Syracuse University Honors Program
Syracuse University Honors Program
Honors classes are unique in many ways. One such example comes from instructor Catherine Nock, who frequently uses food as a way to connect students both with eachother and more deeply with the course subject. Her latest end of the year gathering was a “Pre-Thanksgiving Feast” at her home, in which the students worked in teams to prepare the meal.
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Still Looking for a 1-Credit Seminar?We’ve added a section of HNR 210: Viewing the World Through Changing Lenses taught by Georgia Popoff, Wednesdays 5:15 – 6:35 pm. She received great reviews last semester. To see the full course details, check out our full PDF listing of HNR Seminars.
There are still open spaces in ETS 115, Shakespeare’s Tragic Heroes (#60778 section M002). It meets on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 11am – 12:20pm.
Below is the course description.
In this course we will be reading six of Shakespeare’s tragedies, with particular emphasis on the playwright’s characterization of each play’s tragic heroes and heroines. We will first seek out a definition of what constitutes the tragic form (e.g. Aristotle’s Poetics, Sidney’s The Defense of Poesy) with readings from early examples of this genre (e.g. Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex), before questioning why this genre became so popular in the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean periods. There are several sub-genres within the tragic form (love tragedy, political tragedy, domestic tragedy, revenge tragedy), often with unclear generic boundaries dividing them, and we will observe how Shakespeare is responding to other contemporary tragic modes. During the course we will be discussing moral intent and the tragic form, dramatic resolution, censorship, and contemporary playing conditions and players. We will discuss six of Shakespeare’s tragic heroes and heroines, from the fierce but pitiful Titus to the ambitious but conscience-stricken Macbeth, and identify recurring trends, concerns and motifs in Shakespeare’s tragic writing. The six plays we will be reading are Titus Andronicus, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth.
Other Honors Courses are filling up fast! Check out our Honors Courses for Spring 2012 for more listings.
Honors student Jamie Gerst has won the Phi Kappa Phi Study Abroad Scholarship! She will receive $2500 to help her study in London in this spring with SU Abroad. Jamie is a fourth year Industrial Design student in VPA; she has an Entrepreneurship minor. The SU Chapter of Phi Kappa Phi provided this competitive scholarship, which will be offered annually through SU Abroad. Jamie is the first recipient of the scholarship. Congratulations Jamie!
More details on Professor McMahon’s talk at insidesu’s newsfeed.
Professor Felicia McMahon will be teaching ANT 300, Folk Arts, Festival and Public Display next semester, Spring 2012! It can also
be taken as HNR 340, HNR 360 or SOL 360 M004, #37732. Course listings can be found on our web site. Just navigate to Spring 2012 Course Planning.
Honors student, math & physics major Ryan Badman has been named the 2011-2012 Astronaut Scholar.