FALL
2006 HONORS COURSES
New
Honors Courses for Fall 2006
HONR
269Q An Introduction to the Stock Market and Technical Analysis
HONR
279C African American Art
Theory: Exploration/Expressions of Identity
HONR
279K Art, Math, Programming, and Research in the
World of Digital Images and Photography
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279L Engineering Ethics
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279M How Does the Brain Speak? Insights from Neuroimaging and Brain
Damage
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279N China
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279O Counter Terrorism
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279Q Sex and Sexuality in Early Modern Europe
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279X Communication, New Media
and Everyday Life
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279Z Globalization
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289A The Ecology and Evolutionary Biology of Infectious
Disease
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289C History of Evolutionary Thought
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289D Visual Rhetoric
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289F Life on Earth: How Biology
Built a Planet (And Vice Versa)
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289K Mind in the Making: The Origins of Human Cognition
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289LFire Safety: From Buildings to Spacecraft
Fall
2006 Courses Which Have Been Offered Previously
HONR
208C HONR 208C Faith, Fiction, and Film
HONR
208E J.R.R. Tolkien: Author
of the Century
HONR
209E Attending the Blockbuster:
Understanding the Cultural Impact of Temporary Exhibitions
HONR
209T Cities and the World: Globalization and Urban
Development
HONR
217 Life, The Multiverse, and Everything: Developing an Individual
Cosmovision
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218C Western Intellectual Heritage: The Hero and Society
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218I Contemporary Drama from Around the World
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218L Language and Mind
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218P Understanding India
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219P Do Not Enter: Outsiders in 20th Century American Drama
HONR
219S Black Holes and B-Movies: New Physics and Contemporary
Culture
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219Z Languages of the World: How It All Happened
HONR
228A Science and Pseudoscience
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228I History of Mathematics
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228Q People and Particles: Nuclear Physics and Society
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229K Ethnobotany and Magical, Medicinal Plants
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229P Mathematics and Art
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229S Terrorism
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238J Making Public Policy in America
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238Z Understanding
the World Through Reading
HONR
239C The Creative Process
in Dance
HONR
239P Higher, Faster, Farther: Case Studies from Aerospace
History
HONR
239W Demystifying Evolution: Its Effects on Humans (and other organisms)
Past, Present, and Future
HONR
248K Cervantes’ Don Quixote
and the American Novel
HONR
248O The Military and the Media in American History
HONR
248P Beyond 9/11: Stress,
Survival, and Resilience
HONR
248T Re-examining the Harlem Renaissance
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248W America in the 1960s
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249I The Examined Life
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258O Kinesiological Bases of Skilled Performance: Golf
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258T Tools of Fiction: Literature and/as Creative Writing
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258V American Attitudes Toward Warfare and the Military
HONR
258W Exploring Homophobia: Demystifying Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual
Issues
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258Y Economic Well-Being
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259S The Body and Literature
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268E Gods, Demons, and Mythology in the Ancient Near East & Egypt
HONR
268F World Popular/Folk Music and Politics
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268J Religion and Progress: Islamic Science, Politics, and Economics
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268K Beyond the Hype of Medical Miracles: Stem Cells, Gene Therapy, and other Cutting-Edge Medical Research
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268M The University as a Cultural Institution
HONR
268N The First Amendment of the Line: Religion and the Public Schools
HONR
268T The Great Gatsby and
American Culture: From the Jazz Age to Bill Gates and the Information
Age
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268Y Japan’s Silk Road Music:
Treasured, Transformed, and Transcendent
HONR
269D Health Policy: Important Things They Don’t Teach You in Medical
School
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269J The Beat Begins: American
Culture in the 1950s
HONR
269L Hinduism: Karma, Dharma,
Caste, Sects, and Symbols
HONR
278Y Really Good Poems: How
Reading and Writing them can Transform Lives
HONR
278Z Race, Class, Gender,
Geography and Generation: Society’s “Fault Lines” in the News
HONR
279W The Solar System
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288D Mind Your Manners: Civility and Social Reform in American
Literature and Culture
HONR
288L Medical Devices: Applied
Ethics and Public Policy
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289A The Ecology and Evolutionary Biology of Infectious Disease
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289Y Novels and Who We Are
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298A Doctrine and Debate in
Selected World Religions
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299N Through a Glass Darkly: The Child & Literature
HONR
299S The Afterlife of Plato’s Symposium in Western
Art and Literature
HONR
348J Contemporary
Social Issues
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359A Writing
Workshop
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359B Alternatives to Violence
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378I Congressional Elections: Campaigning for Congress
