Honors Courses
CTZN 110 | Society and its Monsters
Professor Leeyanne Moore taught my citizen class. Each citizen class had a different focus, with the end goal to be improvement in public speaking and critical thinking. This class completed this goal by looking at the different ethical and social aspects that both realistic and fantastical monsters create in our world. In addition to our …
HIST 150 | Historical Inquiry I
Dr. Steven Isaac taught Historical Inquiry I: The Early History of Faith. Through our copious readings, we studied how faith played a role in history, starting with the Ancient Egyptians and Mesopotamian civilizations and moving through to the Reformation. Our course texts were as follows: Herodotus, On the Greek War for Freedom Tim Whitmarsh, Battling the Gods …
EDUC 245 | Human Growth and Development
This Human Growth and Development course was taught by Dr. Mary Tackett. The course ran every Tuesday and Thursday from 2:00pm – 3:15pm. This course is typically taken as a foundations level course; however, I had a different course transfer in for that credit. I took this education course as a requirement for my teaching …
HONS 490 | Honors Directed Study
HONS 490 was an honors directed study, headed by Jessi Znosko. Kelsey Swegle and I worked together to create a proposed study that would look at how volunteering affects the stress levels in graduate student volunteers. If the COVID-19 pandemic had not occurred, we would have collected saliva samples three separate times throughout the semester …
ART 324 | Fabrics: Papermaking
Papermaking was a course that fulfilled my Global Citizenship or Aesthetic Perspective, as well as counting towards my Art Education Concentration. Professor Cushman taught the class every Monday evening for three hours. The first half — two-thirds of the course was in person, while the end was virtual. The Papermaker’s Companion by Helen Hiebert was …
SPED 305 | Behavior Management
Behavior Management met on Wednesday nights from 6:00pm-8:45pm. Professor Molly Monaghan, a middle school math teacher in Henrico County, taught the course. We spent the semester learning about different “Tough Kid” behaviors, pulling from our Tough Kid and Tough Kid Toolbox books, as well as from Professor Monaghan’s personal experience. We did not have much …
CTZN 410 | Lancer Launch Pad
Professor Jacob Dolence taught this course Tuesday/Thursday from 8:00am-9:15am. This course was slower paced to allow for more in depth and meaningful work. Each student came up with a problem that he/she cared about, then created a solution that could realistically be implemented. Some students worked in small groups, but I worked by myself. Throughout …