Courses

3 credits

Scharf, E.

T/R: 2 - 3:15 p.m.

Forensic anthropology is the study of skeletal remains in a medico-legal context for the purpose of identification and trauma analysis. This course covers the history of this field, its relevance to death investigation in the United States, and the theories and techniques applied to skeletal identification.

3 credits/1 credit

T/R: 3:30-4:45 p.m./L-M: 6:50-8:40 p.m.

Elements of the atmosphere with emphasis on those processes that affect the global atmospheric circulation. Real time weather data is incorporated into lecture to aid in transferring the subject matter to real life experiences.

4 credits

Lunnie, R.

T/R: 9:30 - 11:30 a.m.

This course introduces the student to aircraft and ground operations and support systems common to remotely piloted or autonomous aircraft. The course focuses o those the systems that differ significantly from their conventional counterparts. Specific emphasis is placed on mission requirements and their impacts on required systems. Powerplants, potential energy systems, launch and recovery systems, and ground control systems. Hands-on experiential learning is required. Prerequisite: AVIT 240 and a minimum GPA of 2.6.

3 credits

Two sessions taught online and one face to face on campus

Mendez, S.

W: 2:30 - 5:20 p.m.

Asynchronous Online

This course investigates aviation’s effects on global culture, commerce, and politics throughout its history by examining original historical sources and evidence from significant events in aviation. After taking this class, students will be more aware of their own and other cultural frameworks and biases and be able to use that perspective effectively as aviation professionals in a global industry. Prerequisite: Minimum GPA 2.6.

3 credits

Vacek, J.

T/R. 3:30 - 4:45 p.m.

This course is designed to introduce the student to the United States legal system and the development of air law. The course will cover a broad range of topics related to aviation operations including constitutional law, administrative law, Federal Aviation Administration enforcement actions, aircraft ownership issues, products liability law, criminal law, contract law, and international law. Course activities include case reading, argument, and legal research.

3 credits

Charmichael, J.

M/W, 1:30  - 2:45 p.m.

Basic concepts of biology with emphasis on the process of science, genetics, molecular biology, evolution, biodiversity, and ecology. Broadly designed to satisfy the needs of those pursuing biological and preprofessional curricula.

3 credits

Ovtchinnikov, I.

T/R, 11 a.m. - 12:15 p.m., and T/R, 2:00 - 3:15 p.m.

Key aspects of scientific inquiry and communication are investigated and assessed. Students will participate in discussions of relevant current issues in biology and will develop an independent research project. Students must take course within 3 semesters of graduation.

3 credits

Provino, A.

MWF, 11:15 a.m. - 12:05 p.m.

Chemistry of the elements with emphasis on occurrence, preparation, physical properties, chemical reactivity, uses, nomenclature, structure, and periodic behavior. Includes chemical kinetics and thermodynamics.

3 credits

Powell, E.

M, 11:15 a.m. - 12:05  p.m.,  and T/R, 12:30 - 1:20 p.m.

The theory and practice of public speaking with emphasis on content, organization, language, delivery, and critical evaluation of messages. Basic principles of speech from the viewpoint of composition and delivery. Emphasis on student performance stressing original thinking, effective organization and direct communication of ideas.

3 credits

Schanilek-Gowan, J.

MWF, 11:15 a.m. - 12:05 p.m.

Introduces theories and practices of health communication. Explores health communication with interpersonal sources (e.g., physicians, other providers), groups (e.g., support groups, health care organizations), and effective communication through mass media and digital/social media channels.

3 credits

Steen, C.

TBD

Provides undergraduate CSD students the opportunity to follow professional Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs) and/or Audiologists working in the school, hospital, or clinical setting.

3 cr.

Staff/TBD

This course, which builds upon ENGL 110, gives students experience with genres and rhetorical situations beyond the academic classroom. In begins with a set of common readings on an important social issue to establish a context for the work of the class. 

3 credits

Carson, S.

Asynchronous Online

This class will allow us to pursue two interwoven projects of study:

1. We'll read and analyze "as literature" several key texts from the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) and the New Testament. Our work in this context will be to analyze these biblical texts using the same critical approaches we would use with other literary works, with special attention paid to narrative, plot, characters, symbolism, metaphor, irony, humor, tragedy, point of view, setting and “performance spaces,” etc.  We will also look at the historical contexts of these writings as they first appeared in antiquity, and as they have been interpreted over many centuries.  We’ll look at specific literary genres such as creation narratives, gospels, and “letters as literature,” and we’ll cover special topics such as “apocalyptic imagination” and literary eco-criticism.

2. We'll analyze the various ways in which selected writers, visual and new media artists, filmmakers, musicians and others have worked with the biblical story world within their own art.  Our shared focus will be some 20th and 21st century creative works, but students will have an opportunity to explore other eras of interest to them. Here we’ll look closely at the ways that biblical stories and characters are interpreted within various artistic works, paying special attention to writers and visual/film artists who seem interested in creating works of art as social commentary. 

This is not a broad survey class of biblical literature: rather we will be working most closely with: Genesis, Exodus, Mark, Matthew, Philemon, James, and Revelation, and we’ll talk about selected non-canonical texts such as the Gospel of Thomas.

Required Texts: (in addition to the many open-access digital sources provided in the course)

• Genesis: Translation and Commentary. Robert Alter.  W. Norton Company, 1997. Paperback.  ISBN:  978-0393316704
• The New Testament. Richmond Lattimore. North Point Press. 1997.  ISBN: 978-0865475243

This course is open to all majors and does not require previous experience with the topic, but will require energetic reading and an interest in thinking critically across time and place. Students will have frequent opportunities to pursue their own interests via several short assignments and a longer independent project.

3 credits

Hammond, S.

T/R, 12:30 - 1:45 p.m.

Human interactions with the natural environment are often perceived as conflicts between environmental protection and socio-economics. Sustainability attempts to redefine that world view by seeking balance between the 'three Es' -environment, economy, equity. This course examines the concept of sustainability, the theory behind it, and what it means for society.

3 credits

VanLooy, J.

MWF, 11:15 a.m. - 12:05 p.m.

This course will provide an integrated, system-oriented introduction on the concepts, theories and issues surrounding a sustainable future for humans and the Planet Earth. The course will address the concept of sustainability, the concept of a system, explore human world views, provide an introduction to energy, complexity and ecosystems, and examine resources use, food production, industrial development for a sustainable future.

3 credits

Kuznicki, M. 

T/R, 8 - 9:15 a.m. or

Koriko, H.

T/R, 12:30 - 1:45 p.m.

Introduction to the fundamental principals of the Fine Arts--Visual Arts, Music, Theatre, and Dance-followed by examples of the interaction of the arts in selected cultures from history and around the world and at a variety of campus arts events, in order to increase appreciation of the importance of the fine arts to the individual and community.

3 credits

Prescott, C.

T/R, 9:30 - 10:45 a.m.

What does old stuff reveal about the past? Analyze historic photographs, study household objects, publish your own digital history page, and discover what your trash says about you.

3 credits

Various instructors, days, and times.

Reading and discussion of selected works that reflect the methodology of the Humanities, with emphasis on Diversity of Human Experience, as a means to establish fundamental skills for responsible research in any field, including: critical and creative thinking, deep reading, scholarly inquiry, and diversity of perspective on various social issues through an intercultural approach. Taken by first-year students in the Honors Program.

By contract/permission only.

1-4 credits

Kirby, M.

Invest in your community, gain practical knowledge and experience, and earn up to 4 Honors credits by volunteering or interning at select organizations. A two-page or more reflection paper will be due at the end of the semester. By Permission Only. Contact Merie Kirby at merie.kirby@UND.edu for details.

By contract/permission only.

1 credit

This course is designed to give self-directed, motivated students the opportunity to take a deeper dive into an aspect of another course they are taking and earn 1 Honors credit for doing so. This course is repeatable. Permission of Honors Director required to register; contact merie.kirby@UND.edu for details.

3 credits

Kirby, M.

T/R 2:30 - 3:15 p.m.

The class focuses on the areas of music, visual arts, film, story, and experiences, encouraging students to use both familiar and new-to-them sources to map the larger world of cultural products, experiences, and contexts. The class also considers the influence exercised by the various algorithms and filters that we (often unknowingly) encounter, and how they affect our understanding of our own tastes and opinions – as well as our opportunities to discover new and truly different things.

3 credits

O'Leary, M.

MW, 3:35 -4:50 p.m.

We all have rights, and we’ve likely claimed as much at some point, but what does it mean to possess rights simply because we are human? What does it mean to exercise rights, and how do we define our understanding of who is human by the extent to which they also have rights they can possess and exercise? And if we don’t have rights - if we are imprisoned or stateless - how human are we without them? In this course, we look at human rights as what “we can’t not want,” and also don’t all possess (and freely exercise) to the same degree. The class features a global survey of human rights as concept and practice with an emphasis on how human rights are represented in postcolonial literature, film, and art.

3 credits

Kirby, M.

T/R, 9:30 - 10:45 a.m.

Science fiction, as a genre, wears many faces. Some people see it as pure escapism, some as prophecy, some as warning, and others as idealistic dreams.

But most people who read and write science fiction agree that this genre is foremost a mirror – sometimes a funhouse mirror, but still a mirror – that lets us look at ourselves, as we are now, as we hope or fear we will be in the future, from angles not possible in other genres

3 credits

Koriko, H.

T/R, 12:30 - 1:45 p.m.

Roundtable is a journal of UND’s Undergraduate Honors Program and an annual digital publication. The journal is edited by a team of Honors students and accepts work from all disciplines: from creating writing to research papers, artwork to essays.

3 credits

Meyer, L.

MWF, 11:15 a.m. - 12:05 p.m.

"Why do people believe what they believe, even when evidence says otherwise? This course considers the social, psychological, political, and cultural forces that drive belief in conspiracy theories, cultic movements, and cryptozoological creatures. Through the rigorous examination of case studies ranging from QAnon to Jonestown to Bigfoot, students will dissect how narratives form, spread, and resist refutation. Along the way, these questions will turn inward: What makes any belief system credible? How do we know what we know?"

3 credits

Kirby, M.

T, 4 - 5 p.m.

Explore the technologies, challenges, and opportunities shaping the future of energy. Open to all majors. This class is taught at the EERC.

1 credit

O'Leary, M. and Newman, R.

W, 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.

Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future opens to a depiction of mass climate disaster. Compounding crises finally coalesce to devastating effect; unlivable heat, failing power grids, environmental pollution, and the vulnerability of age and disability lead to the deaths of millions in only days. As a representation of the near-future, this scene accomplishes much; it forces its reader to contend with where we read from (a position of relative security and comfort), the effects of colonialism and global inequality, human dependency on the natural environment, the consequences (both intended and not) of unimaginative policy, and the coordination of care, help, and “aid” in the face of massive infrastructural and political failures. In this one-credit, once-weekly course, we will use this novel as a constellating text for the semester, reading in environmental philosophy and theory, policy critique, activist literature, and other short stories, poems, and literary texts to help us better understand the simultaneous nature of the climate crisis, how we negotiate our relationship with and to the environment, and how we can imagine a future that is contingent on a planet to support it. 

By contract/permission only.

1 - 4 credits

Kirby, M.

Individual instruction on specified topics arranged by mutual agreement among teacher, student, and the Program. Repeatable to 12 credits.

By permission of the Director

3 credits

Kirby, M.

By permission of the Honors Director only.

Independent research on a significant project with an expert faculty advisor.

1-4 credits

Kirby, M.

By permission of the Honors Director only.

3 credits

Ross, E.

T/R 11 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

This course invites students to explore stories from around the world and discover how writers use the short story to make sense of identity, family, community, love, conflict, and belonging. Through engaging readings and conversations, we’ll consider how culture and lived experience shape the stories we tell—and how reading stories from different places can challenge the way we see our own world. No previous experience with literary analysis is required, just an openness to new perspectives and a willingness to read, think, and talk about great stories. Course taught in English.

3 credits

Ross, E.

T/R, 12:30 - 1:45 p.m.

This course considers the social history of comedy as a genre and as a tradition in drama, narrative, and film. This history, spreading over 2000 years, tells us a great deal about human modes of expression over time. We will note certain continuities: an interest in the body as object and source of rebellious pleasure, a pattern of transgression against social norms corrected and reordered through laughter, a fascination with the possibilities and limits of verbal play and wit, a concern with identity and mistaken identity, an opportunity for political protest and reform. Course taught in English.

3 credits

Beltz, M.

T/R, 12:30 - 1:45 p.m. and R, 3:00 - 3:50 p.m.

At some point in our lives, we all encounter the health care system—whether as patients, professionals, or loved ones of those receiving care. Every choice made in these moments involves ethical questions: What is the right thing to do, and why? This course explores the ethical dimensions of health care, focusing on the responsibilities of professionals, the rights of patients, and the process of moral decision-making. Through real-world cases and ethical dilemmas, we’ll examine issues such as informed consent, abortion, euthanasia, organ transplants, assisted suicide, vaccine mandates, drug screening, and health care policy and reform. Students will learn to apply ethical theories and professional codes to better understand the complex decisions that shape modern medicine.

3 credits

Rozelle-Stone, R.

MW, 2 - 3:15 p.m.

What does it mean to live a feminist life? Why are feminists often portrayed as “willful” or “killjoys”? What kinds of societal and political issues does feminist philosophy address and how? In this course, we will not only discuss these broad questions, but we also will explore individual, relational, sexual, and familial obstacles and revolutions through a feminist-philosophical lens.

3 credits

Domzal, A.

T/R, 2 - 3:15 p.m.

This course in global philosophy will focus particularly on the philosophy and thought of what Paul Gilroy and others will define as the Black Atlantic: populations of African descent in Africa, the Americas (Canada, the United States, the Caribbean, Central and Latin America), and Europe. We will think about the ways in which these populations shaped and were shaped by global economies and other philosophies as well as their own philosophical and political thought in regard to these global forces. We will engage with questions like: what is Blackness? What is “African Philosophy”? Can we even understand something like Black philosophy given that Africa is not only the largest but the most diverse continent on the planet? How has the African diaspora shaped our current world? These are only a few of the questions we will engage with in this survey course.

3 credits

Rochat, M.

MWF, 11:15 a.m. - 12:05 p.m.

Why do countries cooperate, compete, and go to war? POLS 220 introduces students to the interests, interactions, and institutions that shape international politics. Students taking the course for Honors credit will participate in the Honors Policy Lab, a team project exploring a real international challenge. Each student represents a U.S. government agency, researches its priorities, and works with teammates to develop policy options. The project culminates in a mock National Security Council meeting, where students brief and defend their recommendations. The Lab replaces the course’s standard policy paper and presentation.

3 credits

Ferraro, F.

T/R, 12:30 - 1:45 p.m. and T/R, 3 - 3:50 p.m.

A survey of the psychology of human life span development, including intellectual, emotional, and social aspects of the normal individual and emphasizing childhood and adolescent development. Prerequisite: PSYC 111.

4 credits

Terrell, H.

T/R. 9:30 - 10:45 a.m.

An advanced research methods course. Students will learn how to plan and execute basic psychological experiments, analyze data, and correctly report research findings using APA style. Prerequisite: PSYC 241 and PSYC 303.

3 credits

TBA

3 credits

TBA

Asynchronous Online

This course provides the student with the basic knowledge and skills associated with the helping process, including interviewing skills, as practiced in a variety of community services settings. A special focus will be on the problem-solving process and interaction skills used in direct service activities with individuals. Helping skills require a knowledge of interpersonal relationships and the effective use of interpersonal behaviors. This combination of knowledge and skills will benefit any individual wanting to increase effectiveness when working with people.

3 credits

O'Leary, M.

T/R, 11 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

As a required introductory course for all WGS majors and minors, this course will introduce you to the foundational concepts underwriting how gender has been socially, historically, and politically construed. Students will reflect on their identity and experiences, and how these concepts shape our lives and our world. This class will engage with pressing social issues and influential cultural representations, norms, practices, and institutions.

3 credits

O'Leary, M.

T/R, 12:30 - 1:45 p.m.

As a required capstone for all WGS majors and minors, this course will introduce you to the foundational thinking that comprises the broad field of critical feminist and gender theory. Feminist theory considers how gender interacts with other social positions/identities (race, class, sexuality, disability, citizenship) as a constitutive factor in how power functions. While generally organized as “theory,” course readings show how theory is dynamic and reflexive—meaning, it is constantly shifting, responding, and builds on previous work in ways that are aware of the history of the field and other interventions. The course examines the foundations of American feminism from enlightenment liberal to postmodern and standpoint theories.

• CE 483HON: Civil Engineering Design II
• CHE 412HON: Plant Design II
• CSCI 493HON: Senior Project II
• EE 493HON: Senior Design II
• ENGR 201HON: Statics
• ENGR 202HON: Dynamics
• ENGR 203HON: Mechanics of Materials
• ENGR 206HON: Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering
• ENGR 340HON: Professional Integrity in Engineering
• GEOE 485HON: Geological Engineering Design
• ME 488HON Engineering Design
• PTRE 485HON: Senrior Design
• + Engineering Capstone Courses

Requires permission codes from Nursing to register

• NURS 301HON Professional Nurse I
  
• NURS 331HON Patient and Family-Centered Nursing
• NURS 406HON Evidence-Informed Practice
• NURS 450HON Transition to Practice: Seminar
• NURS 453HON Clinical Practicum V