SPRING
2005 HONORS COURSES
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
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
239Y Elementary
Particles: The Quest For the Ultimate Particles of
Matter, the Laws They Obey, and Forces that Act on
Them
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.
