The Dorothy and Bill Cohen Honors College Weekly Update

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Events & Deadlines


Submit Proposals to Present at the Great Plains Honors Council conference by January 23

Submissions for GPHC 2023 are due Monday, January 23rd. The conference will be held March 10-12th, 2023, in 麻豆破解版 Falls, Texas on the campus of Midwestern State University. Poster presentations will be held Friday March 10th and oral presentations will be held on Saturday, March 11th. Both the Dennis Boe paper and John Britt poster awards will be awarded this year as well. And there are a number of exciting excursions planned. Registration will be $125 per student. Cohen Honors students accepted to present will be awarded a Cohen Enhancement Scholarship or stipend to cover their registration and travel costs.
 
Visit the conference website and submit your proposal today:
 
If you have any questions, please contact Steve Garrison, at steve.garrison@msutexas.edu or 940-397-4978. 


Calling All Seniors! Apply for the Outstanding Cohen Honors Student Award

Pop art Graphic with a megaphone with text to the right that reads " Attention Seniors: Apply today to be recognized as the Outstanding Cohen Honors Student 2023. Applications due February 15th by 11:59pm. Outstanding Cohen Honors Student."
This award recognizes a high-achieving senior leader who takes on challenges and demonstrates commitment to academic excellence in Honors. Students who have completed at least 90 credit hours by the end of summer 2023, are in active standing with Honors, and have maintained a 3.25 minimum overall GPA are eligible to apply. For more information including the application please visit our website here. The application is now open and due Wednesday, February 15, 2023 at 11:59pm. Question can be directed to honors@wichita.edu. 

Apply to the 2023 Kansas Undergraduate Research Day at the Capitol

The Kansas Undergraduate Research Day at the Capitol event is an opportunity for students to present their research experiences virtually to state lawmakers, Board of Regents members, and the WSU community on March 1st, 2023.

Up to 40 students participate each year representing each of the state鈥檚 eight public four-year institutions. Projects from a broad range of disciplines are encouraged, especially those that relate to the state of Kansas and issues important to the State Legislature (e.g. education, health, agriculture, aviation, biotechnology, energy, transportation, manufacturing, environment, and social services).
Up to five projects will be selected from each institution, and students working on the same research project are encouraged to apply as a group.
Click Here for more information and to apply. Applications due by January 31st.


News & Information


Still looking for an Honors course for spring? Try philosophy!

These courses still have seats available. 

PHIL 355 Minds and Machines - Honors 
HYB 2:00pm-3:15pm Fiske Hall 209
Dr. Susan Sterrett susan.sterrett@wichita.edu

General education humanities course. People have constructed machines designed to imitate living creatures in some way long before there were electronic computers. When is a machine鈥檚 behavior appropriately called "intelligent?" Must it be capable of using a language? Must a machine be capable of learning in order to be regarded as intelligent? Must it be able to communicate with humans? What criteria are appropriate for judging that an animal's behavior is intelligent; should the same criteria be used for machine intelligence? What lessons about machine intelligence should be taken from debates over recent studies of intelligence in animals with nervous systems very different from humans (e.g., corvids, cephalopods)? Students consider these and other, related questions. Course takes a historical and interdisciplinary approach, drawing on works in philosophy, literature, science and history of science.

PHIL 315H Late Modern Philosophy - Honors (3) 
TCI 9:30-10:45 TR Fiske Hall 209
Dr. Susan Castro susan.castro@wichita.edu

General education humanities course. Studies philosophical thought in the 18th century with selections from philosophers such as Berkeley, Hume, Reid, Adam Smith, Butler, Hutcheson, Wolff and Kant, and movements such as empiricism, rationalism, the Scottish common sense school, and idealism.


Honors Outcomes Pilot and Other Faculty Resources

A group of faculty met throughout academic year 2020-21 to develop an initial set of Honors outcomes and a rubric based on the student-written college charter, AAC&U VALUE rubrics, and feedback from students, faculty, and alumni. We鈥檇 like faculty to try to incorporate at least two outcomes total from two different pillars and let us know how they work for your course. At the end of the year, you鈥檒l be invited to give feedback on the outcomes and the extent to which they worked in your course. 

For a faculty resource handbook visit the Resources for Faculty in Honors page on our website. 


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