2020-2021 Course Offerings
All honors courses have section numbers 190-199 and can be seen on Webstar. If you are trying to register for a course below, qualify for honors, and are receiving a registration error, please email us (honors@uno.edu).
Fall 2020
A&S 3099: Honors Colloquium: Leadership and Entrepreneurship
Instructor: Marques Colston
Meeting Time: M 5:00-6:00
Enrollment by permission of the Honors Program Director only. Many college student-athletes won’t have the opportunity to play sports professionally, but they have built transferable skills and brand equity that can be leveraged as a springboard into the next phase of their lives as they pursue and develop their careers. This course is designed to facilitate that process.
PHIL 1000: Introduction to Logic
Instructor: J.P. Messina
Meeting Time: M/W/F, 10:00-11:00
This course satisfies the Mathematics general education requirement.
This course is as much about learning the rules of logic as about how to think and read at the university level. You will not simply learn how to reason logically in the abstract by constructing proofs, truth tables and truth trees (though you will learn those things), but how to diagnose and discuss pathologies in real-world arguments. In addition to working through textbook material in logic and critical thinking, we will read primary source material by politicians, judges, and academics with the explicit goal of laying bare the logical structure of their reasoning.
PHIL 2201: Ethics
Instructor: Crawford Crews
Meeting Time: T/Th, 10:00-11:00
This course satisfies the Humanities general education requirement.
What does it take to live a good life? What does it take to be an ethical person? In a world filled with so many serious problems, what can a single individual do to make a difference? This course explores the foundations of ethical theory as well as the practical possibilities for making the world a better place. Students explore classic perspectives from the history of ethical thought and grapple with pressing problems in the modern world.
POLI 2151: American Government
Instructor: Robert Worth
Meeting Time: M/W/F, 1:00 - 1:50
This course satisfies the Humanities general education requirement.
This course examines the values, processes, institutions and participants that characterize political activity in the U.S. It covers the U.S. political system, its development over the past two centuries, and how it operates today. (Units: 3/3)
ENGL 1159: English Composition
Instructor: Lisa Verner
This course satisfies the Composition general education requirement.
In ENGL 1159 students read, discuss and write about utopian and dystopian literature. Class is conducted as both lecture and active discussion. This course is the Honors section of ENGL 1158, and is available to Honors student only. The Honors Program will provide the books for this course.
ENGL 2090: Fiction to Film
Instructor: Donald Doll
This is a special topics course.
MATH 2114: Calculus 1
Instructor: Stephen Shalit
This course satisfies the Mathematics general education requirement.
Prerequisites: Math 1126 with a grade of C or better. Limits and continuity of functions; introduction of the derivative; techniques of differentiation; Chain rule; implicit differentiation; differentiation of transcendental and inverse functions; applications of differentiation: concavity; relative extrema; maximum and minimum values of a function; optimization; anti-differentiation; definite integrals; Fundamental Theorem of Calculus; areas. This course requires an additional recitation hour.
Spring 2020
PHIL 1000: Introduction to Philosophy
Instructor: J.P. Messina
Meeting Time: T/Th, 9:30-10:45
This course satisfies the Humanities general education requirement.
This course surveys basic philosophical theories in three main areas: value theory, metaphysics, and epistemology. We consider questions like: Are there universal, objective moral standards? Or do such standards inevitably vary from one culture to the next? Does life have a meaning? What is ultimately real? Does God exist? Is human freedom an illusion? What is knowledge and how do we acquire it? What are the roles of perception and reason in our knowledge of the world? To what degree is the world the way we experience it?
ENGL 1159: English Composition
Instructor: Lisa Verner
This course satisfies the Composition general education requirement.
In ENGL 1159 students read, discuss and write about utopian and dystopian literature. Class is conducted as both lecture and active discussion. This course is the Honors section of ENGL 1158, and is available to Honors student only. The Honors Program will provide the books for this course.
HIST 2050: U.S. History 1
Instructor: Andrea Mosterman
This course satisfies the Humanities general education requirement.
Survey of United States history from the earliest times to the Civil War.
ENGL 2090: Special Topics - The European Spy Novel
Instructor: Lisa Verner
This course satisfies the Literature general education requirement.
The course will examine the development of the spy novel from its birth in the early 20th century through the early 21st century in its historical, geographic, and literary aspects. The nature of the spy novel gives the student the chance to fine tune his/her logic skills through the necessity of reasoning from the evidence as it is presented in the novel. In addition, the student must learn something of the history and politics of Europe in the twentieth century, often in greater detail than is presented in a regular history book. But perhaps the most intriguing approach to studying these novels involves charting the development “the enemy” over the course of the twentieth century.
ENGL 2090: Special Topics - Speculative Fiction
Instructor: Daniel Doll
This course satisfies the Literature general education requirement.
Exploring a three-hundred year range of speculative fiction, this course explores the genre's "soft" edge-- fantasy based in myth, fable, and folktale--and its "hard" edge--science fiction heavy in science and technology. But of course the categories do not remain discrete; indeed that's why the term speculative fiction was invented. Accordingly, the class will attempt both constructing an orderly outline of the categories of fantasy and science fiction and then blurring those outlines.
EDLS 3100: Children's Literature
Instructor: Patricia Austin
Selection evaluation and use of books and materials for children; the role of literature in curriculum supplementation; and an examination of the changing social and cultural patterns in children's reading.This course can be used to satisfy general degree requirements in literature for upper elementary education students only.
A&S 3099: Honors Colloquium
Instructor: Crawford Crews
This course provides a unique opportunity for honors students at the University of New Orleans. It focuses on the current and on-going work of contemporary scholars in a variety of fields in the arts and sciences. Students will read and discuss in-progress work of active scholars, along with supplemental background reading, all connected to a general course theme, and then will have the opportunity to talk directly with these scholars as they visit the class during the semester.
A&S 4000: Honors Capstone
Instructor: Chris Surprenant
Meeting Time: TBD
This course satisfies the Honors graduation requirement.
Required of all students who plan to graduate with University Honors during the semester in which they intend to graduate. Graded pass/fail. Enrollment requires the permission of the Honors Director.