New Honors Courses for Fall 2001:

HONR 208B Visions of Heroism in Early British Literature

HONR 208C Faith, Fiction, and Film

HONR 208D Science Friction: Hard Science, Soft Science, Card Tricks, and Bluffing in the History of Drama

HONR 208E J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century

HONR 208F Roots & Routes: Mapping the African-Asian Diaspora

HONR 208G Europe and American Colonies 1600-1800

HONR 208I Great Books and How They Got (And Get) That Way

HONR 208J From Glass Boxes to Bunkers: Architecture, Power, and Public Policy

HONR 208N Where We Come From: Identities & Origins

HONR 208O Democracy and its Discontents: or The Not-So-Golden Age of Athens

HONR 219S Black Holes and B Movies

HONR 219X Construction of Manhood and Womanhood in the Black Community

HONR 219Y Science and Religion: Evolution at the Interface

HONR 219Z Languages of the World: How it all Happened

HONR 298F Power, Culture, and Religion in Early Modern Europe

HONR 299J Read in Tooth and Claw? Some British Writings Since Darwin

HONR 299Z Lifeworks: The Immense Possibilities of a Cell

Fall 2001 Courses Which Have Been Offered Previously:

HONR 218A In Search of Ancient Astronomies

HONR 218C Western Intellectual Heritage: The Hero and Society

HONR 218L Language and Mind

HONR 219A Chemicals Within: Effects of Hormones on the Human Body

HONR 219E Achilles in the Trenches

HONR 228A Science and Pseudoscience

HONR 228Q People & Particles: Nuclear Physics and Society

HONR 238B Images of Masculinity in American Literature & Film

HONR 238Z Understanding The World Through Reading

HONR 239C The Creative Process in Dance

HONR 239D The Language of Visual Communication

HONR 248G Social and Group Violence in America

HONR 248O The Military and The Media

HONR 248W America in the Sixties

HONR 249I The Examined Life

HONR 258K Words and Swords: Shakespeare's (De)(Con)tructive Languages

HONR 258N Philosophy and Computers: From Logic to Thinking Machines?

HONR 258O Kinesiological Bases of Sport

HONR 258T Tools of Fiction

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 268B How the West Was Won & Lost: The Legacy of Conquest in the American Frontier

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

HONR 268R The Cultural Significance of Astronomy

HONR 268W Re-Telling the Tale

HONR 268Z Mask, Image, Identity: The Mystery of the Face

HONR 269C Mythology

HONR 269D Health Policy: Important Things They Don't Teach You in Medical School

HONR 269V High Technology, Culture, and Economic Development in Asia

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

HONR 279P Understanding and Coping with Stress

HONR 279R Art Making in the Global Village

HONR 279T The Artist as Hero: Forging a New Artistic Identity in 18th Century England

HONR 279V Imagining God: Theological Explorations in Modern Writing

HONR 279W The Solar System

HONR 288I Washington City as a Work of Art

HONR 288K Let's Talk About Race: The Societal Construction of U.S. Ethnic Minorities

HONR 288L Medical Devices: Applied Ethics and Public Policy

HONR 288O Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience

HONR 289V The Varieties of Community

HONR 289Y Novels and Who We Are

HONR 289Z Opera: What It's All About

HONR 298A Selected World Religions

HONR 298F Power, Culture, and Religion in Early Modern Europe

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

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

HONR 299S The Impact of Plato's Symposium on Western Thought

HONR 299V Law: Divine, Natural, and Man-Made

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)

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