The CHP offers specially designed seminars on a variety of topics each quarter taught by top UCI faculty. These courses are open to all rising sophomores, juniors, seniors, and Honors to Honors transfer students in the CHP on a first come, first served basis. The seminars are worth 4 units each. CHP students may take as many of these seminars as they wish, and can even use one of them to substitute for one quarter of a CHP core course as designated by the CHP.
– Only one substitution total permitted per student.
More course information:
- Spring ’17
Course Dept./Number Instructor Course Title Human H82 Prof. Elizabeth Allen Sanctuary: Medieval and Beyond Description: Principles and significance of the practice of legal sanctuary in medieval English history, literature, and religion. Development of modern use of churches and other safe spaces in the American Civil Rights movement, immigrant sanctuary movements, and international asylum.
Credit: GE Categories III or IV, may substitute for one quarter of Social Science Core.Human H145 Profs. James Herbert, Julia Lupton, and Jonathan Alexander The Arts of Contemporary Communication Description: Graphic design, data visualization, and oral argument each have rhetorics of their own. This course is both a scholarly exploration of these other media and as an occasion to develop useful presentation skills and group-work habits.
Credit: No GE credit, no CHP core course credit.LPS H80 Prof. Kyle Stanford Scientific Realism and Instrumentalism Description: Explores competing views of the character and status of theoretical knowledge in science, including challenges to and defenses of the view that contemporary scientific theories offer straightforwardly accurate descriptions of how things stand in otherwise inaccessible domains of nature.
Credit: GE Category II, may substitute for one quarter of Science Core.Music H80 Prof. Christopher Dobrian Experiments in Music Description: This class will study experiments as they have been applied in music. One is the attempt to explain our cognition of music by means of scientific experimental methodology. The other is the attempt to expand the domain of music by exploring previously unknown ways of making it.
Credit: GE Category IV, may substitute for one quarter of Social Science Core.Physics H80 Prof. Virginia Trimble The Impact of World War I on Physics, Chemistry, Astronomy, and other Sciences Description: Introduction to science in 1914 and WWI. Participants in groups of two or three will pick a preferred science; find out what happened to it during and after the war; write reports and present what they learned.
Credit: GE Category II, may substitute for one quarter of Science Core.
- Winter ’17
Course Dept./Number Instructor Course Title LPS H141 Prof. Jeffrey Barrett Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics Description: An examination of the standard von Neumann-Dirac formulation of quantum mechanics. The quantum measurement problem is discussed along with several proposed solutions, including GRW, many-worlds, man-minds, and Bohm’s theory.
Credit: No GE credit, may substitute for one quarter of Science Core.LPS H91 Prof. Cailin O’Connor The Philosophy and Biology of Sex Description: Covers the origins of biological sex, dynamics of sexual selection, the evolution and cultural creation of sexual behavior in humans, and the construction of gender in human societies.
Credit: GE Categories II or III, may substitute for one quarter of Social Science Core OR Science Core.
- Fall ’16
Course Dept./Number Instructor Course Title Chc/Lat H80 Prof. Anita Casavantes Bradford Latino Childhoods Description: Students in this seminar compare the experiences of Latina/o children to other young people in the U.S. and around the world, analyzing the historical, political, economic, and sociocultural factors that have differently structured the life stage we understand as “childhood.”
Credit: GE Category III, may substitute for one quarter of Social Science Core.Human H80 Prof. Sarah Farmer Memory Across the Disciplines Description: Questions about human memory are central to a wide range of disciplines. Students will explore how historians, sociologists, social psychologists, legal experts and neuroscientists understand human memory and apply their findings to understand and shape their own societies.
Credit: GE Category IV, may substitute for one quarter of Social Science Core.LPS H81 Prof. John Manchak What is Space? Description: Historical, philosophical, scientific exploration of the concept of “space.” Questions of interest include: What kind of a thing is space? How can we know what space is like? How is space different from time?
Credit: GE Category II, may substitute for one quarter of Science Core.Pol Sci H80 Prof. Tony Smith Globalization and Human Security Description: Emerging issues of human security in the globalized world, including personal human security, physical integrity, human trafficking, global climate change, food. Challenges of these complex human security problems for a multi-scalar system (international, national, local).
Credit: GE Categories III and VIII, may substitute for one quarter of Social Science Core.HUMAN H81 Prof. Judy Wu The Vietnam War Description: The U.S. War in Viet Nam was the second longest in U.S. history and arguably the most controversial. This course will examine the war (its origins, evolution, opposition against and conclusion) as well as its legacies.
Credit: GE Categories III or IV, may substitute for one quarter of Social Science Core.
2015-2016 Honors Seminar Archive
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