Core Courses Fall 2026

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Finding Hope in Dystopic Times
Stories about the walking dead, climatic apocalypses, and world-ending disasters are in no way new. Yet they continue to saturate films, novels, and other media today. Our society seeks out stories of apocalyptic environments and dystopic futures – why? Perhaps, it is in such stories that moments of hope for humanity are found.

In this rhetoric-based course, we will explore both fictional dystopias and real-world dystopic environments in pursuit of moments of hope, care, and action. We will investigate how language, digital platforms, and other communicative resources support rhetorical action amidst dystopic conditions. Students will negotiate the complications with using stories – both fictional and lived – for activist endeavors in response to social injustices. We will work to uncover how and why stories are used to drive movements and inspire hope for humanity amid a world that feels more and more like a dystopic film. This course is set up for students to dig into what popular culture, including social media, can teach them about effective and meaningful writing and communication in the classroom, in their communities, or in the digital public spaces they inhabit in our increasingly socioecological, dystopic world.

Finding Hope in Dystopic Times
Stories about the walking dead, climatic apocalypses, and world-ending disasters are in no way new. Yet they continue to saturate films, novels, and other media today. Our society seeks out stories of apocalyptic environments and dystopic futures – why? Perhaps, it is in such stories that moments of hope for humanity are found.

In this rhetoric-based course, we will explore both fictional dystopias and real-world dystopic environments in pursuit of moments of hope, care, and action. We will investigate how language, digital platforms, and other communicative resources support rhetorical action amidst dystopic conditions. Students will negotiate the complications with using stories – both fictional and lived – for activist endeavors in response to social injustices. We will work to uncover how and why stories are used to drive movements and inspire hope for humanity amid a world that feels more and more like a dystopic film. This course is set up for students to dig into what popular culture, including social media, can teach them about effective and meaningful writing and communication in the classroom, in their communities, or in the digital public spaces they inhabit in our increasingly socioecological, dystopic world.

Culture and Narrative: The Power of Stories
Using a rhetorical approach, we will examine how writers and composers communicate to achieve different purposes and to connect with different audiences across various physical and digital spaces. We will look at writing and composing choices in personal narratives, social media, academic writing, and public discourse, aiming to understand how specific stories affirm, trouble, or counter larger dominant narratives. As our focus, we’ll examine how writers and composers create, engage with, and share stories, such as personal, familial, cultural, civic, environmental stories. We’ll learn about and apply theories about narrative and storytelling, as these approaches will help us explore the role stories have(personally, interpersonally, and within and across various communities), as well as the power they can wield. Throughout the course, we will complete narrative and analytical writing in different genres and explore how creative, multimodal approaches can support can enhance writing.

Culture and Narrative: The Power of Stories
Using a rhetorical approach, we will examine how writers and composers communicate to achieve different purposes and to connect with different audiences across various physical and digital spaces. We will look at writing and composing choices in personal narratives, social media, academic writing, and public discourse, aiming to understand how specific stories affirm, trouble, or counter larger dominant narratives. As our focus, we’ll examine how writers and composers create, engage with, and share stories, such as personal, familial, cultural, civic, environmental stories. We’ll learn about and apply theories about narrative and storytelling, as these approaches will help us explore the role stories have(personally, interpersonally, and within and across various communities), as well as the power they can wield. Throughout the course, we will complete narrative and analytical writing in different genres and explore how creative, multimodal approaches can support can enhance writing.

History and Trauma
This class explores the concepts of trauma, history, and memory as experienced by individuals and communities. We read works in the fields of psychoanalysis, sci-fi, philosophy, and history, to see how memory of historical events is affected by trauma.

Preserving the City as Art and History
This course will introduce students to the history of architecture, parks, monuments, and urban design in America as well as the civic movement to preserve them. Through object analysis, historic research, and extensive fieldwork, students will learn how to ‘read’ a building, monument, or cultural landscape as a form of public art and as a source of historic evidence. They will also learn to think critically about their built environment and explore the role which citizens can play in preserving art and history within their communities. Using Milwaukee and Chicago as case-studies for these themes, students will come to understand ‘the power of place’ to shape their lives—and their own power to shape civic life.

Preserving the City as Art and History
This course will introduce students to the history of architecture, parks, monuments, and urban design in America as well as the civic movement to preserve them. Through object analysis, historic research, and extensive fieldwork, students will learn how to ‘read’ a building, monument, or cultural landscape as a form of public art and as a source of historic evidence. They will also learn to think critically about their built environment and explore the role which citizens can play in preserving art and history within their communities. Using Milwaukee and Chicago as case-studies for these themes, students will come to understand ‘the power of place’ to shape their lives—and their own power to shape civic life.

Engaging the City: Reckoning with History in Milwaukee
This class is about Milwaukeeans reckoning with their past. We will explore what it means to reckon with the past, especially in urban contexts, and what happens when we ignore history. You will learn about local historical developments including efforts at Indigenous removal, antislavery activism, a Civil War-era lynching, early physical education, the Great Migration, industrialization, highway construction, and Civil Rights activism. You will also learn inspiring stories of how Milwaukeeans have reckoned—and are reckoning—with the past through art, fiction, protest, commemoration, community organizing, and urban planning. Class trips and outside visitors will give you a new appreciation of the city in which we live. The semester will culminate in a project that applies your historical skills to a contemporary challenge.

In this class, we will explore the relations between space, power, time and social structures. We will organize our class around different forms of space such as third spaces, transportation spaces, spaces of learning, of movement and captivity, online landscapes, entertainment, and more.  

We will ground our investigation in social structures related to identity such as race, class, gender, sexuality, and ability. These will be investigated as we consider how built and natural spaces support or prohibit certain norms, values, habits, behaviors, expectations, and disciplinary measures.  

This class will encourage students to experience the city on their own and with the class as a whole. Students will be expected to retain a bus pass or find a way to visit spaces throughout Milwaukee. 

Please note, we will meet one-day a week to support a hands-on experimental approach. The course will consist of minimal lecture and center experiential opportunities such as board games, visits to locations, and active discussions and presentations. This course is a great option for students who are enthusiastic about Milwaukee or want to learn about the city in person.

In this class, we will explore the relations between space, power, time and social structures. We will organize our class around different forms of space such as third spaces, transportation spaces, spaces of learning, of movement and captivity, online landscapes, entertainment, and more. 

We will ground our investigation in social structures related to identity such as race, class, gender, sexuality, and ability. These will be investigated as we consider how built and natural spaces support or prohibit certain norms, values, habits, behaviors, expectations, and disciplinary measures.  

This class will encourage students to experience the city on their own and with the class as a whole. Students will be expected to retain a bus pass or find a way to visit spaces throughout Milwaukee. This course is a great option for students who are enthusiastic about Milwaukee or want to learn about the city in person. It will prioritize experiential opportunities, engaged learning approaches, over lecture.

BIOL 1101         901 LEC     Staff                                     M 12-12:50pm
BIOL 1101         941 Lab     Staff                                     M 2-4:50pm
BIOL 1101         942 Lab     Staff                                     M 2-4:50pm
BIOL 1101         943 Lab     Staff                                     T 9:30-12:20pm
BIOL 1101         944 Lab    Staff                                      T 9:30-12:20pm

CHEM 1001H   901 LEC             Llanie Nobiel    MWF 1-1:50-pm

CHEM 1001H   941 LAB            Vijay Vyas          T 11-1:50pm

CHEM 1001H   942 LAB            Vijay Vyas          W 9-11:50am

CHEM 1001H   943 LAB            Vijay Vyas          W 2-4:50pm

CHEM 1001H   961 DIS              Vijay Vyas         W 1-1:50pm

CHEM 1001H   963 DIS              Vijay Vyas         Th 3-3:50pm

CHEM 1013H 901 LEC    MF       9-10:15am     Scott Reid

CHEM 1013H 941 LAB   W          9-11:50am      Vijay Viyas              

COSC 1820 101    TTh  9:30-10:45am   Michael Zimmer

*This is an Honors for All course, a course that is open to all students at Marquette and gives Honors elective credit to students completing the Core Honors curriculum.  

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**These coursese are not officially honors sections, but honors student who enroll will receive honors elective credit.*

HEAL 1025H 901     W     10-12:45am                  Staff

HEAL 1025H does not require a permission number. If you have trouble enrolling, please contact the Nursing department.

HIST 4271H      901       Alan Ball            MWF 9-9:50m

HIST 4271H      902       Alan Ball            MWF 1-1:50pm  

Pre-revolutionary Russia from 1861, the Revolution of 1917, Soviet economic growth and totalitarianism, and the emergence of the USSR as a world power and its subsequent collapse. As an Honors Program course, includes a more intensive research or project component.

TTh 12:30-1:45pm, Lindsay Daigle, Honors
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MUSI 1120H 901   W, Sun  5-7pm     Andrew Mountin

^please note MUSI 1120H is 1 credit. To receive one full honors elective credit, students will need to complete three semesters of MUSI 1120H.

PHIL 1001H      901      MW       2-3:15pm             Mike Olson

PHIL 1001H      902      MW       3:30-4:45pm       Yoon Choi

PHIL 1001H      903      MW       5-6:15pm            Grant Silva

PHIL 1001H      904      TTh        9:30-10:45am    Corinne Bloch-Mullins

PHIL 1001H      905       TTh       11-12:15pm       Anthony Peressini

PHIL 1001H      906       TTh        12:30-1:45pm   Anthony Peressini

PHIL 1001H      907        TTh        2-3:15pm          Anthony Peressini

PHIL 2955H 901     Staff               Fri 1-1:50pm   1 credit^
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Develops skills in philosophical reasoning, critical analysis, close reading and constructive debate through facilitated discussions that bring philosophical texts and theories to bear on current events.

^please note PHIL 2955H is 1 credit. To receive one full honors elective credit, students will need to complete three semesters of one-credit courses.

PHYS 1003H 901 LEC      Karen Andeen      MWF 10-10:50 am M 6-8 pm  

PHYS 1003H 902 LEC      Jax Sanders           MWF 11-11:50am M 6-8 pm  

PHYS 1003H 903 LEC      Bill Hirsch              MWF 12-12:50pm M 6-8 pm  

PHYS 1003H 904 LEC      Bill Hirsch              MWF 1-1:50pm M 6-8 pm 

PHYS 1003H 941 Lab      Mike Nichols         W 3-4:50pm

PHYS 1003H 942 Lab      Mike Nichols         W 5-6:50pm

PHYS 1003H 961 Dis       Melissa Vigil          M 4-4:50pm 

PHYS 1013H 901  MWF 1-2:50pm Andrew Kunz, Physics

POSC 2201H - MWF 11-11:50am Sam Harshner

Problems of organizing and using governmental power at the national level. The principles of the U.S. Constitution. The Presidency, Congress and the federal judiciary. Public opinion, elections, political parties and interest groups. Issues of public policy. As a Honors Program course, includes a more intensive research or project component.

POSC 2801H 901 MWF 10-10:50am Richard Arndt, Political Science

Explores the difference between justice and power with special reference to the authority of a higher law or principle of right; selections from the works of Thucydides, Plato, Machiavelli and others are read. As a Honors Program course, includes a more intensive research or project component.

PSYC 2050H 901 LEC        TTh 12:30-1:45pm  Astrida Kaugars, Psychology
PSYC 2050H 941 LAB        W 12-12:50pm        Astrida Kaugars, Psychology

Scientific methods and their application in psychology with emphasis on the experimental method. May include experimental, quasi experimental, correlational and survey designs, as well as selection and implementation of descriptive and statistical analyses, individual laboratory projects, and preparation of scientific reports. As a Honors Program course, includes a more intensive research or project component.

THEO 2240H 101 TTh 11-12:15pm  Cathal Doherty, Theology

The study of prayer and mystical experience across a variety of historical and cultural contexts. Particular attention paid to the foundational writings of the patristic period, the later Byzantine period, and the medieval West, concluding with a study of selected writings from the post-Reformation period reflecting Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox approaches to prayer and mystical experience. Addresses questions concerning the definition and character of mystical experience, the interrelation of mystical and dogmatic theology, and the relative character and significance of mystical experience in the principal Christian traditions. As a Honors Program course, includes a more intensive research or project component.