Dement, R. 2:45 - 4:00 p.m., Tues/Thurs; Course Number 19851
Honors H215 is a skills-based course designed to introduce Honors students to research methods in various disciplines in order to establish and strengthen connections between ways of understanding the world around us. By identifying and practicing different modes of inquiry, students will demonstrate competence in collection and analysis of information in various fields. This interdisciplinary knowledge will be applicable in future classes, in the work force, and beyond, and students will have the opportunity to apply their skills to a self-selected research project. The course connects with Honors Program Learning Outcomes for Information Literacy, Critical Thinking, Writing, and Project Management. It meets the General Education outcome for Information Literacy.
Dement, R. In-Person; 6:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m., Wed; Course Number 19817
From Margaret Mitchell's iconic Scarlett O'Hara to Carol Burnett's hilarious "Starlet" O'Hara, the Southern belle has become synonymous with the South. Through examining various historical, fictional, and autobiographical representations of Southern women, students in this course will carefully and critically explore the origins and limitations of this lingering regional and gendered stereotype. Although feminist theory will be used in class as the primary critical lens through which to analyze these texts, students will be encouraged to incorporate critical approaches from other disciplines.
Dat, Thich Hang., HYBRID; 6:00 - 7:00 p.m., Thurs
By definition, mindfulness is moment-by-moment awareness, keeping one’s consciousness alive to the present reality, the clear and single-minded awareness of what actually happens to us and in us at the successive moments of perception, attentional control, or keeping one’s complete attention to the experience on a moment-to-moment basis. In this course students will study the conceptual foundations of mindfulness and its interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, and international facets, including the practices of mindfulness in various contexts, including leadership, marital relationships, parent-children relationships, conflict solution, spirituality and personal beliefs, hospital setting, hospice care, addiction, classroom, higher education, workplace, business, legal professions, criminal justice, military, politics, sport, and information technology use.
Please Note: This course is offered as three one-credit hour sections. You will need to complete three credit hours to fulfill an Honors course requirement: this means you could take all three sections this semester or take one or two sections this semester and complete the remaining section(s) in Fall 2025.
Section One: Personal Mindfulness Practice (August 26th — September 27th), section #19574
This class will discuss the college students’ psychological distress and a protective factor from those mental health challenges such as mindfulness practice and explore how mindfulness affects intrapersonal and interpersonal developments.
Section Two: Mindfulness in the Professional World (Sept. 30th — November 1st), section #35441
This special hybrid class will explore how mindfulness affects educational profession, health care profession, trading and business profession, scientific profession, legal profession, public servant profession and politics, administrative and office support profession, and engineering profession.
Section Three: Mindfulness for Practitioners (November 4th — December 13th), section #35442
This class explores how mindfulness can be utilized by its practitioners and mental health professionals. Particularly, students will understand the psychological distress, protective factors from those mental health challenges such as Buddhist mindfulness practice, the samatha (right concentration), and vipassana (right mindfulness) according to the Buddhist tradition, the popular secular mindfulness-based therapies such as MBSR (Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction), MBCT (Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy), DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy), and ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy), as well as the applications of mindfulness in personal development, leadership, workplace, counseling services, health care students and providers, and neuroscience.
Dement, R.; Course Number 19635
Honors 495 is designed for students pursuing individual projects. While much of your work will be completed independently (with the guidance of a faculty mentor), you are also asked to share your work with others in a manner reflecting the interdisciplinary dialogues we wish to foster within the Honors Program. In short, while your project may be discipline-specific, you will share your findings in such a way that you encourage conversation with scholars of any discipline. In so doing, we become better prepared for the interdisciplinary conversations our world increasingly requires—and we have the joy of sharing what we’ve learned with others.
