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HIST 4325 - Houston Eats!: Research in Food and Public History Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: The students who are taking this course should have completed six-hours in advanced US History and six-hours in advanced non-US History. Additionally, student should have completed 3 hours from: HIST 3314, HIST 3333, HIST 3351, HIST 3369, HIST 4321, OR HIST 4339 or other approved writing intensive course.
Description
This history capstone course centers on the food history of the greater Houston area.
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HIST 4327 - Europe 1930-1945 Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor.
Description
Seminar-style discussion class, using both primary and secondary materials, covering many of the major events of these crisis years - the Great Depression, the Spanish Civil War, the rise of fascism, Stalinism, World War II, and the Holocaust.
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HIST 4328 - The Vikings Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: HIST 2311 or HIST 3379 or consent of instructor.
Description
History, culture, and religion of Vikings from their Indo-European roots and migration to Scandinavia through their invasions of Europe, excursions to North America, and trade with the Byzantine and Muslim worlds: state-building and impact on world history.
Repeatability: No
Additional Fee: Y
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HIST 4330 - Flowering of the Middle Ages Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ENGL 1302.
Description
Aspects of the Middle Ages from the perspectives of different disciplines such as history, English, French, Spanish, philosophy, music, art history, engineering, architecture, and law.
Repeatability: No
Core Category: (40) Core-Language, Philosophy & Culture
Additional Fee: Y
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HIST 4331 - The Normans Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: HIST 2311 or HIST 3379 or consent of instructor.
Description
Normans from their Viking origins through their conquests in northern Europe, the Mediterranean, North Africa, and the Middle East: state-building in these regions, cultural achievements, the role of women, and impact on world history.
Repeatability: No
Additional Fee: Y
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HIST 4334 - Politics and Personalities of the Roman State Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ENGL 1302.
Description
This course focuses on political figures within ancient Rome by using the primary sources to examine each person¿s strategies, successes, failures, and limitations within the Roman system. This course also wrestles with the influence of ancient Rome on the U.S. political system and lessons that can be learned from the past.
Repeatability: N
Additional Fee: Y
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HIST 4336 - A History of Histories: Capstone Course on Historiography Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: junior standing or permission of professor.
Description
Survey of the schools and purposes of history-writing.
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HIST 4337 - US History Through Biography: Methods and Approaches Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ENGL 1302 and junior standing or consent of instructor.
Description
This class considers biography as a lens through which to explore the contours of US history. More than a designation of great Americans, biography offers historians a way to complicate how we think about ordinary and extraordinary lives. Treating biography as a form of micro history, this course introduces new approaches to this classic genre by exploring historian-biographers works spanning US history. In anticipation of creating our own biographical sketches, we will explore the unique qualities and particular difficulties of biographical writing as well as biographers source base including autobiography, multimedia texts, and oral history.
Repeatability: No
Additional Fee: N
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HIST 4338 - Enlightenment Stories: The Thought and Literature of the Enlightenment Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: junior standing or permission of professor.
Description
Survey of the thought, writings and interpretations of the Enlightenment, with particular emphasis on France and Scotland.
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HIST 4340 - Philosophies of History Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: Junior standing or content of the instructor.
Description
Introduction to historical methods, approaches, and topics. Exploration of why historical interpretations constantly change over time and what accounts for these differing interpretations, assumptions, contradictions, and ongoing debates within the field.
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HIST 4342 - Food, Race and Medicine Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: Junior standing or instructor consent.
Description
Examination of the historical relationships between food, race, medicine, and power throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In particular, focus on the politics of health, the business of race and ethnicity in medicine, and the unique ways food in various contexts influence relationships of power in American society. Consumption of food and mobilizations around food as a portal into contemporary questions of race, ethnicity, class, immigration, politics, exclusion, regionalism, and access that are essential for understanding American history.
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HIST 4343 - Russian Revolutions and Stalinism Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3.0 Lab Contact Hours: 0.0
Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor.
Description
This course provides a comprehensive overview of the revolutionary transformation in Russia that began as a democratic uprising against oppressive tsarist power and ended with an even harsher Stalinisht regime. Important historical figures such as Nicholas II, Lenin, Stalin, and Trotsky are examined as the evolution of the revolution is traced.
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HIST 4344 - Ancient Numismatics Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3.0 Lab Contact Hours: 0.0
Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor.
Description
Examines the ancient origins of money, specifically coinage, and emphasizes texts and objects. Money has shaped history at all levels from the conditions of everyday life to the collapse of mighty empires.
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HIST 4346 - Tudor England 1485-1603 Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: HIST 2311.
Description
Britain under the Tudor monarchy - Henry VII to Elizabeth I, the Age of Thomas Moore and William Shakespeare.
Repeatability: No
Additional Fee: Y
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HIST 4347 - Century of Revolution: Stuart England, 1603-1714 Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: Junior standing or above, or consent of the instructor; additionally, students should have satisfied or completed one of the following: HIST 2311, HIST 2312, HIST 2322, HIST 3353, HIST 3380, or HIST 4346.
Description
Undergraduate seminar centering on political culture, political conflict, and constitutional development in Britain in an era that both contested and reshaped monarchy. This is a Capstone Course.
Repeatability: No
Note: This is a Capstone Course and satisfies the degree requirement for a B.A. in History.
Additional Fee: Yes
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HIST 4348 - Society and Culture in Early Modern England, 1500-1700 Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: Junior standing or above, or consent of the instructor; additionally, students should have satisfied or completed one of the following: HIST 2311, HIST 2312, HIST 2322, HIST 3353, HIST 3380, or HIST 4346.
Description
Undergraduate seminar centering on social and cultural patterns and change in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a time of dramatic socio-economic and cultural transformation. Topics include popular culture, religious change, gender and patriarchy, law and order, magic and witchcraft. This is a Capstone Course.
Repeatability: No
Note: This is a Capstone Course and satisfies the degree requirement for a B.A. in History.
Additional Fee: Yes
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HIST 4349 - British Empire-Capstone Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: junior standing or permission from instructor.
Description
Historiography of the British Empire from 1500 to 1965 using secondary readings and primary historical sources. Student will write an original essay drawing on secondary and primary sources.
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HIST 4350 - Alexander the Great Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: HIST 2311 or HIST 2321 and junior standing or consent of instructor.
Description
The life and legacy of Alexander the Great of Macedonia, emphasizing historiography from ancient to modern times.
Repeatability: No
Additional Fee: Y
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HIST 4355 - Topics in the History of Law and Society Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: Junior standing or the consent of the instructor.
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HIST 4361 - 20th Century Genocides Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ENGL 1302; HIST 2312 or HIST 3380 or consent of instructor.
Description
The emergence, development, underlying causes, and uses of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and other crimes against humanity.
Repeatability: No
Additional Fee: N
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HIST 4364 - Consumer Culture in Latin America Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor.
Description
Consumer and popular material culture in twentieth-century Latin America with an emphasis on the relation between consumer culture and gender, class, nationalism, racial and ethnic identities, and politics.
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HIST 4365 - Women in Latin America Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor.
Description
Latin American women’s history from the prehispanic period to the present, emphasizing experiences of women of different classes, races, and ethnicities, from rural and urban areas, during ordinary and revolutionary times.
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HIST 4366 - Latin Amer Hist Thru the Novel Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ENGL 1302 or equivalent.
Description
Factual events, places, and personages in order to dramatize the history of a particular period and place.
Repeatability: No
Additional Fee: Y
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HIST 4367 - U.S. Latina/o Food History Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ENGL 1302.
Description
This course explores the history of U.S. Latinas/o identity through the foods they cultivated, prepared, and consumed from the 19th century to the present. Through interdisciplinary readings, films and an examination of the diverse Latino foods we find around our city we will follow themes including migration, colonialism, labor, gender, globalization, nutrition and health, consumerism, and memory and nostalgia.
Repeatability: No
Additional Fee: N
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HIST 4368 - Food, Drink, and Drugs of Latin America Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor.
Description
History of the culinary traditions and psychoactive substances of Latin America. Indigenous, African and European contributions to the development of the region’s rich cuisine and abundant pharmacopeia.
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HIST 4369 - Modern Mexico: 1810 to the Present Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor.
Description
Social history of modern Mexico.
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HIST 4370 - The U.S. and Mexico Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor.
Description
Social history of the interactions of the peoples of the U.S. and Mexico.
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HIST 4371 - Latin American History Through Film Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor.
Description
History of Latin American thought through a variety of films made by Latin Americans and others, and the history of Latin America.
Core Category: [50] Creative Arts
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HIST 4372 - African Experience in Latin America and the Caribbean Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor.
Description
Explores the origins, expansion, and abolition of African slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean; examines slavery’s legacy on late nineteenth and early twentieth century race relations.
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HIST 4373 - History of the US-Mexico Borderlands Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ENGL 1302, and junior standing or higher.
Description
This seminar takes a multidisciplinary approach to understanding the history and development of the U.S. Mexico Borderlands. The course starts with the proposition that borders themselves are social/historical creations and can be analyzed as such. Students will use contemporary social analysis to explore the regional culture and transnational identities resulting from the politics of the border.
Repeatability: No
Note: This is a Capstone Course and satisfies the degree requirement for a B.A. in History.
Additional Fee: Y
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HIST 4375 - The Atlantic World since 1450: Slaves and Capitalists, Rebels and Zombies Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: The students who are taking this course should have completed six-hours in advanced US History and six-hours in advanced non-US History. Additionally, student should have completed 3 hours from: HIST 3314, HIST 3333, HIST 3351, HIST 3369, HIST 4321, OR HIST 4339 or other approved writing intensive course.
Description
This fourth-year capstone seminar surveys major themes in Atlantic history from 1450 until the late nineteenth-century.
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HIST 4376 - Revolutionary Cuba Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ENGL 1302.
Description
The origins of the revolution of 1959 and the Cuban people’s attempt to construct a socialist state to the present.
Repeatability: No
Additional Fee: N
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HIST 4377 - Black Latin American and Caribbean in the 20c. Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ENGL 1302.
Description
The social, political, cultural and economic history of people of African ancestry since the abolition of slavery to the present.
Repeatability: No
Additional Fee: N
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HIST 4378 - Food Fads and Scares in American History Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: HIST 1301 and HIST 1302 or equivalent, or content of instructor.
Description
Course examines the causes and effects of food fads - from early American vegetarianism, to elimination diets, to organic and local food sourcing - and food scares, from concerns about the intemperate effects of meat, to concerns about industrial food processing, to concerns about food allergies.
Repeatability: No
Additional Fee: No
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HIST 4379 - Sex and Violence in the Old South Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor.
Description
This course uses a gender studies approach to examine concepts such as gentility, civility, and honor, along with the exalted but helpless position of the ‘southern belle.’ The course will also discuss riverboat gamblers, the raping of slaves by the masters, plantation justice, slave breeding and slave insurrection. The course explores the role of men and women, white, black, and native American in the context of slave society. Additionally, the course analyzes gender definitions, violence, social roles and socially normed behavior.
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HIST 4380 - Arab Revolutions I 1879-1948 Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor.
Description
This course examines Arab revolutions and revolutionary movements, assessing their diverse causes, connections, and crucial impact. It begins with the Egyptian Revolt of 1879 and ends with the Palestinian Nakba of 1948.
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HIST 4381 - Arab Revolutions II 1948-Present Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor.
Description
This course examines post-1948 Arab revolutions with a focus on major revolutionary case studies. It concludes with an overview of the legacy of these historic revolutions and revolts and their relevance to the contemporary Arab Spring.
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HIST 4382 - History of Medieval/Early Modern Muslim Empires Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3.0 Lab Contact Hours: 0.0
Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor.
Description
History and historiography of Muslim empires from the Abbasids, Mamluk, Timurid, Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires.
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HIST 4384 - East Asian Women in Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspectives Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: junior standing or higher or consent of instructor.
Description
Senior undergraduate seminar which provides historical and cultural perspectives on East Asian women in Asia and the United States.
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HIST 4386 - Africa 1945 to the Present Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor.
Description
Contemporary situation in Africa through the analysis of the impact of W. W. II, the rise of nationalism, the independence struggles 1960- 1980; failures and successes of new nation-states; debt, development and neo-colonialism; military states and civil wars since 1960; the abolition of apartheid in South Africa.
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HIST 4389 - From Blues Era to Hip Hop World: Black Life in the 20th Century Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ENGL 1302.
Description
Analysis of African Americans in the twentieth century with a central focus on cultural developments.
Repeatability: No
Additional Fee: Y
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HIST 4390 - Capstone in Public History Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ENGL 1302, and junior standing or higher.
Repeatability: No
Note: This is a Capstone Course and satisfies the degree requirement for a B.A. in History.
Additional Fee: N
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HIST 4391 - Public History Internship Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Contact Hours: 0 Lab Contact Hours: 3
Prerequisite: ENGL 1302 and Senior Standing.
Description
This Public History Internship course for undergraduates introduces students to the many career options for students with public history training. Public history, as defined by the National Council on Public History, involves making historical knowledge and interpretation accessible and useful to the public.Students will work in an approved experiential learning setting at a historical institution or another approved site.
Repeatability: No
Additional Fee: N
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HIST 4392 - Selected Topics in Asian History Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor.
Repeatability: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
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HIST 4393 - Selected Topics: Middle East Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor.
Repeatability: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
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HIST 4394 - Sel Top-United States History Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: HIST 1301 and HIST 1302.
Repeatability: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
Additional Fee: Yes
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HIST 4395 - Sel Tops-European Hist Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor.
Repeatability: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
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HIST 4396 - Sel Top-Latin Amer Hist Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor.
Repeatability: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
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HIST 4397 - Selected Topics in African History Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor.
Repeatability: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
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HIST 4398 - Independent Study Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 0 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: approval of chair.
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HIST 4399 - Senior Honors Thesis Credit Hours: 3.0
Prerequisite: HIST 3399 and approval of department chair. HIST 3399 and 4399 must be satisfied in order for any to apply to a degree.
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HON 2101 - The Human Situation:Modernity Credit Hours: 1
Lecture Contact Hours: 1 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: None.
Corequisite: ENGL 2361 or HON 2341.
Description
Required for students with membership in the university’s Honors College. Discussion of readings from: Machiavelli, Bacon, Descartes, Hobbes, Swift, Rousseau, Goethe, Flaubert.
Repeatability: No
Additional Fee: Yes
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HON 2301 - The Human Situation: Antiquity Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: None.
Corequisite: ENGL 1370 or ENGL 2360.
Description
Readings from Homer, Sophocles, Aristophanes, Plato, and the Bible. Combination of lectures and discussion.
Repeatability: No
Note: Required for students with membership in the university’s Honors College.
Core Category: (40) Core-Language, Philosophy & Culture
Additional Fee: Yes
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HON 2341 - Classics of Modernity Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ENGL 1301.
Corequisite: HON 2101.
Description
Examination of classic texts in early to late modern literature and political philosophy.
Repeatability: No
Core Category: (81) Core-Writing in Discipline WID
Additional Fee: Yes
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HON 2397 - Selected Topics Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
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HON 3132 - Mapping Success Credit Hours: 1
Lecture Contact Hours: 1 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: None.
Description
Students will learn to make curricular and co-curricular decisions that will help them develop a personalized map to meet their academic and professional goals.
Note: This is an open honors course; any student who has satisfied the prerequisites for the course may enroll. For further information, contact honors@uh.edu.
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HON 3300 - Introduction to Healthcare Systems Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: None.
Description
All health professionals, regardless of specialty, work in healthcare settings where social, economic, and political forces powerfully influence who becomes ill, from what, and how likely it is that effective treatment options are both available and can be applied to positive effect in any one patient. This course explores core concepts in the fields of social medicine, population health, and healthcare systems to better understand the prevalence and persistence of health outcome inequalities past and present and to ask what we might do now to support and sustain healthier communities into the future.
Repeatability: No
Core Category: (81) Core-Writing in Discipline WID
Additional Fee: No
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HON 3301 - Readings in Medicine & Society Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ENGL 1302.
Description
The study of medicine as a social practice, including medical ethics, public health policy, the history of health care, and the cultural context of medical practice.
Repeatability: No
Additional Fee: Y
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HON 3302 - Readings in Public Health & Community Medicine Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ENGL 1302.
Description
The study of public health and community medicine via health care ethics, public health policy, the history of health care, and the cultural context of health care and public health practice.
Repeatability: No
Note: This is an open Honors course; any student who has satisfied the prerequisites for the course may enroll. For further information contact honors@uh.edu
Additional Fee: N
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HON 3303 - Readings in Mental Health & Society Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ENGL 1302.
Description
The study of mental health and medicine via medical ethics, public health policy, the history of health care, and the cultural context of medical practice.
Repeatability: No
Note: This is an open Honors course; any student who has satisfied the prerequisites for the course may enroll. For further information contact honors@uh.edu
Additional Fee: N
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HON 3304 - Material Cultures of Medicine Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ENGL 1301.
Description
Course explores intersections between material culture, medical theory & practice, and patient care.
Repeatability: No
Additional Fee: Yes
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HON 3305 - Medicine in Performance Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ENGL 1302.
Description
Theatrical and cinematic depictions of illness, disability, and the medical situation, and their reflections in performed social expectations of medical professionals and patients.
Repeatability: No
Additional Fee: Y
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HON 3306 - Health and Human Rights Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Formerly HON 4397 Health & Human Rights
Prerequisite: ENGL 1302.
Description
Political advocacy and responses on issues such as health access, government responsibility, and the competing definitions of what it really means to be “healthy”.
Repeatability: No
Additional Fee: Y
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HON 3307 - Narrative Medicine Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ENGL 1302.
Description
We explore the concept of illness narratives and how they might help with patient care. What constitutes a narrative? Why might narratives focusing on illness be different? How might the concept of ‘narrative’ help analyze the effects of illness and help us to communicate, perhaps to a patient, perhaps to a friend, possibly even to ourselves?
Repeatability: No
Note: This is an open Honors course; any student who has satisfied the prerequisites for the course may enroll. For further information contact honors@uh.edu
Additional Fee: N
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HON 3308 - Lyric Medicine Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ENGL 1302.
Description
Exploration of clinical empathy in medicine using medically-themed literature including lyric memoir, poetry, and non-chronological fiction.
Repeatability: No
Note: This is an open Honors course; any student who has satisfied the prerequisites for the course may enroll. For further information contact honors@uh.edu
Additional Fee: N
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HON 3309 - Introduction to Health Professions Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: none
Description
Introduction to health care delivery systems in the U.S. with emphasis on the role of various professions (e.g., optometry, medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, pharmacy, nursing, podiatry, social work, clinical psychology, allied health professions).
Note: For students considering careers in the health professions.
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HON 3310 - Creativity at Work Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: None.
Description
An introduction to making and doing that enables students to bring critical and creative practices to their majors.
Repeatability: No
Core Category: (81) Core-Writing in Discipline WID (50) Core-Creative Arts
Additional Fee: Y
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HON 3311 - Creative Cities Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ENGL 1302 or equivalent.
Description
Investigates American cities as sites of creativity and innovation.
Repeatability: No
Additional Fee: No
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HON 3312 - Immersion Journalism Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: HON 2101 and HON 2301 .
Description
Advanced analysis and writing of immersive journalism. This course employees a two-part strategy: critical reading and creative practice.
Typically Offered: Fall and Spring
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HON 3313 - Nations and Imaginations Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ENGL 1302 or equivalent.
Description
Explores how cultures shape nations and nations shape cultures.
Repeatability: No
Additional Fee: No
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HON 3330 - Leadership Theory and Practice Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Formerly HON 3397 Leadership Theory and Practice
Prerequisite: none
Description
Review of major leadership theories designed to incorporate research, practice, skill-building, and direct application to real world scenarios.
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HON 3331 - Introduction to Civic Engagement Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Description
The theme of this course is civic engagement with a focus on its link to poverty. Upon completion of this class, the student will understand the importance of how healthcare, property, food and nutrition, and education are impacted through the framework of building and achieving social capital.
Additional Fee: N
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HON 3332 - Mapping Success Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: None.
Description
Students will learn to make curricular and co-curricular decisions that will help them develop a personalized map to meet their academic and professional goals.
Note: This is an open honors course; any student who has satisfied the prerequisites for the course may enroll. For further information, contact honors@uh.edu.
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HON 3335 - Leadership: The Classic Texts Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: HON 3330 or consent of instructor.
Description
Explores leadership theories and narratives found in classic texts from antiquity to the present.
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HON 3341 - Medicine, Science & Technology in the Pre-Modern World Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ENGL 1301.
Description
Course explores the history of science, technology & medicine in western and global context before 1500.
Repeatability: No
Additional Fee: No
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HON 3342 - Medicine, Science & Technology in Modern World Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ENGL 1301.
Description
Course explores the history of science, technology & medicine in western and global context after 1500.
Repeatability: No
Additional Fee: No
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HON 3350 - Principles of Data and Society Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: None.
Description
During this course, students will be introduced to data science concepts and learn the necessary basic skills to manage and analyze data and be exposed to concepts such as exploratory data analysis, statistical inference and modeling, machine learning, and higher dimensional data analysis. The principles will be introduced through a fixed set of pre-selected projects, and grades will be assigned based on technical proficiency in straightforward and common data analytics tasks, causal inference and convincing argumentation, and comprehension of broad ethical and social issues.
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HON 3360 - Principles and Practices of Global Engagement Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ENGL 1302 or consent of instructor.
Description
This course is the gateway to the Honors College Minor in Global Engagement, and provides a theoretical, ethical, and experiential learning framework for participation in academic, co-curricular, and professional travel programs. It emphasizes principles of critical reflection, cultural awareness, personal accountability, and ethical engagement that serve to enhance learning experiences in the context of local, national, and international communities. The concept of global engagement begins with an examination of the principles of citizenship in diverse societies, creating a foundation for and orientation towards critically reflective learning.
Repeatability: No
Additional Fee: N
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HON 3361 - Global Engagement and Research Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ENGL 1302.
Description
Interdisciplinary reading and research seminar on economic, cultural, political, historical, and technological components of global engagement. Discussion of strengths and limitations of various research methodologies and the completion of an individual research project.
Repeatability: No
Note: This is an open honors course; any student who has satisfied the prerequisites for the course may enroll. For further information, contact honors@uh.edu.
Additional Fee: Y
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HON 3371 - Russian Imperial History Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ENGL 1302 or equivalent or consent of instructor.
Description
This course offers a unique approach to the history of the Russian Empire over the past six centuries, focusing upon individual lives from the Russian and Eurasian past.
Repeatability: No
Additional Fee: No
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HON 3373 - Heterodoxy: An Intellectual History Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: Junior standing or permission of Instructor.
Description
An intellectual history of heterodox ideas and what societies do about them.
Repeatability: No
Additional Fee: No
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HON 3374 - History & Politics of the Hebrew Bible Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ENGL 1302 or equivalent or permission of instructor.
Description
The political history of ancient Israel and Judah in the period of the biblical kings and prophets, through a study of geo-political context of biblical history, the major political and social institutions of the Bible, and modern critical approaches to biblical historiography.
Repeatability: No
Additional Fee: No
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HON 3375 - Law & Ethics in the Ancient Near East Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ENGL 1302 or equivalent or consent of instructor.
Description
Tracing the history of a question, How should we live? through legal, ethical, and wisdom texts of the ancient Near East and Mediterranean.
Repeatability: No
Additional Fee: No
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HON 3376 - Constitutional Cases & Controversies Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: GOVT 2306 and GOVT 2305 or equivalent, or consent of instructor.
Description
A study of significant constitutional cases and controversies with political and ethical dimensions that are at the core of many of the most contentious debates about law and politics today in American society.
Repeatability: No
Additional Fee: No
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HON 3377 - American Legal History: Civil War to Civil Rights Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: POLS 3356 or HON 3376, or consent of instructor.
Description
Survey of the development of American law from the Civil War through the Civil Rights Movement with a focus on legal issues related to citizenship, rights, race, and gender.
Repeatability: No
Additional Fee: No
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HON 3378 - Writing the Nation: Antebellum America Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ENGL 1302 or equivalent, or consent of instructor.
Description
A study of antebellum literature in America as both a moral and a political enterprise, focusing on issues related to democracy, national character, the role of women, westward expansion, social reform, and the institution of slavery.
Repeatability: No
Additional Fee: No
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HON 3390 - The Lence Seminar Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ENGL 1302 or equivalent, or consent of instructor.
Description
The Lence Seminar honors the teaching of Dr. Ross Lence. Each spring semester this seminar, informed by the texts and themes frequently taught by Dr. Lence, focuses on the study of classic works in the history of political thought, with an emphasis upon early modernity and the American experience.
Repeatability: No
Additional Fee: No
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HON 3397 - Honors Selected Topics Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: Approval of the dean of the Honors College.
Repeatability: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
Additional Fee: No
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HON 3399 - Senior Honors Thesis Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: approval of dean of the Honors College.
Description
For interdisciplinary topic.
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HON 4130 - E-Portfolio Credit Hours: 1.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 1 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Formerly HON 4198 E-Portfolio
Prerequisite: consent of dean of the Honors College
Description
Students will create an electronic portfolio of personalized reflection pieces, best papers, leadership and service experiences, research activities, awards, etc.
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HON 4198 - Independent Study Credit Hours: 1.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 0.0 Lab Contact Hours: 0.0
Prerequisite: Approval of the Associate Dean of the Honors College.
Description
Cr. 1 per semester or more by concurrent enrollment.
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HON 4298 - Independent Study Credit Hours: 2.0
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HON 4310 - City Dionysia Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ENGL 1302 or equivalent.
Description
A project-based, course wherein students develop, research, curate, and perform a creative project located within or inspired by the City of Houston or the City Dionysia project.
Repeatability: No
Note: A capstone course for the Creative Work minor.
Additional Fee: Y
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HON 4315 - Artists and Their Regions: Creative Work in Performance and Context Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ENGL 1302 or equivalent.
Description
The context and impact of art and literature in a particular geographical region, usually Texas, the American South, or Latin-America. Includes travel and field experience.
Repeatability: No
Additional Fee: Y
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HON 4330 - Narratives in the Professions Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ENGL 1302 or equivalent.
Description
Studying narrative works that depict various professional environments and roles, in order to gain insight into one’s own professional paths, aspirations, and values.
Repeatability: No
Note: This is an open honors course; any student who has satisfied the prerequisites for the course may enroll. For further information, contact honors@uh.edu.
Additional Fee: N
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HON 4350 - Data and Society in Practice Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: HON 3350 Principles of Data and Society.
Description
Students will gain technical skills through involvement in planning and implementation of data driven projects, including primary responsibility for data integration, acquisition, analysis, and pre- sentation. More advanced modeling of causal and inferential processes, including both initial workflow diagrams and presentations and visualizations that represent the entire arc of the project, will give structure to the course and provide the basis for evaluation appropriate to the desired learning outcomes.
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HON 4355 - Engaged Data Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: HON 3350 Principles of Data and Society.
Description
The new paradigms of data science permeate our lives, from how we participate in social networks to how we pay for food, and yet most of us have no idea how it works behind the user interface. People who know what is happening, what choices are made and hidden from view, and who know how to use the data for the good¿that is, the ones who can critically engage with producing and interpreting data¿will have the advantage in the emerging society of ubiquitous data. This class will use project-based learning and real world examples to explore competing ways of modeling data and using data science to interpret and transform our world.
Repeatability: No
Additional Fee: N
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HON 4390 - Antiquity Revisited Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: Advanced interdisciplinary topics for reading and discussion with selected faculty.
Description
An exploration of great books from the Greek and Judeo-Christian traditions.
Repeatability: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
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HON 4391 - Modernity Revisited Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: Advanced interdisciplinary topics for reading and discussion with selected faculty.
Description
An exploration of great books from Dante to the present.
Repeatability: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
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HON 4397 - Honors Selected Topics Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: approval of the dean of the Honors College.
Repeatability: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
Additional Fee: No
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