Honors Art History/ ARTH 1101 (08) MW 8:30-9:50AM

Instructor: Dr. Isabel Graziani

The course is an introduction to the study of the visual arts.  It explores the significance of major works of art, with an emphasis on the historical and social forces that have influenced different modes of visual expression.  The course deals with the principles of art, formal and contextual elements, and the basic vocabulary necessary allowing students to articulate opinions about the arts.  The course has a studio component that will allow the student hands-on experience in order to explore visual communication.  As an Honors course, the emphasis is on academic discussion and class presentations. As part of experiencing the arts first hand, honor students will take a field trip to visit either the Columbus or Cincinnati museum of art

 Honors English/ ENGL 1102 (02) MWF 10-10:50AM

Instructor: Dr. Jennifer Pauley

My 1102 Honors class, in addition to the normal 1102 curriculum, will read Lucy Grealy’s Autobiography of a Face (1994), a memoir in which Grealy recounts her experiences dealing with facial disfigurement. Throughout the semester, we will discuss cultural ideas of beauty as they pertain to Grealy’s memoir and as they pertain to our other readings from the 1102 textbook Motives for Writing. 

Honors Ethics/ PHIL 3320 (05) TR 2-3:20PM

Instructor: Dr. Eugene Valentine

In this course we will examine four of the five basic concerns that we have when making moral decisions in our public or private lives-virtue, autonomy, justice, and utility. We will then take each of these concerns into consideration in the process of making concrete moral decisions.  Each of these concerns will be represented by a given thinker: virtue by Aristotle, autonomy by Immanuel Kant, utility by J.S. Mill, and justice by John Rawls. Honors students will be required to explore such topics as wire tapping, interrogation, or military draft.