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Spring 2010
CHM 116-03H: Honors General Chemistry II
23813 CHM-116-03H | TR | 11:00-11:50 AM | SB G69 | 4.0
23814 CHM-116-06H | W | 1:30 AM – 4:20 PM | SB 415 |
Prerequisites: Honors Chemistry 115H with a grade of C or better and a co−requisite of MA 154. It is recommended that students have completed MA 165/MA 166 or MA 229/MA 230 with a grade of B. Instructor permission is required.
Instructor: Ron Duchovic
CHM 116H is the second semester of a rigorous two semester introduction to the fundamental principles of modern Chemistry. The course will include the following topics: Thermodynamics, Statistical Mechanics and the Kinetic Theory of Gases, Chemical Kinetics, Solution Equlibria, Electrochemistry, and Nuclear Chemistry. The course will also include the applications to Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Transition Metal Chemistry, and Biochemistry. Each topic will be developed utilizing basic principles from physics and applying calculus–based mathematical models. As such, this course will treat each topic both more extensively and in greater depth than the corresponding discussion in the non–honors CHM 116 course. A three–hour per week laboratory session will accompany the lectures each semester.
Dr. Ronald Duchovic earned his Ph.D in theoretical chemistry from Wayne State University. His research has focused on the kinetics and microscopic dynamics of small molecular systems involved in combustion processes. His primary interest is using potential energy surface models of chemically reacting systems to study the kinetics and dynamics of chemical systems. Other specialties include: Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Potential Energy Surfaces, Chemical Kinetics: Quasi-classical trajectory and Statistical methods, Quantum Theory/Classical Mechanics, and ab initio Quantum Chemisty.
ENG W140-01l: Elementary Composition Honors (internet)
23993 ENG-W140-01I | OCIN | 3 cr.CANCELLED
General Education Area I: Linguistic and Numerical Foundations
Prerequisite: Placement M (W131) on English Composition Placement Test
Instructor: Staff
Honors composition appears in the IPFW Schedule of Classes to challenge high achievers willing to experiment with various styles, systems of writing conventions, voices, and audiences. You will learn to exercise greater flexibility, take bigger risks, research more wisely, take criticism more calmly, and reap richer verbal rewards. An added payoff for students in many disciplines is that honors composition satisfies the two-semester, 6-credit composition requirement in one 3-credit course (check with your academic advisor).
Hon H101-01H: Omnibus Ideas/Human Exp.
24079 HON-H101-01H | TBA | WU G25 | 1.0 cr
General Education Area IV: Humanistic Thought
Course Coordinator: Shree Dhawale
Discussion Leader: Michael Wartell, IPFW Chancellor
This class revolves around the Omnibus Lecture Series and offers students the opportunity to attend lectures given by nationally known speakers and enhances that experience with a variety of activities. We will explicitly examine areas where we agree or respectfully disagree with the speakers and our class members using personal experiences; information from a variety of scholarly, peer-reviewed sources; and theories from our various academic disciplines. Guest speakers will lead a discussion prior to the lectures, and Chancellor Wartell will lead a Socratic discussion after the lectures. An Internet dialogue via Blackboard will allow students to present an objective analysis to peers and engage in civil intellectual discourse in written form.
There are 10 meetings in all for the course throughout the semester, consisting of an introductory meeting with the Honors Program director and meetings with the chancellor and faculty. The lectures are typically at 7:30 p.m. in the Music Building, faculty discussions are at 6 p.m. in the Honors Program Center (WUG25), and meetings with the chancellor are at 6 p.m. in his conference room (KT 178). Students are required to stay for one hour at each meeting.
Shree Dhawale, associate professor of biology, earned a Ph.D. in genetics from Ohio State University. She is a broadly trained molecular geneticist with research interests in regulation of gene expression, biotechnology, molecular cloning, and use of herbal extracts for inhibiting cancer cell proliferation. Dhawale has won numerous grants and an award for her research. In addition to teaching cell biology, molecular genetics, and cancer biology courses for the Department of Biology, she has taught Biotechnology and Society Seminar courses for the Liberal Studies Program. She was awarded a membership in Indiana University’s Faculty Colloquium for Excellence in Teaching.
HON H302-01H: Puzzles, Games, & Problem Solving
24081 HON H302-01H | MWF | 1:30 – 2:20 PM | KT 123 | 3.0 cr
Prerequisites: Completion of Areas I & II
General Education Area VI: Inquiry and Analysis
Instructor: David P. Maloney
What is problem solving? Are all problems solved the same way? In what way is “the scientific method” a problem-solving procedure? In this course we will use a variety of puzzles, e.g., tangrams, logic puzzles, soma cube, etc., and some two-person strategy games, e.g., Mastermind, Othello, Quarto, etc., to explore the reasoning involved in problem solving. Finally, the course will examine some problem solving in the physical sciences to see in what way(s) it is similar to other types of problem solving.
David P. Maloney is a professor of physics and a member of the honors faculty. He received a Ph.D. in physics, geology, and education from Ohio University. His research interests are students’ natural conceptions about physical science, how those natural ideas interact with instructional procedures in the physical sciences, and students’ problem-solving techniques. Maloney teaches a variety of physics courses as well as the interdisciplinary science seminar for the Liberal Studies Program. Maloney was awarded a Distinguished Service Citation by the American Association of Physics Teachers in January 2005.
HON H399-01H: Honors Independent Study (Honors Project)
24080 HON-H399-01H | TBA | TBA | Variable
Prerequisite: Instructor permission
Instructor: Staff
MUS N101-01H: Music for the Listener Honors
24091 MUS-N101-01H | TR | 12:00 – 1:15 PM | RC 162 | 3.0 cr.
General Education Area IV: Humanistic Thought
Instructor: Melanie. Bookout
Music for the Listener (Honors) aims to encourage aural understanding of music of the western art tradition and is taught with the assumption that appreciation of music is enhanced through exposure to the arts and aesthetics of historic style periods. Toward this goal, students are given specific assignments intended to refine their listening skills and to acquaint them with genres and styles of the western canonical repertoire. Students are offered the opportunity to attend rehearsals, recitals, and concerts and are asked to respond in essay form to these experiences. They are exposed not only to local live performance, but to video performances of masterworks of the art repertoire. Occasional field trips for special performances and exhibits offer further opportunities for enriched understanding of western cultural and art traditions.
Melanie Kronick Bookout (M.M. Northwestern University; Ph.D., Louisiana State University) is an associate professor of music at IPFW. Dr. Bookout’s dissertation on the twelve-tone vocal works of Anton Webern won the Distinguished Dissertation Award in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (LSU). Dr. Bookout regularly performs early music (viola da gamba), recently in England and Germany, and she performs in and directs concerts in national, regional, and local venues. She is a member of Eleganza and has appeared with the Fort Wayne Bach Collegium. Bookout is a musicologist whose research interests include the music of the Second Vienna School, the intellectual and artistic trends of the early 20th century, the work of John Cage, and American music of the postmodern period, particularly as these are influenced by and interact with contemporaneous literary and visual art works. She has published poetry in Ribot, Seventh Moon, and she has a chapbook with Potes & Poets Press. Dr. Bookout won the IPFW School of Visual and Performing Arts Excellence in Research and Creative Endeavor Award in 2006. A member of the IPFW Honors Program Faculty, she is an IPFW Featured Faculty member. She teaches music history, literature, and appreciation with the goals of exploring music of the past within its social, political, and artistic contexts and emphasizing aural apprehension and experiences of the listener.
PHIL 110-02H: Introducton to Philosophy Honors
23736 PHIL-110-01H | MWF | 2:30 - 3:20 PM | KT 150 | 3 cr.
General Education Area IV: Humanistic Thought
Instructor: Duston Moore
This course will address pivotal questions associated with modern and pre-modern philosophy. The distinct epistemological qualities of modern thought will be contrasted with the metaphysical considerations of pre-modern philosophy through an investigation into matters ethical, political, theological, and always philosophical.
Duston Moore, Professor of Philosophy, Catholic University of Louvain, PhD Areas of Interest: Continental philosophy, phenomenology, ancient philosophy, medieval philosophy
PSY 350-01H: Abnormal Psychology Honors
23726 PSY-350H-01H | MWF | 11:00-11:50 AM| NF 370 | 3.0 cr.
Prerequisite: PSY 120
General Education Area III: The Individual, Culture, and Society
Instructor: J.D. DiClementi
This course will take a scientific approach to the study of behavior and mental processes, including learning, memory, perception, brain-behavior interactions, personality, intelligence, mental disorders, and social influences on behavior. In addition, students will be actively involved in examining some controversial issues in contemporary psychology, e.g., are memories of sex abuse always real, does viewing television increase aggression in children, is homosexuality genetically determined, etc. Students will explore these issues using resources on the Web as well as assigned readings. The goals of the course are for students to understand knowledge about behavior acquired through the scientific method and to become critical evaluators of everyday information related to psychology.
Dr. DiClementi is a licensed clinical psychologist (Colorado and Indiana) with over 20 years’ experience in the mental health field. She earned her Psy.D. degree from the University of Denver in 1993 after having completed a pre-doctoral internship at Cook County Hospital in Chicago. She has worked in adolescent and adult residential treatment programs, locked and unlocked psychiatric inpatient units, dual diagnosis programs, and outpatient psych clinic, outpatient drug treatment, and long term care. She has held faculty positions at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, the National Jewish Medical and Research Center, and with the Departments of Psychology at the University of Colorado at Denver and Metropolitan State College of Denver.
REL 112-03H Religion & Culture
23748 REL-112-03H | TR | 12:00 – 1:15 PM | CM 40 | 3 cr.
General Education Area IV: Humanistic Thought
Instructor: Quinton Dixie
This course is an introduction to the academic study of religion in which students will survey the principal thinkers, theories, and methodologies that have shaped the interdisciplinary examination of religious phenomena. The course also highlights the relation between religion and the larger cultures that provide meaning to religious belief systems. Through a series of field exercises and in-class case studies, students will be expected to apply the theories taught in the course to practical religious situations. Previous exposure to the academic study of religion is neither assumed nor expected.
Quinton Dixie is assistant professor of religious studies at Indiana University-Purdue University at Fort Wayne. He holds a B.A. in urban policy form Michigan State University, an M.A in religious studies and a doctorate in church history from Union Theological Seminary in New York City. His research interests include the African American religious experience, religion and the civil rights movement, African American Baptist history, and hip-hop and spirituality. A native Hoosier, Dr. Dixie spent six years (1997-2003) serving on the faculty of the religious studies department at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he taught a wide range of courses on religion in North America. In fall 2003 he returned home to Fort Wayne to develop a program in religious studies at IPFW. He is the co-editor with Cornel West of The Courage to Hope: From Black Suffering to Human Redemption, and the co-author with Juan Williams of This Far by Faith: Stories from the African American Religious Experience.
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