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Current Honors Students

SEMINARS FALL 2008

HONR208E J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century

HONR209E Attending the Blockbuster: Understanding the Cultural Impact of Temporary Exhibitions

HONR209O The Science of Sleep and Biological Rhythms

HONR209T Cities and the World: Globalization and Urban Development

HONR217 Life, the Multiverse, and Everything: Developing an Individual Cosmovision

HONR218C Western Intellectual Heritage: The Hero and Society

HONR218L Language and Mind

HONR218N Current Issues in Biology

HONR218P Understanding India

HONR219B Food for Health: How Food Production Methods Affect our Health and the Environment

HONR228B Planning for Cities

HONR228D Childhood, Imagination and Visualization: Photography and Creative Expression in Children's Books

HONR228F An "Inconvenient Necessity": Conversion of Plant Biomass to Biofuel

HONR228J Nanotechnology: Fact, Hyperbole, and Fiction

HONR228K Great Ideas in Physics and Their Implications in Other Disciplines

HONR228M Public Health Politics

HONR228T Journalism and Peace

HONR229X The Geography of China

HONR238D The Contemporary American Musical Theater: From Hair to Hairspray

HONR238F From Animal Thoughts to Animal Feelings: Cognitive and Applied Ethology's Understanding of Animals

HONR238L Engineering in Ancient Empires

HONR238R Terrorism

HONR238T The Body and Literature

HONR238Y The Development of the Author in Literary History and Creative Writing

HONR239B New York City and the American Dream

HONR239C The Creative Process in Dance

HONR239F Plants and Empires: Historical Consequences and Contemporary Issues

HONR239K Media and Political Image in Campaigns

HONR239P Higher, Faster, Farther: Case Studies From Aerospace History

HONR248H From Willowbrook to Attica: Delinquency in the Context of Disability

HONR248W America in the Sixties

HONR249P "Art, Politics, and "Race" in South Africa

HONR249Q "God Wills It!": The Crusades in Medieval and Modern Perspective

HONR249R Music and Gender Identity

HONR249V Lawyers and the Adversary System

HONR249W The Spiritual Heritage of the Human Race

HONR249X War and the Warrior in Medieval Literature

HONR249Y Amadeus: Mozart 101

HONR249Z Troy Matters: An Ancient Tale Told and Retold

HONR258C Politics and Law: Some of the Big Questions

HONR258O The Kinesiological Bases of Skilled Performance: Golf

HONR258T Tools of Fiction

HONR258W Exploring Homophobia: Demystifying Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Issues

HONR268J Religion and Progress: Islamic Science, Politics, and Economics

HONR268K Beyond the Hype of Medical Miracles: Stem Cells, Gene Therapy, and Other Cutting-Edge Medical Research

HONR268M The University as a Cultural Institution

HONR268Y Japan's Silk Road Music: Treasured, Transformed, and Transcendent

HONR269D Health Policy: Important Things They Don't Teach You in Medical School

HONR278Y Poems That Matter: How Reading and Writing Them Can Transform Lives

HONR279C African-American Art Theory: Exploration/Expressions of Identity

HONR279M How Does the Brain Speak? Insights from Neuroimaging and Brain Damage

HONR279N China

HONR279O Counterterrorism

HONR279P Understanding and Coping with Stress

HONR288L Medical Devices: Applied Ethics and Public Policy

HONR289C History of Evolutionary Thought

HONR289Y Novels and Who We Are

HONR298A Doctrine and Debate in World Religions

HONR299A Creating Alternate Futures

HONR299N Through a Glass Darkly: The Child in Literature

HONR348J Contemporary Social Issues

HONR348K Kafka and Film

HONR359B Alternatives to Violence

HONR378I Congressional Elections: Campaigning for Congress

FALL 2008 100 AND 200-LEVEL DEPARTMENTAL H-VERSIONS

AASP100H Introduction to African American Studies
AASP202H Black Culture in the United States

BMGT190H Introduction to Design and Quality
BMGT220H Principles of Accounting I
BMGT221H Principles of Accounting II
BMGT230H Business Statistics

BSCI106H Principles of Biology II

CCJS100H Introduction to Criminology and Criminal Justice

CMSC131H Object-Oriented Programming I
CMSC132H Object-Oriented Programming II
CMSC 250H Discrete Structures

ENES190H Introduction to Design and Quality

ENGL101H Introduction to Writing (the foundation for academic writing at Maryland)
ENGL391H Advanced Composition
ENGL393H Technical Writing

FREN250H Introduction to French Literature

GVPT100H Introduction to Government

HIST111H Medieval World
HIST282H History of the Jewish People I

ITAL121H Accelerated Italian I

JWST234H History of the Jewish People I

LASC234H Issues in Latin American Studies I (Also offered as SPAN234 and PORT234. Credit granted for only one: LASC234 or SPAN234 or PORT234.)

MATH 140H Calculus I
MATH141H Calculus II
MATH241H Calculus III
MATH246H Differential Equations for Science and Engineering

MUSC130H Survey of Music Literature

NFSC100H Elements of Nutrition

PHYS171H Introduction to Physics: Mechanics and Relativity
PHYS260H Physics: Vibrations, Waves, Heat, and Electricity
PHYS272H Introduction to Physics: Fields
PHYS273H Introduction to Physics: Waves

PORT234H Issues in Latin American Studies I

PSYC100H Introduction to Psychology

SOCY100H Introduction to Sociology

SPAN234H Issues in Latin American


Honors students rafting the Gauley River in West Virginia.

Senior lecturer Dr. Howard Smead speaking before a crowd during the Honors Spring Lecture series.