March 22, 2024
Online (asynchronous) during Summer 2
Instructor: Bradley Wright
While this is not an Honors course, Prof. Wright welcomes Honors students of all majors and would be happy to offer Honors conversions for interested students.
This class is one of the most popular electives on campus. In it, students learn how to maximize their own sense of well-being and how society impacts it. During summer, it’s offered as an online asynchronous class.
March 13, 2024
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Instructor: Sean Forbes
Prerequisite: ENGL 1007, 1010, 1011, or 2011
Finding Your Artistic Voice Through Creative Writing Prompts
In this introduction to creative writing class we will examine the different approaches that a writer can take when trying to establish a speaker in a narrative poem or short story. The first half of the course will be dedicated to writing narrative poetry and for the second half we will focus on short and long form fiction stories. We will look at exemplary works of poetry and fiction from writers like David Dominguez, Allison Joseph, Richard Blanco, and fiction stories from One Story and One Teen Story, print literary journals that publish only one story per month. Students will produce a final portfolio of their original work. Class participation is an essential component to this largely workshop-based course along with weekly writing prompts such as writing in iambic pentameter and challenging in class writing prose sketches.
February 27, 2024
This course is full.
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This class will take an interdisciplinary look at current issues in the field of environmental science. Organized into three sections, we will spend the semester developing an understanding of what environmental science is and the history of the field, learning about the ecological and evolutionary processes that are important to understand how environmental issues arise and their possible solutions, and thinking about ways forward to solve our growing environmental crisis. Class times will be spent discussing primary readings from varied perspectives, learning about the science of the organisms and resources that make up environments, and debating current hot-topic issues and methods for restoring our environment. This course is appropriate for students at all levels, with or without biology backgrounds.
November 1, 2023
Governor Lamont Announces Kiana Foster-Mauro Is Connecticut’s 2024 Teacher of the Year
October 23, 2023
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Instructor: Bradley Wright
Research finds that people who have a clear sense of life purpose are happier, more satisfied, are healthier, have deeper relationships, and do better at work. They even live longer! This one-credit Honors exploration of finding purpose throughout life will consist of both classroom work and guided experiential learning.
For more about the UConn Life Purpose Lab, visit . If you have questions about the course, email Prof. Wright at bradley.wright@uconn.edu.
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Instructor: Bradley Wright
Research finds that people who have a clear sense of life purpose are happier, more satisfied, are healthier, have deeper relationships, and do better at work. They even live longer! This one-credit Honors exploration of finding purpose throughout life will consist of seven weeks in class and seven weeks of guided experiential learning.
For more about the UConn Life Purpose Lab, visit https://www.bradleywrightphd.com/lpl. If you have questions about the course, email Prof. Wright at bradley.wright@uconn.edu.
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Instructor: Clarissa Ceglio
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. Recommended pre-requisites waived for Honors students.
To paraphrase James Baldwin, nothing can be changed until it is faced. This is certainly true of the inequities that have historically shaped digital media technologies, content, fields, and careers. This class interrogates how racism, sexism, classism, ageism, and other forms of oppression are perpetuated through digital media works, practices, and industries. We will, as the chief learning activity of this class, meet and talk with contemporary practitioners who are challenging and changing the status quo. For six of our class sessions, we will meet virtually and sometimes in-person with industry professionals, artists, and media scholars from film, game, design, cultural and other sectors so that we can learn how issues of equity manifest in their work, creative processes, and professions. Because these practitioners are also part of DMD’s Diverse Perspectives in Digital Media & Design: 2024 Speaker Series, students will also have the opportunity to participate as hosts in the series, learn how to professionalize their on-camera presence, and gain skill in preparing and moderating live Q&A sessions. Interactions with our guests will be supplemented by readings, in-class film screenings, and engagements with other media works. Over the course of the semester, we will reflect on how our own areas of practice can support greater equity, diversity, and inclusion in digital media and design. (To see what we do, you can access the past installments of the Diverse Perspectives in Digital Media & Design series here: https://dmd.uconn.edu/major/diverse-perspectives/)
For more information, or to receive a permission number, email Prof. Ceglio (clarissa.ceglio@uconn.edu).
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Instructor: Clarissa Ceglio
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. Recommended pre-requisites waived for Honors students.
Museums, archives, and other cultural organizations are spaces of digital media experimentation as they seek new ways to communicate ideas, make collections accessible, inspire learning, connect people, and build community. In this class we will undertake a project in partnership with a cultural organization. This will provide immersion in issues of contemporary practice while building collaborative competency in design thinking approaches.
For more information, or to receive a permission number, email Prof. Ceglio (clarissa.ceglio@uconn.edu).
September 8, 2023
From UConn Today September 5, 2023
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From UConn Today: August 30, 2023
Puppetry Student Says Multidisciplinary Talents are Key to Her Success
Joanie Papillon ’24 (SFA), poses with the current progress of her puppetry project, “Taurus” in her workspace in the Puppet Arts Complex at the UConn Depot Campus on July 27, 2023. (Sydney Herdle/UConn Photo)