[UConn Storrs]

Instructor: Nora Madjar

If you are currently a business student, register for MENT 2240. If you are not, register for BADM 2240.

Students improve their creative problem-solving and leadership skills in a way that fosters creativity and innovation in others – integral skills for the constantly changing business world. Engagement in a variety of experiential activities designed to help understand first-hand the situations which are most likely to add creative value when working on complex and/or loosely defined open-ended problems. Topics include the basic features of creativity and innovation processes and practical applications for how to facilitate, manage, and evaluate creative ideas and innovations in a work setting.

Students enrolled in the Honors sections will have an opportunity to work with real business creatives (individuals from creative industries or entrepreneurs) and explore what stimulates and what stifles their creativity and what supports their innovations in real life.

TOI-1.

[UConn Storrs]

Instructor: Thomas Seery

CHEM 1147Q is the Honors version of CHEM 1127Q, and it may be used in place of CHEM 1127Q for any pre-requisite or other requirement. CHEM 1147Q has a smaller lecture section than CHEM 1127Q, and it requires more personal initiative in the laboratory assignments. It also uses some calculus, compared to the algebra used in CHEM 1127Q.

CA 3-Lab, Q
TOI-6L, Q

[UConn Storrs]

Instructor: Nicholas Leadbeater

Prerequisite: CHEM 1128Q, 1138Q, 1148Q, or 1126Q (1126 may be concurrent). Only two credits after passing CHEM 2241.

The material in Honors CHEM 2443 is much like that in the non-Honors sections of CHEM 2443, but it will go into more detail on various topics. It is also taught differently, with class periods dedicated to discussion and practice problems. Additional support is available from a graduate teaching assistant and undergraduate peer mentors.

[UConn Storrs]

Instructor: Clarissa Ceglio

Open to sophomores or higher.

While this is not an Honors course, Prof. Ceglio welcomes Honors students of all majors and would be happy to offer Honors conversions for interested students.

Museums, archives, and other nonprofit cultural organizations are mission-driven institutions with complex, sometimes fraught, histories. Today, many such organizations seek to explore new ways to communicate ideas, make collections accessible, inspire learning, connect people, and build community. In addition to learning about the histories, structures, and functions of mission-driven cultural organizations, we will explore methods of collaborating meaningfully and effectively with them and their communities. This will include consideration of the ways in which digital media, from apps to virtual reality (VR), are being used to critically engage publics in questions about the past, present, and future. We will explore, too, the histories and responsibilities of cultural organization with regard to social justice, activism, and inclusivity.

For more information, email Prof. Ceglio.

[UConn Storrs]

Instructor: Jason Byers

While this is not an Honors course, Prof. Byers welcomes Honors students of all majors and would be happy to offer Honors conversions for interested students.

Are you interested in data science, learning more about the R programming language, or exploring the Data Science and Applied Data Analysis majors? This course is a good fit for students interested in exploring issues of analysis of social data, and is especially appropriate for those who may be considering careers in public administration, public policy, policy analysis, or considering graduate school in social and behavioral sciences. This course has no prerequisites and no previous experience with programming is required.

For more information, contact: Jason Byers at Jason.byers@uconn.edu.

[UConn Hartford]

Instructor: Thomas Shea

This course in the Short Story will center on a nexus of three valences:

• CSI Detective thinking via authors such as Edgar Allan Poe and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes)
• Diverse, International authors (e.g. Polish, British, Indian, Irish, American)
• Collections of short stories as coherent, organic wholes (e.g. James Joyce’s Dubliners, Ernest Hemingway’s In Our Time).

We will also take full advantage of the Wadsworth Atheneum, exploring links between our short stories and the various artistic masterpieces one-half block away.

Course grades will be based on active, verbal class participation (50% of your semester grade), occasional brief writings, a midterm essay, and a final essay (all writing combined is the other 50% of your semester grade). There is usually no final exam.

CA 1, W
TOI-1, TOI-2, W

[UConn Storrs]

Instructor: Sean Forbes

Prerequisites: ENGL 1007 or 1010 or 1011.

This course is an introductory class in creative writing that will expose you to a variety of genres including poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, drama, and hybrid works. Students will complete five mini-modules, each focusing on a different creative technique, as well as a sixth module in which you will select your own literary models and focus. Expect to spend significant class time writing and responding to authors such as Yusef Komunyakaa, Michelle Zeuner, Annie Dillard, Sylvia Plath, and Lorrie Moore. Revision and active participation in workshop are requirements of the course, and your final project will be a portfolio of selected drafts and revised works.

[UConn Stamford]

Instructor: Fred Roden

Prerequisites: ENGL 1007 or 1010 or 1011

In this course we will develop our fluency in and practice our facility with a variety of genres that fall under the category of “life writing.” These include (1) memoir, (2) family/community history (genealogy through narrative), (3) oral history (interviews with consenting subjects), and (4) biography. These are the units of the class, which will be run as a writing workshop. We will read a range of texts that shape our perspectives on these forms. We will work through multimedia, including the visual/digital/material as well as the verbal. We will ultimately consolidate the four specific pieces for a term portfolio. This class involves exchange of ideas and written work as well as presentation of projects-in-process through workshop conversation.

Individual student writing, while self-directed, will be mentored by the instructor and peers to cultivate course goals and interests concerning structure, theme, and purpose. As a “W” class, you will workshop and revise your creative output for a minimum of 15 pages of graded, drafted material. Collectively, we will produce more than that quantity (informally) over the course of the semester.

Engl 3003 “Life Writing” presumes no prior expertise or experience in writing creative nonfiction — only interest. It is open to any students who have completed the first-year writing requirement or its equivalent. Those not yet sophomore status should contact Professor Roden at frederick.roden@uconn.edu to discuss preparedness/permission.

Students enrolled in the Honors section of Engl 3003W will meet quarterly (once for each of the four units) with the instructor and each other to discuss their specific goals in life writing. (Time and modality to be determined by mutual convenience/availability.) The Honors section’s aim will be to prepare at least one of the four units’ completed work for public sharing (publication, print or digital) or private circulation (with individuals of choice).

This course is an elective for the English major and minor and for the Writing minor. For English major tracks, Engl 3003W counts for Creative Writing, English Teaching, and Writing & Composition Studies. For pre-teaching (TCPCG), Engl 3003W satisfies a Composition requirement.

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