New Honors Courses for Spring 2001:

HONR 219B Borderlines and Meeting Grounds

HONR 219C Prove It: How We Establish Truth in Various Disciplines

HONR 219D On Beyond Dinosaurs: Patterns and Enigmas in Vertebrate Evolution

HONR 219E Achilles in the Trenches

HONR 219F World's Fairs: Social and Architectural History

HONR 219I Race & Criminal Justice: White, Black, Red, Brown, and Yellow

HONR 219J Life at Riversdale Mansion: Legacy and Links to the University of Maryland

HONR 219K Thinking Architecturally

HONR 219L Counting Faster: Science & The Computer Revolution

HONR 219M Healing Women: Feminist Perspectives on Mental Health

HONR 219N Jazz, the Blues, and American Art

HONR 219O Fantasy and the Supernatural in Jewish Literature

HONR 219P Do Not Enter: Outsiders in 20th Century American Drama

HONR 219Q Writing Ourselves: Autobiography as Reflection and Creation

HONR 219T Motivation in Public Affairs

HONR 219U Fire and Western Civilization

HONR 219V Religion, Science, and Freedom

HONR 219WLaw and Society in the Ancient Near East

Spring 2001 Honors Courses Which Have Been Offered Previously:

HONR 169Z Implications of Human Knowledge

HONR 218A In Search of Ancient Astronomies

HONR 218L Language & Mind

HONR 238A The World of the Dead Sea Scrolls

HONR 238B Images of Masculinity In Twentieth Century American Literature & Film

HONR 238G Thanatos - The Many Meanings of Death

HONR 238U The Spiritual Heritage of the Human Race

HONR 238Z Understanding The World Through Reading

HONR 239C The Creative Process in Dance

HONR 239I Buddhism: Personal & Social Transformations

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

HONR 248D International & Multicultural Perspectives in Education

HONR 248G Social & Group Violence in America

HONR 248L Conflict, Cooperation, and Strategy

HONR 248W America in the 1960s

HONR 249I The Examined Life

HONR 249S The U.S. in Vietnam

HONR 249V Lawyers & the Adversary System: Can a Good Lawyer Lead a Good Life?

HONR 258B First Ladies and the Media

HONR 258S Science As Art: The Invention & First Hundred Years of Photography

HONR 259D Understanding the Japanese Through the Performing Arts

HONR 259M The Science in Science Fiction

HONR 268P Drugs & American Society

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

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

HONR 278E Our Environment: What Does Science Have to Do With It?

HONR 278P Biology in a Cultural Context: Case Studies

HONR 279G The Biological Basis of Mental Illness

HONR 279P Understanding & Coping With Stress

HONR 288K Let's Talk About Race: The Social Construction of Racial & Ethnic Minorities

HONR 288K From Manuscript to Electronic Text: Authorship, Reading, Publishing

HONR 288X Secrets of Life: Discoveries in Molecular Biology

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

HONR 289M Medieval and Renaissance Humanism: Humanists and Their World

HONR 298D Human Difference & Cultural Understanding

HONR 298K American Slavery - American Freedom

HONR 298M Shaping Our Losses: Creativity and the Experience of Grief

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

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

HONR 299C Human Development: Moving Beyond Learning

HONR 299D In Concert

HONR 328P The Biophysical Aspects of Wellness

HONR 348J Contemporary Social Issues

HONR 359A Writing Workshop

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