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New Honors Courses for Spring 2003:
HONR 228D How Did We Get Here and Where Are We Going? Global Perspectives on Transportation and Society
HONR 228E Traditional Chinese Medicine: A Complimentary Approach to Modern Medicine
HONR 228I The History of Mathematics
HONR 228L How To Do Things With Poems
HONR 228M Judaism and Islam
HONR 228N "Curious" Ancient Religions: Their Influences and Implications For Modernity
HONR 228O The Triumph of the Embryo
HONR 228P Political Women's Writing
HONR 228R Art and Politics: The Case of Paul Robeson
HONR 228S Language, Mind, and Relativism
HONR 228T American Roots: Music in Film and Literature
HONR 228V Wind, Water, and Sailboats: The Physics of Sailing
HONR 228Z Action and Responsibility: Understanding Moral Motives
HONR 229B The Imperial Experience: Britain and Its Empire From the 17th Century To the 20th Century
HONR 229C Conquest and Colonization in the Early Hispanic Atlantic World
HONR 229D Global Security and Disarmament: Where Do We Go From Here?
Spring 2003 Courses Which Have Been Offered Previously:
HONR 169Z Knowledge and its Human Implications
HONR 208E J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century
HONR208J From Glass Boxes to Bunkers: Architecture, Power, and Public Policy
HONR 208L Designer Genes: At What Price?
HONR 208Q Community and Environment
HONR 208T Nuclear Era and Nuclear Decisions
HONR 208U Merging the Multiple Me's: Developmental Origins of the Integrated Self
HONR 208V Biodiversity on the Decline: Society's Biggest Threat
HONR 208W More Things in Heaven and Earth: Ghosts & Magicians in Performance
HONR 209E Attending the Blockbusters: Understanding the Cultural Impact of Temporary Exhibitions
HONR 209F Our Atmosphere: Understanding the Interplay Between Human Activities & the Environment
HONR 218A In Search of Ancient Astronomies
HONR 218L Language and Mind
HONR 219F World's Fairs: Social and Architectural History
HONR 219J Life at Riversdale Mansion
HONR 219O Fantasy and The Supernatural in Jewish Literature
HONR219S Black Holes and B Movies
HONR 219T Motivation in Public Affairs
HONR 219V Religion, Science, and Freedom
HONR 238A The World of the Dead Sea Scrolls
HONR 238B Images of Masculinity in 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
HONR 248D International Perspectives in Education
HONR 248G Social and Group Violence in America: Terrorism
HONR 248L Conflict, Cooperation, and Strategy
HONR 248W America in the 1960s
HONR 249I The Examined Life
HONR 249S The United States in Vietnam
HONR 249V Lawyers and the Adversary System: Can a Good Lawyer Lead a Good Life?
HONR 258B First Ladies and the Media
HONR 258S Photography: The First One Hundred Years
HONR 259C Fearfully Great Lizards: Topics in Dinosaur Research
HONR 259D Understanding the Japanese Through the Performing Arts
HONR 259M The Science in Science Fiction
HONR 268D Living Heroically: Poverty in America
HONR 268P Drugs and American Society
HONR 269J The Culture of the 1950s
HONR 269L Hinduism
HONR 279G The Biological Basis of Mental Illness
HONR279I History of the
Alphabets, 2000 BCE to 2000 CE:
Languages and Their Scripts
HONR 279P Understanding and Coping With Stress
HONR 279T The Artist as Hero
HONR 289B Just a Mile Away: The Langley Park Neighborhood
HONR 298C Narrative Form and New Media
HONR 298L What Things Mean
HONR299D In Concert
HONR 299N Through the Child Darkly: The Child and Literature
HONR 299Z Lifeworks: The Immense Possibilities of a Cell
HONR 328P Biophysical Aspects of Wellness
HONR 348J Contemporary Social Issues
HONR 359A Writing Workshop (grading S/F)
