NSU 2014-2015 Undergraduate Catalog

377 Nova Southeastern University • Undergraduate Student Catalog • 2014–2015 COURSE DESCRIPTIONS advertising and film, they will attempt to make connections between underlying recurrent themes that find their roots in the earliest stories of humanity. The reading and analysis of texts and images will be complemented by the development of individual writing skills, emphasizing critical thinking and the clear, sophisticated, and creative expression of ideas. Satisfies general education requirement in humanities. Prerequisite: Honors students only. HONR 1000D Honors Seminar: Future History (3 credits) This course is an extrapolation of the future based on assumptions about, and concerns with, the present. Taking both a utopian and a dystopian form, these explorations of historic imagination say as much about where we think we are today as where we think we are heading in the future. It will further explore the various forces that shape historic change and seek to place ourselves and our personal world within this process. Satisfies general education requirement in humanities. Prerequisite: Honors students only. HONR 1000E Honors Seminar: Global Jewish Literature (3 credits) Students will identify, reflect upon, and write about the particularities of different regions of the globe to demonstrate their awareness and understanding of the ways in which written rhetorical strategies translate into both the separation and/or the blending of a people in search of the traditional Jewish community. Geographically-specific, representative literature of the Jewish people—area studies of Jewish literature- -reveal similarities and dissimilarities with regard to representations of Jewish history, culture, religion, and society. Satisfies general education requirement in humanities. Prerequisite: Honors students only. HONR 1000G Honors Seminar: The Problem of Consciousness (3 credits) What is consciousness? How does the brain do its work and produce its dazzling, if taken-for-granted, capabilities? If we all share similar capacities, how does each brain manage to make itself unique? Although these similar questions have been asked for hundreds, if not thousands, of years, the past decade has provided more tools for answering them than at any other time in human history. Data from many fields of inquiry have begun to converge. Students who take this course will be exposed to these exciting new findings and will also explore resulting controversies. Satisfies general education requirements in Social & Behavioral Sciences. Prerequisite: Honors students only. HONR 1000H Honors Seminar: City in Film and Literature (3 credits) This course focuses on depictions of urban life in film and literature. Some themes that will be explored in the course are the representation of the city as both living organism and as killing machine; the “geometry” of the city as alternately labyrinthine and boxlike, having both confusingand suffocating effects; isolation, dehumanization and the struggle for identity; conflicts between nature and city; immigration, assimilation, and cultural identity. Satisfies general education requirement in humanities. Prerequisite: Honors students only. HONR 1000J Honors Seminar: Culture Wars (3 credits) An examination of the “hot button” topics that divide the American people, this seminar will delve into the issues and perspectives which shape American culture. It will ask not only what these issues are but why they divide us. Among the topics to be examined are abortion, free speech, evolution, gay rights, and affirmative action. Satisfies general education requirements in Humanities. Prerequisite: Honors students only. HONR 1000L Honors Seminar: Cultural Mosaic: Fact and Fiction (3 credits) This honors seminar will explore cultural concepts, values, and social behaviors in America. It will examine the impact of the acculturation process on variables such as parental ethnotheories, emotional expressions, and conception of mental illness. The notion of prejudice and racism will be addressed as well as the impact of various government policies impacting or refuting the notion of a cultural mosaic. Students will be exposed to nonwestern approaches to research through qualitative and nontraditional data collection. Satisfies general education requirements in Social & Behavioral Sciences. Prerequisite: Honors students only. HONR 1000M Honors Seminar: Wicked Wit: Satire in Literature, Film, and Television (3 credits) This course focuses on the methods, intentions, and impact of satire, from its origins in classical literature through its “Golden Age” in the eighteenth century and its enduring, acerbic presence in 20th- and 21st-century literature, film, television, and on the Web. Students will explore the ways that satire challenges routinely accepted ideas and practices, and targets injustice, selfishness, and hypocrisy in people and in their social institutions. Satisfies general education requirements in Humanities. Prerequisite: Honors students only. HONR 1000N Honors Seminar: Genetics and Genealogy (3 credits) Through lecture, discussion, review of primary literature, case studies, videotapes and class presentations, this course will investigate the relationships among the studies of genetics, human evolution and genealogy. Students will be expected to extract their own DNA and analyze it for various molecular markers as well as create their family history tree and narrative which they will present in class.