around a series of questions: Do species change? Do they split in two? Has there been enough time? And so on. For each question, students begin with a historical reading and progress to modern works. Material on both sides of the argument included. Prerequisites: Member of Honors College.
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  • HONOR 2700: Comparative Ecology

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    This course will introduce students to the fields of ecology in times of rapid global change. Special attention will be paid to the organizing principles of evolution and the evolutionary processes that have shaped, and continue to shape, biological life and interactions among organisms. Students will learn theories/models used in ecology and animal behavior and then apply these models to field projects that engage questions related to foraging, competition, migration, and reproductive decisions, among others. Students will also critically analyze how conflicting and beneficial interactions among species (including humans) are developed, established, and persist in different ecosystems. Prerequisites: Member of Honors College.
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  • HONOR 2710: Ethics & Wilderness Med

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Adventures in the wilderness come in many forms: climbing, mountaineering, canyoneering, whitewater rafting, backcountry skiing, scuba diving, and more. But how do we choose acceptable levels of risk when planning such encounters? How do we mitigate the risks we choose? And what decisions do we make when our priorities turn from fun to survival? Moreover, what motives and attitudes guide our own approaches to adventure in the first place? This course will examine the philosophical, ethical, and medical components of adventures in wilderness environments. Students will encounter fundamental ethical dilemmas in wilderness medicine and recreation through a variety of real-life case studies. To deepen students' background knowledge of these concepts, we will explore some of the technical aspects and philosophy on risk and risk-mitigation in outdoor adventures, with outstanding episodes and case studies examined as highlights of these concepts. In addition, the course will also ensure students understand basic concepts in wilderness medicine and survival in extreme environments, with a focus on trauma and musculoskeletal injury, heat injury, dehydration, hypothermia, frostbite, altitude sickness, avalanche danger, dive medicine, and psychological considerations in survival situations. Philosophical and bioethical considerations will be woven throughout the length of the course, with special focus on basic ethical theory and concepts of autonomy, paternalism, and justice, the epistemology of risk management, and more. Prerequisites: Member of Honors College
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  • HONOR 2750: Energy Water Air Metals

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Modern society has utilized the vast fossil fuel and metal reserves of the Earth to increase both its technological sophistication and the standard of living for its residents. However, this progress has come at a price. Access to clean water and air is no longer guaranteed for millions of citizens and regional/global conflicts have arisen as countries attempt to control the raw materials which fuel our society. This course will explore the environmental pressures exerted by continued economic development and evaluate various technologies and strategies aimed at creating a more sustainable society. To the extent possible, discussions and student projects will focus on locally relevant and timely issues. Prerequisites: Member of Honors College.
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  • HONOR 2780: Art Curation & Writing

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    This course offers students an opportunity to work with museum professionals and artists to learn how art gets presented to the public, and how this presentation shapes its interpretation. Via in class discussions, readings, guest lectures, and hands on experience with all facets of putting together a museum exhibition, students will get to work with artists and curators to learn about the artists whose shows we will work on, about curation as a field and a practice, and about how museums utilize different techniques to make art legible and accessible to the public.
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