11 courses with the subject CAS-HC, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
CAS-HC220Honors Challenge Inclusive Leadership Strategies Becoming Ambassadors for Inclusion1
Be a leader and establish inclusivity wherever you go! Inclusive Leadership Strategies - Becoming Ambassadors for Inclusion will use a variety of materials to engage students with the topics of diversity, inclusion, allyship, leadership, power, privilege, and more. The purpose of this course will be to give students an understanding of the basic concepts of diversity and inclusion and how to broaden their thinking to allow them to be more inclusive in their practices. The course will use the book How to Be an Inclusive Leader: Your Role in Creating Cultures of Belonging Where Everyone Can Thrive by Jennifer Brown.
The primary objective of this course is to illuminate the profound impact and transformation that Artificial Intelligence is bringing about in diverse facets of society and our day-to-day lives. It seeks to facilitate a deeper understanding of AI's applications across various fields like healthcare, business, and education and its integration into everyday technologies.Additionally, the course underlines the importance of considering the ethical implications of AI, such as data privacy and system biases, and encourages students to engage with these critical issues. By examining potential future trends, the course aims to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of AI's trajectory and its implications for their personal and professional lives. The course encourages students to become informed users and critical thinkers in an increasingly AI-driven world.
While most literature courses present students with a wide variety of shorter texts, One Big Book seeks to study a single long book in illuminating detail over the course of the semester. The primary goal of the course is to strengthen students' close reading skills by attending carefully to a complicated or dense text. The class will divide the long book into manageable weekly readings to facilitate literary investigation, interpretation, and discussion. Students will write weekly reflections that draw their attention to the book's historical and cultural context, its discursive and rhetorical features, and its novel use of literary techniques. The semester will culminate in a final analysis of the book using practiced close reading techniques and critical source material.
CAS-HC235Honors Co-Conspirators: Anti-Racism and Brave Conservations1
While walking in the footsteps of trailblazing poet Maya Angelou and activist Jane Elliot, this class will learn how to confront racism, breakdown barriers and create stronger communities. From the writings of contemporary authors, poets, rappers, actors, and other leaders, we will discover the signature traits of being an anti-racist, explore our identities, engage in Racial Healing Circles, and develop a wider network of accomplices in the arts.
This honors-level seminar explores grief and acceptance as universal, relational, and meaning-making dimensions of human life. Rather than approaching loss solely through pathology or crisis, the course frames grief as a deeply human process—one shaped by culture, spirituality, developmental stage, family systems, and social context—and as a potential site of connection, growth, and ethical reflection. Drawing from psychology, anthropology, philosophy, narrative medicine, and the arts, students will examine how individuals and communities understand death, dying, and continuity across the lifespan. This course invites students to think critically and compassionately about mortality—not as a morbid endpoint, but as a lens for understanding love, identity, community, and what it means to live fully.
Taylor Swift held all of the top ten spots on the Billboard chart after her most recent album, Midnights, dropped in October. She is a megastar at the height of her powers. But where do those powers come from? Why is she so popular? Perhaps it is down to her ability to tell a story. In this 1 credit course, we will look at Taylor Swift's work through the lens of narrative theory--a branch of literary theory that looks at how we tell stories and how they affect us as readers (or listeners). Each week, we'll listen to one or two songs, and analyze the lyrics in view of a particular theory. We'll look at 'Midnight Rain' as an example of Theory of Mind, we'll analyze This is Why We Can't Have Nice Things as an example of a roman a clef and many more. Towards the end of the semester, students will create the curriculum, presenting close readings of songs to their classmates. This course will culminate in a short paper analyzing a song in the context of a theory.
CAS-HC246Honors Challenge Understanding Suicidal and Nonsuicidal Self-Injury1
In this class we will examine theoretical and empirical research conducted to answer the question why do people harm themselves on purpose? We will examine suicidal thoughts and behaviors, nonsuicidal self-injury, and related phenomena (e.g., contagion, depression). Epidemiology, prevention, and treatment will be discussed. We will also examine the ways in which self-injury is portrayed in media (films, novels, podcasts). Students will demonstrate their understanding and critical analysis by completing a set of written assignments and in-class presentations.
This honors course, worth one academic credit, explores the phenomenon of naming, as an internal sense of self for individuals as well as an external marker for other institutions including government, cultures and family structures. The course proceeds through an interdisciplinary lens of names including elements of history, sociology, linguistics, economics, psychology and the law. The course culminates in a reflection for honors students to critically analyze the role of naming in modern society and what it means for a pluralistic, diverse democratic society.
CAS-HC248Fairy Tale or Reality? The ‘Look’ of Love in Netflix’s Bridgerton1
The phenomenon of Netflix’s Bridgerton television series has broadly spurred conversations about romance/love, fashion, and music. Though the series is historically set during the Regency period in England (c 1813-1827), its impact on 21st century popular culture has encouraged serious dialogue on themes such as, feminism, race, sexuality, societal power structures, consumerism, and colonialism. The course will critically discuss these topics in relation to the television series. Students will actively participate through watching, listening, reading assigned primary and secondary materials, class discussions, informal and formal written responses, a midterm assessment, and collaborating in a creative group project for the final exam.
Have you ever had your breath taken away by a sentence? Have you ever loved a sentence so much you had to write it down or share it with someone else? Have you ever wondered how a writer could create such a beautiful sentence and how you could create one too? In this course, we will read and analyze many sentences by many different writers in many different types of writing (novels, short stories, prose poems, nonfiction, etc.) to expand our understanding of what a sentence is and what it does. Using these sentences as models, we will write our own sentences to discover not only how to write a beautiful sentence but also what it means to call a sentence "beautiful." Can an "ugly" sentence be beautiful? Can a sentence that seems "off" or "wrong" be beautiful? Does a sentence have to be long, flowery, or ornate to be beautiful? Or can short and simple be beautiful? The goal of the course is to expand our understanding of the varieties of sentence structures and the varieties of effects we can create with our own sentences.
This course is designed for students seeking an internship in the following semester. Students will research potential internship sites and develop their own plan for finding an internship. Students will also prepare a professional-style resume and cover letter targeted toward a specific position or industry, learn proper interviewing techniques, and practice networking strategies. Students will develop goals and learning objectives for their internship and will learn professional conduct for the workplace to make the most of their internship experience.
