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  • HONOR 3170: Social Justice Advocacy

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    This course gives students the opportunity to learn about diverse types of social justice advocacy'such as grassroots organizing, movement journalism, civil disobedience, art protest, and more'as they are utilized in different arenas of social justice struggles'including labor, healthcare, disability, justice reform, immigration, and more. To accomplish this, we welcome into our classroom young social justice activists from across the country, who will share their experiences of activism, their successes and challenges, and the lessons they have learned, in order to engage us in vibrant discussion. Prerequisites: Member of Honors College
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  • HONOR 3180: Queer Art History

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    In this course, students will consider a number of distinct but interrelated topics. They will look into questions of identity, and queer interventions into identity, through the lens of visual art and culture. They will also consider issues related to visibility and knowledge production, all through the question of "What is queer art history?". The course will primarily consist of visual analysis and discussion, supported by historical and theoretical readings.
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  • HONOR 3200: Research University

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Writing in a Research University is designed for undergraduate (ideally at the sophomore or junior level) who have chosen a major and completed core requirements. The class seeks to develop and employ critical thinking, inquiry and analysis, written communication and teamwork. Analytical techniques practiced and employed include reduction, synthesis, dialectical reasoning, an systems thinking among other. Central to the course is the understanding of forms and structures found across academic disciplines and audiences from various background. Student writers will engage in an extensive written research project that makes an original contribution to their field. For many, this project lays the foundation for (and may become) the Honors Thesis. Prerequisites: Member of Honors College.
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  • HONOR 3210: Travel Writing

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Using the creative essay as a vehicle for exploration, writers will craft pieces that explore the powerful human relationship to place. Particularly, we'll indulge the magic of new of foreign or strange environments some of which are known but not yet seen. As a component of the class, student-writers will be asked to engage the seminal writing task of the ages: go somewhere new, be in awe, and write about it. Prerequisites: Member of Honors College.
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  • HONOR 3214: Foundations/Soc Sci

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    (Topics will vary from year to year) Prerequisites: Member of Honors College.
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    General Education Course

  • HONOR 3245: Environmental Change

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    We live in a rapidly changing world. Climate change, population growth, ecosystem disturbance, and transmissible diseases, for example, present global challenges that bridge traditional divides between the physical and social sciences. This honors course, Global Environmental Change, provides an integrated, interdisciplinary approach to global change phenomena. The course is targeted towards non-science majors. Complementary lectures and labs will be used to evaluate how the human and physical environments interact to create global changes. Lectures will convey the science behind different global change phenomena, with an emphasis on active discussions between students and the instructor. Labs will require students to test scientific models of global change phenomena, allowing them to gain insight on the abilities and limitations of modeling. Topics that will be covered in the course include an introduction to geospatial data and modeling, Earth's energy budget and climates, global climate change and its impacts, population growth, migration and urbanization, ecosystem disturbance, water and energy resources, and natural hazards. Students will be evaluated using exams and lab exercises based on Geographic Information Systems (GIS) analysis. Students will also present a final project on a global environmental change phenomenon to the class.
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  • HONOR 3255: Entrepreneurship & Soc

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    In this course, students will learn the foundational theories, models and approaches to effectively engaging communities to strengthen health and to increase capacity for creating value as a basis for development. The course will employ a social ecological perspective and use community engagement as a fundamental approach to address global issues related to strengthening health and economic development. This course will take place through the West Africa Program in Ghana, a low-middle income country in sub-Saharan Africa.
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  • HONOR 3260: Comm Health Development

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    In this course, students will work in rural communities in the West African country of Ghana on research projects designed to strengthen the health of communities and expand capacity for economic development. This course will be taught at the University of Utah West Africa extended-location in Kpong, Ghana at the Ensign College of Public Health campus, with applied work taking place in communities the surrounding areas. Students will learn about health and development programs, then develop, implement and evaluate activities in support of these programs. Course activities will include creation of materials related to health and development activities and documenting reflections of engagement experiences.
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  • HONOR 3280: Human Disease

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    The goal of this course is to examine the fundamentals of ecology and evolution through the lens of human disease. We will specifically investigate the interplay between human disease, changing ecosystems, and social structures by focusing on a short list of zoonotic diseases known to occur in Africa. Students will examine life history of these diseases, known contagion pathways, and the ecological conditions likely to be important for disease spread. Through this process, students will learn the fundamentals of evolution by natural selection and its application to epidemiology and public health (e.g., applications to the evolution of resistance and the response of disease vectors to changing habitats and/or selection regimes). This course will provide students with a basic science background for exploring further public health issues.
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  • HONOR 3290: People and Nature

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Are people part of nature? In this course we will explore a variety of approaches taken by scientists and other experts to this question. Through the close reading of peer-reviewed articles, students will learn to articulate the scientific processes and philosophies that inform our understanding of the human relationship with the non-human world and deconstruct concepts that imply a separation between humans and nature. We'll explore topics in ecology, conservation biology, anthropology, ecosystem services, environmental justice, complex systems, and more. Students will gain conceptual tools that will allow them to critically examine how perspectives on the human-nature relationship inform policy- and decision-making processes within governments, NGOs and the private sector. By linking social and ecological systems, we'll build an interdisciplinary framework for imagining the future of humanity as ecological citizens.
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