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. Sections that meet at the same time are paired, and students in each pair will be taught by both instructors. Satisfies MCC Foundations in Methods of Inquiry requirement.
CORE 1929H 901 TTh 11-12:15pm
Amelia Zurcher, English & Jennifer Maney, Education
Pop Music, Personal Identity, and Politics
Ubiquitous in popular culture, music in the 21st century United States has a huge part in the construction of personal identity. We use songs to define and communicate our stories of ourselves, to build relationships, and to manage our emotions. But music also has a more public role within our collective stories, as a tool for social and political change. In this class we will explore music鈥檚 role in both these contexts: we will frame narratives of our own lives and development through music-related memories and stories, and we will also explore the role of music and musicians in some social and political movements. In a culminating project that can be creative or scholarly, students will weave these contexts together, describing or imagining a personal engagement with music that also engages them in social change.
CORE 1929H 902 MWF 11-11:50am
David Nowacek, Social and Cultural Sciences & Tim Tharp, Physics
Energy & Human Induced Climate Change
Students enrolled in this methods of inquiry honors course will address the local, real-world challenges of spurring Marquette University to greatly reduce its effects on global climate change. Students鈥 ability to engage this challenge will be built upon the insights of physics and sociology. Students will begin by learning the fundamental scientific principles governing climate change and energy use, next explore the institutional opportunities and constraints that shape potential responses from Marquette, and finally research and propose a specific action to reduce Marquette鈥檚 contribution to climate change.
CORE 1929H 903 MWF 9-9:50am
Sergio Gonzalez, History & Sonia Barnes, Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
This interdisciplinary course explores issues of bilingualism and educational and linguistic justice within Latinx communities. Students will examine histories of bilingual education in the Midwest and engage with scholarship on language diversity and bilingualism. They will also create a culminating oral history project that investigates the history of bilingual education and Latinx civil rights movements for sociolinguistic justice in Wisconsin. This course is required for students residing in Nuestro Hogar, but it is open to other students with a strong interest in these topics. It also offers Honors credit for Core Honors students and meets Foundations of Methods of Inquiry Core requirements.
**Enrollment for this class will be done by permission number, and Core Honors spots are limited - please contact honorsprog@marquette.edu if you are interested in taking the class.**
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 MWF 10-10:50 am Michael Wert, History
History and Trauma
This class explores the concepts of trauma, history, and memory as experienced by individuals and communities. We read works in the fields of psychoanalysis, sci-fi, philosophy, and history, to see how memory of historical events is affected by trauma, and what we can learn from them for understanding the Covid pandemic.
HOPR 1955H 902 MWF 11-11:50am. Timothy McMahon, History
Modernity: Confidence, Creativity, Crisis
The purpose of this course is to discuss the years between 1880 and 1914 in Europe, an age when technological advances, scientific discoveries, and wealth led European elites to see themselves at the pinnacle of civilization. They were modern, and they had created 鈥渕odernity.鈥 They expressed their confidence in art and architecture, and we will read key works from some of their leading lights, including Mann, Joyce, Conrad, Nietzsche, and Freud, among others. These same artists and philosophers also raised questions about the societies in which they lived, suggesting that the confident face presented by Europe鈥檚 great and good masked uncertainties, including the potential impact of social diversity, disease, and militarism.
HOPR 1955H 903 TTH 11am-12:15pm Jacob Riyeff, English
Claiming Our Attention: Long Form Art and Argument in the Digital Age
With the proliferation of new digital media and devices over the last several decades, complexity and subtlety of thought and even of pleasure have come under immense pressure. This has become especially acute in light of Big Tech鈥檚 intense, for-profit competition for our attention. And yet, to be savvy consumers of media, appreciators of art, critical thinkers in all disciplines, and informed and responsible citizens of the world we need to possess the ability to see clearly the complex variety of aspects, levels, and perspectives involved in the problems we face as individuals and as social groups. In this class we will train ourselves for sustained immersion in and analysis of complexity. We will begin with humanity鈥檚 first long-form genre, epic poetry, and proceed into other art forms and other disciplinary arguments with a self-critical gaze. To be clear, this is not a class premised on how 鈥測oung people today don鈥檛 have a good attention span,鈥 but rather on exposing and exploring the ways our minds and bodies are conditioned (voluntarily and involuntarily) and on thinking anew what more integral forms of living might look like. Ultimately, our goal will be to assess how the ways of thinking, knowing, and enjoying we develop relate to the health of our own body-mind and of the public sphere in the twenty-first century.
HOPR 1955H 904 TTH 2-3:15 pm Jacob Riyeff, English
Claiming Our Attention: Long Form Art and Argument in the Digital Age
With the proliferation of new digital media and devices over the last several decades, complexity and subtlety of thought and even of pleasure have come under immense pressure. This has become especially acute in light of Big Tech鈥檚 intense, for-profit competition for our attention. And yet, to be savvy consumers of media, appreciators of art, critical thinkers in all disciplines, and informed and responsible citizens of the world we need to possess the ability to see clearly the complex variety of aspects, levels, and perspectives involved in the problems we face as individuals and as social groups. In this class we will train ourselves for sustained immersion in and analysis of complexity. We will begin with humanity鈥檚 first long-form genre, epic poetry, and proceed into other art forms and other disciplinary arguments with a self-critical gaze. To be clear, this is not a class premised on how 鈥測oung people today don鈥檛 have a good attention span,鈥 but rather on exposing and exploring the ways our minds and bodies are conditioned (voluntarily and involuntarily) and on thinking anew what more integral forms of living might look like. Ultimately, our goal will be to assess how the ways of thinking, knowing, and enjoying we develop relate to the health of our own body-mind and of the public sphere in the twenty-first century.
HOPR 1955H 905 TTh 9:30-10:45pm Liza Strakhov, English
Brave New Worlds
As Oscar Wilde famously wrote: 鈥淎 map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail.鈥 Wilde鈥檚 quotation hits on a profound truth of the human condition: our belief that the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. The search for brave new worlds has produced global exploration, population migration, colonization, military revolution, and scientific discovery. It has also pushed philosophers, writers, and poets to ask deeper questions about the breadth and reach of government, about collective political action, about citizen鈥檚 rights, about revolution and reform. What kinds of rhetorical strategies do these texts use to imagine brave new worlds? How do they understand the relationship of the individual to his or her community? How do their visions of the future mesh with our own? Surely, there is no time like the present to ask ourselves: what is government and what, or whom, is it good for? Texts include: Plato鈥檚 Republic, Thomas More鈥檚 Utopia, Voltaire鈥檚 Candide, and Octavia Butler鈥檚 Parable of the Sowers.
HOPR 1955H 906 TTh 12:30-1:45pm Liza Strakhov, English
Brave New Worlds
As Oscar Wilde famously wrote: 鈥淎 map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail.鈥 Wilde鈥檚 quotation hits on a profound truth of the human condition: our belief that the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. The search for brave new worlds has produced global exploration, population migration, colonization, military revolution, and scientific discovery. It has also pushed philosophers, writers, and poets to ask deeper questions about the breadth and reach of government, about collective political action, about citizen鈥檚 rights, about revolution and reform. What kinds of rhetorical strategies do these texts use to imagine brave new worlds? How do they understand the relationship of the individual to his or her community? How do their visions of the future mesh with our own? Surely, there is no time like the present to ask ourselves: what is government and what, or whom, is it good for? Texts include: Plato鈥檚 Republic, Thomas More鈥檚 Utopia, Voltaire鈥檚 Candide, and Octavia Butler鈥檚 Parable of the Sowers.
HOPR 1955H 907 TTh 3:30-4:45pm Jacob Riyeff, English
Claiming Our Attention: Long Form Art and Argument in the Digital Age
With the proliferation of new digital media and devices over the last several decades, complexity and subtlety of thought and even of pleasure have come under immense pressure. This has become especially acute in light of Big Tech鈥檚 intense, for-profit competition for our attention. And yet, to be savvy consumers of media, appreciators of art, critical thinkers in all disciplines, and informed and responsible citizens of the world we need to possess the ability to see clearly the complex variety of aspects, levels, and perspectives involved in the problems we face as individuals and as social groups. In this class we will train ourselves for sustained immersion in and analysis of complexity. We will begin with humanity鈥檚 first long-form genre, epic poetry, and proceed into other art forms and other disciplinary arguments with a self-critical gaze. To be clear, this is not a class premised on how 鈥測oung people today don鈥檛 have a good attention span,鈥 but rather on exposing and exploring the ways our minds and bodies are conditioned (voluntarily and involuntarily) and on thinking anew what more integral forms of living might look like. Ultimately, our goal will be to assess how the ways of thinking, knowing, and enjoying we develop relate to the health of our own body-mind and of the public sphere in the twenty-first century.
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 2-3:15pm Brian Bajzek
THEO 1001H 902 LEC MWF 8-8:50am Jennifer Henery
THEO 1001H 903 LEC MWF 9-9:50am Jennifer Henery
THEO 1001H 904 LEC TTh 9:30-10:45am Karen Ross
THEO 1001H 905 LEC TTh 11am-12:15pm Karen Ross
THEO 1001H 906 LEC TTh 12:30-1:45pm Brian Bajzek
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 TTh 11am-12:15pm Theresa Tobin, Philosophy
Engaging Mass Incarceration: Justice, Freedom and the Arts
This collaborative, team-taught course explores social identity, oppression and freedom, and agency and responsibility through the lens of mass incarceration as a social system. We will also explore how the arts and artistic expression (broadly understood) can serve as tools for identity-formation, community-building, healing, and fostering productive social change. The course offers an in-depth analysis of the effects of mass incarceration (particularly in Milwaukee) through a variety of methodologies and pedagogical strategies that focus on community immersion and collaboration. Students will critically engage with scholarly and creative material, participate in class discussions with community co-facilitators, read personal narratives about the direct impacts of incarceration, and develop methods for using their own agency in addressing these urgent social issues鈥攖hrough individual reflections and group projects that bring them in conversation with currently incarcerated populations.
HOPR 2956H 902 MW 2-3:15pm Alison Efford, History
Reckoning with Milwaukee's Past
This class is about Milwaukeeans reckoning with their past. We explore what it means to reckon with the past, especially in urban contexts, and when it is desirable. You will learn about developments in Milwaukee history that may or may not require further grappling and see how Milwaukeeans are currently engaging with the past, especially violent and unjust aspects of the past. The class will culminate in a community-engaged history project.
HOPR 2956H 903 TTh 12:30-1:45pm J. Patrick Mullins
Preserving the City as Art and History
This course will introduce students to the history of architecture, parks, public art, and historic monuments 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 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 as a case-study for these themes, students will come to understand 鈥渢he power of place鈥 in their lives.
HOPR 2956H 904 MWF 10-10:50am Peter Borg
Religious Places, Divided Spaces, and Hope for the Future
Dr. 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 leagcy? 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 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 鈥 Core Honors Methods of Inquiry
CORE 4929H 901 LEC MW 11-11:50am Melissa Shew & Jennifer Henery*
CORE 4929H 902 LEC MWF 12-12:50am Jennifer Henery
CORE 4929H 903 LEC MW 2-3:15pm Yoon Choi
*Section 901 is taught in a retreat model. In addition to class time on Mondays and Wednesdays, the course will meet some Saturdays for retreats. Retreat dates are expected to be Jan. 29, Feb. 19 or 26, April 2, May 8.
CORE 4929H should be taken by honors seniors. The only exception is a junior who is graduating early.
Core Menu Options for all Core Honors Students:
ARBC 3220 - Arab and Muslim Women in the United States*
ARBC 3220 101 T 2-4:30pm Enaya Othman
Uses the disciplines of history, gender, and cultural studies to examine the experiences of Arab and Muslim women in the United States. Special focus on the intersection of globalization and locality, education and tradition, spatial and temporal contexts, individual and collective identities. Taught in English. Knowledge of Arabic language not required.
*This is not officially an Honors section, but those who enroll will earn Honors elective credit for the course.
BIOL 1930 - Honors Topics in Biology II*
BIOL 1930 901 LEC TTh 1-1:50pm. Anita Manogaran
*This is not officially an Honors section, but those who enroll will earn 1 Honors elective credit (not the 3 credits required for one Honors elective course). Students may pair 1930 with any of the regular BIOL 1002 lectures.
CHEM 1002H - Honors General Chemistry 2
CHEM 1002H 901 LEC MWF 8-8:50am Scott Reid
941 LAB W 2-4:50pm Vijay Vyas
961 DIS F 2-2:50pm Vijay Vyas
CHEM 1002H 902 LEC MWF 10-10:50 am Llanie Nobile
942 LAB W 2-4:50pm Vijay Vyas
962 DIS F 2-2:50pm Vijay Vyas
CHEM 1002H 903 LEC MWF 1-1:50 am Llanie Nobile
943 LAB W 2-4:50pm Vijay Vyas
963 DIS F 2-2:50pm Vijay Vyas
CHEM 1014H - Honors General Chemistry 2 for Majors
CHEM 1014H 901 LEC MF 11-12:15 am Adam Fiedler
941 LAB W 11-1:50 am Vijay Vyas
CHNS 3215 - Chinese Cuisine and Culture*
CHNS 3215 101 Lec MWF 2-2:50pm Jen-Li Ko
*This is not officially an honors seciton, but those who enroll will receive Honors elective credit for the course.
HIST 4255 鈥 The British Empire*
HIST 4255 101 LEC MWF 1-1:50pm Timothy McMahon
The British Empire
HIST 4255 provides an overview of the history of the British Empire and Commonwealth since the 1750s, including several significant selected themes: the complex interactions of peoples in inherently unequal power relationships; the difficulties of administering a vast multi-national empire in an age of nationalist ferment; and the often stark clash between pre-independence nationalist expectations and post-colonial realities. To achieve these rather ambitious aims, we will examine Empire through three lenses: an imperial lens; a lens that probes the interactions between colonizer and colonized as expressed through official state actions and through popular culture; and a subaltern lens that focuses on indigenous peoples whose 鈥減re (British)-imperial鈥 histories and experiences of empire varied enormously and continue to shape their relationships in the present. HIST 4255 satisfies upper-division credit for the History major, and it is approved in the Discovery Tier the University Core (under the theme of Crossing Boundaries).
We will ultimately address how historical thinking and political decision-making informed each other in the 19th and 20th centuries, enabling Britons to justify their Empire and its excesses, by asking the question 鈥淗ow did 鈥榞ood鈥 people, acutely concerned with their consciences, preside over systematic exploitation and repeated atrocities?鈥
*This course is a new Honors for All course in the Discovery Tier, a course that is open to all students at 向日葵视频and gives Honors elective credit to students completing the Core Honors curriculum. It 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.**
HIST 4271 鈥 The Russian Revolution and the Soviet Union*
HIST 4271 101 LEC MWF 9-9:50am Alan Ball
The Russian Revolution and the Soviet Union
HIST 4271 is a survey of modern Russian and Soviet history that begins with an introduction to tsarist Russia in order reach an understanding of the revolutions in 1917 that swept away much of the old regime and left the Bolshevik (Communist) Party in power. The bulk of the course will concentrate on the Soviet period, featuring the tumultuous development of 鈥渢he world鈥檚 first socialist state,鈥 the emergence of the Soviet Union as one of the world鈥檚 two superpowers, and the country鈥檚 recent fragmentation. In particular, we will examine the Bolsheviks鈥 aspirations in 1917 and then see to what extent these hopes for a new society were realized as the Communist Party confronted both domestic and foreign challenges.
Revised as an 鈥淗onors for all鈥 course, open to any undergraduate with sophomore standing but offering Honors elective credit, the course features more (and smaller) discussion groups than in the past. Specifically, during eight weeks of the semester students will meet with Professor Ball in small groups to discuss sources pertaining to major topics in the course. These readings include a variety of primary documents, memoirs, and several selections from the wealth of Russian literature that provoked tsarist and Soviet authorities alike. Also new this semester, a guest presentation by a professor from outside the history department will help integrate the course more fully into its interdisciplinary Basic Needs and Justice Discovery Tier theme.
*This course is a new Honors for All course in the Discovery Tier, a course that is open to all students at 向日葵视频and gives Honors elective credit to students completing the Core Honors curriculum. It meets the Basic Needs and 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.**
LLAC 4930 - Home(lessness) & Gender in US Central American Narrative
LLAC 4930 101 MW 3:30-4:45pm Abel Arango
*This is not officially an Honors section, but those who enroll will earn Honors elective credit for the course.
MATH 1700H/PSYC 2001H - Honors Modern Elementary Statistics (also SOCI 2060H)
MATH 1700H/PSYC 2001H 901 LEC TTh 12:30-1:45pm Teodora Cox
941 Lab W 12-12:50pm Teodora Cox
PHIL 1001H - Honors Foundations in Philosophy
PHIL 1001H 901 LEC MWF 9-9:50am Melissa Shew
PHIL 1001H 902 LEC MWF 11-11:50pm Michael Olson
PHIL 1001H 903 LEC MWF 12-12:50pm Michael Olson
PHIL 1001H 904 LEC MWF 1-1:50pm Michael Olson
PHIL 1001H 905 LEC MW 2-3:15pm Michael Olson
PHIL 1001H 906 LEC TTh 2-3:15pm Javiera Perez Gomez
PHIL 1001H 907 LEC TTh 5-6:15pm. Daniel Collette
PHYS 1004H 鈥 Honors General Physics with Introductory Calculus 2
PHYS 1004H 901 LEC MWF 9-9:50am & M 6-8pm Jax Sanders
PHYS 1004H 902 LEC MWF 10-10:50am & M 6-8pm David Haas
PHYS 1004H 903 LEC MWF 12-12:50pm & M 6-8pm David Haas
PHYS 1004H 904 LEC MWF 1-1:50pm & M 6-8pm Michael Politano
PHYS 1004H 941 LAB W 6-7:50pm Melissa Vigil
PHYS 1004H 942 LAB Th 4-5:50pm Melissa Vigil
PHYS 1004H 961 DIS W 5-5:50pm Melissa Vigil
PHYS 1014H - Honors Classical and Modern Physics with Calculus 2
PHYS 1014H 901 LEC MWF 1-2:50pm Karen Andeen
POSC 2201H - Honors American Politics
POSC 2201H 901 LEC TTh 3:30-4:45pm Brandon Savage
PSYC 2001H/MATH 1700H - Honors Modern Elementary Statistics (also SOCI 2060H)
PSYC 2001H/MATH 1700H 901 LEC TTh 12:30-1:45pm Daniel Rowe
941 Lab W 12-12:50pm
THEO 2240H - Honors Prayer and Mystical Experience
THEO 2240H 901 LEC MW 2-3:15pm Danielle Nussberger
THEO 3230H - Honors Theology in the Writings of C.S. Lewis
THEO 3530H 901 LEC TTh 2-3:15pm Mickey Mattox
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