Dear advising community,
Honors has seats available in some really cool, interdisciplinary, upper level seminars! Non-Honors students with 3.3 GPAs or higher can take Honors courses. It’s a simple process of filling out
this form and submitting it to honors@utsa.edu.
Here are the course titles and descriptions are at the end:
Please spread the word to students who might be interested and eligible!
My thanks,
Jill
Since the 1950s, nuclear energy has captured humanity’s hopes and fears for the future, eliciting excitement over green energy and the specter of nuclear disaster as reactors were built to complement
the energy needs of an ever-increasing population. This course explores the ways in which nuclear power has been understood, romanticized, and re-interpreted through the lens of different forms of media to shape and reshape communities and imaginations of
a nuclear age past, present, and future. Students will produce docudramas analyzing their choice of nuclear energy film or novel within its historical, scientific, and social contexts. This course counts
as an Interdisciplinary Seminar Experience in the Honors College curriculum.
We read and write to learn more about ourselves and others in the world. This quest for wisdom has been a major part of literary tradition from The Confessions of St. Augustine’s to the most
recent of contemporary memoirs. As this literary tradition has evolved, it has become increasingly innovative, incorporating writing techniques adapted from poetry, cinema, new media and popular culture. In this writing-focused seminar, by reading and viewing
exemplary creative non-fiction works, students will develop skills in writing in their unique voice, creating a literary practice that expands self-knowledge. Building on weekly writing exercises, this “workshop” seminar will culminate in a significant project
in writing and/or media. This course counts as an Interdisciplinary Seminar Experience in the Honors College curriculum.
In this course, students will discuss the definition and transformation of cultural identity by exploring murals, tags and graffiti in various neighborhoods in San Antonio. How do these artistic forms
reproduce or challenge common identities, such as ethnicity, race, gender and class? Students will explore, survey, and define the concept of a "wall", including images and messages of identity and empowerment, and will talk with artists and designers. Students
will be critics, guides, artists, and chroniclers of San Antonio’s walls as they build and design their own physical or digital spaces representing their self-identities. Students will create an annotated multi-media digital map of pieces of urban art using
digital story mapping tools, as well as create their own “wall(s)”.
Every day, you have to make decisions. Goat or almond milk in your latte? Break up or make up? Become a doctor and make lots of money or follow your passion but without the riches? The choices
should be logically obvious but we always seem to make bad ones. How did our super-sized brain, the result of billions of years of evolution end up so dysfunctional? We will study the evolution of decision making and see how the complexities of modern life
have added problems that lead us down the wrong pathways. Hopefully, we will learn how to alter our decision-making machinery to lead us to better outcomes.
K. Jill Fleuriet, Ph.D.
Associate Dean, Honors College
Professor, Department of Anthropology
Fellow, Academy of Distinguished Teachers, University of Texas System
Book: Rhetoric
and Reality on the U.S.-Mexico Border: Place, Politics, Home
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Honors College website:
http://honors.utsa.edu/
Department of Anthropology website:
http://colfa.utsa.edu/ant/
Personal website:
https://fleuriet.wordpress.com/