Courses Required for Core Honors First-Years:
CORE 1929H Core Honors Methods of Inquiry
A 3 credit course taken either in fall or spring of the first year. Satisfies MCC Foundations in Methods of Inquiry requirement.
CORE 1929H 901 MW 5-6:15pm Amelia Zurcher, English and Honors & Jodi Blahnik, Counseling Center
CORE 1929H 902 TTh 12:30-1:45pm Jacob Riyeff, English & Sofia Ascorbe, Honors
Ecology of the Self: Who Am I Here?
This class explores the relationships that students have with themselves, other people and species, and their natural habitats at ĂŰĚŇÓ°Ďń and Milwaukee through an ecological lens, while providing space for reflection, discussion, and engagement with practical college resources.
HOPR 1955H Core Honors First-Year Seminar
Taken either fall or spring of the first year. Satisfies the MCC Foundations in Rhetoric requirement.
HOPR 1955H 901 MWF 9-9:50am Timothy McMahon, History
Modernity: Confidence, Creativity, Crisis
The purpose of this course is to discuss the years between 1880 and 1914 in Europe, an age when technological advances, scientific discoveries, and wealth led European elites to see themselves at the pinnacle of civilization. They were modern, and they had created “modernity.” They expressed their confidence in art and architecture, and we will read key works from some of their leading lights, including Mann, Joyce, Conrad, Nietzsche, and Freud, among others. These same artists and philosophers also raised questions about the societies in which they lived, suggesting that the confident face presented by Europe’s great and good masked uncertainties, including the potential impact of social diversity, disease, and militarism.
HOPR 1955H 902 MWF 10-10:50am Michael Wert, History
History and Trauma
This class explores the concepts of trauma, history, and memory as experienced by individuals and communities. We read works in the fields of psychoanalysis, sci-fi, philosophy, and history, to see how memory of historical events is affected by trauma, and what we can learn from them for understanding the Covid pandemic.
HOPR 1955H 903 MWF 11-11:50am Michael Wert, History
History and Trauma
This class explores the concepts of trauma, history, and memory as experienced by individuals and communities. We read works in the fields of psychoanalysis, sci-fi, philosophy, and history, to see how memory of historical events is affected by trauma, and what we can learn from them for understanding the Covid pandemic.
HOPR 1955H 904 TTh 9:30-10:45am Ed de St. Aubin, Psychology & Will Futch
The Narrative Self
This course covers the science of Narrative Psychology as it relates to identity and the self-society connection. We explore the philosophical underpinnings of this area of scholarship and focus on research regarding the Life Story, an internalized account of one’s reconstructed past, perceived present, and anticipated future. We examine how these are psycho-socially constructed and rewritten throughout one’s life; how they emanate from individual attributes and are contoured by societal meta-narratives; how they relate to well-being and meaning in life; and, how we can be authentic authors of our own Life Stories.
HOPR 1955H 905 MWF 1-1:50pm Jacob Riyeff, English
Humans and Other Natural Phenomena
Humans have had an ambivalent relationship with the world around us as far back as we can tell, but this ambivalence has accelerated at an unprecedented rate since the Industrial Revolution. Eliciting the loftiest praise from poets and prose writers, the earth itself and non-human species have also been brutely instrumentalized. Clearly beneficial to our health and well-being, frankly necessary to our survival, and indeed what we ourselves are, the natural world is also something ever more distant from the regular lived experience of more and more humans. As so many of us spend ever more time within the built world and the virtual world, how do we understand our relationships with other natural phenomena—since we have them whether we acknowledge them or not? How should we understand them? What are the consequences of different ways of living out these various relationships, especially for human self-understanding, human health, social justice, and the safety and thriving of all the other species who call earth home? How have artists, philosophers, and scientists of various stripes attempted to represent, explore, and encourage our species’ interactions with the other natural phenomena around us? These are some of the questions we’ll explore this term with such writers as Robinson Jeffers, Pope Francis, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Lorine Niedecker, Val Plumwood, Kate Crawford, and more. We’ll also take several field trips to allow for experiential, dialogic encounters, not only critical reading.
HOPR 1955H 906 TTh 12:30-1:45pm Heather Hathaway, English
Intersectionality and Identity in Modern American Literature and Culture
In Notes of Native Son (1955), James Baldwin claimed that in the United States “our passion for categorization, life fitted neatly into pegs, has led to an unforeseen, paradoxical distress; . . . [to] confusion, a breakdown of meaning.” But this seems counterintuitive: categorization is meant to do just the opposite--to define, classify, order and group. In this course, we will explore works of American literature that test Baldwin’s thesis, particularly with respect to individual and group identities shaped by race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation. We will draw from the fields of critical race and ethnic studies, sociology, psychology, history and literature. This interdisciplinary approach offers a valuable introduction to a variety of disciplines as you begin to hone your academic interests into majors/minors.
HOPR 1955H 907 TTh 2-3:15pm Melissa Ganz, English
Justice and Judgment in the Western Imagination
How do we decide what is right and fair? When, if ever, is it permissible to break the law? What role should mercy and revenge play in legal and moral judgment? How should we respond to historical wrongs and how can we rectify legal and social injustices today? Such questions have not only preoccupied jurists and philosophers but have also figured prominently in literature. In this seminar, we consider how imaginative writers from the classical period to the present day have examined the nature, problems, and possibilities of justice. At the same time that we examine the contributions of literature to pressing legal and moral debates, we work on honing your close reading and writing skills. Texts may include Sophocles’s Antigone; William Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure; Herman Melville’s Billy Budd; Frederick Douglass’s Narrative of the Life; Susan Glaspell’s “A Jury of Her Peers”; Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird; Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail”; poems by Amanda Gorman, Nicole Sealey, and Reginald Dwayne Betts; Ida Fink’s The Table; and Ferdinand von Schirach’s The Collini Case. Our literary texts will be supplemented by selections from jurists, philosophers, and historians, and we will view several film adaptations.
HOPR 1955H 908 TTh 3:30-4:45pm Sarah Wadsworth, English
Radical Hope in Perplexing Times
This course engages students in a wide-ranging exploration of hope as a “renewable and essential resource” () powering positive change. Structured around four guiding themes drawn from Rebecca Solnit’s Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities, the course will begin by exploring “the uses of uncertainty” through readings in philosophy, theology, poetry, and literary criticism. We then turn to examine the survival of hope in times of crisis through its “roots in memory.” At the heart of the course are “the stories we tell”—including works of literature and art that salvage hope from unlikely material. Finally, we will contemplate hope as a stance of action through which “people are the power.” Books we will read together include the novels Middle Passage by Charles Johnson and Happiness by Aminatta Forna; Jonathan Lear’s Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation, which blends philosophy, psychology, and ethnography; Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language among the Western Apache, by linguistic anthropologist Keith Basso; and Solnit’s Hope in the Dark. Shorter readings may include poems and short stories; historical studies by Howard Zinn, Susan Griffin, and William Least Heat-Moon; philosophical writings by William James, Walter Benjamin, E. F. Schumacher, and Václav Havel; and Pope Francis’s ecological encyclical Laudato Si’: Care for Our Common Home.
THEO 1001H - Honors Foundations in Theology: Finding God in All Things
Taken either fall or spring of the first year. Satisfies the MCC Foundations in Theology requirement.
THEO 1001H 901 LEC MWF 8-8:50am Danielle Nussberger
THEO 1001H 902 LEC MWF 9-9:50am Danielle Nussberger
THEO 1001H 903 LEC MWF 10-10:50am Jennifer Henery
THEO 1001H 904 LEC MWF 11-11:50am Jennifer Henery
THEO 1001H 905 LEC TTh 9:30-10:45am Christina Bosserman
THEO 1001H 906 LEC TTh 9:30-10:45am Deirdre Dempsey
THEO 1001H 907 LEC TTh 11am-12:15pm Christina Bosserman
THEO 1001H 908 LEC TTh 2-3:15pm Christina Bosserman
THEO 1001H 910 LEC. MWF 9-9:50am Jennifer Henery
Courses Required for Core Honors Sophomores:
HOPR 2956H - Honors Engaging Social Systems and Values 1: Engaging the City
HOPR 2956H, mandatory for all Core Honors students (other ESSV1 classes do not satisfy the Core Honors ESSV1 requirement), focuses on the challenges and the opportunities of American cities, particularly our home city of Milwaukee. All sections emphasize community-engaged learning.
HOPR 2956H 901 MWF 12-12:50pm Bryan Rindfleisch, History
This class will explore the Indigenous peoples, cultures, and communities of Wisconsin and the city of Milwaukee from the pre-Columbian era to the present day. Focus will include historical themes of colonization and decolonization, settler colonialism, cultural inclusivity, violence and intimacy, removal and “survivance,” assimilation and allotment, along with sovereignty and self-determination in addition to contemporary issues related to Native mascots, treaties, casinos, cultural representation, and more. An experiential class, this course will engage with the Indigenous peoples and communities of Wisconsin and Milwaukee throughout the course of the semester, be it powwows, Native guests / lectures, community and reservation visits, etc.
HOPR 2956H 902 MWF 1-1:50pm Bryan Rindfleisch, History
This class will explore the Indigenous peoples, cultures, and communities of Wisconsin and the city of Milwaukee from the pre-Columbian era to the present day. Focus will include historical themes of colonization and decolonization, settler colonialism, cultural inclusivity, violence and intimacy, removal and “survivance,” assimilation and allotment, along with sovereignty and self-determination in addition to contemporary issues related to Native mascots, treaties, casinos, cultural representation, and more. An experiential class, this course will engage with the Indigenous peoples and communities of Wisconsin and Milwaukee throughout the course of the semester, be it powwows, Native guests / lectures, community and reservation visits, etc.
HOPR 2956H 903 TTh 2-3:15pm Robert Smith, History
Race & Law in Contemporary Urban America
This course will explore the intersections of race and law in American cities, considering arenas included, but not limited to: history, education, employment, housing, criminal justice and voting. Students will explore the course's themes and topics through community-informed experiences with local organizations engaging and shaping these policy agendas for the city of Milwaukee.
HOPR 2956H 904 TTh 9:30-10:45pm Peter Borg, History
Religious Places, Divided Spaces, and Hope for the Future
Dr. Martin Luther King famously observed that America is most segregated on Sunday at 11AM. Was that true of Milwaukee while Dr. King called for the nation to redeem its troubled racial legacy? Is it still true today? If so, how is it that churches mirrored society's basest elements rather than demonstrating its highest ideals? This course introduces students to the history of Milwaukee by examining the city's religious heritage. Neither the city nor its religious landscape can be fully grasped without broadly understanding the contours of urban history, the role of race in America's founding and growth, the place of city churches and synagogues in welcoming immigrants, and the promise of God to "make all things new." Learn about Marquette's hometown and meet servant leaders throughout Milwaukee who are actively putting their faith into practice to bridge the divides that keep people apart on Sunday mornings.
Courses Required for Core Honors Seniors:
CORE 4929H – Honors Service of Faith and Promotion of Justice
CORE 4929H 901 MW 2-3:15pm Jennifer Henery
CORE 4929H 902 MW 3:30-4:45pm Jennifer Henery
CORE 4929H 903 TTh 11am-12:15pm Daniel Collette
CORE 4929H 904 MWF 10-10:50am Melissa Shew
CORE 4929H 905 MWF 11-11:50am Melissa Shew
CORE 4929H 906 MWF 2-2:50pm Jonathan Metz
Core Menu Options for all Core Honors Students:
BIOL 1001H - Honors General Biology 1
BIOL 1001H 901 LEC TTh 9:30-10:45am & Th 6-6:50p Martin St. Maurice
Honors DIS 966 T 2-2:50pm
Honors DIS 967 W 9-9:50am
Honors DIS 968 W 12-12:50pm
BIOL 1930 - Honors Special Topics in Biology*
BIOL 1930 701 LEC M 4-4:50pm Martin St. Maurice
*BIOL 1930 must be taken concurrently with BIOL 1001H*
**Enrollment will be done by permission number - please contact honorsprog@marquette.edu if you are interested in taking this class.**
CHEM 1001H - Honors General Chemistry 1
CHEM 1001H 901 LEC MWF 12-12:50pm Dmitri Babikov
941 LAB W 2-4:50pm
942 LAB T 5:30-8:20pm
961 DIS W 1-1:50pm
962 DIS T 3-3:50pm
CHEM 1013H - Honors General Chemistry 1 for Majors
CHEM 1013H 901 LEC MF 9-10:15am Adam Fiedler
941 LAB W 9-11:50am
COMM 4550 - Media and the "Other" *
COMM 4550 101 LEC MW 2-3:15pm Ayleen Cabas-Mijares
*This course is a new Honors for All course in the Discovery Tier, a course that is open to all students at Marquette and gives Honors elective credit to students completing the Core Honors curriculum. It meets the Individuals and Communities humanities or elective course requirement in the Discovery Tier.
**Enrollment for Honors students will be done by permission number - please contact honorsprog@marquette.edu if you are interested in taking this class.**
ENGL 4932 - The Story Experience*
ENGL 4932 101 LEC TTh 3:30-4:45pm Sarah Wadsworth
- This course is by application only. The application link is available on the website of the Center for the Advancement of the Humanities. Applications are due March 25, 2022.
- Students will enroll in the course both fall and spring semesters. Students meet every other week to learn community-engagement theories and practices. The remaining hours of their coursework are conducted in the community, guided by a mentor.
*This is not officially an honors seciton, but those who enroll will receive Honors elective credit for the course.
LLAC 1001 - Introduction to Latinx Studies*
LLAC 1001 101 MW 2-3:15pm Abel Arango
*This is not officially an honors seciton, but those who enroll will receive Honors elective credit for the course.
PHIL 1001H - Honors Foundations in Philosophy
PHIL 1001H 901 LEC TTh 9:30-10:45am Daniel Collette
PHIL 1001H 902 LEC TTh 11am-12:15pm Clark Wolf
PHIL 1001H 903 LEC MWF 12-12:50pm Michael Olsen
PHIL 1001H 904 LEC MWF 1-1:50pm Peter Burgess
PHIL 1001H 905 LEC TTh 2-3:15pm Sara Pope
PHIL 1001H 906 LEC TTh 3:30-4:45pm Richard Taylor
PHIL 1001H 907 LEC MW 3:30-4:45pm H. Sebastian Luft
PHIL 1001H 908 LEC TTh 3:30-4:45pm Daniel Collette
PHYS 1003H – Honors General Physics with Introductory Calculus 2
PHYS 1003H 901 MWF 9-9:50am; M 6-8pm Jax Sanders
PHYS 1003H 902 MWF 12-12:50pm; M 6-8pm Timothy Tharp
PHYS 1003H 903 MWF 1-1:50pm; M 6-8pm David Haas
PHYS 1003H 904 MWF 2-2:50pm; M 6-8pm David Haas
941 Lab W 6-7:50pm
942 Lab Th 4-5:50pm
961 Disc W 5-5:50pm
PHYS 1013H – Honors Classical and Modern Physics with Calculus 1
PHYS 1013H 901 MWF 1-2:50pm Karen Andeen
POSC 2201H – Honors American Politics
POSC 2201H 901 MWF 11-11:50am Karen Hoffman
POSC 2801H - Honors Justice and Power
POSC 2801H 901 TTh 11am-12:15pm Darrell Dobbs
PSYC 4956H - Honors Advanced Undergraduate Research
PSYC 4956H 901 Day/Time TBD Ed de St. Aubin
THEO 3320H - Honors, The Event and Meaning of Vatican II
THEO 3320H 901 MWF 10-10:50am Jonathan Metz
Waitlists
If your preferred class is full at the time of your registration, please email honorsprog@marquette.edu to be added to the waitlist. In the email include: your name, MUID, the class name and section number (ex: CORE 1929H 901), and the reason for your request.
Archived Core Honors Courses