AR 499H – Senior Exhibition Project (2 credits)

TTh – 2:20-3:45pm – Prof. Lance Sinnema

Required of all majors in painting/drawing, printmaking, graphic design, and three dimensional ceramics, sculpture, mixed media) art tracks. Students complete and exhibit original artworks.

CH-497H-1 – Dissemination of Chem Research

Thursdays – 11:45am-12:40pm– Dr. Deanna Ojennus

Research performed on campus or off-campus will be shared with others. Students are expected to complete a research paper and give a presentation to a conference audience. The course should be taken in the Spring semester after completion of chemistry research. By permission. Prerequisite: CH 494L or CH 488L.

EDU-350H – Methods of Teaching: Middle/High School

TTh – 12:50-2:10pm – Dr. Keith Lambert

Candidates learn the fundamental knowledge and skills to implement standards-based instructional planning, the Common Core Standards, and to use multiple instructional strategies for teaching in secondary schools. Meets Whitworth’s oral communication requirement. Prerequisite: completion of at least 70% of content area major, or chair permission. Corequisite: EDU 351.

EDU-470WH – Capstone Seminar

TBD – Dr. Megan Griffin

This one-credit class will address state requirements for end-of-program pedagogy assessments. This will include evidence that the candidate can effectively plan, instruct, manage and assess students as well as self-reflect on his/her practice. The course will also address state requirements for evidence of knowledge in social-emotional learning and standards, tribal history learning and standards, and diversity/equity/inclusion learning and standards.

EN 487H – Engineering Design Project II

MWF – 1:00pm-2:50pm – Dr. Markus Ong – Prerequisite: EN 484

This is the second course in a two-course capstone design sequence. In this sequence students apply engineering procedures and practices to a comprehensive design project. Throughout both courses the students work in teams to create typical industry project documentation such as written reports, CAD models and drawings, engineering performance estimates, schedules and status reports, and oral presentations. Emphasis in the second course is on project completion. Typical work includes completion of design detailing, performance analyses, prototype construction, verification testing, and final reporting.

GE 330H – Community Leadership Training

Various Times – Various Instructors

For students holding leadership positions, these 1-credit courses count for Upper Division Honors credits.

HS 365WH – Evidence Based Health Science

MWF – 8:00-8:55am – Cynthia Wright

This course is an exploration of research design concepts, statistical techniques, and critical appraisal of literature within the Health Science fields. Students learn how to evaluate the credibility of relevant literature and media and learn to formulate novel research questions based upon the strengths, limitations, and gaps in current knowledge of various Health Science topics. Ultimately, an end goal is that students will be able to synthesize the evidence gleaned from these processes to determine best practice and appropriate recommendations.

PH 319H – Ethics Bowl (1 credit)

Various Times – Dr. Rebecca Korf

This course constitutes research and practice leading up to the Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl, Northwest Regional. It also includes competition. As a team, students analyze, present on, and argue ethical cases.

PO-396-2 – Building Democracy

Wednesdays – 6:00-9:00pm – Judge Breann Beggs

*Not currently listed as an Honors course, but can earn Honors credit with a substitution form

This semester class integrates theories of democratic governance in the United States, vocational formation, skill-building for creating social change, and lived experience applications to current social problems. The class will meet once weekly for lecture, seminar discussion, exercises, presentations by students and community leaders, and once weekly on their own in small success teams. Students will also choose from a curated list of community changemaking leaders to interview and also observe multiple governmental policymaking meetings from a curated list. Students will engage in readings, modest goalsetting, journaling, writing short papers and creating TikTok videos in response to curated readings, interviews and community meetings. Readings will include materials that the entire class reads and others from a curated list from which they can choose. Extensive classroom participation is required along with individual student presentations via TikTok. The purpose of the class is to better understand how our nation’s actual government compares to classical democratic principles, empower students who already know they want to create positive social change in the world to better understand their perceived individual purpose and provide them with the knowledge, skills and inspiration to more effectively fulfill that purpose in both their professional and personal lives. The 300 level of the class represents the rigor of work but not expertise within the major; and all majors are encouraged to register.

PY-376H – Psychological Trauma

Mondays – 6:00-9:00pm – Prof. Matthew Wellerick

Psychological Trauma and Resilience is an upper-division course designed to explore the nature of trauma and the various outcomes that suffering can produce. This course will first explore, at a micro level, the individual factors that can either hinder or facilitate emotional, psychological and spiritual growth before, during and after great suffering. Students will explore the various ways humans from a variety of cultures have interacted with suffering from Old Testament to current treatments for PTSD and research on hardiness and Post Traumatic Growth. We then survey the major conflicts the American Military has been involved in from the Civil War onward, comparing and contrasting, at a macro level, the variables that led to either increased resiliency and growth, or psychological degradation.

SO-452H – Violence Towards Women

MWF – 11:45am-12:40pm – Dr. Mary Miller

This course will provide an overview of violence directed toward and against women. Crimes such as battering, rape, sexual harassment, and stalking will be analyzed within a broader theoretical and social context. Special attention will be given to how these crimes affect women and men, and how multiple systems, including the criminal justice system, may better address the needs of victims and offenders