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Spring 2013 Registration Notes!

"Register" iconSpring 2013 Honors courses are online!  Take a look and start making your plans.

Honors students in good standing will register the morning of Monday, November 12.  However, if you will have senior standing after this semester (84 credits or more), you will have a standard senior registration access time (before the 12th).  There is no “early” Honors registration for students with senior standing!  You will have an access time on one of the three senior days.

Remember that your academic advisor needs to remove your advising hold before you can access MySlice to register, so be sure to plan your advising meeting with plenty of time for that to happen before your registration access time, and check Myslice to be sure your hold has been removed.

If you have a cumulative gpa above 3.5, and need to register for more than 19 credits for the Spring 2013 semester, please contact Hanna Richardson (hricha01@syr.edu) for permission.  You will need to specify which courses you need to take for your overload.

Honors advisors (Hanna, Karen, Kate) are available to help you figure out how to fit Honors into your plans for Spring.  Please call 443-2759 to make an appointment with one of us.

Honors class partners with Syracuse’s Somali Bantu community

Five hundred Somali Bantu call Syracuse their home, and thanks in part to an initiative spearheaded by anthropology research associate and public sector folklorist Felicia McMahon, they are reviving their traditional folk arts here in Central New York.  

 

Follow the link below to read the full article about Professor McMahon’s Folk Arts, Festivals, and Public Display course and it’s interaction with the Bantu community.

http://sumagazine.syr.edu/2012spring/features/culturalexchange.html


Catholic Charities Refugee Resettlement – a living classroom for our students!

Honors students help in the Catholic Charities Refugee Resettlement kitchen.

Honors students in HNR 340/360 “Folk Arts, Festival and Public Display”  had a cultural history lesson while they learned to cook traditional foods with refugees from Burma, DR Congo and Somalia at the Catholic Charities Refugee Resettlement here in Syracuse. Not only did they chop, slice and dice the ingredients but after their shared meal, they also washed all the dishes, pots and pans–while singing a traditional Congolese song with new neighbors, Kiza and Makere.

 

Honors Courses in Photos

It’s time to start looking forward to your Honors classes!

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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Seats Still Open in ETS 115, Shakespeare’s Tragic Heroes

Welcome back to Spring semester 2012!

Image of William Shakespeare 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.