HONORS100: Honors at the UW
Autumn 2010 1 Credit Final grade: Credit Received Honors |
Honors 100When I took Honors 100 it was structured slightly differently from the way it is taught now (or so I have heard). At the time I took the course, it focused largely on the concept of interdisciplinary learning by having speakers from a wide variety of fields discuss a common issue - for this course, it was the Gulf Oil Spill. In this capacity, speakers from various disciplines visited our class and explained how their field viewed such an event.
As part of our assigned work, we were instructed to keep an "interdisciplinary dictionary" wherein we took note of key terms that cropped up during speaker discussions and searched for definitions for those terms in other disciplines. Of all of my required work, I think this might be, for me, the most interesting assignment I have completed, which is why I included it. I believe that, as far as the University Honors program seeks to instill interdisciplinary knowledge, this was an amazing eye-opening assignment. As a scholar steeped in the social sciences, it is often easy for me to forget that a 'culture' can also be a collection of grown bacteria, an anomaly can represent a unit of distance in astronomy, and an 'artifact' to a dance major can be a ballet in four parts. |
Photo: Experimentation with photograms (placing items on photo paper and exposing the paper to light). Chads, loose-tea, beads, ribbon, bracelets, and a fake flower.