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Honors Students Engage Community
Wondering why Honors courses are so different from others?
On Saturday, October 26 Honors students enrolled in Professor Faye McMahon’s, “Folk Arts, Festival and Public Display” engaged with community members from DR Congo at Refugee Resettlement Services in Syracuse. Makene, Kiza and Tamone introduced students through their storytelling to their unique traditional arts. After the two hour program, the students enjoyed a traditional Somali meal at the nearby African International Restaurant, a popular community gathering place frequented by new immigrants to Syracuse from East Africa.
Below are some wonderful photos of the class’s outing!
I’m Rubber and You’re Glue
Playground battles may seem funny and cute now, but conflict stays with us throughout our lives. From the person in your project group who doesn’t follow through to the customer service representative who doesn’t know how to listen to your parents who…well….are still your parents. Conflicts happen. Come experience this workshop and learn a variety of skills which can help you deal with the stuff that inevitably comes up.
Delta Storyteller Sings a 21st Century Blues
What is a griot? They are the storytellers of ancient African societies who passed on the history of their people to future generations through the oral tradition. Come meet a contemporary griot, Prof. Arthur Flowers. Using spellbinding “performance poetry,” Flowers accompanies his presentations with African instruments. You might hear about How Brer Alligator got introduced to trouble, accompanied by some blues harp or kalimba playing – you might even get drawn into some call and response. You will certainly leave uplifted, inspired, and smiling.
Arthur Flowers is a novelist, Vietnam veteran, blues singer, co-founder of the New Renaissance Writer’s Guild, and a Memphis native. He teaches in SU’s esteemed Creative Writing Program and is a member of the Honors Core Faculty.
Monday, November 4, 6:45 p.m. Eggers 018. Refreshments will be served. Limited to the first 30 who RSVP!
“There are those of us in African American literature who feel that we are heirs to two literary traditions, the western written tradition and the African oral one, and try in the fusion to contribute something to the evolution of both.” – Arthur Flowers
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What’s New in Spring 2014?
We heard you!
In our recent survey, many of you gave us useful feedback regarding our course offerings. So… our Spring 2014 course lineup includes many continuing favorites and much that is new!
Here’s some highlights:
- Two new Honors courses from IST
- A new science offering (HNR 250 Darwin & Evolutionary Theory),
- A new Psychology elective (PSY 392)
- A new interdisciplinary HNR 340/360 course (Aesthetics across Cultures)
- Two new writing workshops (a literary journalism workshop, MAG 400 and HNR 340 Critical Writing in a Wired Culture)
- A new HNR social science (HNR 360 Body Art and Modification)
- A few new one-credit seminars: HNR 230 Lying With Statistics, HNR 220 Strategies for Scholar Development, and HNR 210 SYSTEM CITY: Unpacking, Hacking, and Re-stacking the Urban Condition.
- For the first time, we’re also offering both levels of Honors physics in the spring: PHY 215 and PHY 216. Hello Engineers!
You’ll also be glad to hear that the two IST 400/Honors courses and the MAG 400/Honors course all count as HNR prefix in your Honors requirements.
- We’re also rolling out a new format for our course listings! We still will have our PDFs for those of you who like to browse, or print. Now you will notice that below the PDF links there is a big list of all the courses. Just click into a course’s title for a complete description. You can then email, share, or bookmark, classes you are interested in for when you register. Please remember: this list is in “beta”, so it’s pretty basic right now. In the future, we’ll work on adding some search tools and different views to make finding courses easier!