Spring 2027 Honors Course Listing
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COURSE LISTINGS
African American Studies
Health Care: Africa & the USA
This course is cross-listed as SOC 3323-01 (18275)
Course Number: AAS 3323H
Instructor: Langa
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 18275
Days and Times: M 12:00 PM-1:00 PM
This course provides an evidence-based overview of health issues, health systems,
and health policies in selected African countries and the United States. Students
will analyze social determinants that shape health outcomes across regions. Emphasis
is placed on developing comparative analytical skills and on evaluating health issues,
policies, and programs using publicly available data and peer-reviewed research. This
course equips students with tools to interpret global health information and draw
informed, evidence-supported conclusions.
Health Care: Africa & the USA
Course Number: AAS 3323H
Instructor: Langa
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 18275
Days and Times: M 12:00 PM-1:00 PM
This course provides an evidence-based overview of health issues, health systems,
and health policies in selected African countries and the United States. Students
will analyze social determinants that shape health outcomes across regions. Emphasis
is placed on developing comparative analytical skills and on evaluating health issues,
policies, and programs using publicly available data and peer-reviewed research. This
course equips students with tools to interpret global health information and draw
informed, evidence-supported conclusions.
Biochemistry
Cell Biochemistry
This course is cross-listed as BIOL 4374-50 (15153)
Course Number: BCHS 4313H
Instructor: Sharp
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 15154
Days and Times: TTh 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
Prerequisites: BIOL 3301 and BCHS 3304. Cell Biology/Cell Biochemistry will survey topics relating to cellular composition,
structure, and function at the molecular level.
Biology
Introduction To Biological Science II
Course Number: BIOL 1307H
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Four sections are available:
Instructor: Cheek
Class Number: 11962
Days and Times: MWF 9:00 AM-10:00 AM
Instructor: Sharp
Class Number: 13854
Days and Times: MW 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
Instructor: Hanke
Class Number: 15162
Days and Times: TTh 10:00 AM-11:30 AM
Instructor: Hanke
Class Number: 18184
Days and Times: TTh 11:30 AM-1:00 PM
Prerequisite: A grade of C+ or better in an Honors section of BIOL 1306 or consent
of instructor. Students who do not meet the prerequisite must contact the relevant
instructor: Ann Cheek, aocheek@uh.edu; Rita Sharp, resharp@uh.edu; Marc Hanke, mhhanke@uh.edu.
This course is the second half of a two-semester survey of the major themes in biology.
The three themes of this course are genetics, evolution, and ecology. The course includes
class discussions and writing assignments that provide the opportunity for students
to analyze primary sources from the scientific literature. BIOL 1307 is a prerequisite
for all advanced courses in biology.
Human Physiology
Course Number: BIOL 3324H
Instructor: Dryer
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 16194
Days and Times: MW 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
Description of fundamental principles of cell, organ, and tissue physiology in humans.
Special attention is paid to neural, sensory, muscle, cardiovascular, pulmonary, renal
and endocrine systems.
Science Communication Strategies
Course Number: BIOL 3350H
Instructor: Sharp
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 17196
Days and Times: TTh 11:30 AM-1:00 PM
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Effective communication is essential to scientific discovery; research findings are
communicated to and evaluated by fellow scientists, the government, and the general
public. Students in this class will investigate various database and archive search
tools and conduct a literature review on a selected topic. Students will also explore
the various types of science communication, evaluate their efficacy and quality, and
hone their own communication skills through writing exercises and oral presentations.
Students will consider how logic, the scientific method, politics, and ethics factor
into scientific discoveries and how they are broadcast. The skills developed in this
class will equip students to succeed in research and careers in medicine and science.
GalapaGO! Research Based Learning Abroad
Course Number: BIOL 4302H
Instructor: Hanke
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 19187
Days and Times: TTh 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
This course is about preparing for a required study-abroad trip to the Galápagos Islands
in the summer of 2026. There, students will spend approximately one month assisting
faculty with ongoing research projects. To prepare for this immersive research experience,
we will read and discuss both the theoretical and experimental background for the
projects during the spring semester. In addition, we will use the Galápagos Islands
as a model to explore several topics in geology, evolutionary biology, history and
conservation. The course will include integrative projects, readings, student-led
discussions, films and lectures. Instructor permission is required to enroll. Enrollment
in the course is required for the trip.
Cell Biology
This course is cross-listed as BCHS 4313-50 (15154)
Course Number: BIOL 4374H
Instructor: Sharp
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 15153
Days and Times: TTh 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
Prerequisites: BIOL 3301 and BCHS 3304. Cell Biology/Cell Biochemistry will survey topics relating to cellular composition,
structure, and function at the molecular level.
Business
Accounting Principles II-Managerial
Course Number: ACCT 2302
Instructor: Newman
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Three sections are available:
Class Number: 11185
Days and Times: TTh 11:30 AM-1:00 PM
Class Number: 12106
Days and Times: TTh 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
Class Number: 12503
Days and Times: TTh 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
This course will investigate the accounting tools, techniques, and practices used
in managerial accounting. We will look at applications of cost data to business decisions,
performance evaluation, planning, and control.
Introduction to Computers and Management and Information Systems
Course Number: BCIS 1305
Instructor: TBD
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 14404
Days and Times: TTh 10:00 AM-11:30 AM
This course provides students with an introduction to the basic concepts of computer-based
management information systems, and serves as a foundation that will enable students
to take advantage of microcomputer-based tools and techniques throughout their academic
and professional careers. The course begins with a brief overview of the operating
system. Next, a number of software tools will be used to illustrate the diversity
of tools available to develop computer-related applications. These tools include a
word processing package, a spreadsheet, and a database management system. In addition,
students will be introduced to research online.
Introduction to Global Business
Course Number: BUSI 1301H
Instructor: Thompson
Instructional Mode:Face-to-Face
Class Number: 14439
Days and Times: MW 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
This course is a survey of economic systems, forms of business ownership, and considerations
for running a business, including: 1. Various aspects of business, management, and
leadership functions; organizational considerations; and decision making processes.
2. Introduction to financial topics, including accounting, money and banking, and
securities markets. 3. Business challenges in the legal and regulatory environment,
business ethics, social responsibility, and international business. 4. The dynamic
role of business in everyday life.
Business Statistics
Course Number: BUSI 2305H
Instructor: Wiley
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 14395
Days and Times: MW 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
This course will cover the descriptive and inferential statistical techniques for
business and economic decision-making. Topics include the collection, description,
analysis, and summarization of data; probability; discrete and continuous random variables;
the binomial and normal distributions; sampling distributions; tests of hypotheses;
estimation and confidence intervals; linear regression; and correlation analysis.
Statistical software is used to analyze data throughout the course.
Business Law and Ethics
Course Number: BUSI 4350H
Instructor: Krylova
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 14548
Days and Times: MW 11:30 AM-1:00 PM
Utilizing a critical thinking approach, this course facilitates the development of
the tools necessary to analyze a variety of legal and ethical issues that arise in
today’s business environment. Models of ethical decision-making will be covered to
provide a foundation for engaging in such analyses. Laws and business implications
related to employment relationships, business organizations, and modern labor relations
will be covered. Interactive case-focused class discussions combined with written
assignments will be used to reinforce key concepts and help enhance students’ analytical
skills.
Entrepreneurship
Course Number: ENTR 3310H
Instructor: TBD
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 15988
Days and Times: TTh 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
This course is open to Honors College students of all majors and is the foundational
course for the Certificate in Honors Entrepreneurship. Taught in a small, discussion-based
setting, this Honors designated course will provide students with foundational knowledge
of the entrepreneurial process, from the conceptualization of an idea to the implementation
of a new business venture. Emphasis will be placed on critical thinking, innovation
and creativity. A UH cumulative GPA of 3.0 or better is needed to enroll.
Principles of Financial Management
Course Number: FINA 3332H
Instructor:
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 11758
Days and Times: TTh 11:30 AM-1:00 PM
The Honors section of Finance 3332 will give students an intensive introduction to
the principles of finance. In addition, the course will provide students with practical,
real-world applications of finance. The course will cover the following topics: time
value of money, security valuation (bonds and stocks), capital expenditure analysis,
the capital asset pricing model, market efficiency, portfolio theory, cost of capital
and capital structure, dividend policy, mergers and acquisitions, and working capital
management. The course will also introduce students to the effective use of a financial
calculator for purposes of making capital budgeting decisions, bond valuations, and
amortization schedules.
Global Environment of Business
Course Number: INTB 3355
Instructor: Thompson
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 11810
Days and Times: TTh 10:00 AM-11:30 AM
This course explores the major issues and approaches to the Global Environment of
Business. It begins with discussion of political theories and open-economy macroeconomics
to understand and explain globalization, both in its current form and potential future
transformations. Then, the emphasis shifts to the nature of political economy and
how such conceptual frameworks can help us better comprehend current challenges, such
as economic recovery after the 2008 financial crisis, and “resource wars” in an ever-shrinking,
increasingly divided world. The last part of the course focuses on how individuals
can respond to and engage the Global Environment of Business by organizing agendas
of global citizenship and social entrepreneurship.
Introduction to Organizational Behavior and Management
Course Number: MANA 3335
Instructor: Rude
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 10698
Days and Times: TTh 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
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This introductory course in management will provide a conceptual and empirical understanding
of the structure and function of organizations, and the human behavior that occurs
in them. We will explore a wide range of topics structured around four basic managerial
responsibilities: planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. The goal is both
to simplify and complicate your picture of organizations – to simplify by systematizing
and interrelating some basic ideas, and to complicate them by pointing out the infinite
shades of gray and multitude of interacting variables that can occur in a behaving
human organization.
Introduction to Marketing
Course Number: MARK 3336
Instructor:
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 10712
Days and Times: TTh 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
Marketing is managing profitable customer relationships by creating value
for customers. Marketing is one of the most important activities in an
organization because it has a direct effect on profitability and sales. This
course focuses on developing students’ understanding of the process by which
organizations understand customer needs, design customer-driven marketing
strategies, build customer relationships, and capture value for the
firm. Through in-class activities and team assignments, students will gain
practical knowledge of the relationships among key marketing mix elements and
their place in the larger context of business decision-making.
Professional Selling
Course Number: MARK 3337
Instructor:
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 17473
Days and Times: MW 10:00 AM-11:30 AM
Basic concepts of selling.
Service and Manufacturing Operations
Course Number: SCM 3301
Instructor:
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 11210
Days and Times: MW 10:00 AM-11:30 AM
This is a practical course in the production of both goods and services. Students
will learn to forecast customer demand, choose business locations, set inventory levels,
develop production plans, monitor quality, and schedule both projects and people.
The course is taught using case studies of real business problems that allow students
to practice decision-making. Some companies featured in the case studies include:
Benihana of Tokyo, Federal Express, Dell Computers, Amazon, and New Balance Athletic
Shoes. Students will assume the role of managers and develop solutions to the cases.
During class discussions, we will compare solutions to the decisions actually made
by company managers, and devote at least one class to a discussion of job opportunities
in Operations Management. Contact the instructor for more information.
Chemistry
Fundamentals of Chemistry II Lab
Course Number: CHEM 1112H
Instructor:
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Two sections are available:
Class Number: 14505
Days and Times: M 2:00 PM-6:00 PM
Class Number: 14544
Days and Times: F 2:00 PM-6:00 PM
Prerequisite: Credit for or concurrent enrollment in CHEM 1322H. Credit may not be
applied toward a degree for both CHEM 1112 and CHEM 1102. This course illustrates and reinforces principles and concepts by use of qualitative
and quantitative experiments, emphasizing interpretation and reporting of data and
facility in handling scientific instruments. Only students who took CHEM 1321H in
Fall 2022 may enroll in this class.
Honors Fundamentals of Chemistry II
Course Number: CHEM 1322H
Instructor: Hoffman
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 15979
Days and Times: TTh 10:00 AM-11:30 AM
This course covers chemical kinetics, quantum mechanics, chemical bonding, molecular
structures and symmetry, descriptive main group chemistry, and transition metal chemistry.
Only students who received a C- or better in CHEM 1321H may enroll in this class.
Fundamentals of Organic Chemistry II
Course Number: CHEM 2325H
Instructor: Carrow
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 13522
Days and Times: MW 4:00 PM-5:30 PM
Second semester course introducing the chemistry of organic (carbon based) compounds.
Reactions of key functional groups and the synthesis of key functional groups are
presented along with basic strategies in organic synthesis. The chemistry of life
molecules (proteins, carbohydrates, etc.) and polymers are also considered.
Chinese
Elementary Chinese II
Course Number: CHIN 1502H
Instructor: Zhang
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Two lecture sections are available:
Lecture:
Class Number: 15007
Days and Times: MW 10:00 AM-11:30 AM
Lab:
Class Number: 15008
Days and Times: MW 11:30 AM-12:30 PM
Lecture:
Class Number: 15016
Days and Times: TTh 10:00 AM-11:30 AM
Lab:
Class Number: 15017
Days and Times: TTh 11:30 AM-12:30 PM
The goal of this course is to develop skills listening, speaking, reading, and writing
Mandarin Chinese. Chinese is one of the most challenging foreign languages. For students
with little or no background in Chinese, a minimum of two hours of study each day
is necessary. Class performance is evaluated on a daily basis. Active participation,
accurate pronunciation, and the ability to understand and respond in Chinese are the
criteria. Students must pass tests and a final exam (oral and written). This Honors
course is a continuation of the fall sections in CHIN 1501.
Intermediate Chinese II
Course Number: CHIN 2312H
Instructor: Zhang
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 15009
Days and Times: TTh 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
Introduction to modern spoken and written Mandarin Chinese. Continued development
of oral skills with increased emphasis on the written language.
Economics
Mathematics for Economics
Course Number: ECON 3362H
Instructor: Saboury
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 19206
Days and Times: MW 11:30 AM-1:00 PM
In this course, we develop economic models, find mathematical solutions to these models,
and explore computational tools that help derive and approximate mathematical solutions
to economic problems. We begin by reviewing concepts from calculus, linear algebra,
and statistics. We then develop techniques for solving and analyzing static and dynamic
economic models that focus on utility-maximizing households and profit-maximizing
firms. We will solve households’ and firms’ constrained optimization problems to derive
demand and supply for labor, capital, and goods and analyze the determination of prices
in equilibrium. You will also become familiar with using MATLAB for solving economic
problems.
Energy and Sustainability
Introduction to Energy and Sustainability
Course Number: ENRG 3310H
Instructor: Jacobsen
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Two sections are available:
Class Number: 13612
Days and Times: MW 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
Class Number: 17200
Days and Times: TTh 10:00 AM-11:30 AM
<ES>
ENRG 3310 is an undergraduate course intended for a broad range of majors interested
in energy and sustainability. This course examines the history, present reality, and
the likely future of our energy use from a combined social and natural science perspective.
We will cover socioeconomic, scientific, political, and socio-cultural aspects of
the technologies currently used to produce energy and those that may constitute our
energy future. This class is the introductory course for the Energy & Sustainability
minor at UH, and its intention is to make graduating seniors highly competitive in
an economy that will likely be dominated by energy issues in the near future.
Case Studies in Energy & Sustainability
Course Number: ENRG 4320H
Instructor: Moore
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 13567
Days and Times: TTh 4:00 PM-5:30 PM
<ES>
Case Studies in Energy and Sustainability is a capstone course designed for students
minoring in Energy and Sustainability. In this upper-level course, we will explore
several pivotal topics in Energy and Sustainability, working through global and comparative
case studies: Climate Change, Energy Transition, Energy Justice, and Energy Policy
and Governance. Students will delve deeply into the nuances of these topics, gaining
a comprehensive understanding of their interplay in shaping the future of our energy
landscape. This capstone experience is structured to equip students with a critical
and creative interdisciplinary toolkit with which to address the complex challenges
in energy and sustainability that inspire their unique engagement with the field.
Development, Conservation, and Health in the Dominican Republic
Course Number: ENRG 4397H
Instructor: Williamson
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 20476
Days and Times: MW 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
<ES>
This interdisciplinary course prepares students to travel to the Dominican Republic,
specifically the beautiful beachside community of Las Terrenas, to better understand
the opportunities and challenges that a developing country faces protecting their
environmental resources, including beaches, wetland, and coral reefs, while ensuring
their people have access to good jobs, quality education, and good healthcare. The
course will also prepare students to work with local partners on community-engaged,
service-learning projects to better understand and address these and related issues.
Instructor permission is required to enroll, and enrollment in the course is required
for the trip.
Industry Perspectives in Energy and Sustainability
Course Number: ENRG 4397H
Instructor: Noack
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 20477
Days and Times: MW 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
<ES>
Energy costs, environmental impacts and reputation concerns drive company strategies
and tactics in a variety of industries. Companies within the same industry may have
differing views on how energy and sustainability should dictate their actions. This
course explores how different industries and different companies within industries
think about these matters. A variety of guest speakers and reading assignments will
be used to explore how energy and sustainability challenges and opportunities shape
industrial activities.
Energy for Rural Economic Transformation
Course Number: ENRG 4397H
Instructor: Debrah
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 20478
Days and Times: MW 4:00 PM-5:30 PM
<ES>
The sustainable development goal 7 advocates for clean energy for all by 2030. However,
many rural communities in developing countries lack access to clean and affordable
energy despite local resources that suit renewable energy generation. Economic transformation
is contingent on development; hence, the course aims to utilize some development tools
and frameworks to situate the energy access needs of rural communities. It will cover
aspects of energy planning and the design of an energy system for a community in a
developing region.
Nature, Values, and Protected Areas
Course Number: ENRG 4397H
Instructor: Jacobsen
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 20479
Days and Times: TTh 11:30 AM-1:00 PM
<ES>
Overview of the roles, purposes, and controversies surrounding parks and protected
areas, including their ecological, cultural, and social significance. Topics include
conservation, resource management, access, and the valuation of protected areas, as
well as conflicts between preservation, use, and community rights.
Energy Geographies
Course Number: ENRG 4397H
Instructor: Moore
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 20480
Days and Times: TTh 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
<ES>
This course focuses on energy geographies and sustainability. Students explore the
dynamics of human and environmental processes through the lens of social sciences
applied to the production and consumption of energy landscapes. Key inquiries include
defining energy related natural resources, understanding how their geographical distribution
intersects with wealth, poverty, geopolitics, technology, and institutional capabilities,
and how these factors impact actions towards sustainable development.
Engineering
Introduction to Diseases
Course Number: BIOE 3351H
Instructor: Mohan
Instructional Mode: Synchronous Online
Class Number: 18736
Days and Times: T 4:00 PM-7:00 PM
A comprehensive first look at human diseases, including relevant engineering applications.
Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics I
Course Number: CHEE 2332H
Instructor:
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 12712
Days and Times: MW 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
This class explores fundamental concepts of thermodynamic systems, heat and work,
properties of pure substances, and first and second laws of thermodynamics.
Analytical Methods for Chemical Engineers
Course Number: CHEE 3321H
Instructor:
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 12277
Days and Times: TTh 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
This course covers mathematical modeling and conservation equations, linear algebra,
and ordinary and partial differential equations with applications to chemical engineering
systems.
Fluid Mechanics for Chemical Engineers
Course Number: CHEE 3363H
Instructor:
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 15602
Days and Times: TTh 10:00 AM-11:30 AM
Foundations of fluid mechanics, fluid statics, kinematics, laminar and turbulent flow;
macroscopic balances; dimensional analysis and flow correlations.
Circuit Analysis Laboratory
Course Number: ECE 2100H
Instructor:
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 12107
Days and Times: W 10:00 AM-1:00 PM
Introduction to the electronics laboratory equipment. Introductory experiments in
circuit analysis. Formal report writing. This laboratory course is a prerequisite
for all other ECE laboratory courses.
Signals and Systems Analysis
Course Number: ECE 3337H
Instructor: TBA
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 12288
Days and Times: TTh 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
This course covers time and frequency domain techniques for signal and system analysis.
Concepts include engineering applications of the convolution sum and integral, Fourier
series and transforms, and Laplace transforms.
Computing for Engineers
Course Number: ENGI 1331H
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Three sections are available:
Instructor: Landon
Class Number: 12484
Days and Times: MW 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
Instructor: Landon
Class Number: 17384
Days and Times: MW 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
Instructor: Zelisko
Class Number: 13324
Days and Times: TTh 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
ENGI 1331H is a team- and project-based course that focuses on several central themes
essential to success in any engineering discipline, and helps students develop engineering
problem solving, enhanced communication skills, project management, and teamwork.
Students will be introduced to computer-based tools for engineering problem-solving,
programming constructs, algorithms, and application. Traditional exams are given on
Saturdays. This class is open to all Honors Engineering Students.
Technical Communications
Course Number: ENGI 2304H
Instructor: Wilson
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 10507
Days and Times: MW 10:00 AM-11:30 AM
<LS>
This course introduces students to the forms and conventions of engineering writing,
including making presentations into compelling narratives.
Thermodynamics
Course Number: MECE 2334H
Instructor:
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 15542
Days and Times: MW 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
This course covers fundamental concepts of heat and work, simple substances, energy
analysis, first and second laws of thermodynamics, and thermodynamics of state.
Mechanics II
Course Number: MECE 3336H
Instructor:
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 12313
Days and Times: TTh 10:00 AM-11:30 AM
The kinematics and dynamics of single particles, groups of particles, and rigid bodies
are examined in detail using vector mechanics and energy methods. Fundamental behavior
of mechanical vibration is introduced.
English
European Renaissance
Course Number: ENGL 4330H
Instructor: Ferguson
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 19637
Days and Times: MW 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
<PHR>
The European Renaissance from the historical and cultural perspectives of literature,
history, philosophy, art, architecture, music, drama, and technology.
Literature and Medicine
Course Number: ENGL 4371H
Instructor: Liddell
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 12324
Days and Times: MW 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
<MS>
In this course, we'll read an arrangement of texts from disparate sources—fiction,
biographical account, graphic memoir, and classic Greek theatre are among the possibilities.
We'll follow these authors and their subjects below the surface of disease and diagnosis
to examine the uncertainties of illness, trauma, and care. We’ll see the human frailty
exposed in the infirm and hidden in those who attempt to treat them. We’ll come to
know the inadequacy of answers and the value of empathy. And we’ll discover that the
realm of medicine is merely one more context in our continuing exploration of the
human experience.
German
German Cinema
Course Number: GERM 3381H
Instructor: Glass
Instructional Mode: Asynchronous Online
Class Number: 11672
<CW>
This creative arts core curriculum class provides an overview of the history of German
Cinema. In the course of the 20th century, Germany witnessed major changes to its
identity: the short-lived Weimar Republic (1918-1933) in the wake of WWI, Nazism (1933-45),
post-World War II division into West (FRG) and East (GDR) Germany, German reunification
in 1990 as a consequence of the fall of the Berlin Wall (1989) leading to the Berlin
Republic (1990 to today). Those changes determined the periodization of national cinema
into a succession of distinct eras and movements. In our discussion of the assigned
films, we will pay close attention to the way in which and to what purpose cinematic
and narrative techniques are employed – how the movie tells a story – but also, of
course, to the story itself and the historical context for the making and the reception
of the film.
History
The United States To 1877
Course Number: HIST 1301H
Instructor: Vale
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 16056
Days and Times: TTh 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
This course will explore the evolution of the United States from its Native American
and colonial roots up to the Civil War and Reconstruction in 1877. Throughout this
course, we will explore several of the major themes in the first half of U.S. history
that will become the foundation for our current social, economic, and political situation
today, as well as the lingering issues left unaddressed by the fledgling republic
and later, the Civil War. Such issues include: the destruction and upheaval of the
native civilizations of the Western Hemisphere during European contact, life in the
colonies, the move towards independence and the idea of America as a country, the
battle over small vs. big government, the rise of industrialization and capitalism
in the early nineteenth century, as well as slavery and its role in leading the U.S.
towards civil war in the 1860s.
The United States Since 1877
Course Number: HIST 1302H
Instructor: Modaff
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Two sections are available:
Class Number: 19178
Days and Times: MW 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
Class Number: 19177
Days and Times: MW 4:00 PM-5:30 PM
This class is an introduction to the past 150 years of American life. We investigate
topics as diverse as labor strikes, immigration, beauty culture, popular music, war
and protest, highways, illegal substances, gender ideas, and the beef industry. The
many stories we tell will give you a new lens on our present reality, a way to connect
history to the questions that matter to you. Short, flexible assignments ask students
to connect history to their world and values. Within that flexibility, we foreground
the history of social movements in four units built around the technology by which
people communicated with one another, from telephones to the internet. We will also
pay close attention to what historians call the “growth of the modern state.” Finally,
this class will teach you to read and write like a historian: with care and creativity.
Plagues and Pestilence
Course Number: HIST 3319H
Instructor: Schafer
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 18341
Days and Times: TTh 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
<MS>
In this course, we will examine the causes and effects of a variety of epidemics in
human history, from the Plague of Athens in Ancient Greece, to the Black Death in
late medieval Europe, to smallpox in the colonial Americas, to emerging epidemics
of recent decades. The course is organized chronologically with a focus on select
epidemic diseases, each of which characterized particular moments in human history
and epidemiology.
Houston Since 1836
Course Number: HIST 3327H
Instructor: Harwell
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number:
Days and Times: MW
During this course, students will research, write an article, and locate images for
inclusion in a future issue of Houston History magazine, moving from story formation
to final preparations to submit for publication. Published by the UH Center for Public
History since 2003, Houston History combines the rigors of historical academic research
with a narrative style to appeal to a broad public audience. Thus, students will learn
to write history for a popular magazine audience, edit copy, select images, and write
captions for completed magazine articles on topics related to Houston history, as
well as adapting the article to a blog and short documentary narration. The class
will work as an editorial board doing peer reviews and making decisions on themes
and topics to create an issue of Houston History magazine containing these articles.
Capstone in Public History
Course Number: HIST 4390H
Instructor: Harwell
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 19305
Days and Times: MW 11:30 AM-1:00 PM
During this course, students will research, write an article, and locate images for
inclusion in a future issue of Houston History magazine, moving from story formation
to final preparations to submit for publication. Published by the UH Center for Public
History since 2003, Houston History combines the rigors of historical academic research
with a narrative style to appeal to a broad public audience. Thus, students will learn
to write history for a popular magazine audience, edit copy, select images, and write
captions for completed magazine articles on topics related to Houston history, as
well as adapting the article to a blog and short documentary narration. The class
will work as an editorial board doing peer reviews and making decisions on themes
and topics to create an issue of Houston History magazine containing these articles.
Honors
Mapping Success
This course is cross-listed as HON 3332-01 (14334)
Course Number: HON 3132H
Instructor: Rayder
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 14335
Days and Times: F 10:00 AM-11:00 AM
Collegiate life transcends the classroom because learning is experiential, intentional,
and includes research, study abroad, and public service. In this course, sophomores
and juniors interested in making the most of their academic career will develop a
personalized collegiate map to meet their academic and professional goals and learn
how to build a network of UH mentors, get started in conducting research, apply for
fellowships to fund external opportunities and graduate school, and discuss scholarly
topics within their field. Students will also hone skills needed to be successful
upon graduation, such as developing a personal statement, creating a CV, and asking
for letters of recommendation. More importantly, students will learn to make curricular
and co-curricular decisions that impact their longterm goals and broaden their worldview.
Students may enroll in either the 1 or 3 credit hour version; for Leadership Studies
credit students must be enrolled in the 3 credit hour course.
Readings in Medicine & Society
Course Number: HON 3301H
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Three sections are available:
Instructor: Gallagher
Class Number: 11982
Days and Times: MWF 10:00 AM-11:00 AM
Instructor: Gallagher
Class Number: 13262
Days and Times: MWF 11:00 AM-12:00 PM
Instructor: Liddell
Class Number: 13856
Days and Times: TTh 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
This course serves as a broad introduction to ways the medical humanities can play
a crucial role in helping both medical professionals and patients better understand
issues of health and disease from a variety of perspectives. Via essays, fictional
narratives, memoir, journalistic accounts, films, and/or guest speakers, this discussion-based
class will also emphasize practices of reflective and critical thinking, communication
skills, and developing a more empathetic, holistic awareness of the many social, cultural,
and emotional dimensions that shape our experiences of illness, recovery, and the
provision of care.
Global Systems of Medicine
Course Number: HON 3304H
Instructor: Lunstroth
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 18185
Days and Times: TTh 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
<MS>
How do different systems of medicine across the world define and describe life? While
western medicine focuses on the physical organism, Chinese medicine takes opposite
approach -- viewing living things as energetic systems in larger energetic systems.
In this course, we “look beneath the hood” of various medical approaches, exploring
the diverse ways humans understand health and treat disease. We will start with orthodox
western medicine, since it is what we are most familiar with, and from there explore
Chinese medicine and then other systems and modalities of medicine such as osteopathy,
homeopathy, Ayurveda, shamanism, prayer, etc. In every class we will perform simple
sets of Chi Gong mind/body exercises to directly experience what energy-based medicines
is all about – and in the end we will gain deeper understandings of what non-allopathic
medicine can mean for health systems and practitioners both in the U.S. and across
the globe.
Medicine in Performance
Course Number: HON 3305H
Instructor: Lambeth
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 12308
Days and Times: TTh 4:00 PM-5:30 PM
<MS>
In this colloquium we will examine the representations of illness, disability, and
medicine through the history of film, from the earliest “moving pictures” Edweard
Muybridge crafted for medical purposes, through the silent era, on through the twentieth
century in the films of such directors as Kurosawa, Sirk, Ray, Cassavetes, and Varda,
up to our contemporary moment. Prepared with the vocabulary and awareness of the constructed
cinematic image, we will ask questions relating to the filmmakers’ representations
of illness in performance refracted through medical attitudes in history and culture.
Along with close “reading” of films, we will also read articles and film theory texts
to increase the precision of your visual literacy and film vocabulary. Writing assignments
vary from film analysis to creative and reflective projects inspired by the films.
Intro to Health Professions
Course Number: HON 3309H
Instructor: Gallagher
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 20466
Days and Times: MW 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
<MS>
Designed for both pre-health students and students with a more general interest in
healthcare, this course explores what human care means, the health professions dedicated
to that vocation, and the social forces that structure healthcare and the caring professions.
Together we will ask: how do different healthcare professions define and deliver care?
What shapes the professional commitments, experiences, trajectories, and identities
of those engaged in the work of care? How do we understand the relationship between
the caregiver and the cared for? Drawing on biographies, oral histories, and invited
guest speakers, we will explore ‘lives of caring’ from a diverse array of social identities
and a wide range of the healthcare workforce. Utilizing scholarship from the humanities
and social sciences, we will consider historical trends, current issues, and future
possibilities for the practices of care.
Creativity at Work
Course Number: HON 3310H
Instructor: Zaretsky
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 20429
Days and Times: MW 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
<CW>
The foundation course for Creative Work: a Pre-professional Minor, HON 3310 brings
original approaches to big questions and challenges students to reflect on creativity's
essential role in their majors, careers, and lives. Fundamental to the course is its
insistence that beyond its typical association with the arts, creativity means many
things and takes countless practical forms. Creativity implies a willingness to examine
problems from new angles, the capacity to conceive innovative solutions, and the pragmatism
to shepherd ideas from inspiration to realization. Each section of HON 3310 is unique,
bringing the arts, artists, and inventive thinkers into conversation with a topic
of the instructor’s choosing:
Dr. Zaretsky - Creative Laziness
Leadership Theory and Practice
Course Number: HON 3330H
Instructor: Rhoden
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 12129
Days and Times: MWF 11:00 AM-12:00 PM
<LS>
This course will provide students with a review of major leadership theories designed
to incorporate research findings, practice, skillbuilding, and direct application
to real world scenarios. Beyond leadership theories, the course will cover a variety
of topics impacting today’s student, including power and ethics, teamwork, coaching
and mentoring, conflict, and motivation. As one of the core offerings in the Leadership
Studies minor, this course assumes that every individual has leadership potential
and that leadership qualities can be developed through experience and reflection.
Through class activities, we will create opportunities for practice, application,
and documentation of leadership experiences. Success in this course requires demonstrated
mastery of theoretical concepts, capacity for collaborative work, and thoughtful reflection
upon and integration of theory and experience.
Mapping Success
This course is cross-listed as HON 3132-01 (14335)
Course Number: HON 3332H
Instructor: Rayder
Instructional Mode: Hybrid
Class Number: 14334
Days and Times: F 10:00 AM-11:00 AM
<LS>
Collegiate life transcends the classroom because learning is experiential, intentional,
and includes research, study abroad, and public service. In this course, sophomores
and juniors interested in making the most of their academic career will develop a
personalized collegiate map to meet their academic and professional goals and learn
how to build a network of UH mentors, get started in conducting research, apply for
fellowships to fund external opportunities and graduate school, and discuss scholarly
topics within their field. Students will also hone skills needed to be successful
upon graduation, such as developing a personal statement, creating a CV, and asking
for letters of recommendation. More importantly, students will learn to make curricular
and co-curricular decisions that impact their longterm goals and broaden their worldview.
Students may enroll in either the 1 or 3 credit hour version; for Leadership Studies
credit students must be enrolled in the 3 credit hour course.
Leadership in the Classic Texts
This course is cross-listed as HON 3390-01 (20431)
Course Number: HON 3335H
Instructor: Gish
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 20432
Days and Times: MW 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
<LS> <PHR>
This course examines political case studies of prudence, or the virtue of practical
wisdom (/phronēsis/), in action. Prudent statesmanship and leadership must begin with
deliberate reflection upon and judgment about what is good for a political community
as the foundation for political action and rhetoric. We will study examples of political
prudence through a close reading of selections from ancient texts (such as Xenophon,
Demosthenes, and Cicero) and modern speeches in times of crisis (Edmund Burke, George
Washington, John Quincy Adams, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Franklin Roosevelt,
and Winston Churchill).
Body, Mind and Literature of War
Course Number: HON 3344H
Instructor: Trninic
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number:
Days and Times: MW 4:00 PM-5:30 PM
<MS>
This seminar approaches the larger intersection of war and literature through a Medicine
& Society focus. In examining narratives of war written by veterans, medics, and civilians,
students will consider the physical and psychological wounds inherent in the battlefield,
the hospital, the homecoming, and beyond. Texts may include writings by Sophocles,
Walt Whitman, Ernest Hemingway, Kurt Vonnegut, Nora Okja Keller, and Toni Morrison,
along with secondary readings. Students will respond to readings in weekly writing
and discussion leading, culminating in a term research paper and presentation of their
findings.
Principles of Data and Society
Course Number: HON 3350H
Instructor: Kapral
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 14324
Days and Times: TTh 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
<DS>
Advancing technologies and shifting values compel new thinking about the collection
and use of data to inform decision-making and frame our collective experience. This
discussion-based course examines the historical foundations, philosophical underpinnings,
and social forces that shape the role data plays in our society. Through selected
readings, activities, and projects, students will engage with data science principles
and techniques through a humanities lens. Students will gain working proficiencies
in the fundamentals of data literacy, including how to motivate, contextualize, and
accomplish basic data analytic tasks from exploratory analysis to visualization. By
understanding broad ethical and social issues and developing data-driven arguments,
students begin to conceptualize the many ways data can be used in our changing society.
Law & Ethics in Ancient Near East
Course Number: HON 3375H
Instructor: Rainbow
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 20430
Days and Times: MW 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
<PHR>
This course examines the question of how humans should live, both individually and
collectively, from the perspective of ancient Near Eastern legal, ethical, and wisdom
texts. Representative readings (with examples) include Babylonian and Assyrian law
codes (Laws of Hammurabi), Egyptian instructional literature (Teaching of Ptahhotep),
selections from the Hebrew Bible and New Testament (Ten Commandments and Sermon on
the Mount), the Dead Sea Scrolls (the Community Rule) early Christian literature (Didache),
and rabbinic literature (Pirkei Avot). We will attend both to the distinctive features
of the sources as well as to the ideas that connect them over a 2,000 year history.
Lence Seminar
This course is cross-listed as HON 3335-01 (20432)
Course Number: HON 3390H
Instructor: Gish
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 20431
Days and Times: MW 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
<LS> <PHR>
This course examines political case studies of prudence, or the virtue of practical
wisdom (/phronēsis/), in action. Prudent statesmanship and leadership must begin with
deliberate reflection upon and judgment about what is good for a political community
as the foundation for political action and rhetoric. We will study examples of political
prudence through a close reading of selections from ancient texts (such as Xenophon,
Demosthenes, and Cicero) and modern speeches in times of crisis (Edmund Burke, George
Washington, John Quincy Adams, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Franklin Roosevelt,
and Winston Churchill).
History of the Present
Course Number: HON 3397H
Instructor: Frith
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 20481
Days and Times: MW 4:00 PM-5:30 PM
<DS> <PHR>
History of the Present takes a major issue from today's headlines and explores its
deep roots in politics, economics, and intellectual life.
Environmental Health
Course Number: HON 3397H
Instructor: Moore
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 20482
Days and Times: MW 4:00 PM-5:30 PM
<DS> <MS>
What is health, and what is the relationship between a healthy environment and a healthy
population? This course introduces the key concepts of environmental health, examining
how environmental factors influence health outcomes from an interdisciplinary perspective
that draws from health geographies, science and technology studies, medical anthropology,
and the medical humanities. With a focus on Gulf Coast case studies, we will consider
the health impacts of past and ongoing changes in the natural and built environment,
including industrialization, resource extraction, climate change, globalization, and
urban development. We will also engage environmental and health justice perspectives
in thinking through how linked processes of social and environmental change might
support broader access to and equity in healthcare.
The Body and the Bible
Course Number: HON 3397H
Instructor: Dawson
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 20483
Days and Times: MW 4:00 PM-5:30 PM
<CW><MS>
How does the bible think about bodies? Is a body good or evil, and what is its relationship
to the soul or spirit? What makes bodies healthy or sick in the biblical world, and
how does the bible contribute to our understanding of healthy and sick bodies in the
modern world? This course surveys biblical texts featuring different types of biblical
bodies – divine and human, healthy and sick, wayward and righteous, human and nonhuman
– and encourages future medical practitioners to consider how medical contexts interact
with biblical worldviews.
Global Bioethics
Course Number: HON 3397H
Instructor: Lunstroth
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 20484
Days and Times: TTh 10:00 AM-11:30 AM
<MS>
This course is designed for students who will attend the summer bioethics course in
Rome, Italy, but it is open to all juniors and seniors. We will explore how bioethics
is understood in the international sphere. We will start with the UNESCO Universal
Declaration on Bioethics & Human Rights. Its norms are supposed to apply to everyone
in the world. We will then explore how these universal ideas get more and more attenuated
and dysfunctional the more we focus on smaller and smaller political and ethnic collectives
such as religions, ethnicities, states organized by different political theories,
regional arrangements, etc. When there are conflicts between the universalist Eurocentric
norms of bioethics and human rights and particular groups around the globe, which
norms are right, or more right, and how can we figure that out? What role does colonialism
play? What about religions and other traditions? This course requires instructor permission
for enrollment. Enrollment in the course is required for students attending the study
abroad.
Social Media, Digitality, and Politics
Course Number: HON 3397H
Instructor: Lawler
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 20485
Days and Times: TTh 10:00 AM-11:30 AM
<DS><LS>
Social media platforms house a great deal of our daily activity and discourse, but
how do these platforms formally and informally change us? Is social media good or
bad for community? How much personal information should be online? How is the use
of Big Data governed? We'll explore these and more difficult questions which digitality
(the fabric of our lives that is purely digital) introduces to our social politics.
Additional topics we’ll cover include: the rights of online communities, virtual physicality
(avatars), trolling, memes, connective action, algorithmic justice, online privacy,
and surveillance. We'll explore the phenomena of digitality at intersections of politics,
democratic theory, media studies, embodiment and space on social media platforms.
The course will include discussion, interpretive essays, and a research project collecting
and contextualizing social media “artifacts” as they pertain to pressing political
and social questions.
Introduction to Graphic Medicine
Course Number: HON 3397H
Instructor: Vollrath
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 20486
Days and Times: TTh 10:00 AM-11:30 AM
<MS>
This course introduces students to graphic medicine—a field that creates intersections
between comics and healthcare. We will read, discuss, and analyze graphic memoirs
that address various themes of the health humanities, such as the doctor-patient relationship,
illness, pain, death, challenges of caretaking, trauma, disability, etc. By studying
the complex interplay between art and text, students will gain a deeper understanding
of how comic narratives work as a mode of expression for the human experience. Students
will also make their own comic narratives by connecting personal experience with themes
from the course. No previous drawing experience is required, just a willingness to
play, create, and engage with visual storytelling exercises and projects.
Op Eds and Essays: Writing as a Public Intellectual
Course Number: HON 3397H
Instructor: Zaretsky
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 20487
Days and Times: TTh 11:30 AM-1:00 PM
<CW>
The class has two goals: first, the place of public intellectuals in society, with
a focus on France and the US. To what extent have they shaped opinion and influenced
political leaders in the past? Do they still play a role in our own world? Second,
the class will provide guidance for improving our own writing skills—without the aid
of LLMs—with the goal of reaching the public. We will workshop our essays as well
as hear from writers who write for a living.
Roman Imperial Thought
Course Number: HON 3397H
Instructor: Ford
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 20488
Days and Times: TTh 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
<PHR>
In the wake of the Civil Wars that ended the Republic, the Roman world entered a period
of stability, prosperity, and cultural flourishing that lasted 200 years. Rome’s vast
empire brought thinkers from Europe, Africa, and the Greek East together with thinkers
from the imperial center, creating surprising new intellectual developments. This
class examines the literature, art, and philosophy of high imperial Rome, from the
Augustan era through the Julio-Claudian, Flavian, and Nervan-Antonine dynasties. Topics
may include emperor and citizen in the imperial system; the genres of biography, panegyric,
and the epistle; geography and encyclopedias; Stoic, Platonic, and Aristotelian philosophy;
the Second Sophistic; and Roman Judaism and Christianity. Readings may include the
Augustan poets, Philo, Pliny, Josephus, Tacitus, Suetonius, and Plutarch.
AI Policy Governance and Law
Course Number: HON 3397H
Instructor: Belco
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 20489
Days and Times: TTh 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
<DS><LS>
This interdisciplinary course studies Artificial Intelligence (AI) through the lens
of policy, governance and law. Students will have a variety of learning opportunities
including speakers, research projects, case studies, debates, and in-class exercises
to explore how policy is reactive and proactive, how models and systems of governance
and law create guardrails for this powerful innovation, and how infrastructure needed
to support AI will guide its use and growth.
E-Portfolio
Course Number: HON 4130H
Instructor: Bettinger
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 12130
Days and Times: F 12:00 PM-1:00 PM
<LS>
The one-credit hour ePortfolio course is recommended for juniors and seniors seeking
innovative ways to showcase their undergraduate career and to distinguish themselves
when applying for graduate school and the workforce. The course guides students through
“folio thinking” when developing their professional websites, which includes creating
a narrative for the website, a site map, and drafts of the ePortfolio. The class is
collaborative, with opportunities for brainstorming, peer reviewing, and presenting
ideas.
Artists and their Regions
Course Number: HON 4315H
Instructor: Rayneard
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 19188
Days and Times: MW 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
<CW>
This course is a sustained engagement with the creative process, with a particular
emphasis on creative practitioners at work in the city of Houston. It looks for answers
to the questions, Once you have a great idea, how do you realize it? How do you begin?
When do you stop? Many case-studies, both archival and contemporary, help with these
inquiries. The class is the recommended capstone experience for the Creative Work
pre-professional program/minor, and designed to complement the foundation course Creativity
at Work.
Narratives in the Professions
Course Number: HON 4330H
Instructor: Reynolds
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 14323
Days and Times: TTh 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
<CW> <LS> <MS>
Every profession has stories: of challenges faced, mistakes made, and inexperience
evolving into expertise. What’s more, effective communication of narratives remains
an essential professional skill: for lawyers arguing a case, doctors explaining treatments,
teachers leading a class, executives making presentations, and so on. In this class
we will examine narratives both ways: first by gaining insights from stories set in
various professional fields, and then re-purposing those insights to more skillfully
articulate your own distinct readiness for an intended career. Texts will consist
of essays, journalism, fiction, and films, while reflective writing assignments will
include prompts tailored towards generating effective material for use in competitive
interview scenarios, as well as crafting a personal statement for use in job and/or
graduate and professional school applications.
Data and Society in Practice
Course Number: HON 4350H
Instructor: Kapral
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 14325
Days and Times: TTh 4:00 PM-5:30 PM
<DS>
Building on principles introduced in HON 3350, this course explores the practical
implications of adopting a humanities-informed approach to data science. With support
from program faculty and external partners, students will select a topic of interest
and design a data project to examine an issue related to health and well-being within
a local community. Course activities are split between discussion and project working
sessions, and the course is structured to provide multiple opportunities to present
their work and receive feedback from peers and instructors. Through the course, students
will build the capacity to plan and launch an independent research project and will
develop skills related to data acquisition and wrangling, exploratory analysis, visualization,
and presentation.
Engaged Data
Course Number: HON 4355H
Instructor: Konstantinidis
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 20470
Days and Times: TTh 4:00 PM-5:30 PM
<DS>
HON 4355 serves as the elective capstone course for the Data & Society minor, building
on themes from HON 3350 and HON 4350. Through project-based learning and real-world
examples, students will explore diverse data science approaches to interpret and address
societal challenges. Over the semester, each student will work on a community-focused
project of their own choosing using publicly available data and culminating in a poster
presentation for an expert audience, emphasizing practical skills in data preparation
and management, exploratory data analysis, and inferential modeling. Selected readings
will allow students to engage critically with the epistemological questions involved
in the use of data and models as evidentiary devices, providing a humanities-based
perspective of data science. Students will deepen their content knowledge while developing
critical thinking, collaboration, creativity, and communication skills, demonstrating
the positive impact of data science in addressing community needs.
Modernity Revisited
Course Number: HON 4391H
Instructor: Barnes
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 20468
Days and Times: MW 4:00 PM-5:30 PM
<PHR>
This course will explore the life and work of Dante Alighieri. In addition to a short
biography and a few of his minor works, we will read the entire Divine Comedy. This
course will be seminar-style, with a heavy emphasis on participation in discussion
and weekly writing assignments.
Social Advocacy and Democracy
Course Number: HON 4397H
Instructor: Lawler
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 20490
Days and Times: TTh 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
<DS> <LS>
Advocacy and action have played crucial roles throughout America’s evolving experiment
in democracy. When everyday people band together, turning thought into action, they
can develop their power to change policy, whether on their campuses or in their neighborhoods
and communities. This course explores your power and our democracy, both of which
are central to social action and to creating the next generation of democratic citizens
and civic leaders. We will explore the history and science of social movements, as
well as successful (and unsuccessful) strategies and tactics, but the majority of
the course will be spent in action, doing what you plan, and carrying out a social
advocacy campaign with a team. Examples include public presentations of contemporary
issue-area research grounded in data collection and analysis, group formation and
action, and community-based campaign planning and implementation.
Mathematics
Accelerated Calculus
Course Number: MATH 2451H
Instructor: Nicol
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Lecture:
Class Number: 14361
Days and Times: MWF 10:00 AM-11:00 AM
Lab:
Class Number: 14361
Days and Times: MWF 9:00 AM-10:00 AM
This course is part of a one-year course in which we will cover the material of three
traditional semesters of calculus. Vector calculus will form the backbone of the course,
with single variable calculus weaved around it. Ample time will be devoted to a careful
study of the theorems of Green, Stokes, and Gauss. The philosophy of the course is
to cultivate skills in three areas: 1) The ability to carry out long computations
accurately; 2) The aptitude of using calculus to solve problems with relevance to
everyday life; 3) The development of critical thinking through the careful study of
a number of crucial theorems and their proofs. Emphasis will be placed on technical
correctness, a sense of divine inspiration, and logical clarity.
Philosophy
Medical Ethics
Course Number: PHIL 3354H
Instructor: Gallagher
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 16032
Days and Times: Th 4:00 PM-7:00 PM
<MS>
The general purpose of a course in medical ethics is to acquaint the student with
the various moral and ethical issues that exist in the field of medicine and in healthcare.
In order to fulfill this goal, we will move through a variety of topics designed to
provide an introduction to the background of ethics theory; subsequent classes will
be dedicated to issues facing the medical community, along with an opportunity for
each student to participate in and comment on those issues.
Classics in the History of Ethics
Course Number: PHIL 3358H
Instructor: Phillips
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 10037
Days and Times: MW 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
<LS> <PHR>
Analysis of central works in the history of philosophical ethics, by selected authors
such as Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, Butler, Hume, Kant, Mill, and Sidgwick.
History of 20th Century Philosophy
Course Number: PHIL 3388H
Instructor: Morrison
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 10019
Days and Times: MWF 9:00 AM-10:00 AM
<PHR>
We will be reading works from three major figures in the history of philosophy in
the 20th century: Freud, Sartre, and Murdoch. These figures come from very different
intellectual backgrounds and take on very different intellectual questions. But all
three situate their ethical and social philosophy in a larger account of the nature
of human beings and their social interactions. Part of our task this semester will
be to get these thinkers into conversation with each other.
Physics
University Physics I
Course Number: PHYS 2325H
Instructor: Cherdack
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Lecture:
Class Number: 15934
Days and Times: MW 4:00 PM-5:30 PM
Lab:
Class Number: 15935
Days and Times: F 3:00 PM-4:00 PM
Mechanics of one- and two-dimensional motion, dynamics, energy, momentum, rotational
dynamics and kinematics, statics, oscillations, and waves.
University Physics II
Course Number: PHYS 2326H
Instructor: Bassler
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Lecture:
Class Number: 20444
Days and Times: MW 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
Lab:
Class Number: 20445
Days and Times: F 1:00 PM-2:00 PM
This course covers thermodynamics, electricity, magnetism, electromagnetic waves,
optics, and modern physics.
Political Science
United States Government: Congress, President, and Courts
Course Number: GOVT 2305H
Instructor: Belco
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 15111
Days and Times: TTh 11:30 AM-1:00 PM
The study of the institutional design of government and the political behavior of
the electorate. This course considers how and why the electorate acts as they do in
our representative system and our institutions. We will study how Congress, the president,
and the judiciary carry out their functions, including the creation, execution, and
the interpretation of law.
United States and Texas Constitution and Politics
Course Number: GOVT 2306H
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Six sections are available:
Instructor: Leland
Class Number: 15113
Days and Times: MW 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
Instructor: Leland
Class Number: 15152
Days and Times: TTh 10:00 AM-11:30 AM
Instructor: LeVeaux
Class Number: 17201
Days and Times: TTh 11:30 AM-1:00 PM
Instructor: LeVeaux
Class Number: 15161
Days and Times: TTh 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
Instructor: LeVeaux
Class Number: 20467
Days and Times: TTh 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
Instructor: Belco
Class Number: 15028
Days and Times: TTh 4:00 PM-5:30 PM
This course will introduce students to the study of politics in Texas and the United
States by considering the constitutional order of each. It will begin with the Declaration
of Independence and the ratification of the US Constitution and then move through
American constitutional development to consider the changes to the constitution of
1787. We will investigate the relationship between practical politics and constitutional
design as well as look to Texas as an example of constitutional politics at the state
level.
American Foreign Policy
Course Number: POLS 3331H
Instructor: Hallmark
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 20469
Days and Times: TTh 4:00 PM-5:30 PM
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This course will offer an overview of America’s foreign policy – important events,
individuals, ideas, conflicts, and controversies. Special attention will be paid to
America’s interests, allies, and enemies abroad; the notion that war is deeply imbedded
in international politics; and perhaps most importantly, why American foreign policy
so often fails.
Psychology
Introduction to Psychology
Course Number: PSYC 2301H
Instructor: Saiyed
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 17197
Days and Times: MWF 9:00 AM-10:00 AM
The goal of this course is to provide a general introduction to psychology by examining
several major areas, including consciousness, learning, memory, motivation, cognitive
development, sexuality, social psychology, personality, and mental disorders. The
class will introduce students to current principles, theories, and, if applicable,
controversies of each area. Students will be expected to: 1) understand historical
as well as current theory and research, 2) learn appropriate methods, technologies,
and data collection techniques used by social and behavioral scientists to investigate
the human condition, and 3) critically evaluate and apply key psychological principles
to various real-world circumstances. Testing will emphasize students’ ability to think
critically and apply concepts and theories. Students will submit at least one writing
assignment as part of their course grade.
Introduction to Cognitive Psychology
Course Number: PSYC 3350H
Instructor: Saiyed
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 20428
Days and Times: MWF 10:00 AM-11:00 AM
An information-processing approach to human functioning introducing topics in memory,
language, thought, judgment, and skilled performance.
Human Motivation
Course Number: PSYC 4315H
Instructor: Knee
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 15410
Days and Times: TTh 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
This course explores recent social psychological research and theory on human motivation
and the consequences of different types of motivation (intrinsic vs. extrinsic motivation
in particular). The course will have a particular emphasis on Deci and Ryan’s (1985,
2000, 2008, 2017) self-determination theory, to which we will compare other perspectives
and theories. We will be reading a lot of articles on a few theories rather than a
lot of articles on a lot of theories. Thus, the course will focus on depth rather
than breadth. We will examine motivation as it relates to a wide range of outcomes
including achievement, interest, and creativity in school, sports, and the workplace,
as well as self-development, self-esteem, emotions, and mental and physical health.
Enrollment by instructor approval only. Email knee@uh.edu if you would like to be
added to the course.
Spanish
Spanish for the Global Professions
Course Number: SPAN 3339H
Instructor: Zubiate
Instructional Mode: Asynchronous Online
Class Number: 11981
Days and Times: ARRANGE
This course is designed to equip advanced-level students with Spanish language specific
vocabulary and communication skills used in the professional environment. Besides
the acquisition of target vocabulary and the enhancement of communicative and writing
skills for the workplace, the course also focuses on cultural awareness, professional
etiquette, and protocol. The class will include topics from the following areas: Health,
Education, Social Services, Business, Mass Media, Marketing, and Advertisement in
the Hispanic community in the United States and Spanish- speaking countries.
Spanish for the Health Professions
Course Number: SPAN 3343H
Instructor: Zubiate
Instructional Mode: Hybrid
Class Number: 13560
Days and Times: W 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
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This course targets the use of Spanish in health related fields from a linguistic
and a cultural perspective. The course dynamic is based on assigned readings, as well
as class discussion and role playing practices. The readings cover different health
related disciplines, from medical to public health, sociology, statistics, and anthropology;
the objective is to increase the students’ proficiency in interpreting academic and
scientific texts in Spanish and to prepare them for effective communication on a variety
of health related topics. There is also an emphasis on best practices and how to bring
this information to the patient’s level.