Welcome to University Honors at the University of Maryland

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Current Honors Students

SEMINARS SPRING 2008

HONR208E J.R.R. Tolkein: Author of the Century

HONR208J From Glass Boxes to Bunkers: Architecture, Power, and Public Policy

HONR208W More Things in Heaven and Earth: Ghosts and Magicians in Performance

HONR209E Attending the Blockbuster: Understanding the Cultural Impact of Temporary Exhibitions

HONR209J Why Is It So Hard To Have Good Government?

HONR209Y Novels! Modern Fictions

HONR216 In Search of Ancient Astronomies

HONR218W The Idea of Crime

HONR219A Toward a New Era of Desktop Supercomputing

HONR219B Food for Health: How Production Methods Have an Impact on our Lives

HONR219C Selling Technology: The Success and Failure of Technological Things

HONR219D On Beyond Dinosaurs: Patterns and Enigmas in Vertebrate Evolution

HONR219E Media With An Accent: Comparing Press and Broadcasting in a Global Context

HONR219I Restoring Chesapeake Bay: Is it Possible?

HONR219M Fit for The Nation: Physical Culture and Civic Responsibility in American Society

HONR219P Do Not Enter: Outsiders in Twentieth Century American Drama

HONR219Q Perspectives on the Cosmos From the Ancient Philosphers to Modern Science

HONR219T Surviving Natural Disasters: Learning From Hurrican Katrina, Big Earthquakes, and Other Natural Hazards

HONR219W How Policymaking Affects Families

HONR219Y Merging the Multiple Me's: Developmental Origins of the Integrated Young Adult Self

HONR229G American Jewish Literature

HONR229O Flesh, Marble, Paper, Celluloid, and Electrons: The Historical "Novel" on Ancient Rome in Literary and Cultural History

HONR238B Images of Masculinity in American Literature and Film

HONR238D The Contemporary American Musical Theatre: From Hair to Hairspray

HONR238G Thanatos—The Many Meanings of Death

HONR238J Making Public Policy in America

HONR238R Terrorism

HONR238Y Development of the Author in Literary History and Creative Writing

HONR239B New York City and the American Dream

HONR239C The Creative Process in Dance

HONR239J Masterworks of French in Translation

HONR239K Media and Political Image in Campaigns

HONR239L Women and the Civil Rights Movement

HONR239M Renaissance to Enlightenment: People, Places, and Paradigms in Western Europe

HONE 239N Converts and Apostates

HONR239O Great Physicists of the 20th Century

HONR248C Minds, Bodies and Machines: The Relations

HONR248M Death and Afterlife in Ancient Egypt

HONR248N Extinction Risk: When Biology, Geography, and Mathematics Meet

HONR248V Buddhism, Daoism, Shinto, and the Japenese Creative Arts

HONR248W America in the 1960s

HONR248Y Design Literacy: Decoding Our Visual Culture

HONR249A I,Too,Stage America: Multicultural Drama and the American Dream

HONR249E Modern and Postmodern Music: Trends, Styles, Issues, and Ideas

HONR249J Economics and the Environment

HONR249K The U.S. in Vietnam: from Dien Bien Phu to the Fall of Saigon, a Crossroads in American History

HONR249M The American South—From a (Mostly) Sociological Perspective

HONR249N Encountering the OtherL Travel and Tourism in the Modern Era

HONR249O Facts and Fictions: Viewing the Civil Rights Movement Through Film

HONR249V Lawyers and the Adversary System: Can a Good Lawyer Lead a Good Life?

HONR259D Understanding the Japanese through the Performing Arts

HONR267 Knowledge Across Disciplines

HONR268F World Popular/Folk Music and Politics

HONR269J The Beat Begins: American Culture in the 1950s

HONR269M Sacred Architecture East and West: Churches, Temples, Stupas, and Mosques

HONR269Q An Introduction to the Stock Market and Technical Analysis

HONR278F Housing, Social Welfare, Affordability and Design

HONR279G The Biological Basis of Mental Illness

HONR279N China

HONR279O Counterterrorism

HONR288L Medical Devices: Applied Ethics and Public Policy

HONR288W Economics, Markets, and Social Policy: How the World Works (and Doesn't Work)

HONR288Z From Hildegard to Madonna: A Millenium of Women Making Music

HONR289B Just a Mile Away: The Langley Park Neighborhood and the Making of a New America

HONR299A Creating Alternative Futures

HONR298Z Science and Journalism: The Two Societies in the 21st Century

HONR348J Contemporary Social Issues

Spring 2008 H-Version Courses

These are the H-version classes at the 100 & 200 level; check with your department for upper-level H-version classes. The Junior English classes are also included, since they are open to advanced Honors students of all majors.

AASP100H Intro. to African-American Studies
AASP202H Black Culture in the U.S.
BMGT220H Principles of Accounting I
BMGT221H Principles of Accounting II
BSCI223H General Microbiology
CCJS100H Intro. to Criminology & Criminal Justice
CMSC131H Object-Oriented Programming I
CMSC132H Object-Oriented Programming II
ENGL391H Advanced Composition
ENGL393H Technical Writing
FREN250H Intro. to French Literature
GVPT241H Political Philosophy: Ancient & Modern
HIST283H History of the Jewish People II
ITAL122H Accelerated Italian II
JOUR150H Intro. to Mass Communication
JWST235H History of the Jewish People II
MATH 141H Calculus II
MATH241H Calculus III
MATH246H Differential Equations for Science & Engineering
MUSC130H Survey of Music Literature
PHYS272H Intro. to Physics: Fields
PHYS273H Intro. to Physics: Waves
PSYC100H Intro. to Psychology
SOCY105H Intro. to Contemporary Social Problems

Honors students rafting the Gauley River in West Virginia.

Senior lecturer Dr. Howard Smead speaking before a crowd during the Honors Spring Lecture series.