New Honors Courses for Spring 2005:
HONR 218F Philosophy of the Environment
HONR 218K Caribbean Women's Literature
HONR 218O "Good" Wars and Bad Ones: WWII and Vietnam in Film and Literature
HONR 218P Understanding India
HONR 218Q Urban Areas of the Two-Thirds World
HONR 218R Religious Fundamentalism & the Globalization of Hatred
HONR 218T Political Ambition: The Pursuit & Uses of Political Power
HONR 218V Digital Sound & Fury On Mac OSX: Desktop Publishing, Muisic Photography, and Video
HONR 218W The Idea of Crime
HONR 218X Islam in the African-American Experience
HONR 218Y Building Modern Maryland (1930-1970)
HONR 218Y has been cancelled for the Spring '05 semester.
HONR 218Z Morality and Religion
HONR 248A Art and Biography in 17th Century Spain
HONR 248B Science, Technology and Society
HONR 248F American Film and Society Between the World Wars
HONR 248I Space: Science, Technology and Exploration Past and Future
HONR 248K Don Quixote and the American Novel
HONR 248K has been cancelled for the Spring '05 semester.
HONR 348O Media in American Politics
Spring 2005 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 208S The Ancient Roman City: Pompeii and Beyond
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 209E Attending the Blockbuster: Understanding the Cultural Impact of Temporary Exhibitions
HONR209I The Plasma State of Matter in Nature and Civilization
HONR 209I has been cancelled for the Spring 2005 semester.
HONR209M Fair Division–from
Cake Cutting to Dispute Resolution
HONR 209M has been cancelled for the Spring 2005 semester.
HONR 209Y Novels! Modern Fictions
HONR 216 In Search of Ancient Astronomies
HONR 218I Contemporary Drama from Around the World
HONR 218L Language and Mind
HONR 218N Stem Cells-Who Cares? Issues in Life Sciences
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 228I The History of Mathematics
HONR 228N Living Religions of Antiquity
HONR 228N has been cancelled for the Spring 2005 semester.
HONR 229B The Imperial Experience: Britain and Its Empire from the 17th Century to the 20th Century
HONR 229O Historical Fictions: The Modern Novel on Ancient Rome in Its Literary and Cultural Context
HONR 229O has been cancelled for the Spring 2005 semester.
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 248G Social and Group Violence
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 258B First Ladies and the Media
HONR 258N Philosophy and Computers
HONR 259C Fearfully Great Lizards: Topics in Dinosaur Research
HONR 259D Understanding the Japanese through the Performing Arts
HONR 268D Living Heroically: Poverty in America
HONR 268Z Mask, Image, Identity: The Mystery of the Face
HONR 269E Culture's Last Stand: Art & Responsibility From Plato to Pop Stars
HONR 269J The Beat Begins: American Culture in the 1950s
HONR 269L Hinduism: Karma, Dharma, Caste, Sects, and Symbols
HONR 278B Disease in Development
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 348J Contemporary Social Issues
HONR 359A Writing Workshop
HONR 200:
Honors 200 seeks to acquaint beginning students with the many opportunities for conducting research here on campus and beyond. Students hear presentations from current Honors researchers who discuss their research projects either in a departmental Honors Program or in a variety of other research venues. There are also faculty presentations in which researchers from diverse fields discuss their current research efforts.
A recent version of the syllabus is available for review.
