Welcome to University Honors at the University of Maryland

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Current Honors Students

SEMINARS SPRING 2009

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

HONR208J From Glass Boxes to Bunkers: Architecture, Power, and Public Policy

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

HONR209Y Novels! Modern Fictions

HONR216 In Search of Ancient Astronomies

HONR218W The Idea of Crime

HONR219P Outsiders in Modern American Drama

HONR219Q Perspectives on the Cosmos From Ancient Philosophers to Modern Science

HONR219T Surviving Natural Disasters: Learning from Hurricane Katrina, Big Earthquakes, and Other Natural Hazards

HONR219Y Merging the Multiple Me's: Developmental Origins of the Integrated Adult Self

HONR228R Parenting and Poverty: The Effects of Growing Up Poor on Children's Development

HONR228V Warfare and Society in Greece, Rome, and Byzantium

HONR228W The Ancient Roman City: Pompeii and Beyond

HONR228X Introduction to the Earth-Life System

HONR228Y The Role of Gender in Family Life

HONR229A The Sociology of Social Problems

HONR229C Extraction and Integration

HONR229D Journalists as Story Tellers, from "New Journalism" to the Digital Age

HONR229F New Media Frontiers

HONR229I The Sociology of the Economy and Markets

HONR229O Ancient Rome in Historical Fiction: Narratives, Sources, and Screen Adaptations

HONR229P Mathematics and Art

HONR238B Images of Masculinity in Twentieth Century American Literature and Film

HONR238D Contemporary American Musical Theater: From Hair to Hairspray

HONR238G Thanatos: The Many Meanings of Death

HONR238R Terrorism

HONR238X The Holocaust and History

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

HONR239M Renaissance to Enlightenment: People, Places, and Philosophies

HONR248M Death and Afterlife in Ancient Egypt

HONR248W America in the Sixties

HONR249A I, Too, Stage America: Multicultural Drama and the American Dream

HONR249E Modern and Postmodern Music: Trends, Styles, Issues, and Ideas

HONR249K The United States in Vietnam: A Crossroads in American Society

HONR249M The American South - From a (Mostly) Sociological Perspective

HONR249T Winning and Losing at Globalization: Historical Perspectives

HONR249V Lawyers and the Adversary System

HONR258F Incarceration Nation: Behind Bars in America

HONR258I Religion, Ethnocentrism, and Terror

HONR258J Supreme Law: The Constitution, Mortality, and the Courts

HONR258K Shakespeare in History and Performance

HONR258L HIV/AIDS in Africa

HONR258P Warriors and Mothers: Gender, Warfare, and Peace Movements

HONR258Q Making Asian America: Politics and Popular Culture

HONR258X How People Do Things With Words: Discourse and Pragmatics in Japanese and English

HONR259D Understanding the Japanese Through the Performing Arts

HONR268F World Popular/Folk Music and Politics

HONR269X Faith in Science: Interactions Between Science and Religion

HONR269Q An Introduction to the Stock Market and Technical Analysis

HONR279A Games, Game Theory, and Theory of Games

HONR279C African American Art Theory: Exploration and Expressions of Identity

HONR279G The Biological Basis of Mental Illness

HONR279O Counterterrorism

HONR279P Understanding and Coping With Stress

HONR288L Medical Devices: Applied Ethics and Public Policy

HONR288W Economics, Markets, and Social Policies: What Works (and Doesn't Work)

HONR289A Ecology and the Evolutionary Biology of Infectious Disease

HONR289B Just A Mile Away: The Langley Park Neighborhood and the Making of a New America

HONR299C Private International Law

HONR348J Contemporary Social Issues

 

SPRING 2009 100 AND 200-LEVEL DEPARTMENTAL H-VERSIONS

AASP100H Introduction to African American Studies
AASP202H Black Culture in the United States
BMGT220H Principles of Accounting I
BMGT221H Principles of Accounting II
BMGT230H Business Statistics
CCJS100H Introduction to Criminology and Criminal Justice
CMSC132H Object-Oriented Programming II
ENEE159H Intro to Parallel Algorithmic Thinking and Its Desktop Computing Context
ENGL391H Advanced Composition
ENGL393H Technical Writing
FREN250H Introduction to French Literature
GVPT100H Introduction to Government
HIST283H History of the Jewish People II
ITAL122H Accelerated Italian II
JWST235H History of the Jewish People II
MATH141H Calculus II
MATH241H Calculus III
MATH246H Differential Equations for Science and Engineering
MUSC130H Survey of Music Literature
PHYS272H Introduction to Physics: Fields
PHYS273H Introduction to Physics: Waves
PSYC100H Introduction to Psychology
SOCY105H Introduction to Contemporary Social Problems


Honors Ambassadors.

Honors faculty Drs. Dean Ahmad, Kathy Staudt, and Chip Manekin during an inter-faith discussion panel on interpreting the prophets.