Honors Sections

Anthropology is the study of humanity and its diversity through time and across space. Unlike other social sciences anthropology emphasizes comparative approaches and cross-cultural perspectives to study human behavior, and society. The discipline of anthropology is unique because its practitioners employ a holistic, integrated and interdisciplinary perspective to understand the human condition. Anthropologists investigate a broad assortment of topics and issues. In this Honors course, ANT 102 – Cultural Anthropology, through class discussion, critical writing and visual media, emphasis will be concentrated on the cultural significance and manifestation of the following: social organization, subsistence, settlement patterns and related social structures, expressive culture, religion, economics, politics, ethnicity, kinship, and the cultural implications of globalization. This course also examines the cultural importance and implication of structural and symbolic language, warfare, poverty, health and disease in societies, and material culture, music, folklore, foodways and related technologies. In many ways, the discipline of anthropology, engaged via its four subfields encompasses all that is a product of the human condition, both lived and imagined, whether manifesting in its simple or in its complex forms.

Three Credits Fulfills MCC Gen Ed, a SUNY Social Science and Other World Cultures (Non-western Gen Ed) requirement.
Professor: E. Gaede    Office: 5-316    Phone: (585) 292-3229
Email: egaede@monroecc.edu

Art 119 introduces the student to major artistic periods from the Renaissance to contemporary art examining the function and role of the artist in various periods of history with an emphasis on the origins and developments of artistic styles such as High Renaissance, Baroque, Romanticism, Impressionism, Realism, and Cubism. The course will survey major works by artists such as Jan van Eyck, Michelangelo, David, Monet, Van Gogh, Picasso, Kandinsky, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Rothko.

While this survey course will introduce students to the major works of art and architecture that have shaped Western Civilization from the Renaissance of the 14^th century to the Modern Period of the 20^th century, the Honors section will examine the social constructs that have defined the role of the artist and have shaped artistic production and cultural meaning. 

This course can be used as humanities or social science elective.
Three class hours. WR (SUNY-WC/H) 3 Credits.
Prerequisite: Art 118 Preferred but not required
Professor: Dawn Murphy    Office: 6-209K    Phone: (585) 292-3104
Email: dmurphy@monroecc.edu

Introduction to Environmental Science (BIO 116) is a three credit hour course, including both lecture and laboratory class meetings. It is designed as an introductory environmental science course for non-science majors, although it may be of interest to science-oriented students as well.

Environmental Science is a discipline that examines the interactions between humans and their environment.Topics covered in this course include ecosystem dynamics, human population study, biodiversity and conservation, invasive species, global climate change, and human energy consumption.

Students will learn about these and other topics through classroom discussion, evaluation of case studies, and selected readings.In the laboratory, students will make observations and conduct experiments, gain experience in collecting and analyzing data, and participate in at least one field trip.

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to describe certain basic ecological and biological principles, interpret and evaluate information relating to a variety of environmental issues, and will have gained experience in reading, writing and discussing topics in environmental science.

Three Credits Fulfills SUNY General Education Natural Science requirements
Professor: Timothy Tatakis    Office: 8-424    Phone: (585) 292-2332
Email: ttatakis@monroecc.edu

Nutrition is an evolving science, requiring critical thinking skills to sift through the many topics and controversies it presents.In Honors Consumer Nutrition, students will learn about the nutrients, how the body utilizes them, and their affect on health and disease.Gaining the necessary skills to analyze current nutrition topics will comprise a major part of this course.Student activities may include defending a position on a controversial topic or creating a poster for display.Through case studies, students will develop skills necessary to research and solve a problem.An analysis of student's individual diets will be performed. 

Three Credits Depending on the program requirements, this course can meet both Food Service (FSA 117) or Natural Science (Bio 117) elective or course requirement.
Professor: Judy Kaufman    Phone (585) 292-2730    Office 8-226
Email jkaufman@monroecc.edu

Principles of biology with an emphasis on cellular structure and function, and organic evolution. Topics will include cellular metabolism, molecular genetics, gene expression, Mendelian genetics, natural selection and speciation. The laboratory features activities and experiments that reinforce the concepts presented in lecture. This course is the first in a two-semester sequence in introductory biology for science majors or science-interested students. This course may also fulfill a natural science elective for science-interested students. Two class hours, one conference hour, three laboratory hours.

PREREQUISITES: Living Environment Regents score of 85 or greater and Chemistry Regents score of 85 or greater, or equivalents, or AP Biology score of 4 or greater. AP Biology score of 3 with instructor permission.

Four Credits Fulfills Natural Science requirement
Professor: Suzanne Long    Phone: (585) 292-2725    Office: 8-430
Email: slong@monroecc.edu

Principles of biology with an emphasis on the diversity of life, the structure and function of plants and animals, and general ecological principles. The laboratory features activities and experiments that reinforce the concepts presented in lecture. This course is the second in a two-semester sequence in introductory biology for science majors or science-interested students. This course may also fulfill a natural science elective for science-interested students. Two class hours, one conference hour, three laboratory hours. WR (SUNY-NS) 4 Credits.

Prerequisite: BIO 155 with a grade of C+ or higher.

Three Credits
Professor: Jennifer Hill    Office: 8-218    Phone: (585) 292-2393
Email: jhill3@monroecc.edu

William Wordsworth, the British poet said a century or so ago, “In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.”

Business is important. It matters. If done right, it makes the world a better place, creating wealth, well-being, prosperity, jobs, and choices. It can be an exciting adventure, a journey of exploration, and the solution of age-old problems or individual dreams.Imagine the business, large or small, that discovers the secrets of energy generation from new, renewable sources. If conducted poorly, harm can be done.

Business impacts us all. It is a part of the larger community of nations and individuals, and tied to human values. It can be a saint, or it can be a sinner. One thing is for sure – we all need to understand it.

In Introduction to Business Honors, you will not only study the basics of business such as organization forms and the functions of production, finance, marketing, and human resources. You will be examining its relationships with larger environmental factors such as government, ethics, sustainability, and technology. Because this course uses a seminar and tutorial format, you will have the opportunity to assess your personal relationship to and possible future in terms of business related issues.

Three Credits Seminar style course suitable both for Business Majors or any student who would like to learn more about the world of business.
Professor: John Striebich    Phone: (585) 292-3267    Office: 5-512
Email: jstriebich@monroecc.edu

This introductory course in general chemistry is designed for students interested in pursuing further studies in science or engineering. Topics include dimensional analysis, stoichiometry, gas laws, thermochemistry, atomic structure, periodicity, chemical bonding, solids, liquids, and phase relationships. It is a mathematical approach to the principles of chemistry and assumes that students have had an above average preparation in chemistry.

The Honors section will integrate activities to probe the ideas students bring into the classroom and provide data for students to grapple with and deepen their conceptual understanding. In the laboratory, students will explore various experimental systems and propose molecular-level mechanisms for their macroscopic observations. The students will work collaboratively to deepen their understanding of a chemical system, collect data, reflect on implications of data, and explain how their understanding is supported by the empirical evidence.

*PREREQUISITES: MTH 165 with a grade of C- or higher or equivalent; CHE 145 with a grade of C- or higher, or above average preparation in high school chemistry.

Four credits Fulfills SUNY Natural Science (SUNY-NS)
Professor: Lydia Tien   Phone 292-2397   Office 8-202
Email ltien@monroecc.edu

This second semester general chemistry course is a continuation of CHE 151 and emphasizes macroscopic and molecular approaches to chemical systems.  Topics include solution concentrations and properties, kinetics, equilibrium, acids and bases, thermodynamics, and electrochemistry. 

The Honors section will integrate activities to probe the ideas students bring into the classroom and provide data for students to grapple with and deepen their conceptual understanding.  In the laboratory, students will engage in scientific inquiry to explore various experimental systems and propose molecular-level mechanisms for their macroscopic observations.  The students will work collaboratively to deepen their understanding of a chemical system, collect data, reflect on implications of data, and explain how their understanding is supported by the empirical evidence. 

Prerequisites: CHE 151 with a grade of B or higher.

Four Credits Fulfills SUNY Natural Science (SUNY-NS)
Professor: Lydia Tien    Phone: (585) 292-2397    Office: 8-202
Email: ltien@monroecc.edu

As a course designed to cultivate reading, writing, and research skills, ENG 101 emphasizes the rhetorical strategies and textual practices necessary to understand, critique, and construct sophisticated arguments. Through scholarly inquiry, class discussion, group work, and a final project, English 101 focuses on writing as process and aims to help students communicate more effectively within the diverse contexts of school, work, and community life. As an Honors course, ENG 101 builds on this foundation while also preparing students to engage current scholarship and actively participate in the ongoing conversations of academic discourse.

Three credits
Professor: Thomas Blake    Office: 5-550    Phone: (585) 292-3331
Email: tblake@monroecc.edu

As a course designed to cultivate reading, writing, and research skills, ENG 101 emphasizes the rhetorical strategies and textual practices necessary to understand, critique, and construct sophisticated arguments. Through scholarly inquiry, class discussion, group work, and a final project, English 101 focuses on writing as process and aims to help students communicate more effectively within the diverse contexts of school, work, and community life. As an Honors course, ENG 101 builds on this foundation while also preparing students to engage current scholarship and actively participate in the ongoing conversations of academic discourse.

Three credits
Professor: Elizabeth Johnston    Office: 5-542    Phone: (585) 292-3383
Email: ejohnston@monroecc.edu

The primary goal of this course is to prepare students to “think like an economist.” Economic theory provides a set of lenses which we can use to analyze problems in business, public policy and everyday life. Economics is the study of choice under conditions of scarcity. Economics is not just about stock markets or business, though it includes them. There is an economic way of analyzing just about all aspects of life, from stock markets to sports to marriage and everything in between. The great economic problem is how to allocate our limited resources to satisfy our unlimited wants. In this course students will be introduced to the general principles of microeconomics and the tools economists use to analyze them.

PREREQUISITE: MTH 104

Three CreditsFulfills Social Science requirement.
Professor: Mohammed Partapurwala    Phone: (585) 292-3366    Office: 5-515
Email: mpartapurwala@monroecc.edu
Professor: Christopher Inya    Phone: (585) 292-3341    Office: 5-436
Email: cinya@monroecc.edu

Why is the United States economy so sluggish? Are we really out of the great recession? What’s going on in Europe and how does it affect us? What is gross domestic product (GDP) and why is it” gross”? How is unemployment measured, and what are the policies to alleviate it? These are some of the many questions swirling in the minds of millions of Americans who are eager for an answer. Principles of Macroeconomics provide the tools and knowledge to answer these questions. Join us in Honors macroeconomics to explore the macro-economy.

Economics is everywhere. It goes everywhere you go. It is involved and necessary in the choices and decisions you make. Would you like to know how? Come to Economics, register for the course!

PREREQUISITE: ECO 111

Three CreditsFulfills Social Science requirement.
Professor: Christopher Inya    Phone: (585) 292-3341    Office: 5-436
Email: cinya@monroecc.edu

“The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it”
~ Elizabeth Drew

Does the study of literature help us live a more intense, examined, life? To find out, we will look at the primary genres of literature: fiction, poetry, drama and the emerging genre, creative non-fiction. We will read about, think about, write about and talk about a wide variety of works to determine if indeed, they pass the “test” of literature. We will also experience how literature lives beyond the page by attending a play at GEVA and other literary events.

Three credits Fulfills Humanities Elective, English Elective, or Literature Elective
Professor: Ann Tippett    Office: 5-502    Phone: (585) 292-3256
Email: atippett@monroecc.edu

"Literature matters for what it reveals about human experience, and the very different perspective of neuroscience on how the brain works is part of that story."
~ Paul B. Armstrong 

“The sciences alone cannot illuminate the entirety of human experience without the light that comes from the arts and humanities.”
~ Antonio Damasio

Findings from a range of disciplines increasingly suggest that reading fiction amplifies our concern for others.  How could this be?  What can neuroscience, evolutionary psychology, and biology possibly tell us about how literature affects moral development or cultural formation?  Exploring some contemporary research on empathy, narcissism, and cognition helps us with these questions and helps us understand writers like Richard Wright, William Faulkner, and Lorraine Hansberry in dynamic new ways. 

3 credits: fulfills Humanities Elective, English Elective, or Literature Elective
Professor: Thomas Blake    Office: 5-550    Phone: (585) 292-3331
Email: tblake@monroecc.edu

A workshop approach for students interested in doing original writing of at least three of the following four genres: short fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and drama. Emphasis is on reading and analytical discussion of students' work.

Prerequisites:
ENG 101 with a C or better, placement into ENG 200 or instructor permission.
Three class hours. (SUNY-A)
Professor: Maria Brandt   Office: 5-540
Email: mbrandt@monroecc.edu

Enchantment, Demons, and the Global Digital Divide 

What pleasures and dragons lurk under the surface of literature for children? Jack Zipes, a renowned scholar and retired Children’s Literature Professor and Editor of the Norton’s Guide to Children’s Literature, claims that “children’s literature is life-enhancing, life-changing, and profoundly influential; it provides a new lens with which to see the world.” 

In this class, we’ll probe a myriad of children’s literature texts and cultural influences to examine them as “lenses” opening us to new ways of seeing ourselves as global citizens. We’ll read, explore, analyze, and synthesize the various genres of children’s books and films to tease out the multitude of messages and experiences that children’s texts provide. By doing so, we’ll also uncover the oftentimes conflicting socio-cultural ideologies that written, visual, and digital texts offer children around the globe. 

We will investigate together how children’s texts move, inspire, and inform children as they grow. And question how various cultures determine their beliefs about the concept of “innocence”, “protection”, and “childhood.” These inquiries will create a frame of reference for our course this semester as we explore, refine, and develop our understanding of the influence of literature in the world. 

Three Credits  Fulfills Humanities Elective, English Elective, or Literature Elective
Professor: Angelique Johnston    Office: 5-539    Phone: (585) 292-3270
E-mail: ajohnston@monroecc.edu

In this course, we will examine representations of childhood, as well as race, gender, and class, in order to understand the kinds of cultural work children’s literature does.This course will provide you with an overview of the history and academic study of children’s literature and give you the opportunity to do independent research on topics that interest you. We will look at issues of influence, comparing classic children’s books like Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland with recent retellings like Neil Gaiman’s Coraline and Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland.We will also follow thematic connections.For example, we will study problematic representations of the child as animal or monster in classic picture books like Beatrix Potter’s The Tale of Two Bad Mice and Heinrich Hoffman’s Slovenly Peter and then in contemporary novels for young adults like Monster by Walter Dean Myers.We will also read and discuss selections from a variety of key theoretical voices in the field such as Bruno Bettelheim, Jack Zipes, and Alison Lurie.

Three CreditsFulfills: Humanities Elective, English Elective, or Literature Elective
Professor: Catharine Ganze Smith    Office: 5-535    Phone: (585) 292-3372
Email: csmith6@monroecc.edu

In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Theseus says, “…imagination bodies forth /The forms of things unknown…” Shakespeare knew the power of the playwright to transform empty space into a place of magic, to “body forth” the mysterious workings of the imagination. Such transformation is the cornerstone of dramatic art and the founding premise of this course.

This course will be broken into two units. The first unit will look at the major European influences on contemporary Western theatre, beginning with Aristotle’s theories of the stage as expressed in Poetics and then examining seminal playwrights such as Sophocles, Shakespeare, Beckett, and Brecht.The second unit will explore the emergence of an American stage, beginning with the Playwright’s Theatre and the work of Eugene O’Neill and moving through some of the more important, more exciting work done in American theatre in the last hundred years.

Students will be evaluated based on two longer writing projects, one per unit; ongoing short analytical writing; participation in class discussion; the presentation and analysis of one short scene; and a written critical review of a play we see together as a class. Through reading assignments, writing assignments, group activities, and class discussion, students should emerge from this course with a greater understanding of the literary/historical foundations of Western dramatic art and with a deeper awareness of the mysterious, transformative power of the stage.

This course is an Honors course for three reasons: (1) the two units are designed to provide students with a literary historical context for beginning to think about dramatic literature with a degree of interdisciplinary sophistication; (2) the writing assignments are designed and paced to give students the opportunity to sharpen their critical analysis skills—the two longer, more complex writing assignments will be worked on at a slower pace, allowing students to grapple with more difficult ideas in greater depth; and the shorter, more frequent writing assignments will allow students to hone their critical thinking skills through repeated focused analysis of small passages; and (3) the scene work and critical review will provide students a careful and meaningful encounter with fundamental ancillaries to dramatic literature—a play’s production and critical reception. Overall, the course is designed for the intelligent, hard-working student who is ready to move deeply and with sophistication into this exciting area of study.

Three Credits Fulfills Literature Elective, Humanities Elective, and the SUNY Gen Ed Humanities requirement
Professor: Maria Brandt    Office: 5-539    Phone: (585) 292-3383
Email: mbrandt@monroecc.edu

In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Theseus tells us that “imagination bodies forth /The forms of things unknown.” Shakespeare knew the power of the playwright to transform empty space into a place of magic, to “body forth” the mysterious workings of the imagination. Such transformation is the cornerstone of dramatic art and the founding premise of this course.

In this class, we will be reading Greek, European, African, and American plays spanning from antiquity to present. As we navigate the structural, aesthetic, and philosophical dimensions of works like Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler, Churchill’s Top Girls, and McCarthy’s The Sunset Limited, we will explore how these works – how literary representation, in general – emerges from a particular socio-historic situation.At the same time, however, we will also examine how findings in cognitive science point to ways our physiology plays a significant role in how we produce meaning, construct culture, and utilize language. Reading dramatic literature in context with linguistics, neuroscience, gender theory, race theory, postcolonialism, philosophy, and evolutionary psychology, we will focus on the following questions:

• What is embodied cognition?
• To what extent does physiology inform language, abstraction, and morality?
• How does “the body” shape ways we understand and produce literature?
• How does dramatic representation have a unique function in this context?

Three Credits Fulfills Humanities Elective, English Elective, or Literature Elective
Professor: Thomas Blake    Office: 5 – 550    Phone: (585) 292-3331
Email: tblake@monroecc.edu

Concentration on practical business and professional communication skills, including writing, speaking, and listening. Emphasis is on clarity, organization, format, appropriate language, and consideration of audience, for both written and oral assignments. Three class hours. (SUNY-BC)

Prerequisites:
ENG 101 with a grade of C or better or ENG 200 with a grade of C or better.
Professor: Jay Keith     Office: 5-528
Email: jkeith@monroecc.edu

Students will be introduced to methods for solving a variety of engineering related problems using Microsoft Excel and LabVIEW. Microsoft Excel topics will include functions, graphing, matrices, linear regression, statistics, and root finding. Students will use LabVIEW to create programs that include a variety of data types, functions, loop and case structures, and graphical user interfaces. LabVIEW programs will include linear algebra, graphing, and data analysis. The course will conclude with a design project using LabVIEW and LEGO Mindstorms robots. Students will prepare and deliver written and oral reports documenting their design process.

*PREREQUISITE: MTH 165 with a grade of C or higher, or MCC Level 9 Mathematics placement or higher.

One Credit. Three lab hours
Professor: John Wadach    Office: 8-632    Phone: (585) 292-2488
Email: jwadach@monroecc.edu

A laboratory class in which the students supervise and run ""The-Heart-of-the-House"" commercial kitchen. Opportunities to practice ""Back-of-the-House"" management skills and menu development is employed here. The students will rotate job responsibilities between two kitchens to ensure familiarity of every facet of the operation and produce food for real diners. Ten laboratory hours.

Prerequisites:
FSA 103 with a grade of C or better and FSA 106 with a grade of C or better, or permission of Department.
Professor: Rebecca Griffin   Office: 3-155
Email: rgriffin20@monroecc.edu

This course focuses on personal responsibility for your health, including lifestyle factors and their relationships to well-being, behaviors, and disease.   Topics related to the Dimensions of Health Model and health content areas defined by the New York State Education Department are explored.  Assessment of credible health information and research skills development, completion of a health behavior change capstone project, health career exploration, and Identifying and Reporting Child Abuse/Maltreatment, and Safe Schools Against Violence in Education Legislation Certifications are included.  This course is one of the requirements for each of the three Health Studies Degree Clinical Tracks (Clinical, Community, Healthcare Administration) and one of the three courses required to become eligible to earn the MCC Health and Wellness Coaching Certification. 

HED 130 Honors is a general elective, health and phys. ed. elective, a AS Health Studies Degree requirement, and a MCC Health and Wellness Coaching Certification requirement.

Three Credits
Offered Fall Semester Only
Professor:  Penny L. Sayles            Office:  10-119             Phone:  292-2863
Email:  psayles@monroecc.edu 

This course is a writing-intensive, web-enhanced, service-learning dedicated honors course that surveys the origin of the New World and of the clash between the colonies and Great Britain, the framing of the Constitution, Jacksonian Democracy and its influence on the American character, the slavery issue, the growth of industry, territorial expansion, and the Civil War.  City as Text™ is an opportunity to utilize site-based experiential inquiry to formulate an understanding of places and issues. City as Text™ refers to structured explorations of environments and ecosystems.Designed as on-going laboratories through which small teams investigate contested areas and issues in urban environments, or competing forces in natural ones, these exercises foster critical inquiry and integrative learning across disciplines.  For this course, we will be using the city of Rochester as a text to understand its place in early American history and issues in its preservation. 

Three Credits  Fulfills SUNY Gen Ed for American History or MCC Social Science elective
Professor: Verdis Robinson    Office: 4226    Phone: 262-1552
Email: vrobinson@monroecc.edu

This course is a writing-intensive, web-enhanced, service-learning dedicated honors course that surveys the reconstruction of the nation after the Civil War, the rise of industrial and urban dominance, the struggles affecting agriculture, industry and labor, the growth of the American empire, and the increasing role of government in American life.  City as Text™ is an opportunity to utilize site-based experiential inquiry to formulate an understanding of places and issues. City as Text™ refers to structured explorations of environments and ecosystems. Designed as on-going laboratories through which small teams investigate contested areas and issues in urban environments, or competing forces in natural ones, these exercises foster critical inquiry and integrative learning across disciplines.  For this course, we will be using the city of Rochester as a text to understand its place in early American history and issues in its preservation. 

Three Credits  Fulfills SUNY Gen Ed for American History or MCC Social Science elective
Professor: Verdis Robinson   Office: 4226   Phone: 262-1552
E-mail: vrobinson@monroecc.edu

The course will survey social, cultural, economic, international, and political developments in the history of Europe in the twentieth century. Prominent topics will be the causes and effects of the two world wars, European imperialism and decolonization, the development of fascism and dictatorship, the two postwar economic booms and ensuing stagnations, the Cold War, the demise of the Soviet Union, and European unification. Three credits. (SUNY-WC).

Professor: Gordon Dutter          Office: 5-304    Email: gdutter@monroecc.edu

An interdisciplinary search for moral, social, and political alternatives and meaning embodied in the institutions, culture, and literature of Western Civilization from the beginnings to 1600. This course is factual as well as conceptual, including a narrative history of the period covered. This course fulfills the MCC requirement for a humanities or social science elective. Writing Intensive. Four class hours. (SUNY-WC/H)

Prerequisites:
English 101 with a grade of C or better or English 200 with a grade of C or better.
Professor: Scott Rudd            Office: 5-556          Email: srudd@monroecc.edu

What do Gucci handbags, Shaquille O'Neal, anti-drug campaigns, the Bahamas, lawyers, movies and Tide detergent all have in common with each other?

Answer: They are all products that satisfy consumer needs and provide perceived value. All are carefully positioned to have just the right image, and are perfectly tailored, packaged, situated and presented to their target markets, whose every need, desire, and change in circumstance is carefully researched and analyzed.

Marketing 200, Principles of Marketing, examines the environment in which marketers operate as well as provides an understanding of the "tool box" possessed by marketers known as the four "P"s – Product, Price, Place, and Promotion.

In the Honors class, we will not only assess the environment and sort through the toolbox, but we will apply the principles to a real-life marketing project since marketing is one of those fascinating subjects that is easily understood in the abstract, but that requires the application of ingenuity and creativity to be successful.

Students will not only learn how to apply marketing principles, but become tough consumers, and understand how to present and market themselves in the best possible way.

PREREQUESITE: BUS 104 and MTH 104 or MCC level 8 Math Placement

Three credits - Fulfills Marketing requirement for business students or General Elective
Professor:  Kathleen D. Borbee     Phone:  292-3268       Office:  5-513
Email:  kborbee@monroecc.edu

Finally, an honors Survey of Math course is here! Together we will be taking a real-world approach to understanding how math is used every single day. We will tackle real world problems and apply math concepts so we can make connections that demonstrate how fun and applicable math can be. We will even have time for math games (cards, dice, etc.).

This course will explore concepts in geometry, algebra, statistics, probability, and consumer math using collaborative and active learning techniques. Through project-based learning, students will experience an opportunity to flex their critical thinking skills and solve real world application problems. No textbook or MyMathLab software is needed! Just an open mind willing to dive into the math. This is guaranteed to be a fun and exciting course!

*PREREQUISITE: MTH 094 with a grade of C or better, or MCC Level 4 Math Placement

Instructed by: Dr. Rachel Santiago     Phone: (585) 292-2969  Office: 8-547
Email: rsantiago@monroecc.edu 

Where am I ever going to use this? Everywhere! Statistics changes numbers into information. Various forms of statistics are utilized in every career, field of study and day-to-day living. Statistical literacy is needed to make sense of our data-driven world.

This course will introduce descriptive and inferential statistics in an active learning format. Students will experience the relevancy by researching and analyzing data provided by the instructor and by the students themselves. Projects will bring the course full circle and serve as guidelines for future analyses. Minitab statistical software is utilized.

*PREREQUISITE: MTH 104 with a grade of C or better, or MCC Level 8 Math Placement

Three credits Fulfills Mathematics and Natural Science Elective
Professor: Lori Judd   Phone 292-2945   Office 8-538
Email: ljudd@monroecc.edu

This course includes an in depth study of differential calculus as well as an introduction to integral calculus.Topics include:limits, continuity, differentiation, integration, along with their applications in mathematics, science, and engineering.Throughout the course there will be an emphasis on developing a solid understanding of the topics covered as well as the connections between them.Mathematical modeling will be emphasized through projects that involve the investigation of multifaceted problems requiring a combination of various concepts and techniques learned in the course.An appropriate amount of theory will be incorporated by way of mathematical proofs. 

*PREREQUISITE: MTH 175 with a grade of C or higher, or high school precalculus with a grade of B (83) or higher.

Four credits Fulfills Mathematics and Natural Sciences Elective
Professor: Steve Kilner    Phone: (585) 292-2961    Office:8-519
Email:  skilner@monroecc.edu

As in most introductory philosophy courses, we're going to focus primarily on the "big" questions that have been at the center of intellectual debate for at least the past 2500 years: What are the limits of human knowledge and understanding, especially regarding the external, natural world? What is the nature of the self and consciousness? What kind of life is best? Along the way, this honors section will also have to consider and critically evaluate the answers offered by philosophers to more concrete questions such as: Is the existence (or non-existence) of God or gods something that can be proved rationally? Is free will an illusion? When our reasoning and our experience conflict, should we trust our past experience or our reason? In short, we're going to "think big" this semester.

In this honors section students will have the opportunity to do more than survey these topics. You will explore these philosophical questions in depth by reading many of the significant arguments that have shaped this debate within the Western tradition and critically evaluating them from your own point of view. Emphasis will be placed on the analysis and criticism of these arguments, with the intent of enabling students to evaluate arguments both in support of and in opposition to their own views on the matters considered. Careful analysis and full appreciation of these arguments takes patience and time, but by reading and discussing historically important philosophical texts of Plato, Descartes, Kant, and others, we should be in a better position to try our hand at answering these more abstract questions for ourselves.

Three credits Fulfills Humanities Elective
Professor: Elizabeth Laidlaw   Phone 292-3351   Office 5-556
Email  elaidlaw@monroecc.edu

There are four central topics in Introduction to Ethics. We read, think, discuss, and write about (a) the good life for human beings, (b) how to distinguish morally right action from morally wrong action, (c) whether morality is something that we know or whether it is a matter of emotions, and (d) appeals to human rights in the international order. We consider how concepts of the good life, right and wrong, and human rights apply to moral problems such as violence, war, abortion, the treatment of animals, and care for the dying.

Honors students have the opportunity to read and analyze various texts in moral philosophy from different eras and different cultures. We emphasize reasoned discussion, analyzing arguments, and careful writing. Learning is enhanced by participation in community lectures and events.

Three Credits Fulfills: SUNY Humanities requirement
Professor: Robert Muhlnickel    Office: 5-553    Phone: (585) 292-3243
Email: rmuhlnickel@monroecc.edu

Beginning in ancient Greece, this course traces the evolution of scientific thinking about the structure and origin of the physical universe, as well as our place and role within it. As our understanding matures, through the discoveries of Newton, Einstein and quantum mechanics, we will be brought into a 21st century where questions concerning the fundamental nature of time and space and the creation and ultimate fate of the universe (or universes) are no longer solely in the domain of philosophy and religion. Throughout the course, the interplay between science and the rest of human culture will be illustrated through the works of both academic and popular authors and artists.

This is a non-mathematical introductory course for students with little or no science background.

Three credits Fulfills Natural Science Elective
Professor: John Wadach   Phone 292-2488   Office 622
Email:  jwadach@monroecc.edu  

This is a one (1) credit non-honors course that may accompany PHY 121.

In this two hour lab, we will design experiments that will refine both our understanding of scientific theory and our understanding of the process of science. Although it is not necessary to enroll in PHY 120 in order to enroll in PHY 121, participation in the lab will make the lecture portion of the course easier to understand and hopefully more enjoyable. Physics is much easier to understand when you actually handle the apparatus and see the phenomena discussed in lecture.

Practically speaking, it is easier to fulfill the MCC science requirement if four credits are taken. In addition, many four-year colleges require lab science experiences to obtain transfer credit.

One credit (non-honors) Fulfills Natural Science Elective
Professor: Paul D'Alessandris   Phone 292-2490   Office 5-212
Email  pdalessandris@monroecc.edu

Why do people dream, and what are dreams anyway? What are emotions? Is ESP real, and if it is, what is it? How do children learn right from wrong? Is there a relationship between race and intelligence? Why do people eat when not hungry? What causes depression; how can it be treated?

In trying to answer these and other questions, students will explore the causes of human behavior in a wide variety of situations and relate what they learn to their own life experiences. This course goes beyond pure textbook material in allowing students to reflect on writings in the field of psychology and to participate directly in psychological activities. Students may choose to conduct systematic observations of behavior in various settings, to analyze the accuracy of psychological principles portrayed in novels or films, or to interview psychological professionals about their training and their work.

Three credits Fulfills Social Science Elective
Professor: Michael Ofsowitz   Phone 292-3223   Office 5-402
Email: mofsowitz@monroecc.edu (fall semester)

Through a combination of lecture and hands-on research projects, this course examines the philosophy and methodology of science and how they are applied to social questions. Students plan and conduct research projects and write papers describing their research following APA style. Topics to be explored include experimental and non-experimental research methods, the development of testable hypotheses, and the use of electronic databases to explore and review the scientific literature and ethical issues. Three class hours. (SUNY-SS)

Prerequisites:
PSY 101 and PSY 108, both with a minimum grade of C; and MTH 162 or MTH 161.
Professor: Celia Reaves          Office: 5-412               Email: creaves@monreocc.edu

This course presents orientation to specific surgical procedures including general surgery, obstetrics and gynecologic surgery, genitourinary surgery, ENT/otorhinolaryngology surgery and orthopedic surgery with related surgical anatomy and pathophysiology and specialty instrumentation. Safe use of lasers and robotics is introduced. Computer skills necessary for the operating room are explored. Clinical practice will employ intermediate surgical interventions. Current CPR certification for the professional rescuer is required. Three lecture hours, two laboratory hours, 18 clinical hours. Laboratory fees apply.

Prerequisites: 
BIO 202 and SGT 101 and SGT 102, all with a grade of C or better. Co-requisite(s): BIO 235 and PSY 101.
Professor: Mary Seely            Office: 9-123              
Email: mseely3@monroecc.edu 
Professor Mary Combs           Office: 9-221              
Email: mcombs9@monroecc.edu 

Sociology is fascinated with the same question that interests other fields of study: Why are we the way we are? What is, however, peculiar about sociology is that it sees humans as the product of their relationships with other humans in small groups, as well as in the larger groups that we call society. In the course of this semester, we will develop the skill of looking at such diverse social realities as romantic relationships, sex roles, family life, the deviants of society, class, the unequal status of men and women, racial inequality, and our political and economic systems, from a sociological point of view. It is the intent of this course to give you a greater degree of control over your own life by helping you to understand how it is affected by group and social forces.

Three credits Fulfills Social Science Elective
Professor: Susan Belair   Phone 292-3240   Office 5-330
Email sbelair@monroecc.edu