Featured Honors Courses
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Varies
Course Number:
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Call Number:
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Semesters:
Spring 2013
Days/Times:
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Professor:
Varies
Professor Email:
honors-scholars@osu.edu
Professor Phone:
(614)292-3135
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Honors Social Insects
Department:
Entomology
Course Number:
440H
Call Number:
440H
Semesters:
Spring 2013
Days/Times:
Mon/Wed/Fri, 1:50-2:45 p.m.
Professor:
Dr. Joseph Raczkowski
Professor Email:
raczkowski.2@osu.edu
Professor Phone:
(614)292-1485
Other Contact:
Other Contact Email:
Honors Social Insects is exploration of biological factors that allow ants, bees, wasps, and termites to maintain large complex societies. The course includes ppt lectures, video footage of social insect behavior, and live insect demonstrations.
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Interdisciplinary and Collaborative Research
Department:
University Honors
Course Number:
2596H
Call Number:
30670
Semesters:
Spring 2013
Days/Times:
W/F 11:10 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Professor:
Dan Reff
Professor Email:
reff.1@osu.edu
Professor Phone:
(614)292-1485
Other Contact:
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Many honors students go on to graduate/professional school or careers in business (think GOOGLE, NASA, Ford, or the Limited) and are asked to do interdisciplinary or collaborative research (or creative activity), that is, they are asked to work as part of a team, bringing different perspectives to bear on a particular problem or challenge. This course provides an introduction as well as a practicum on interdisciplinary and collaborative research, or creative activity (e.g. realizing works of drama, art, and performance).
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Philosophy 4900H: Honors Seminar on Value, Responsibility and Human Nature
Department:
Philosophy
Course Number:
4900H
Call Number:
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Semesters:
Spring 2013
Days/Times:
TBD
Professor:
Justin D'Arms
Professor Email:
darms.1@osu.edu
Professor Phone:
(614)299-8453
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Some of the most interesting philosophical issues about value, morality and responsibility concern whether and how they depend upon us and what we are like. This course will consider a range of topics in which such issues arise.
The course will be structured as an intensive seminar, meeting only once a week for three hours, and requiring regular student presentations of work.
Along with the works of professional philosophers, we will be reading and discussing each others’ papers. We will work on how to write a substantial philosophical term paper, as well as working our way through some classic philosophical articles of the last fifty years that connect to the theme. Students will have a chance to help choose which particular topics we take up.
Here are some examples of specific issues we might think about:
Does the very idea of moral responsibility depend on our tendency to hold each other responsible, through reactive attitudes? If so, does this support or undermine the idea that we are responsible for some of what we do?
Can there be such a thing as moral luck, and how else to explain the role luck plays in guiding human evaluations?
Since psychologists tell us that winning the lottery or losing our legs would not make much difference to our happiness in the long run, how shall we think about what is and is not good for a person?
Does evidence that some but not all moral judgments are closely correlated with emotional responses provide a basis for skepticism about those moral judgments?
If, as many people think, colors are both really in the objects we see and also dependent upon us, does that provide a model for how values could be really in the objects we care about and also dependent upon us?
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Research Design and Ethnographic Methods
Department:
Anthropology
Course Number:
4650H
Call Number:
14698
Semesters:
Spring 2013
Days/Times:
MWF 10:20-11:15 AM
Professor:
Professor Moritz
Professor Email:
moritz.42@osu.edu
Professor Phone:
(___)___-____
Other Contact:
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The focus of this course is on research design and ethnographic methods and it is highly recommended for all students who are considering doing social science research for their thesis. We will cover a wide range of methods for data collection and analysis. Students will learn how to design a study and be trained in different research methods by participating in a collaborative research project. In this project we will as a class design a study, collect data, analyze data, and write up the results. Students will also learn how to write competitive grant proposals.
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Seminar on Creativity and Innovation
Department:
Engineering
Course Number:
ENGR 4891
Call Number:
8727
Semesters:
Autumn Semester
Days/Times:
Wednesday 2:20-3:40
Professor:
Dr. Phil Schlosser
Professor Email:
schlosser.36@osu.edu
Professor Phone:
(___)___-____
Other Contact:
Jack Davis
Other Contact Email:
davis.3314@osu.edu
Includes speakers such as: Dr. Michael Caligiuri - CEO if the James Cancer Hospital, Bruce Lavash - Research Fellow at Proctor and Gamble, Paul Reeder - Director of OSU's Tech Commercialization Office's Ideation Lab.
Enrollment is by application and permission of instructor only. If you would like to enroll, please email Jack Davis for the application and instructions.
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The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union
Department:
International Studies
Course Number:
2250H
Call Number:
21717
Semesters:
Autumn 2013
Days/Times:
MoWeFr 1:50PM - 2:45PM
Professor:
Tatyana Nestorova
Professor Email:
nestorovamatejic.1@osu.edu
Professor Phone:
(614)292-9657
Other Contact:
Elizabeth Langford
Other Contact Email:
langford.18@osu.edu
The course provides a thorough introduction into the geography, history, politics, economy, society and foreign policy of the former Soviet Union. Particular attention will be drawn to the meaning of the Soviet experience and the role of political leaders in the Soviet context. The emergence of post-Soviet Russia and the evolving new Russian political and socioeconomic system are discussed, too.
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Understanding the Global Information Society
Department:
International Studies
Course Number:
4850
Call Number:
18379
Semesters:
Spring 2013
Days/Times:
Wed & Fri, 1:05PM – 2:20PM
Professor:
Maureen Donovan
Professor Email:
donovan.1@osu.edu
Professor Phone:
(614)292-3502
Other Contact:
Miriam Conteh-Morgan
Other Contact Email:
conteh-morgan.2@osu.edu
This course surveys the changes in how people create, access and use information around the world that are driving the way we work, play, learn and organize around common interests. New paradigms and modes of producing, disseminating, and using information are, for example, making journalists and critics out of ordinary citizens, spurring political activism, and encouraging information sharing. The focus of the course is on critical thinking about the global networks that are shaping the new knowledge creation and sharing processes.
COURSE GOALS
Students will develop a richer understanding of the global information society, the knowledge creation process, the emerging commons of globally distributed information and knowledge, and the nature of participation in virtual communities. They will be able to:
1. Use modes of information seeking and analysis for a wide range of global topics, both academic and professional;
2. Effectively apply digital tools and strategies to gather, filter, evaluate and curate information from a variety of sources and media;
3. Recognize how information is framed and packaged by individuals and organizations as it flows globally, the associated ethical and equity issues, and the impacts on individuals, cultures and societies;
4. Identify, define and investigate authentic problems and significant questions related to global information;
5. Use a variety of classroom and digital environments and media to communicate and work collaboratively to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others.
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