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New Honors Courses for Spring 2004:
HONR 229V Human Odyssey: The Evolution of Homo Sapiens
HONR 229W Probability, Gambling, and Critical Thinking
HONR 229Z Biology and Engineering Teach Each Other This course has been cancelled for Spring 2004.
HONR 278A Women in Science: Shattering the Glass Ceiling
HONR 278B Disease in Development
HONR 278C Biology and the Mythology of Bats
HONR 278F Housing, Social Welfare, Affordability and Design
HONR 278J Under the Hood: Algorithms and their Applications
HONR 278K Tools of Uncertainty: Decision Making in a World with Missing Information
HONR 278L Water and Power: Case Studies in Social Control
HONR 278M Metaphysics in Movies
HONR 278N Comedy: Ancient and Modern
HONR 278Q Magic, Religion, and Science: Art that Worked Wonders
HONR 278S Birth, Marriage, and Death: Major Life Events in Earlier Times
HONR 278U Postcards From the Past: Travel Literature in the Age of Columbus This course has been cancelled for Spring 2004.
HONR 278X Constructing Reality
HONR 278Z "What is Journalism For?": Facing Fault Lines in Search of News Media Diversity This course has been cancelled for Spring 2004.
Spring 2004 Courses Which Have Been Offered Previously:
HONR 169Z Knowledge and its Human Implications
HONR 201 Beginning Research
HONR 208E J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century
HONR 208J From Glass Boxes to Bunkers: Architecture, Power, and Public Policy
HONR 208K Hollywood Goes South of the Border
HONR 208U Merging the Multiple Me's: Developmental Origins of the Integrated Young Adult Self
HONR 208V Biodiversity on The Decline: Society's Biggest Threat
HONR 208W More Things in Heaven and Earth: Ghosts and Magicians in Performance
HONR 208Z Fraudulent Science: The Seven Warning Signs
HONR 209E Attending the Blockbuster: Understanding the Cultural Impact of Temporary Exhibitions
HONR 209J Why It Is So Hard to Have Good Government?
HONR 209Y Novels! Modern Fictions
HONR 218A In Search of Ancient Astronomies
HONR 218L Language and Mind
HONR 219D On Beyond Dinosaurs: Patterns and Enigmas in Vertebrate Evolution
HONR 219J Life at Riversdale Mansion
HONR 219O Fantasy and the Supernatural in Jewish Literature
HONR 219P Do Not Enter: Outsiders in Twentieth Century American Drama
HONR 219V Religion, Science, and Freedom
HONR 228E Traditional Chinese Medicine: A Complementary Approach to Modern Medicine
HONR 228N Living Religions of Antiquity and Synthesis
HONR 229E Modern Writers and the Journey Inward
HONR 229S Terrorism
HONR 238A The World of the Dead Sea Scrolls
HONR 238B Images of Masculinity in American Literature and Film
HONR 238G Thanatos–The Many Meanings of Death
HONR 238U The Spiritual Heritage of the Human Race: An Introduction to the Study of World Religions
HONR 238Z Understanding the World Through Reading
HONR 239C The Creative Process in Dance
HONR 239I Buddhism: Personal and Social Transformations
HONR 248D International and Multicultural Perspectives in Education
HONR 248W America in the 1960s
HONR 249I The Examined Life
HONR 249S The U.S. in Vietnam: From Dien Bien Phu to the Fall of Saigon, a Crossroads in American History
HONR 249V Lawyers and the Adversary System: Can a Good Lawyer Lead a Good Life?
HONR 259D Understanding the Japanese through the Performing Arts
HONR 259S The Body and Literature
HONR 268D Living Heroically: Poverty in America
HONR 268P Drugs and American Society
HONR 268Z Mask, Image, Identity: The Mystery of the Face
HONR 269J The Beat Begins: American Culture in the 1950s
HONR 269L Hinduism: Karma, Dharma, Caste, Sects, and Symbols
HONR 279G The Biological Basis of Mental Illness
HONR 279P Understanding and Coping with Stress
HONR 288L Medical Devices: Applied Ethics and Public Policy
HONR 288W The Role of Government in a Market Economy
HONR 288Z From Hildegard to Madonna: A Millennium of Women Making Music
HONR 289B Just a Mile Away: The Langley Park Neighborhood and the Making of a New America
HONR 328P The Biophysical Aspects of Wellness
HONR 348J Contemporary Social Issues
HONR 359A Writing Workshop
