SPRING 2006 HONORS COURSES

New Honors Courses for Spring 2006

HONR 269A Bioethics: Scientific Progress and Challenges Created for Society

HONR 269B The Statesmanship of Abraham Lincoln: How to Think about the Race Question in American Politics

HONR 269F Evolutionary Robotics

HONR 269K African Arts: Declarations of Being

HONR 269M Sacred Architecture East and West: Churches, Temples, Stupas and Mosques

HONR 269N Diversity and the Classical Mediterranean World

HONR 269P Puzzles about Time in Philosophy, Literature, and Film

HONR 269Q An Introduction to the Stock Market and Technical Analysis

HONR 269R Texts of the Contemporary Feminist Movement

HONR 269X Faith in Science: Interactions between Science and Religion

HONR 269Y Introduction to the New Testament: Messianic Midrash in a Greco-Roman World

HONR 279B The Classical Grand Tour: Observing Ancient Greece and Rome through the Eyes of Modernity

HONR 279C African American Art Theory: Exploration/Expressions of Identity

HONR 279D I Ain’t Loud, I Just Wanna Be Heard: An Introduction to Black Feminism

HONR 279E America's Classical Music: Jazz

HONR 279F Coming to Terms With Water: Changing Respect, Changing Needs, Changing Paradigms

HONR 288I Learning to Read the American Landscape–From Parks to Parking Lots

HONR 288J Rembrandt’s Amsterdam in the Dutch Golden Age

HONR 288M The United Nations: More Relevant than Ever or Beyond Repair

HONR 288P Darwinian Medicine

HONR 288R Heritage, Place, and Identity

HONR 288V Racial Politics and Cultural Production: The Music, Drama, and Folklore of African-Americans

Spring 2006 Courses Which Have Been Offered Previously

HONR 208E J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century

HONR 208P Philosophers and the Bible

HONR 208S The Ancient Roman City: Pompeii and Beyond

HONR 208U Merging the Multiple Me's: Developmental Origins of the Integrated Young Adult Self

HONR 208W More Things in Heaven and Earth: Ghosts and Magicians in Performance

HONR 209C Scandanavian Women in the Viking Age: Hearthkeepers & Heroines

HONR 209E Attending the Blockbuster: Understanding the Cultural Impact of Temporary Exhibitions

HONR 209Y Novels! Modern Fictions

HONR 216 In Search of Ancient Astronomies

HONR 218I Contemporary Drama from Around the World

HONR 218L Language and Mind

HONR 218N Stem Cells-Who Cares? Issues in Life Sciences

HONR 218O Good Wars and Bad Ones: WWII and Viet Nam in Film and Literature

HONR 218P Understanding India

HONR 218W The Idea of Crime

HONR 219D On Beyond Dinosaurs: Patterns and Enigmas in Vertebrate Evolution

HONR 219F World’s Fairs: Social and Architectural History

HONR 219L Working with Computers to Solve Real World Problems: Science and the Computer Revolution

HONR 219O Fantasy and the Supernatural in Jewish Literature

HONR 219V Religion, Science, and Freedom

HONR 229S Terrorism

HONR 238A The World of the Dead Sea Scrolls

HONR 238B Images of Masculinity in American Literature and Film

HONR 238G Thanatos–The Many Meanings of Death

HONR 238Z Understanding the World Through Reading

HONR 239C The Creative Process in Dance

HONR 239I Buddhism: Personal and Social Transformations

HONR 239Y Elementary Particles: The Quest For the Ultimate Particles of Matter, the Laws They Obey, and Forces that Act on Them

HONR 248P Beyond 9/11: Stress, Survival, and Resilience

HONR 248W America in the 1960s

HONR 249I The Examined Life

HONR 249J Economics and the Environment

HONR 249S The U.S. in Vietnam: From Dien Bien Phu to the Fall of Saigon, a Crossroads in American History

HONR 249V Lawyers and the Adversary System: Can a Good Lawyer Lead a Good Life?

HONR 258B First Ladies and the Media

HONR 259D Understanding the Japanese through the Performing Arts

HONR 267 Knowledge Across the Disciplines

HONR 268D Living Heroically: Poverty in America

HONR 268F World Popular/Folk Music and Politics

HONR 268T The Great Gatsby and American Culture: From the Jazz Age to Bill Gates and the Information Age

HONR 268Z Mask, Image, Identity: The Mystery of the Face

HONR 269J The Beat Begins: American Culture in the 1950s

HONR 269L Hinduism: Karma, Dharma, Caste, Sects, and Symbols

HONR 278K Tools of Uncertainty: Decision-Making in a World of Missing Information

HONR 279G The Biological Basis of Mental Illness

HONR 279P Understanding and Coping with Stress

HONR 288L Medical Devices: Applied Ethics and Public Policy

HONR 289B Just a Mile Away: The Langley Park Neighborhood and the Making of a New America

HONR 298A Doctrine and Debate in Selected World Religions

HONR 299N Through a Glass Darkly: The Child and Literature

HONR 348J Contemporary Social Issues

HONR 359A Writing Workshop

HONR 200:
Honors 200 seeks to acquaint beginning students with the many opportunities for conducting research here on campus and beyond. Students hear presentations from current Honors researchers who discuss their research projects either in a departmental Honors Program or in a variety of other research venues. There are also faculty presentations in which researchers from diverse fields discuss their current research efforts.

A recent version of the syllabus is available for review.

 

H-VERSIONS FOR SPRING 2006
This list may be incomplete. Please check the most recent Schedule of Classes for the latest information and for times and places.

AASP 100H Introduction to African American Studies
AASP 202H Black Culture in the United States
BMGT 220H Principles of Accounting I
BMGT 221H Principles of Accounting II
CCJS 100H Introduction to Criminal Justice
CMSC 132H Object-Oriented Programming II
FREN 250H Introduction to French Literature
GVPT 170H American Government
HIST 156H History of the United States to 1865
HIST 283H History of the Jewish People II
ITAL 122H Accelerated Italian II
JOUR 150H Introduction to Mass Communication
MATH 141H Calculus II
MATH 241H Calculus III
MATH 246H Differential Equations for Scientists and Engineers
MUSC 130H Survey of Music Literature
PHYS272H Introductory Physics: Fields
PHYS 273H Introductory Physics: Waves
PSYC 100H Introduction to Psychology
SOCY 105H Introduction to Contemporary Social Problems

CCJS 100H Introduction to Criminal Justice

An introduction to the administration of criminal justice in a democratic society with emphasis on the theoretical and historical development of law enforcement. Focus is on the principles of organization and administration for law enforcement, as well as functions and specific activities, planning and research, public relations, personnel and training, inspection and control, and new directions and policy formation. Students in CCJS 100H will meet twice a week for lecture and then once a week for a special intensive discussion section with Dr. Fisher-Stewart. This special honors section will emphasize independent thought and is designed to foster informed dialogue and the intelligent exchange of ideas. As a result, topics will be explored with a relatively greater degree of complexity than in the other CCJS 100 sections. This course is open to University Honors Program students only.

GVPT 170H An Honors Course in American Government

This is a weekly seminar course which invites students of all disciplines to engage in a dialogue about the definition of democracy and the degree to which American government functions democratically. We will use analytical tools from the social sciences to examine the impacts of political decisions on the distribution of economic and political power in the United States, the workings of the Presidency, the Courts, and the Congress and to assess the habits of the American political community. GVPT 170 is a policy-oriented course with an emphasis on leadership and decisionmaking, media and politics, the politics of race and gender, and national identity in a post communist world. Because of the enormous changes in international politics and economy, we will address the policy directions taken by the Clinton Administration to prepare Americans for the twenty-first century. The class dialogue will be shaped by a variety of readings from several generations of scholarship, current events, and extensive critical reading and writing assignments. The student is asked to join a learning community that raises questions, offers opinions, and actively thinks about the meanings, problems, and possibilities of American democracy.

MATH 141H Honors Calculus II

This is an Honors version of the second semester calculus course for science and mathematics majors. Major topics include: natural logarithm and exponentials; techniques of evaluating integrals; using integrals in a variety of applications (other than computing areas); convergence of infinite series, approximation by Taylor polynomials. Supplementary topics vary with instructor, but may touch on mathematical induction, interation, fractals. Emphasis is placed on challenging students to grow conceptually as well as technically.

PSYC 100H Introduction to Psychology

We will use the Third Edition of Gleitman's Psychology, which is by far the best text in the field. The proportion of discussion vs. lecture will depend entirely on the degree to which students read and prepare assigned material before class meetings. Ideally, formal lecturing will be minimal and the class will participate actively as we go over ideas, theories, and facts as they are introduced by Gleitman. This text is designed for a two semester course (over 600 pages) so the students will not be deprived of an opportunity to read extensively in the subject.

There will be two in-class essay exams (a midterm and a final) and a portion of the final grade will be based on the amount and quality of each student's classroom performance.