Fall 2023 Honors Courses

CSC-239-04H

Java Programming – Honors
(Miller)

T/Th 11:00 AM – 12:40 PM

Hybrid: In-Person + Remote

ECO-201-201H

Macroeconomics – Honors
(Chow)

W 6:00 PM – 8:45 PM

Remote

ECO-202-02H

Microeconomics – Honors
(Soro)

M/W 2:30 PM – 3:45 PM

Remote

ENG-112-13H

College Writing II – Honors
(Cohn)

T 10:00 AM – 11:15 AM

Hybrid: In-Person + Web

ENV-105-05H

Environmental Science/Lab – Honors
(Benjamin)

M 8:30 AM – 11:00 AM

Hybrid: Remote + Web

GEO-101-WB1H

World Regional Geography – Honors
(Robinson)

Web

LIT-227-02H

African American Literature – Honors
(Clark)

M/W 10:00 AM – 11:15 AM

Remote

MAT-181-WBH

Statistics – Honors
(Sarmiento)

Web

PSY-101-WB1H

Principles of Psychology – Honors
(Mullin)
Web

SCI-221-02H

Interpret of Science Research – Honors
(Atkinson)

M 2:30 PM – 5:00 PM

In-Person

SOC-101-WB4H

Principles of Sociology – Honors
(Maynard)
Web

Fall 2023 Honors Seminars

HON-200-200H Honors Seminar

“Future Worlds”

(Robinson, Miller)

T 6:00 PM – 7:15 PM

Hybrid: Remote + Web

HON-200-201H Honors Seminar

“Artificial Intelligence”

(Soro, Kasili)

T 10:00 AM – 11:15 AM

Hybrid: Remote + Web

HONORS SEMINAR DESCRIPTIONS

Future Worlds
This seminar looks at science based Utopian/Dystopian visions of the future and focuses on politics and technology.  Topics will range from Afrofuturism to Cybernetics to Star Trek. What does the future hold for our species?  What will society look like in the next millennium?  Does our future lie beyond this galaxy?

Artificial Intelligence
What are the techniques that enable computers to behave intelligently? What are some of the opportunities, challenges, and problems introduced by the emergence and growth of artificial intelligence? Artificial intelligence (AI) addresses questions at the intersection of many fields, including computer science, economics, bioinformatics, medicine, linguistics, philosophy, and psychology. It is a part of our everyday lives: googling some keywords, speaking into your phone to compose a text, using Facebook's facial recognition to tag people in a photo, playing chess against a computer, and using Google Translate to read a sign that is not in your language--these are all examples of AI in action. There are difficult ethical issues that emerge in relation to AI, such as the ways implicit biases are built into algorithms used to predict crime, the impact of robots on labor in the global economy, and the debate over whether intelligent computers deserve human rights.

Summer 1 2023 Honors Courses and Seminars

ECO-202-200H

Microeconomics – Honors
(Chow)

T/Th 6:00 PM – 9:30 PM

Remote

HON-200-01H Honors Seminar

“Street Performance”

(Kalami, Ikeda)

W 12:15 PM – 3:45 PM

Hybrid: Remote + Web

HONORS SEMINAR DESCRIPTION

Note: The last week of class is expected to be in person. If you have questions about the modality of the honors seminar, please contact the professors directly. 

Seminar Description: In this interdisciplinary and civic-minded honors seminar, we explore how individual and collective voices are heard in our democratic—and increasingly digital—society. Can we take social media strategies to the streets? How can social media movements and Digital Activism be blended with performance theories and the performative aspects of everyday life? Bringing together performance theory and practice, social movement history, digital and street activism, and creative group collaboration, this honors seminar calls for students to co-create the knowledge around issues of resistance, social change, and public performance on the streets of Boston.