Core Courses Spring 2023

Honors First-Year Experience Course: What am I Here For?
Contemplatives in Action
Students expect many things from their University Experience: A major to study, job preparedness, research opportunities, community engagement, new friendships, sporting events, recreation/wellness, and opportunities to lead and serve. All colleges and universities promise these things. But, at Marquette University, a Jesuit institution, you are invited into formation. As an Honors First-Year Experience Course, this class is designed to introduce you the Jesuit Model of Contemplatives in Action where you find deep meaning and purpose in relationship with others.

Finding Solace in Uncertain Times

CORE 1929H, the Honors First-Year Experience course required for all Core Honors freshmen, is designed to help you build academic success and wellness, increase your intercultural knowledge, and help you find your community.  We will use various forms of media (music, film, social media) to define and communicate our stories of ourselves, to build relationships, manage our emotions, and construct personal identity.

**Enrollment for this class will be done by permission number, and Core Honors spots are limited - please contact Erin if you are interested in taking the class.**

History and Trauma
This class explores the concepts of trauma, history, and memory as experienced by individuals and communities. We read works in the fields of psychoanalysis, sci-fi, philosophy, and history, to see how memory of historical events is affected by trauma, and what we can learn from them for understanding the Covid pandemic.

Finding Our Homeplace

We use the terms “unity” and “belonging” with the hope of celebrating or striving for a sense of uncomplicated and all-encompassing community. We hear this in presidential addresses (President Biden’s Inauguration theme—“America United”), voter campaigns (“Unity Over Division”), and on college campuses (“We Are Marquette”). To realistically and responsibly arrive at these optimistic visions of inclusion, rigorous discussion and deliberation are key. This course aims to dig into this work by exploring how we define and use concepts like “belonging” and “unity,” which generally promise equity and justice for all, and we’ll productively reckon with the challenges these ideals pose. How do we arrive at “we” with any satisfaction? How can unity accommodate difference and diversity? Can injustice and trauma be healed or exacerbated in the face of calls for harmony? We will wrestle with these questions by examining authors and artists, predominantly from the 19^th-century U.S., who encounter the difficulties of finding “home” in the U.S.

We’ll engage with poets of the American Civil War, 21^st-century Poet Laureate Natasha Tretheway, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Walt Whitman, and Herman Melville, among others. The experiences, strategies, and, in some cases, warnings offered by these authors give us historical context and tools for reflecting on palpable political and cultural division in the U.S. today.   

Finding Our Homeplace

We use the terms “unity” and “belonging” with the hope of celebrating or striving for a sense of uncomplicated and all-encompassing community. We hear this in presidential addresses (President Biden’s Inauguration theme—“America United”), voter campaigns (“Unity Over Division”), and on college campuses (“We Are Marquette”). To realistically and responsibly arrive at these optimistic visions of inclusion, rigorous discussion and deliberation are key. This course aims to dig into this work by exploring how we define and use concepts like “belonging” and “unity,” which generally promise equity and justice for all, and we’ll productively reckon with the challenges these ideals pose. How do we arrive at “we” with any satisfaction? How can unity accommodate difference and diversity? Can injustice and trauma be healed or exacerbated in the face of calls for harmony? We will wrestle with these questions by examining authors and artists, predominantly from the 19^th-century U.S., who encounter the difficulties of finding “home” in the U.S.

We’ll engage with poets of the American Civil War, 21^st-century Poet Laureate Natasha Tretheway, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Walt Whitman, and Herman Melville, among others. The experiences, strategies, and, in some cases, warnings offered by these authors give us historical context and tools for reflecting on palpable political and cultural division in the U.S. today.   

Intersectionality and Identity in Modern American Literature and Culture

In Notes of Native Son (1955), James Baldwin claimed that in the United States “our passion for categorization, life fitted neatly into pegs, has led to an unforeseen, paradoxical distress; . . . [to] confusion, a breakdown of meaning.” But this seems counterintuitive: categorization is meant to do just the opposite--to define, classify, order and group. In this course, we will explore works of American literature that test Baldwin’s thesis, particularly with respect to individual and group identities shaped by race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation. We will draw from the fields of critical race and ethnic studies, sociology, psychology, history and literature. This interdisciplinary approach offers a valuable introduction to a variety of disciplines as you begin to hone your academic interests into majors/minors.

The Narrative Self

This course covers the science of Narrative Psychology as it relates to identity and the self-society connection. We explore the philosophical underpinnings of this area of scholarship and focus on research regarding the Life Story, an internalized account of one’s reconstructed past, perceived present, and anticipated future. We examine how these are psycho-socially constructed and rewritten throughout one’s life; how they emanate from individual attributes and are contoured by societal meta-narratives; how they relate to well-being and meaning in life; and, how we can be authentic authors of our own Life Stories.

Native America in Pop Culture

In “Native America in Pop Culture,” students will explore how our ideas about Native American identity have been produced in the American (and global) imagination over time. We will look at various depictions of Native America from literature, visual art, and film as well as pop art, sports mascots, public history monuments, and advertising in order to gain a broad sense of how Indigenous peoples have been represented. Significantly, we will look at the ways Native people have responded to these mainstream representations through self-representation in writing, filmmaking, and artwork. The course will include primary texts in a variety of media forms from American Literature, Native American Literatures, and pop culture selections.

Brave New Worlds

As Oscar Wilde famously wrote: “A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail.” Wilde’s quotation hits on a profound truth of the human condition: our belief that the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. The search for brave new worlds has produced global exploration, population migration, colonization, military revolution, and scientific discovery. It has also pushed philosophers, writers, and poets to ask deeper questions about the breadth and reach of government, about collective political action, about citizen’s rights, about revolution and reform. What kinds of rhetorical strategies do these texts use to imagine brave new worlds? How do they understand the relationship of the individual to his or her community? How do their visions of the future mesh with our own? Surely, there is no time like the present to ask ourselves: what is government and what, or whom, is it good for?  Texts include: Plato’s Republic, Thomas More’s Utopia, Voltaire’s Candide, and Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sowers.

Religious Places, Divided Spaces, and Hope for the Future

 Dr. Martin Luther King famously observed that America is most segregated on Sunday at 11AM. Was that true of Milwaukee while Dr. King called for the nation to redeem its troubled racial leagcy? Is it still true today? If so, how is it that churches mirrored society's basest elements rather than demonstrating its highest ideals? This course introduces students to the history of Milwaukee by examining the the city's religious heritage. Neither the city nor its religious landscape can be fully grasped without broadly understanding the contours of urban history, the role of race in America's founding and growth, the place of city churches and synagogues in welcoming immigrants, and the promise of God to "make all things new." Learn about Marquette's hometown and meet servant leaders throughout Milwaukee who are actively putting their faith into practice to bridge the divides that still keep people apart on Sunday mornings.

Religious Places, Divided Spaces, and Hope for the Future

 Dr. Martin Luther King famously observed that America is most segregated on Sunday at 11AM. Was that true of Milwaukee while Dr. King called for the nation to redeem its troubled racial leagcy? Is it still true today? If so, how is it that churches mirrored society's basest elements rather than demonstrating its highest ideals? This course introduces students to the history of Milwaukee by examining the the city's religious heritage. Neither the city nor its religious landscape can be fully grasped without broadly understanding the contours of urban history, the role of race in America's founding and growth, the place of city churches and synagogues in welcoming immigrants, and the promise of God to "make all things new." Learn about Marquette's hometown and meet servant leaders throughout Milwaukee who are actively putting their faith into practice to bridge the divides that still keep people apart on Sunday mornings.

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Preserving the City as Art and History

This course will introduce students to the history of architecture, parks, monuments, and urban design in America as well as the theory and practice of historic preservation. Through object analysis, historic research, and extensive fieldwork, students will learn how to “read” a building, monument, or cultural landscape as form of public art and as a source of historic evidence, think critically about their built environment, and discover the role which citizens can play in preserving art, history, and community. Using Milwaukee and Chicago as case-studies for these themes, students will come to understand “the power of place” to shape their lives—and their own power to shape civic life.

CORE 4929H 901    TTh     2-3:15pm               Daniel Collette

CORE 4929H 902    TTh     11am-12:15pm      Daniel Collette  

CORE 4929H 903    MWF   11-11:50am           Jonathan Metz

CORE 4929H 904    MWF   9-9:50am              Jonathan Metz

CORE 4929H 905    MWF   10-10:50am          Jonathan Metz

CORE 4929H should be taken by honors seniors. The only exception is a junior who is graduating early.

BIOL 1930 901 LEC   Th    1-2:50pm   TBD

*This is not officially an Honors section, but those who enroll will earn 1 Honors elective credit (not the 3 credits required for one Honors elective course). Students may pair 1930 with any of the regular BIOL 1002 lectures.

CHEM 1002H 902 LEC   MWF   10-10:50am    Llanie Nobile   

CHEM 1002H 903 LEC   MWF   1-1:50pm        Llanie Nobile

            941 LAB   W        2-4:50pm   

            942 LAB   W        2-4:50pm 

            943 LAB   W        2-4:50pm                 

            961 DIS    W        1-1:50pm                 

            962 DIS    Th        9:30-10:20am                  

            963 DIS     T         9:30-10:20am           

CHEM 1014H 901 LEC    MF       11-12:15 am     Nicholas Reiter

            941 LAB   W        11-1:50 am                    Vijay Vyas

COSC 1820 901 LEC     TTh       12:30-1:45 pm     Michael Zimmer

Explore the social, political, legal and ethical implications of computer-based technologies and our increasingly data-driven society. Through in-class activities, assignments and reflection work, gain a basic understanding of essential concepts and theories, modern and historical case studies and guidelines for best practices. Key concepts include digital inclusion and representation, digital lifestyles, automation and simulation, free speech and content moderation, law enforcement and digital conflict, information privacy and security, and artificial intelligence and algorithmic biases. The main objective is to inform and encourage the critical examination – and responsible development and use – of computing technologies.

*This course is a new Honors for All course in the Discovery Tier, a course that is open to all students at Marquette and gives Honors elective credit to students completing the Core Honors curriculum.

HEAL 1025H 901 LEC    Th       11 am - 1:40 pm     TBD

HIST 4271H 901 LEC   MWF      9-9:50am             Alan Ball

*This course is a new Honors for All course in the Discovery Tier, a course that is open to all students at Marquette and gives Honors elective credit to students completing the Core Honors curriculum.  It meets the Basic Needs and Justice humanities or elective course requirement in the Discovery Tier.

**Enrollment for Honors students will be done by permission number - please contact Erin if you are interested in taking this class.**

MATH 1700H 901 LEC    TTh      3:30-4:45pm     Daniel Rowe

         PSYC 1700H 901 Lab    W    12-12:50pm   Debra Oswald

         PSYC 1700H 902 Lab    W     1-1:50pm

To receive honors credit, students must enroll in both the MATH 1700H lecture and PSYC 1700H lab. PSYC 1700H is intended for psychology majors and students in all other disciplines. 

PHIL 1001H 901 LEC   MWF      9-9:50am             Michael Olsen

PHIL 1001H 902 LEC   MWF      11-11:50pm          Michael Olson

PHIL 1001H 903 LEC   MW         2-3:15pm             Yoon Choi

PHIL 1001H 904 LEC   TTh        9:30-10:45pm       Clark Wolf

PHIL 1001H 905 LEC   TTh        9:30-10:45pm       Daniel Collette

PHIL 1001H 906 LEC   TTh        11am-12:15pm     Javiera Perez Gomez

PHIL 1001H 907 LEC   TTh        11am-12:15pm     Clark Wolf

PHIL 4931/5931 101 TIN    M        3-5:30pm        Dr. Mariana Ortega

* This is not officially an honors section, but honors student who enroll will receive honors elective credit.

PHYS 1004H 901 LEC   MWF   9-9:50am & M 6-8pm        Jax Sanders

PHYS 1004H 902 LEC   MWF   12-12:50am & M 6-8pm    Dave Haas

PHYS 1004H 903 LEC   MWF   1-1:50pm & M 6-8pm        Dave Haas

PHYS 1004H 904 LEC   MWF    2-2:50pm & M 6-8pm       Dave Haas

PHYS 1004H 941 LAB    W        6-7:50pm                         Melissa Vigil

PHYS 1004H 942 LAB    Th       4-5:50pm                         Melissa Vigil

PHYS 1004H 961 DIS     W       5-5:50pm                          Melissa Vigil               

PHYS 1014H 901 LEC              MWF   1-2:50pm               Karen Andeen

POSC 2201H 901 LEC    MWF    10-10:50am               Karen Hoffman

POSC 2801H 901 LEC    TTh    11am - 12:15pm               Darrell Dobbs

THEO 3410 101 LEC    MW    2-3:15pm               Christine Delessio

*This is not listed as an "H" course, but is limited to honors students. Those who enroll will receive honors elective credit.