How are honors courses different?

For Honors Physiological Psychology, I wrote papers which included topics such as the Effects of Variance on the Optic Chiasm, and a debate on whether Rimon Cajal, Charles Sherrington, or Otto Loewi represented the best scientist in Physiological Research.

I also applied anatomical understanding to hot glue and created a brain to scale out of hot glue. This brain included cranial nerves, sucli and gyri, bones, lobe seperation, and major sections (such as the pituitary gland, midbrain, pons, spinal chord, etc.

For Honors Human Cognition I applied my learning to volunteer in Dr. Ivan Ash’s lab. I assisted in graduate research on the efficacy of Aha! Ratings as a measure of impasse and assisted in running experimentation on participants. As the course progressed, I wrote essays on the relation between what I was studying in class and the studied I assisted in the lab.

For Honors Literature in Medicine, I studied the history of medicine and documentation in medical environments. I applied my knowledge to deinstitutionalization movements, narrative therapy, the history of medicine in America dating back to Native American medicine, the concept of “freaks,” and analyzed works like “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” and work by Franz Kafka.