Summer 2024 Course Descriptions:

IDH3924 Honors Pre-Capstone Symposium

Online; Summer A

Instructor: Denise Monti

CRN 50679; 0 credit

CRN 50796; 1 credit

Course Description:

This course is a required introduction to the upper-division Hicks Honors College program and focuses especially on the Capstone. The course also develops the Honors community, acquaints students with the requirements of the upper-division Hicks Honors program, provides a complete overview of the resources provided through the program, guides students in mapping out their specific curricular and co-curricular paths, and introduces them to the expectations of the e-portfolio and Capstone requirements. It may also focus on different academic themes. Participation in Honors-sponsored events outside of class time is expected. The course should be taken the semester in which students begin the upper-division Hicks Honors program.

THE2000 (H) Theater Appreciation

Online; 3 Credits

Instructor: Maureen McCluskey

CRN 50344; Summer A

Course Description:

This course is for students interested in understanding and appreciating one of the oldest art forms in the world. For thousands of years, humans have put on masks and adopted personas and behaved as if they were different from the people they are. Why? Why have they felt the need to pretend to be who they are not, to express feelings that are not really their own, and to direct their bodies to act out stories in front of spectators, stories in which they come into conflict with others? In order to address these and related questions, students will read plays, analyze scripts, and attend and write about local productions. They may also complete a group project in a live theater. No acting experience is required. The course can be applied to Category C for non-applied fine arts General Education credit.

POS3931: (H) Sustainability/Living Cities

In-Person; 3 credits

Instructor: Joshua Gellers

CRN 50894; Summer A

Course Description:

This course is intended for students who have been accepted to the (H) Sustainability and Living Cities trip to Denmark and the Netherlands.

HSC2100 (H) Personal and Public Health

Online; 3 Credits

Instructor: Erin Largo Wright

CRN 50316; Summer A

Course Description:

This course examines US health priorities with an emphasis on behavioral and social determinants of health. Material presented will raise levels of awareness and provide information needed to make informed health related choices, encourage attitude change, and develop decision making skills which facilitate healthier lifestyle behaviors.

LIT2000 (H) Introduction to Literature

Online; 3 Credits

Instructor: Will Pewitt

CRN 50367; Summer A

Course Description:

What makes a story moving? How do the images in poetry alter how we think? In what ways is our world, our culture, our time a product of our literary legacy? In this Honors section of LIT 2000 we will consider how society is shaped by its works of literature—from classical Greco-Roman antiquity to genre-bending post-modernity, from the Italian Renaissance or the Harlem Renaissance, from the Old World to the New. We will investigate the words of popes and princesses, beatniks and bards, political philosophers and Proto-feminists to understand how the past has sculpted the present.

In this online course, we will read short excerpts from many of the most famous names in literature—e.g. Austen, Dante, Sappho, Kant, Voltaire, Cervantes, etc.—but our survey will also include stories of lesser-known voices of those who transgressed premodern gender norms or radically broke with tradition to spur societal revolutions. In our course we will put these visionary texts in context to offer numerous literary perspectives on the many ways words have altered (and continue to alter) the trajectory of our world.

PHI3930: (H) ST: Leadership & Public Philosophy

Hybrid; 3 credits

Instructor: Sarah Mattice

CRN 50894; Summer C

Course Description:

This special topics course aims to help students develop the skills of doing philosophy and facilitating philosophical conversations outside of the context of a university classroom. We will work through leading conversations on complex ethical issues, doing philosophy with children, and engaging in philosophical discussion innon-traditional formats (e.g. YouTube videos, podcasts, editorials, fiction-writing, and more). For Philosophy Majors, this can count for Value Theory, Diverse Perspective, or as a major elective. This course, or instructor approval, is required to be considered for the UNF Ethics Academy internships. FMI: s.mattice@unf.edu