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Honors Courses: Spring 1999



HONR 169Z Knowledge and Its Human Implications
for second semester Honors students

HONR 200 Honors Research Colloquium (1 credit)

HONR 218A In Search of Ancient Astronomies

HONR 228J Selected Mathematical Classics

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 238L Mind and Language

HONR 238Z Understanding the World through Reading

HONR 239C The Creative Process in Dance

HONR 248C Changing Worlds: Economic, Political, and Social Developments in the Former Soviet Bloc

HONR 248D International and Multicultural Perspectives in Education

HONR 248G Social and Group Violence in America

HONR 248L Conflict, Cooperation, and Strategy

HONR 248M Big Plans: The Idea of City Planning

HONR 248W America in the 1960's

HONR 249R Global Environmental Change

HONR 249V Lawyers and the Adversary System: Can a Good Lawyer Lead a Good Life?

HONR 258K Shakespeare, In History and in Performance: Then and Now

HONR 258Q Literature of the Western World: Ancient and Medieval

HONR 258S Science as Art: The Invention and First Hundred Years of Photography

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 259S The Body and Literature

HONR 268B How the West was Won and Lost

HONR 269C Mythology

HONR 269J The Beat Begins: American Culture in the 1950's

HONR 269L Hinduism: Karma, Dharma, Caste, Sects, and Symbols

HONR 269R Putting One's Body on the Line: Performance Studies

HONR 269W Classical Myth in America

HONR 278T Evolution and Adaptation in Humans

HONR 278V Who Will I Be at 65? Being Aged in Cross-Cultural Perspective

HONR 279B The Evolution of Diseases

HONR 279D From Fiction to Film: Film Adaptations of Novels

HONR 279F Mozart and Beethoven: Music, Rebellion, and the Will to Make a New World

HONR 279G The Biological Basis of Mental Illness

HONR 279P Understanding and Coping with Stress

HONR 279R Art Making in the Global Village

HONR 288Q From Manuscript to Electronic Text: Authorship, Reading, Publishing and the Technologies of the Book

HONR 288R Global Climate Changes: Is the Past the Key to the Future?

HONR 288S Eyes on Racism: Roots, Ramifications, and Possible Resolutions

HONR 288T Literature of the Holocaust

HONR 288U How the World Works

HONR 288V African-American Leadership: The Politics and Public Policy of the Reverend Jesse L. Jackson

HONR 288W The Role of Government in a Market Economy

HONR 288X Secrets of Life: Discoveries in Molecular Biology

HONR 288Y Life on the Edge: Daily Life in Medieval Europe

HONR 288Z From Hildegard to Madonna: A Millenium of Women in Music

HONR 289A Eating Worlds: Studies of the Interactions between Nutrition and Culture

HONR 289B Just a Mile Away: The Langley Park Neighorhood and the Making of a New America

HONR 289C Debasement and Exultation in Victorian Culture

HONR 289D Kahlil Gibran and the Immigrant Tradition

HONR 289E Is It “Progress”?: A Case Study in Environmental Policy and its Moral Foundations

HONR 289F Covering, Uncovering, Discovering the Body in 19th Century Art

HONR 289I Brutes, Monsters, Fallen Women and Real Men: The American 1890's

HONR 289K Why Things Break: A Systems View of Failure and Lessons Learned from Failure

HONR 289L Making (and Re-Making) the Modern: English Literature, 1800-Present

HONR 289M Medieval and Renaissance Humanism, Humanists and Their World

HONR 289N American City: Ideas and Paradigms

HONR 289Q Introduction to Black Women’s Cultural Studies

HONR 289R Texts in Performance

HONR 289S Structure and the Built Environment

HONR 328K Government & Foreign Policy of Contemporary China

HONR 328L Late Roman and Early Christian Art and Archaeology: Christian and Jewish Mosaics and Architecture

HONR 348J Contemporary Social Issues

HONR 359A Writing Workshop

HONR359B Discovery Through Advanced Archival Research: An Honors Independent Study Program


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