Let your curiosity guide you! These 1 unit seminars are ideal for seeking new knowledge and perspectives or deepening your understanding of your major discipline. You can take as many seminars as you'd like during your undergrad (time allowing, of course), but all Franke Honors students must take at least one to graduate with honors.
HNRS 270: Problems to Possibilities
Enroll in HNRS 270 and earn 3 Honors units while fulfilling your seminar requirement! This is also a great way to see if a Bachelor or minor in Creative Intelligence and Innovation would be a good compliment to your degree path.
Instructor: Caitlyn Hall
MWF | 3:00 - 5:00 PM | Hybrid (Live and In-person)
First seven weeks (January 10 - March 1)
Evaluate and analyze complex problems through a variety of lenses and present solutions to them.
HNRS 195J-10: Globalization and Deglobalization [Slowbalization] Designs
Instructor: Hsain Ilahiane
W | 1:00PM - 1:50 PM
Examine globalization and the multiple spheres it inhabits including global health, population growth, human rights, and information and communication technologies.
HNRS 195J-011: Reframing Disability in College and Beyond
Instructor: Amanda Kraus
M | 11:00 AM-11:50 AM | Hybrid (In-Person & Live Online)
This course ties into the Common Reading Program and seeks to expand and reframe thinking about disability, specifically in the context of higher education.
HNRS 195J-15: Identity and the Hidden Brain
Instructor: Diana Wilson
M | 3:00 PM - 3:50 PM
Examine personal identity and its connection to life in college and beyond.
HNRS 195J-17: Writing into Mindfulness
Instructor: Susan Miller-Cochran
M | 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
This course introduces and relates principles of writing and mindfullness.
HNRS 195H-1: Klingon Language
Instructor: Natasha Warner
W | 12:00 PM - 12:50 PM | Hybrid (Live online and in-person)
Build connections between Klingon, the fictional language in Star Trek, and concepts in linguistics.
HNRS 195H-2: Field of Sueños: Becoming Mexican American through Baseball
Instructor: Alex Nuñez
T | 3:00 PM - 3:50 PM | Hybrid (live online & in-person)
Learn how Mexican American identities were forged by the sport of baseball.
HNRS 195H-3: Spaces of Criminalization at the US/Mexico Border
Instructor: Stefano Bloch
Mon | 12:00 PM - 12:50 PM
Identify conceptualized spaces of criminalization at the US/Mexico Border.
HNRS 195H - 4: SCAMMED: An Exploration Psychology and Science of Social Control Across Multiple Media and Environmental Domains
Instructor: James Hunt
W | 10:00 - 10:50 AM
Analyze various ways psychological control and manipulation are used in media, marketing, and social media.
HNRS 195H-5: The Politics of Injustice: Policing and Mass Incarceration
Instructor: Cheree Meeks
T | 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
This course explores race in America, policing, and mass incarceration.
HNRS 195H-6: Psychology of Money
Instructor: Dmitriy Nurullayev
Thurs | 10:00 - 10:50 AM | In-Person
he course focuses on our individual relationship with money and everything money represents for most of us: fear, safety, greed, generosity, attachment, freedom, comfort, and so on.
HNRS 195H-7: Why Does Difference Matter? Constructing the Self and the Other
Instructor: Hester Oberman
M | 2:00 PM - 2:50 PM
Examine why difference and diversity matter and how culture constructs identity.
HNRS 195H-8: Writing and Wellbeing
Instructor: Stacey Cochran
W | 1:00 - 1:50 PM
Experience a student-centered holistic curriculum that improves socioemotional learning, resiliency, and wellbeing.
HNRS 195H-12: Madness and Desire
Instructor: Sovay Hansen
W | 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
Women have long been considered mad for wanting more from life beyond domestic confines. This course takes a playful approach to reading literary texts on this topic and is ideal for all levels of familiarity with reading literature.
HNRS 195H-13: Perspectives on Race and Racism in American Politics
Instructor: Frank Gonzalez
W | 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM
An overview of contemporary perspectives, theories, and political ideologies surrounding race.
HNRS 195H-15: Enhancing Resilience through Compassion Meditation: Cognitively Based Compassion Training
Instructor: Leslie Langbert
Tues | 2:00 - 3:15 PM | In-Person
Come explore the practices of Indo-Tibetan Buddhism which this course draws from to expand compassion toward oneself and others and learn meditation in a new light.
HNRS 195H-102: Speaking for Yourself: Understanding Your Linguistic Identity
Instructor: Amy Fountain
ONLINE
Build an appreciation of linguistic diversity through examination of linguistic concepts.
HNRS 195I-1: Science and Society
Instructor: Barbara Carrapa
W | 1:00 PM - 1:50 PM
Exposes students to the most pressing scientific discoveries of our time and their impacts on society.
HNRS 195I-2: Biosphere 2: Without it we are just living the experiment
Instructor: Joost Van Haren
R (Thurs) | 1:00 PM - 1:50 PM
Learn about current research at Biosphere 2 as well as how we can use it to interact with our own planet.
HNRS 195I-3: Digital divide: evolution of high technologies and their impact on society and humanity
Instructor: Jerzy Rozenblit
W | 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM
The evolution of advanced technology and the impacts on human society and culture.
HNRS 195I-4: The Art and Science of Coffee
Instructor: Cholik Chan
Thurs | 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM
Discover the science, art, and history of coffee.
HNRS 195I-5: Searching for the Mind: From Humans to Robots
Instructor: Charles Higgins Jr.
T | 1:00 PM - 1:50 PM
Connect research in neuroscience to that of artificial intelligence to gain an understanding of mind and intelligence.
HNRS 195I-6: Biosciences Research Skills for Undergraduates
Instructor: Chris Frost
W | 11:00 - 11:50 AM
Develop communication and research skills while learning about the variety of opportunities that BIO5 has to offer.
HNRS 195I-8: Strategies for Creative Problem Solving
Instructor: Kasi Kiehlbaugh
W | 10:00 - 10:50 AM | In-Person
What are "street smarts"? What does it mean to have street smarts? Come engage with Professor Kiehlbaugh on how each person's creative intelligence leads them to their own unique set of knowledge adaptable to any setting.
HNRS 195I-10: The Business and Technology of Esports
Instructor: Ricardo Valerdi
MW | 1:00 PM - 1:50 PM | First seven weeks of the semester
Provides insight into the business and technology of Esports.
HNRS 195I-12: Innovation and You
Instructor: Matthew Mars
W | 2:00 PM - 2:50 PM
Inspect your role as an innovator and how you can use it for positive change.
HNRS 195J-1: Jewish Identity, Loss and Resilience in Historical Perspective: From the Bible to Gal Gadot
Instructor: David Graizbord
F | 1:00 PM - 1:50 PM
Understand how scholars read and interpret resiliency in culture, especially Jewish culture.
HNRS 195J-2: Bodies, Culture, and Identity in Young Adult Literature
Instructor: Stephanie Pearmain
R (Thurs) | 2:00 PM - 2:50 PM
Evaluate the impact of young adult novels on formation of identity and ideology in adolescents.
HNRS 195J-3: Beyond a Diagnosis: Exploring Disability Identity, Culture, and Community
Instructor: Sav Schlauderaff
Tues | 1:00 PM - 1:50 PM
Break down the stigma around disability and learn more about disability-identity and other concepts.
HNRS 195J - 4: Reexamination of the Aztec and Inca Conquest Through Art
Instructor: Edgerd Oregiron
T | 9:00 AM - 9:50 AM
Interpret narratives of the Aztec and Inca Conquest and determine their validity.
HNRS 195J-6: Positive Communication
Instructor: Margaret Pitts
W | 3:00 PM - 3:50 PM
This course examines the concepts and practice of positive communication.
HNRS 195J-13: Human Being: A Multidimensional Journey
Instructor: Nadia Mexia Alvarez
Mon & Wed | 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM | In-Person Seven Week-Second
Learn what it means to build out your identity and truly become who you were meant to be. Learn this holistic approach to life and stride to make anything possible!
HNRS 195J-101: Tasting Tomorrow: Portraying Culture and Futurity through the Culinary World
Instructor: Joseph Nardinelli
ONLINE
Centers on the relationship with food and how it defines culinary culture and discourse.
HNRS 195K-1: Music and the Cold War
Instructor: Daniel Linder Jr.
M | 2:00 PM - 2:50 PM
Learn about the association between music and the Cold War and their influence on each other.
HNRS195K-8: Principles of Composition and Creativity/Conducting Research in the Dance Studio
Instructor: Christopher Compton
W | 4:30 - 6:00 PM | First Seven Weeks
Experiment with movement and dance composition.
HNRS 195K-101: Theater and Performance in Apartheid South Africa
Instructor: Praise Zenenga
ONLINE
Understand the role of theater and performance in the resistance and struggle against apartheid in South Africa.