Tag: Courses

Time for ćejf: Enjoying Life the Bosnian Way!

On April 5th, Honors students in  Professor Faye McMahon’s  ANT300/HNR340/HNR360: “Aesthetics Across Cultures,” spent the afternoon with Bosnian community members in Syracuse. At the Bosnian Eurobazar, they learned to “ćejf” with our very own Samir Malovic, who is the Data Administrator here at the Honors Program. Samir gave an engrossing and informative talk about the history of the Balkans and the culture of his native land, Bosnia, and introduced the students to ćejf-ing. Though the term is untranslatable in English, according to Bosnians,  it is a very important part in understanding the everyday aesthetics of Bosnian culture. In a way, it is about enjoying life. The students experienced one form of ćejf by eating savory Bosnian foods, indulging in traditional homemade sweets, and listening to Bosnian music while drinking Bosnian coffee to their hearts content–all made and served by our Bosnian hosts, Kasim and Mrs. Muhovic and their children, Selma and Almas. To learn more about Bosnian ćejf-ing, stop by Samir’s desk on your way to class!

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Core Faculty Member Teaches SU’s first MOOC

Professor Rick Burton, Falk Professor of Sport Management and newest member of the Honors Core Faculty, has been selected to offer SU’s first Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on “The SUbject is Sports” starting October 14th. (And there is still time to sign up!) Want to learn more? Take a look at the videos above and below and check out the story written by SUNews HERE to get an idea of what it’s all about. Decide you want to join? Visit https://syracuseu.coursesites.com/ and enroll!

An Honors Marriage

Hello Honors Community,

This is a brief story we just had to share!

Andrew Catauro ’06 and Shannon (Grotzinger) Catauro ’07
Andrew Catauro ’06 and Shannon (Grotzinger) Catauro ’07

Meet Andrew Catauro ’06 (TRF/ITA) and Shannon (Grotzinger) Catauro ’07 (MAG/SOC) . Andrew and Shannon met in the Honors Program on their first day of class for PHI 107, completed what was then “General Honors”, and went on to get married!  Andrew works on the acclaimed documentary POV for PBS and Shannon provides social services to homeless men in NYC. They stopped by the Honors Suite before the semester began and asked if we’d take their picture in 304C.   They even remembered where they used to sit!

These are certainly the kinds of stories we love to hear from our alumni. Remember that if you have any interesting stories like this one, to let us know so we can share them!

HNR 240 Food Stories presents….”Rot or Not?”

A group of students in Jolynn Parker’s HNR 240 Food Stories class has created this display on the ground floor of Bird Library to educate the SU community about chemicals in processed food.  The food should rot, right?  Wouldn’t it be disturbing if it didn’t rot?  Follow the progress of the three burgers (McDonald’s, campus dining, and locally sourced, respectively) at their tumblr feed below. 

http://rotornot.tumblr.com/

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.