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.