New Honors Courses for Fall 2002:

HONR 209G We are What We Were: Ordinary Life as a Mirror on Ourselves

HONR 209J Why Is It So Hard to Have Good Government

HONR 209K I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart: The Philosophy of Song

HONR 209L Technologies of Literature

HONR 209M Fair Division: From Cake Cutting to Dispute Resolution

HONR 209N Revolution in Telecommunications

HONR 209O An Exploration of Sleep

HONR 209P Black Saga: People, Places, Events, and Words of Wisdom

HONR 209Q Imagining Tropicality: Contemporary Essays on the Caribbean Experience

HONR 209R Political Theatre: Changing Minds, Challenging Society

HONR 209S The Abled/Disabled in America: From Helen Keller to Michael J. Fox

HONR 209T Globalization and Urban Development

HONR 209V What Ish My Nation? Twentieth Century Irish Politics, Culture, and Identity

HONR 209W Strategies of Equality

HONR 209X Toys of Mathematics

HONR 209Y Novels!

HONR 209Z Difference and Desire in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries

HONR 228B Milestones: the Interplay of Technology, Society, and History in the Last 60 Years

HONR 228C Science and Religion: Synergy and Conflict

Fall 2002 Courses Which Have Been Offered Previously:

HONR 208C Faith, Fiction, and Film

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

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

HONR 218A In Search of Ancient Astronomies

HONR 218C Western Intellectual Heritage: The Hero and Society

HONR 218L Language & Mind

HONR 218M The Search for an American Architecture

HONR 219K Thinking Architecturally

HONR 219S Black Holes and B-Movies: New Physics and Contemporary Culture

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

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

HONR 228A Science and Pseudoscience

HONR 228Q People and Particles: Nuclear Physics and Society

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 in American History

HONR 248W America in the 1960's

HONR 249I The Examined Life

HONR 249J Economics and the Envrionment: Environmental Problems, Economic Decisions

HONR 258A Untold Stories: Modern Women Writers Re-imagining their Traditions

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 269C Mythology

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

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

HONR 269W Classical Myths in America

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 288K Let's Talk About Race: The Social Construction of U.S. Racial and Ethnic Minorities

HONR 288L Medical Devices: Applied Ethics and Public Policy

HONR 288O Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience

HONR 289Y Novels and Who We Are

HONR 298A Doctrine and Debate in Selected World Religions

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

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

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