New Honors Courses for Spring 2000:

HONR 298D Cultural Understanding

HONR 298K American Slavery--American Freedom: The African-American Experience through Emancipation

HONR 298N How to Learn Physics: A New Introduction to the Study of Science

HONR 298O Architectural Space: Defining the Human

HONR 298P The Public Face of Science: Science and Society as Reflected in the Media

HONR 298Q Utopias: Stories of the Future

HONR 298R A Priori: Science Looks at Dietary Supplements and Traditional Medicines

HONR 298T The East Asian Tigers: Communism, Democracy and the Future of the Region

HONR 298U Women and Post-1965 Immigration: Work, Family, and Community

HONR 298V Understanding Visual Culture, from Museums to the Net

HONR 298W Shadows in the Stream: The Biology and Cultural History of Trout

HONR 298X Flesh and Spirit: Religion, Sex and Gender in Renaissance and Reformation Europe

HONR 298Y Literature as Equipment for Living: Literature and Ethics

HONR 299A Love, Justice in the Ancient, Medieval Worlds

HONR 299B Crossroads: Poetry and the Internet at the Millennium

HONR 299C Human Development: Moving Beyond Learning and Into Your Life

HONR 299D In Concert

HONR 299E Latin American-Jewish Literature

HONR 299F Film Art in a Global Culture

HONR 299G Playwriting

Spring 2000 Courses Which Have Been Offered Previously:

HONR 169Z Knowledge and Its Human Implications

HONR 218A In Search of Ancient Astronomies

HONR 238A The World of the Dead Sea Scrolls

HONR 238B Images of Masculinity in American Literature and Film

HONR 238C Order and Freedom: Western World Literature, Renaissance to the Present

HONR 238G Thanatos--The Many Meanings of Death

HONR 238Y Shakespeare and Learning

HONR 238Z Understanding the World Through Reading

HONR 239C The Creative Process in Dance

HONR 239I Buddhism: Personal and Social Transformations

HONR 248C Changing Worlds: Economic, Political, and Social Developments in the Former Soviet Bloc

HONR 248D International and Multicultural Perspectives in Education

HONR 248G Social and Group Violence in America

HONR 248L Conflict, Cooperation, and Strategy

HONR 248M Big Plans: The Idea of City Planning

HONR 248W America in the 1960's

HONR 249I The Examined Life

HONR 249R Global Environmental Change

HONR 249S The United States 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 259D Understanding the Japanese through the Performing Arts

HONR 259M The Science in Science Fiction

HONR 268P Drugs and American Society

HONR 269I Immigrant Voices

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

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

HONR 269O Judging the Social Sciences

HONR 269W Classical Myth in America

HONR 278O Renaissance Sculpture and the Image of Man: The Birth of the Western Tradition

HONR 278P Biology in a Cultural Context: Case Studies

HONR 278W Mind and Brain: At the Interface of Neural Systems and Cognition

HONR 279G The Biological Basis of Mental Illness

HONR 279I Alphabetic Writing Systems from Dublin to Delhi: The Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, Cyrillic, Devanagari and Latin Alphabets and Their Common Phoenician Source

HONR 279P Understanding and Coping with Stress

HONR 279Y The Queen of the Sciences Gets Her Hands Dirty: Mathematics in the Real World

HONR 288Z From Hildegard to Madonna: A Millennium of Women Making Music

HONR 289M Medieval and Renaissance Humanism, Humanists and their World

HONR 328M The Good Society in the New Century

HONR 328P The Biophysical Aspects of Wellness

HONR 328Q Truth and Diversity: Seeking Truths from Diverse Human Contexts

HONR 348J Contemporary Social Issues

HONR 359A Writing Workshop

Comments and questions may be directed to dhebert@deans.umd.edu