Sample Course Descriptions

HNRS 195A Leadership: Voices and Vision

Instructor: Bevan Olyphant

This interactive Honors colloquium focuses on the subject of leadership. Students will learn to recognize when leadership is a goal, understand how to achieve it and gain confidence in pursuing it. Leadership is defined broadly and the course is aimed to help students become leaders in a variety of contexts, from families to work groups to communities or even on a national level. The leadership tools you develop in this course will also allow you to achieve your own personal goals.

HNRS 295B section 1, Encounter with Poets and Their Poetry

Instructor: Janice Dewey

This Honors colloquium is conceived as an extension of the Poetry Center's visiting writers reading series. It is a collaborative of reading, hearing and writing poetry relying on the class members to constitute both the personal and public values of poetry. Each student is expected to take part in presenting the poets for class discussion in the context of his/her own engagement, artistic and academic, with the work. We will pursue investigations of craft and expression, welcoming all perspectives with a focus on attendant theories, practices, and controversies. Class time will be spent on the introductions and discussion of the visiting poets, and whenever possible, in-class exercises you have prepared on assignment. Students will attend poetry readings and write brief and informal impressionistic papers in response to the readings. Your final project will become a compilation of your semester's work that you put together in some revised, re-thought, creative manner, that pulls together all you wish to highlight at semester's end.