Dear Advising Centers, I write with possible additional course opportunities for your students for the Fall 2017 semester. The Honors College has three Fall 2017 courses whose enrollments would benefit from more students with demonstrated academic ability. The three course titles and descriptions are below. Each course can take up to approximately 10 more students. Could you please advertise the courses to your students? The requirement is that students have a UTSA GPA of 3.25 or higher. If you have a student that would like to take the course, please email their name and ID to Diana Howard (diana.howard@utsa.edu<mailto:diana.howard@utsa.edu>). Many thanks, Jill HON 3223.002, Reading, Writing, Building San Antonio - H: "Reading, Writing & Imagining San Antonio as a Global Metropolis" As a city with a three hundred yearlong history, born in the epic of Mexico and adopted into the American republic, San Antonio has a unique story to tell; an age-old crossroads of cultures, and a modern metropolis that embodies many of the core themes of globalization---a capital of what American is becoming. Using an interdisciplinary approach incorporating history, literature, oral history, archaeology, anthropology, architecture, and a survey of urban theory, this Honors Seminar will explore ways of understanding the complex palimpsest of San Antonio's narratives as a seminal text that reveals the promise and challenges of life in the borderlands of the American Southwest, a place of complex heritage and immanent futurity. In addition to readings and weekly writing, Students will undertake one substantial project of individual research, in concert with a civic engagement project relating to San Antonio's Tricentennial Commemoration. HON 3223.006: Autobiographical Fiction with J.R. Helton - H: Students will write, workshop, revise, edit and draft pieces of writing based initially or partially upon fact and/or any personal real life experience, the more truthful the better. First drafts can come in a variety of non-fiction forms with the goal of producing a fictional short story, a professional personal essay, or even the beginnings of a novel or memoir. This technique should free you up as a writer because you will not be constrained by the strict rules of conventional memoir or narrative non-fiction in your initial drafting process where every word, every detail of your final product must indeed be factual. That said, we will also analyze the published writing of others that has been officially categorized as memoir and note how the definition has and has not changed over time in literature. We will also explore fiction that may have been based upon the author's personal experiences in work and life. Students have a wide variety of topics then as unique human beings and therefore should note: the experience we start with may or may not seem to be an "exceptional" event in one's own life; a long, seemingly mundane afternoon spent alone, or talking with a friend, can be turned into an intriguing piece of fiction or personal literary essay. HON 3253.003, Modern Food Systems - H: In this discussion-based course, The History of the American Food System, we will begin by discussing our modern food system as it is today. We will consider the kinds of foods produced, the methods and control of production, distribution and issues of consumer access. During this portion of the class, we will highlight the strengths and weaknesses of our current system and discuss the current controversies inherent to it. We will then shift focus to its history. Beginning with a brief introduction to pre-industrial America, we will proceed in greater depth with the industrial revolution, through to the revolutionizing developments in plant science at the beginning of the twentieth century. We will proceed chronologically covering the major events in the 20th century and how these influences shaped the food system. ************* K. Jill Fleuriet, Ph.D. Associate Dean, Honors College Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology The University of Texas at San Antonio