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Freshman Tutorials
Your Choices
At Ohio Wesleyan, you can begin your honors-level study right away with a Freshman Honors Tutorial during one or both semesters of your first year of enrollment. In 2007-2008, you can select tutorials in the natural sciences, social sciences, the arts, or the humanities.
Tutorials are intense learning experiences. You might be working one-to-one with a faculty member. Or meeting with a very small group of other freshman honors scholars who share your passion for a particular subject.
You and your faculty mentor will work together to define the scale and pace of your tutorial. Your coursework could consist of a reading and research schedule, a laboratory component, tutorial meetings, and the amount of written work required to meet Honors Program standards. Your own experience, knowledge, discoveries, and developing interests will influence the course's progress and direction. When you discover a new idea or new topic of inquiry, you and your mentor may decide to modify the tutorial's scope to pursue these new interests.
You may enroll in a Freshman Tutorial with the professor’s permission. Tutorial topics change each semester, so you have an array of choices, each one providing a provocative starting point for your advanced studies.
All Freshman Tutorials count towards graduation as full-unit courses. Nearly all of the tutorials also meet the University's distribution requirements and many tutorials count towards a major or minor in a department or program. The professor conducting the tutorial will explain how a particular tutorial can fit into your academic program.
Note to Freshman Honors Students
You are welcome to pre-register for any of the tutorials when you arrive on campus in the fall. However, make certain that you contact the professor who is teaching the tutorial to determine if room remains in that tutorial or if the professor is still able to offer the tutorial for this particular semester. Thus for fall semester tutorials, either contact or see the professor shortly after you get to campus in August.
If you have an idea for a tutorial and find that none of the following descriptions matches your idea, talk with your academic advisor about this in August or see one of the two faculty Honors Directors—Professor Amy McClure or Professor Edward Burtt. Often it is possible to design a tutorial to suit your interests. Your academic advisor or the Honors Directors will be able to match your interest with a faculty person’s expertise.
Fall Semester 2008
| Humanities |
| FREN / BWS 190.1 |
Fete |
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African and American Writings in French: Why French? |
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For details on tutorial content, please contact the professor responsible for the Freshman Tutorial. [Directories] |
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| HMCL 190.4 |
Merkel |
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Russian Short Story from Pushkin to the Present |
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For details on tutorial content, please contact the professor responsible for the Freshman Tutorial. [Directories] |
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| Natural Sciences |
| BOMI 190.2 |
Johnson |
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The One True Tree of Life? |
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For details on tutorial content, please contact the professor responsible for the Freshman Tutorial. [Directories] |
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| ZOOL 190.1 |
Burtt / Ichida |
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Bacteria, Birds, and the Degradation of Feathers: Agricultural, Environmental, and Evolutionary Biology |
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For details on tutorial content, please contact the professor responsible for the Freshman Tutorial. [Directories] |
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| ZOOL 190.9 |
Markwardt |
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Gene Circuits |
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For details on tutorial content, please contact the professor responsible for the Freshman Tutorial. [Directories] |
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| Social Sciences |
| EDUC 190.6 |
Katz |
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Sport, Ethics, and Culture |
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For details on tutorial content, please contact the professor responsible for the Freshman Tutorial. [Directories] |
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| PG 190.2 |
Ramsay |
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The Politics of American Health Care |
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For details on tutorial content, please contact the professor responsible for the Freshman Tutorial. [Directories] |
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| PSYC 190.11 |
K. Smith |
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The Science of Subliminal Messages |
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For details on tutorial content, please contact the professor responsible for the Freshman Tutorial. [Directories] |
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| Interdisciplinary |
| HONS 190.3 |
Flynn / Katz |
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Zombie 101: What the Undead Teach Us about Self and Society |
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For details on tutorial content, please contact the professor responsible for the Freshman Tutorial. [Directories] |
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Spring Semester 2009
| Humanities |
| BWS 190.2 |
Quaye |
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The Dying Profession: Comparing Medical Professions Cross-Nationally |
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For details on tutorial content, please contact the professor responsible for the Freshman Tutorial. [Directories] |
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| ENG 190.9 |
Carpenter |
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Independence Abroad: Mark Twain |
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For details on tutorial content, please contact the professor responsible for the Freshman Tutorial. [Directories] |
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| FREN / BWS 190.1 |
Fete |
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African and American Writings in French: Why French? |
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For details on tutorial content, please contact the professor responsible for the Freshman Tutorial. [Directories] |
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| HMCL 190.5 |
Sokolsky |
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Bad Girls: The Making of the Femme Fatale in Japanese Literature, Film, and Culture |
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For details on tutorial content, please contact the professor responsible for the Freshman Tutorial. [Directories] |
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| Natural Sciences |
| BOMI 190.7 |
Wolverton |
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Plant Signal Transduction |
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For details on tutorial content, please contact the professor responsible for the Freshman Tutorial. [Directories] |
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| ZOOL 190.1 |
Burtt / Tuhela-Reuning |
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Bacteria, Birds, and the Degradation of Feathers: Agricultural, Environmental, and Evolutionary Biology |
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For details on tutorial content, please contact the professor responsible for the Freshman Tutorial. [Directories] |
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| ZOOL 190.7 |
Carreno |
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Wildlife Parasitology |
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For details on tutorial content, please contact the professor responsible for the Freshman Tutorial. [Directories] |
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| Social Sciences |
| EDUC 190.4 |
McClure |
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The Roots of Fantasy in Children’s Literature |
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For details on tutorial content, please contact the professor responsible for the Freshman Tutorial. [Directories] |
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| EDUC 190.7 |
Zitlow |
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Young Adults in Times of War |
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For details on tutorial content, please contact the professor responsible for the Freshman Tutorial. [Directories] |
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| PG 190.2 |
Ramsay |
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The Politics of American Health Care |
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For details on tutorial content, please contact the professor responsible for the Freshman Tutorial. [Directories] |
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| PSYC 190.12 |
Dolgin |
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The Effects of Media Violence on Children and Adolescence |
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For details on tutorial content, please contact the professor responsible for the Freshman Tutorial. [Directories] |
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| Interdisciplinary |
| HONS 190.1 |
Andereck |
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Time |
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For details on tutorial content, please contact the professor responsible for the Freshman Tutorial. [Directories] |
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