HNR 00 Slow Food in Syracuse First in-class meeting: Second week of classes (Monday, January 23, 202) M00 M 2:5-3:35 pm 3335 Jolynn Parker This seminar will consider the Slow Food movement, and the recent surge of interest in local food production and consumption, in Central New York. Readings and films will introduce you to some of the concerns activists have raised about our global industrial food system, and to alternatives aimed at feeding people sustainably and locally. The course will ask you to become more aware of where your food comes from, how it is processed, and where and how you purchase and consume it. We ll focus our insights on the local food situation, considering Syracuse s farmers markets, CSAs, community gardens, and Real Food Co-Op. The course will likely involve some field trips, as well as visits from local food producers and representatives of local organizations. HNR 00 Symposium: The Art of Conversation First in-class meeting: Second week of class (Friday, January 27, 202) M002 F 2:5-3:35 pm 3337 Prof. Stephen Kuusisto Students will read "The Symposium" of Plato and "Do Not Interrupt: A Playful Take on the Art of Conversation" by Honors Director, Prof. Stephen Kuusisto. We will conduct our own philosophically charged and collectively playful "symposium" on a subject of our own devising.
HNR 00 Learning How to Live First in-class meeting: Second week of classes (Thursday, January 26, 202) M003 Th 5:00-6:20 p.m. 3339 Prof. William Robert How should I live? Ethics begins with this question, and this course considers responses to it by exploring entwined practices of knowing and acting. Along the way, we will examine ancient and modern sources as we consider related, enduring concerns, including mortality, love, justice, beauty, and transcendence. HNR 00 Music, Space and Place First in-class meeting: Second week of class (Tuesday, January 24, 202) M004 T 2:30 - :50 3669 Prof. Theo Cateforis Our experience of music is intimately tied with both space and place. We think of music in terms of its geographical and physical locations and the way it is connected to urban, suburban or rural locales, or specific regional rock and pop scenes such as Motown and Seattle. The performance sites of music can range from coffeehouses and clubs to stadiums and symphony halls, or the virtual space of YouTube videos. From a psychological and emotional perspective music can suggest a spatial state of mental interiority as well as external reality. In this class we will look at the space and place of music in a variety of contexts: the fantasy world of music videos, environmental music in retail spaces, film music, programmatic classical music, and the development of musical styles such as west coast surf rock and east coast hip hop. Throughout the course we will consider not only music s metaphorical powers and social significance but the ways that its very compositional elements (melody, harmony, rhythm, form, timbre, texture) can connote dimensions of space and place.
HNR 00 Asking, Listening, Writing: Creating a Book About France First in-class meeting: Second week of classes (Monday, January 23, 202) M005 M 5:5-6:35 pm 36625 Prof. John Western Your instructor is a geographer and an ethnographer, which means he watches people going about their lives, and gets them to talk with him about the cities in which they live. When I start inquiring, obviously there are certain things I want to investigate, like politics, history, or social tensions such as racism or the-rich-versus-the-poor. But by putting very open-ended questions to people in a courteous manner, a lot of folks will tell you what they think about their city and some of this would be stuff I d never have thought of asking about myself. For those of you who are quantitative and/or hard scientific by leaning, this kind of soft research might seem rather undemanding. Nope. This is hard and rigorous but joyous too. I ve written work like this on southern Louisiana (early 970s), in Coloured Cape Town under apartheid (late 970s), with Caribbean settlers in London (late 980s), and now am doing a book about Strasbourg, which has been both German (= Strassburg) and French in modern times and now has many Muslim settlers. Join with me in the making of my book, and see to what really broad-scale questions (about America, and about the world) it leads! We will meet in the Honors Suite once a week for (probably) weeks. Be there. Do not fail to turn up; that is discourteous. E-mail me if there s a problem (as when you re unwell). On occasion I will give you small assignments: readings, projects, or being prepared to lead a discussion at the upcoming meeting. On occasion, also, it may be that our class together will not be about what I m doing with this book. I hope there can be at least one meeting off campus. Whatever our focus each time, this will be fun. A nice way to earn one credit. And beware: I enjoy teaching!
HNR 00 What Good Is It? First in-class meeting: Second week of class (Tuesday, January 24, 202) M006 T 2:30 - :50 pm 3663 Prof. Andrew Waggoner An introduction to, and immersion in, the basics of aesthetics, a semester-long grappling with the emotional, intellectual and ethical conundra associated with making value judgments about works of art. We'll read, look, listen and discuss, and try to get a better sense of how aesthetic discernment can (and should) affect both artistic creation and reception. Lots of concerts, gallery crawls, architecture walks, and general wandering about taking everything in, comparing notes on what we think and, more importantly, how our thinking changes over time. HNR 00 First in-class meeting: Second week of classes (Wednesday, January 25, 202) M007 W 2:5-3:35 pm 39383 Catherine Nock We hear a lot about it in the news but what is it really like? The space known as the US-Mexico border, far from being just a line on a map, is an area with its own unique history and vibrant culture. We will explore various aspects of that culture through film, art, literature, music and cuisine; engage in discussions with community leaders and experts on immigration and other border issues; and attend a cultural event or two in the community. Be prepared you will be exposed to some new ideas, as well as sights, sounds and tastes!
HNR 00 First in-class meeting: Second week of class (Friday, January 27, 202) M008 F 2:45-2:05 pm 42693 Karen Hall Play is a fundamental building block of both culture and the individual. Play helps to develop cognitive and social abilities. And, play is fun. In this course we will look at a history of play, and the anthropological and psychological significance of play. We ll explore what happens to play as we age, and of course, we ll also play so come ready to partake in such activities as paintball, laser tag, board games, card games and more. HNR 00 Exploring Our Skin From Without and Within First in-class meeting: Second week of class (Thursday, January 26, 202) M009 Th 3:30-4:50 pm 53885 Mark Muhammad As we embrace the concept of community engagement, we must think about the diverse community stakeholders with whom we are engaging. In this course we explore the ideas of community. In addition, we challenge these boundaries that we have constructed, mentally as well as physically, that serve to separate us from others. Some of the questions we will open up: Who are we? How do we define ourselves? Are we, as an academic community, encompassed in a larger community? What is life like beyond the margins of the University and the Connective Corridor? Who are they? Are we going out to see them? Are they inviting us in so they can observe us?