New Honors Courses for Fall 2000:
HONR 219A Chemicals Within: The Effects of Hormones on the Human Body
HONR 299I Small, Smaller, Smallest: The Beauty of the Micro-and Nano-Worlds
HONR 299K Ancient Myths in a Modern World
HONR 299M How Not To Be Afraid of Poetry
HONR 299N Through the Child Darkly: the Child and Literature
HONR 299P Exploring the Earth from Space
HONR 299Q Law and Constitutionalism
HONR 299R Home Making: Conceiving and Constructing the 21st Century Home
HONR 299S Fallout from the Part at Agathon's House: The Impact of Plato's Symposium on Western Thought
HONR 299T Smothering the Senses
HONR 299V LAW-- Divine, Natural, and Man-Made
HONR 299W The Fiction of James Joyce: From Dubliners to Ulysses
HONR 299Y Playwriting, II
HONR 299Z Lifeworks: the Immense Possibilities of a Cell
Fall 2000 Courses Which Have Been Offered Previously:
HONR 218A In Search of Ancient Astronomies
HONR 218C Western Intellectual Heritage: The Hero and Society
HONR 218M The Search for an American Architecture
HONR 228A Science and Pseudo science
HONR 228Q People and Particles: Nuclear Physics and Society
HONR 238Z Understanding The World Through Reading
HONR 239D The Language of Visual Communication
HONR 239I Buddhism: Personal and Social Transformations
HONR 248G Social and Group Violence in America
HONR 248O The Military and the Media in American History
HONR 248W America in the 1960's
HONR 249I The Examined Life
HONR 249J Economics and the Environment: Environmental Problems, Economic Decisions
HONR 258A Untold Stories: Modern Women Writers Re-Imaging the Western Tradition
HONR 258K Words and Swords-Shakespeare's (De)(Con)structive Languages
HONR 258N Philosophy and Computers: From Logic to Thinking Machines
HONR 258O Kinesiological Bases of Sport
HONR 258T Tools of Fiction: Literature and/as Creative Writing
HONR 258V American Attitudes Toward Warfare and the Military
HONR 258W Exploring Homophobia: Demystifying Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Issues
HONR 258Y Economic Well-Being
HONR 259Q Identity, Conformity, and Rebellion: A Literary Perspective
HONR 259S The Body and Literature
HONR 268E Gods, Demons, and Mythology in the Ancient Near East and Egypt
HONR 268J Religion and Progress: Islamic Science, Politics, and Economics
HONR 268N The First Amendment on the Line: Religion and the Public Schools
HONR 268R The Cultural Significance of Astronomy
HONR 268Z Mask, Image, Identity: The Mystery of the Face
HONR 269V High Technology, Culture, and Economic Development: Biotechnology in Asia
HONR 278D Women and Religion
HONR 279V Imagining God: Theological Explorations in Modern Writing
HONR 279W The Solar System
HONR 279Z Variations on the Odyssey
HONR 288A Black Women and the Public Eye
HONR 288L Medical Devices: Applied Ethics and Public Policy
HONR 288N Cultural Differences in Three Dimensional Objects
HONR 288O Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience
HONR 289U In Search of Truth: A Survey of Decision Processes
HONR 289W The Image Speaks Back: How Artists Involve the Spectator in Late Medieval and Renaissance Art
HONR 289Y Novels and Who We Are
HONR 298A Doctrine and Debate in Selected World Religions
HONR 298C Writing for the Internet: The Problem of the Nonlinear Narrative
HONR 298P The Public Face of Science: Science and Society as Reflected in the Media
HONR 299C Human Development: Moving Beyond Learning
HONR 328Q Truth and Diversity: Seeking Truths from Diverse Human Contexts
HONR 348J Contemporary Social Issues
HONR 348K Angst, Sex, and Laughter: Kafka and Film
HONR 359A Writing Workshop (grading S/F)
HONR 359B Alternatives to Violence (grading S/F)
HONR 378I Campaigning for Congress
Special H-Version Course:
HONR 378I The Jew and The City
Comments and questions may be directed to dhebert@deans.umd.edu