Courses Required for Core Honors First-Years:
CORE 1929H Core Honors Methods of Inquiry
A 3 credit course taken either in fall or spring of the first year. Satisfies MCC Foundations in Methods of Inquiry requirement.
CORE 1929H 901 MWF 11:00-11:50am Amelia Zurcher & Amber Wichowsky
Civic Conversation and Education for Democracy
This class focuses on the practice of productive public conversation about complex topics, a necessity not only for university education but for a functional democracy. We will build skills for three distinct kinds of conversation 鈥 dialogue, deliberation, and debate 鈥 through engaging with three 鈥渃ases,鈥 social inequality, artificial intelligence, and freedom of expression. The class will include biweekly mentored, small-group meetings.
CORE 1929H 902 TTh 5:00-6:15pm Sofia Ascorbe & Chelsea Malacara
From Surviving to Thriving: The Importance of Building Resilient Communities
In this course, students will reflect on the meaning of sustainable community鈥攂uilding it, preserving it, and living it. As a class, we will reflect on our relationships with our environments (campus, neighborhood, city, country, world) from both a physical and social perspective. Students will have the opportunity to engage with campus and city resources relating to wellness and the promotion of sustainable community-building
HOPR 1955H Core Honors First-Year Seminar
Taken either fall or spring of the first year. Satisfies the MCC Foundations in Rhetoric requirement.
HOPR 1955H 901 TTh 2:00-3:15pm Melissa Ganz, English
Justice and Judgment in the Western Imagination
How do we decide what is right and fair? When, if ever, is it permissible to break the law? What role should mercy and revenge play in legal and moral judgment? How should we respond to historical wrongs and how can we rectify legal and social injustices today? Such questions have not only preoccupied jurists and philosophers but have also figured prominently in literature. In this seminar, we consider how imaginative writers from the classical period to the present day have examined the nature, problems, and possibilities of justice. At the same time that we examine the contributions of literature to pressing legal and moral debates, we work on honing your close reading and writing skills. Texts may include Sophocles鈥檚 Antigone; William Shakespeare鈥檚 Measure for Measure; Herman Melville鈥檚 Billy Budd; Frederick Douglass鈥檚 Narrative of the Life; Susan Glaspell鈥檚 鈥淎 Jury of Her Peers鈥; Harper Lee鈥檚 To Kill A Mockingbird; Martin Luther King, Jr.鈥檚 鈥淟etter from Birmingham Jail鈥; poems by Amanda Gorman, Nicole Sealey, and Reginald Dwayne Betts; Ida Fink鈥檚 The Table; and Ferdinand von Schirach鈥檚 The Collini Case. Our literary texts will be supplemented by selections from jurists, philosophers, and historians, and we will view several film adaptations.
HOPR 1955H 902 TTh 9:30-10:45am Jacob Riyeff, English
Humans and Other Natural Phenomena
Humans have had an ambivalent relationship with the world around us as far back as we can tell, but this ambivalence has accelerated at an unprecedented rate since the Industrial Revolution. Eliciting the loftiest praise from poets and prose writers, the earth itself and non-human species have also been brutely instrumentalized. Clearly beneficial to our health and well-being, frankly necessary to our survival, and indeed what we ourselves are, the natural world is also something ever more distant from the regular lived experience of more and more humans. As so many of us spend ever more time within the built world and the virtual world, how do we understand our relationships with other natural phenomena鈥攕ince we have them whether we acknowledge them or not? How鈥痵hould鈥痺e understand them? What are the consequences of different ways of living out these various relationships, especially for human self-understanding, human health, social justice, and the safety and thriving of all the other species who call earth home? How have artists, philosophers, and scientists of various stripes attempted to represent, explore, and encourage our species鈥 interactions with the other natural phenomena around us? These are some of the questions we鈥檒l explore this term with such writers as Robinson Jeffers, Pope Francis, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Lorine Niedecker, Val Plumwood, Kate Crawford, and more. We鈥檒l also take several field trips to allow for experiential, dialogic encounters, not only critical reading.
HOPR 1955H 903 TTh 11:00am-12:15pm Jacob Riyeff, English
Humans and Other Natural Phenomena
Humans have had an ambivalent relationship with the world around us as far back as we can tell, but this ambivalence has accelerated at an unprecedented rate since the Industrial Revolution. Eliciting the loftiest praise from poets and prose writers, the earth itself and non-human species have also been brutely instrumentalized. Clearly beneficial to our health and well-being, frankly necessary to our survival, and indeed what we ourselves are, the natural world is also something ever more distant from the regular lived experience of more and more humans. As so many of us spend ever more time within the built world and the virtual world, how do we understand our relationships with other natural phenomena鈥攕ince we have them whether we acknowledge them or not? How鈥痵hould鈥痺e understand them? What are the consequences of different ways of living out these various relationships, especially for human self-understanding, human health, social justice, and the safety and thriving of all the other species who call earth home? How have artists, philosophers, and scientists of various stripes attempted to represent, explore, and encourage our species鈥 interactions with the other natural phenomena around us? These are some of the questions we鈥檒l explore this term with such writers as Robinson Jeffers, Pope Francis, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Lorine Niedecker, Val Plumwood, Kate Crawford, and more. We鈥檒l also take several field trips to allow for experiential, dialogic encounters, not only critical reading.
HOPR 1955H 904 TTh 12:30-1:45pm Heather Hathaway, English
Immigration, Identity, and Intersectionality
In Notes of Native Son (1955), James Baldwin claimed that in the United States 鈥渙ur passion for categorization, life fitted neatly into pegs, has led to an unforeseen, paradoxical distress; . . . [to] confusion, a breakdown of meaning.鈥 But this seems counterintuitive: categorization is meant to do just the opposite--to define, classify, order and group. In this course, we will explore works of American literature that test Baldwin鈥檚 thesis, particularly with respect to individual and group identities shaped by race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation. We will draw from the fields of critical race and ethnic studies, sociology, psychology, history and literature. This interdisciplinary approach offers a valuable introduction to a variety of disciplines as you begin to hone your academic interests into majors/minors.
HOPR 1955H 905 MWF 10:00-10:50am CJ Scruton, English
Culture, Fear, and How Monsters Get Made
Stories about 鈥渢hings that go bump in the night鈥 are some of the oldest and most pervasive narratives in human history across essentially all cultural traditions. Yet we鈥檙e often told these stories are not worth studying in academic settings. So what happens if we do look closer at the monsters in our world? How can scary stories help us better understand the cultures that create and tell those stories
In this course, we鈥檒l dive into studying language and culture through the lenses of fear and monstrosity. We鈥檒l explore everything from ancient stories of dangerous creatures to modern true crime shows to consider how humans have always used monsters to describe the world we live in and the beings we share it with. In addition to these stories themselves, we鈥檒l look at how scholars of horror can help us better analyze the ways expressions of fear are related to an individual鈥檚 and a culture鈥檚 conceptions (and biases) of race, gender, class, and disability, as well as other identities and social groups.
This is not a 鈥渉orror鈥 class, so those who are easily scared (like me) are definitely welcome! But we will examine how fearplays a fundamental role in how we see ourselves and others, and how we move through the world.
HOPR 1955H 906 MWF 1:00-1:50pm CJ Scruton, English
Culture, Fear, and How Monsters Get Made
Stories about 鈥渢hings that go bump in the night鈥 are some of the oldest and most pervasive narratives in human history across essentially all cultural traditions. Yet we鈥檙e often told these stories are not worth studying in academic settings. So what happens if we do look closer at the monsters in our world? How can scary stories help us better understand the cultures that create and tell those stories
In this course, we鈥檒l dive into studying language and culture through the lenses of fear and monstrosity. We鈥檒l explore everything from ancient stories of dangerous creatures to modern true crime shows to consider how humans have always used monsters to describe the world we live in and the beings we share it with. In addition to these stories themselves, we鈥檒l look at how scholars of horror can help us better analyze the ways expressions of fear are related to an individual鈥檚 and a culture鈥檚 conceptions (and biases) of race, gender, class, and disability, as well as other identities and social groups.
This is not a 鈥渉orror鈥 class, so those who are easily scared (like me) are definitely welcome! But we will examine how fearplays a fundamental role in how we see ourselves and others, and how we move through the world.
HOPR 1955H 907 MWF 2:00-2:50pm Leslie McAbee, English
Finding Our Homeplace
We use the terms 鈥渦nity鈥 and 鈥渂elonging鈥 with the hope of celebrating or striving for a sense of uncomplicated and all-encompassing community. We hear this in presidential addresses (President Biden鈥檚 Inauguration theme鈥斺淎merica United鈥), voter campaigns (鈥淯nity Over Division鈥), and on college campuses (鈥淲e Are Marquette鈥). To realistically and responsibly arrive at these optimistic visions of inclusion, rigorous discussion and deliberation are key. This course aims to dig into this work by exploring how we define and use concepts like 鈥渂elonging鈥 and 鈥渦nity,鈥 which generally promise equity and justice for all, and we鈥檒l productively reckon with the challenges these ideals pose. How do we arrive at 鈥渨e鈥 with any satisfaction? How can unity accommodate difference and diversity? Can injustice and trauma be healed or exacerbated in the face of calls for harmony? We will wrestle with these questions by examining authors and artists, predominantly from the 19th-century U.S., who encounter the difficulties of finding 鈥渉ome鈥 in the U.S.
We鈥檒l engage with poets of the American Civil War, 21st-century Poet Laureate Natasha Tretheway, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Walt Whitman, and Herman Melville, among others. The experiences, strategies, and, in some cases, warnings offered by these authors give us historical context and tools for reflecting on palpable political and cultural division in the U.S. today.
THEO 1001H - Honors Foundations in Theology: Finding God in All Things
Taken either fall or spring of the first year. Satisfies the MCC Foundations in Theology requirement.
THEO 1001H 901 LEC TTh 9:30-10:45am Danielle Nussberger
THEO 1001H 902 LEC TTh 11:00am-12:15pm Danielle Nussberger
THEO 1001H 903 LEC MWF 10:00-10:50am Jennifer Henery
THEO 1001H 904 LEC MWF 11:00-11:50am Jennifer Henery
THEO 1001H 905 LEC TTh 3:30-4:45pm Christina Bosserman
THEO 1001H 907 LEC TTh 11:00am-12:15pm Christina Bosserman
THEO 1001H 908 LEC TTh 2:00-3:15pm Christina Bosserman
THEO 1001H 910 LEC MWF 9:00-9:50am Jennifer Henery
Courses Required for Core Honors Sophomores:
HOPR 2956H - Honors Engaging Social Systems and Values 1: Engaging the City
HOPR 2956H, mandatory for all Core Honors students (other ESSV1 classes do not satisfy the Core Honors ESSV1 requirement), focuses on the challenges and the opportunities of American cities, particularly our home city of Milwaukee. All sections emphasize community-engaged learning.
HOPR 2956H 901 MW 3:30-4:45pm Alison Efford
Engaging the City: Milwaukeeans Reckon with History
This class is about Milwaukeeans reckoning with their past. We will explore what it means to reckon with the past, especially in urban contexts, and what happens when we try to ignore the past. You will learn about developments in Milwaukee history that require further grappling such as forcing Native peoples off the land, 向日葵视频鈥檚 original official seal, a sexual assault by a famous abolitionist in the 1850s, a lynching, early physical education, the Great Migration, the environmental impact of heavy industry, and how highway construction damaged the city鈥檚 Black community. You will also learn inspiring stories of how Milwaukeeans are currently engaging with the past through art, fiction, protest, commemoration, and urban planning. Class trips and outside visitors will give you a new appreciation of the city in which we live. The semester will culminate in a community-engaged history project that requires you to work collaboratively and apply your historical skills to a contemporary challenge.
HOPR 2956H 902 MWF 9:00-9:50am Sergio Gonzalez
Engaging the World: U.S. Cities and the Narratives of Crisis
The last few years have brought a number of radical disruptions to the daily lives of people living in the United States. Political and civic leaders, pundits, and academics speak of a three-part crisis wrought by a global health pandemic, an economic recession, and a reckoning with a centuries-long national history of white supremacy. For urban residents across the country, however, many of whom have taken the streets in protest after facing public health disparities, a ballooning wealth and income gap, and racism for decades, this concept of 鈥榗risis鈥 is not a new one. To better understand the history of these 鈥榰rban crises鈥 narratives in the United States, this class will interrogate a number of questions, including: what are the origins of these 鈥榗rises,鈥 and how have communities living in urban centers grappled with them across the twentieth century? How and why have urban populations changed, and how have residents understood the communities that develop in urban spaces? Who holds economic and social power in urban areas, and who has the 鈥榬ight鈥 to live in an urban space? And, how do urban residents organize to mitigate or reverse the effects of these economic, public health, and racial 鈥榗rises鈥 on their communities? With these questions in mind, this course offers an introduction to the twentieth-century history of cities in the United States, focusing specifically on the development of a crisis narrative in urban space. Throughout the course we鈥檒l pay special attention to the complicated and conflicting ideas about cities that have emerged in relation to adjoining rural and suburban areas, examine the rise of the modern metropolis, interrogate the role of public health in urban development, and analyze the political, social, and environmental dimensions of cities鈥 growth. We will examine the relationships between cities and migration, while also studying the ways in which the distinctions of city and country have been continually drawn and redrawn over time. We鈥檒l seek to understand what caused these massive fluctuations in urban life, with a special focus on cities in the Midwest, as well as how these shifts connect to larger national and transnational trends. Focusing on economic, social, environmental, demographic, and cultural change, this course offers an introductory overview of what it has meant to be an urban denizen across the twentieth and early twenty-first century.
HOPR 2956H 903 MW 2:00-3:15pm Patrick Mullins
Preserving the City as Art and History
This course will introduce students to the history of architecture, parks, monuments, and urban design in America as well as the theory and practice of historic preservation. Through object analysis, historic research, and extensive fieldwork, students will learn how to 鈥渞ead鈥 a building, monument, or cultural landscape as form of public art and as a source of historic evidence, think critically about their built environment, and discover the role which citizens can play in preserving art, history, and community. Using Milwaukee and Chicago as case-studies for these themes, students will come to understand 鈥渢he power of place鈥 to shape their lives鈥攁nd their own power to shape civic life.
HOPR 2956H 904 MWF 10:00-10:50am Sam Harshner
This class looks at contemporary social issues through the lens of the economic, ideological, and institutional structures that frame them. We will look at the historical context of these structures and attempt to venture some ideas on how to overcome the tensions and injustices that face us here in Milwaukee.
HOPR 2956H 905 TTh 9:30-10:45am Peter Borg
Religious Places, Divided Spaces, and Hope for the FutureDr. Martin Luther King famously observed that America is most segregated on Sunday at 11AM. Was that true of Milwaukee while Dr. King called for the nation to redeem its troubled racial legacy? Is it still true today? If so, how is it that churches mirrored society's basest elements rather than demonstrating its highest ideals? This course introduces students to the history of Milwaukee by examining the city's religious heritage. Neither the city nor its religious landscape can be fully grasped without broadly understanding the contours of urban history, the role of race in America's founding and growth, the place of city churches and synagogues in welcoming immigrants, and the promise of God to "make all things new." Learn about Marquette's hometown and meet servant leaders throughout Milwaukee who are actively putting their faith into practice to bridge the divides that still keep people apart on Sunday mornings.
Courses Required for Core Honors Seniors:
CORE 4929H - Honors Service of Faith and Promotion of Justice
CORE 4929H 901 MWF 9-9:50am Jonathan Metz
CORE 4929H 902 MWF 10-10:50am Jonathan Metz
CORE 4929H 903 MWF 11-11:50am Jonathan Metz
CORE 4929H 904 MW 2:00-3:15pm Jennifer Henery
CORE 4929H 905 TTh 9:30-10:45am Kathleen McNutt
CORE 4929H 906 TTh 3:30-4:45pm Stephanie Rivera Berruz
CORE 4929H 907 TTh 11:00am-12:15pm Kathleen McNutt
Honors Peer Mentorship Course
This course is a 1-credit, 1-semester, S/U (pass/fail) component of our Honors Peer Mentorship Program. This optional program may be a great fit for students looking to get to know campus resources and explore Milwaukee with a small group of Honors students while building connections with each other. Students will be grouped with an older Honors student (mentor) and around four other incoming first-year students (mentees). Students will meet in their mentor groups once per week at the designated class time. The location of group meetings will be determined by your assigned mentor and the overall group's preference and availability. This course is only open to incoming new first-year Honors students.
HOPR 1964H 901 T 3:30 - 4:20pm
HOPR 1964H 902 W 5:00 - 5:50pm
HOPR 1964H 903 F 1:00 - 1:50pm
Honors Electives for all Core Honors Students:
BIOL 1001H - Honors General Biology 1
BIOL 1001H 901 LEC
MWF 9:00-9:50am; Th 6:00-6:50pm Stephanie Abramovich
BIOL 1001H 902 LEC
MWF 11:00-11:50am; Th 6:00-6:50pm Stephanie Abramovich
BIOL 1001H 903 LEC
MWF 1:00-1:50pm; Th 6:00-6:50pm Martin St. Maurice
DIS 961 M 2:00-2:50pm
DIS 962 T 9:30-10:20am
DIS 963 T 2:00-2:50pm
CHEM 1001H - Honors General Chemistry 1
CHEM 1001H 902 LEC MWF 10-10:50am Llanie Nobile
941 LAB W 2:00-4:50pm
942 LAB T 5:30-8:20pm
961 DIS W 1:00-1:50pm
962 DIS T 3:00-3:50pm
CHEM 1001H 903 LEC MWF 1:00-1:50pm Llanie Nobile
943 LAB T 5:30-8:20pm
944 LAB W 2:00-4:50pm
963 DIS T 3:00-3:50pm
964 DIS T 3:00-3:50pm
CHEM 1013H - Honors General Chemistry 1 for Majors
CHEM 1013H 901 LEC MF 9:00-10:15am Scott Reid
941 LAB W 9:00-11:50am
COMM 4550 - Media and the Other*
COMM 4550 101 MW 2:00-3:15pm Ayleen Cabas-Mijares
* This is not officially an honors section, but honors student who enroll will receive honors elective credit. COMM 4550 meets the Individuals & Communities humanities or elective course requirement in the Discovery Tier.
**Enrollment for Honors students is limited and will be done by permission number - please contact honorsprog@marquette.edu if you are interested in taking this class.**
ENGL 3301 - Here Be Monsters*
ENGL 3301 101 TTh 11:00am-12:15pm Liza Strakhov
* This is not officially an honors section, but honors student who enroll will receive honors elective credit. ENGL 3301 meets the Crossing Boundaries humanities or elective course requirement in the Discovery Tier.
**Enrollment for Honors students will be done by permission number - please contact honorsprog@marquette.edu if you are interested in taking this class.**
ENGL 4755 - Law and Literature*
ENGL 4755 102 TTh 11:00am-12:15pm Melissa Ganz
* This is not officially an honors section, but honors student who enroll will receive honors elective credit. ENGL 4755 meets the Basic Needs & Justice humanities or elective course requirement in the Discovery Tier.
**Enrollment for Honors students will be done by permission number - please contact honorsprog@marquette.edu if you are interested in taking this class.**
HEAL 1025H - Honors Culture and Health
HEAL 1025H 901 F 9:00-11:40am Theresa Schnable
HEAL 1025H does not require a permission number. If you have trouble enrolling, please contact the Nursing department.
HIST 4255H - Honors The British Empire
HIST 4255H 901 MWF 1:00-1:50pm Timothy McMahon
HIST 4255H meets the Crossing Boundaries humanities or elective course requirement in the Discovery Tier.
LLAC 1001 - Introduction to Latinx Studies*
LLAC 1001 101 MWF 12:00-12:50pm Sergio Gonzalez
* This is not officially an honors section, but honors student who enroll will receive honors elective credit. LLAC 1001 meets the Crossing Boundaries humanities or elective course requirement in the Discovery Tier.
MUSI 1120H - Honors Liturgical Choir
MUSI 1120H 901 W 5:00-7:00pm, Sun 3:15-5:00pm Andrew Mountin
^please note MUSI 1120H is 1 credit. For full honors elective credit, students will need to complete three semesters of MUSI 1120H.
PHIL 1001H - Honors Foundations in Philosophy
PHIL 1001H 901 LEC MWF 12:00-12:50pm Michael Olson
PHIL 1001H 902 LEC MWF 1:00-1:50pm Michael Olson
PHIL 1001H 903 LEC MW 3:30-4:45pm Corinne Bloch-Mullins
PHIL 1001H 904 LEC TTh 9:30-10:45am Peter Burgess
PHIL 1001H 905 LEC TTh 11:00am-12:15pm Peter Burgess
PHIL 1001H 906 LEC TTh 11:00am-12:15pm Grant Silva
PHIL 1001H 907 LEC TTh 2:00-3:15pm Peter Burgess
PHIL 1001H 908 LEC MW 2:00-3:15pm Corinne Bloch-Mullins
PHYS 1003H 鈥 Honors General Physics with Introductory Calculus 1
PHYS 1003H 901 MWF 9-9:50am; M 6-8pm Jax Sanders
PHYS 1003H 902 MWF 12-12:50pm; M 6-8pm Melissa Vigil
PHYS 1003H 903 MWF 1-1:50pm; M 6-8pm David Haas
PHYS 1003H 904 MWF 2-2:50pm; M 6-8pm David Haas
941 Lab W 6-7:50pm
942 Lab Th 4-5:50pm
961 Disc W 5-5:50pm
PHYS 1013H 鈥 Honors Classical and Modern Physics with Calculus 1
PHYS 1013H 901 MWF 1:00-2:50pm Andrew Kunz
POSC 2201H 鈥 Honors American Politics
POSC 2201H 901 MWF 10:00-10:50am Karen Hoffman
POSC 2801H 鈥 Honors Justice and Power
POSC 2201H 901 TTh 12:30-1:45pm Darrell Dobbs
PSYC 2050H - Honors Research Methods & Designs in Psychology
PSYC 2050H 901 LEC TTh 12:30-1:45pm Astrida Kaugars
941 LAB W 12:00-12:50pm
THEO 3530H - Honors Theology and Economics
THEO 3530H 901 TTh 2:00-3:15pm Christopher Gooding
Waitlists
If your preferred class is full at the time of your registration, please email honorsprog@marquette.edu to be added to the waitlist. In the email include: your name, MUID, the class name and section number (ex: CORE 1929H 901), and the reason for your request.
Archived Core Honors Courses