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Fall 2003 Honors Courses


 

New Honors Courses for Fall 2003:

HONR 228U The Big Picture: Competing Views of Global Politics

HONR 228X The Image of Africa: Imperialism and Popular Culture

HONR 229E Memory. Identity. Exile.
HONR 229E has been cancelled for the Fall '03 semester.

HONR 229F The Problem of Time

HONR 229G Ethnic Conundrums: Is There an American Jewish Literature?

HONR 229I Intellectual Traditions of the Ancient Near East

HONR 229J The Death Penalty in the United States: Beyond the “Just Punishment or Barbaric Revenge” Argument

HONR 229K Ethnobotany and Magical, Medicinal Plants

HONR 229L True Love and Erotic Fantasy in Early Modern European Art

HONR 229M Ecology, Energy, and Alternative Futures

HONR 229O Flesh, Marble, Paper, Celluloid, and Electrons: The Historical “Novel” on Ancient Rome in Literary and Cultural History

HONR 229P Mathematics and Art

HONR 229Q Light, Optics and Lasers: The Light Fantastic–What is Light, How Do We Use It, Its Mysteries and Potential

HONR 229R Film Art, Literary Art: Gender, Genre, and Representation

HONR 229S Terrorism

HONR 229T Latinos Making History

HONR 229Y Postcards From The Past: Medieval Maps and Modern Questions

Fall 2003 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 209A Women in the U.S. Military

HONR 209N The Revolutions in Telecommunications

HONR 209T Cities and the World: Globalization and Urban Development

HONR 209W Strategies of Equality

HONR 209X Toys of Mathematics

HONR 218A In Search of Ancient Astronomies

HONR 218C Western Intellectual Heritage: The Hero and Society

HONR 218L Language and Mind

HONR 219K Thinking Architecturally

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

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

HONR 228A Science and Pseudoscience

HONR 228C Science and Religion: Synergy and Conflict

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 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

HONR 258K Words and Swords--Shakespeare's (De)(Con)structive Languages

HONR 258O Kinesiological Bases of Skilled Performance: Golf

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 The Mosaic of Identity in Contemporary American Literature

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

HONR 279R Art Making in the Global Village

HONR 279V Imagining God: Theological Explorations in Modern Writing

HONR 279W The Solar System

HONR 288L Medical Devices: Applied Ethics and Public Policy

HONR 288O Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience

HONR 289Y Novels and Who We Are

HONR 289Z Opera: What’s It All About?

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

HONR 359B Alternatives to Violence

 

 

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