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Honors Courses: Fall 1999



New Courses For Fall 1999:

HONR 238J Literature and Madness

HONR 279O Biotechnology and Society

HONR 289J Materials in Art and Technology

HONR 289U In Search of Truth: A Survey of Decision Processes

HONR 289V Varieties of Community

HONR 289W The Image Speaks Back: How Artists Involve the Spectator in Art

HONR 289X American Film at the Millenium: Stories, Bodies, and Cultural Spaces

HONR 289Y Novels and Who We Are

HONR 289Z Opera: What's It All About?

HONR 298A Doctrine and Debate in World Religions

HONR 298B Breaking the Silence: Medieval Women's Writing

HONR 298C Writing For the Internet: The Problem of Non-Linear Narrative

HONR 298E Barriers & Breakthroughs in Aerospace Engineering

HONR 298F Power, Culture, and Religious Identity in Early Modern Europe

HONR 298G Living Myths: Three Native American Views of the World

HONR 298I Policy Experts, Regular People, and the Purpose of Government: Making Institutional and Policy Choices in the Next Millennium

HONR 298J Rituals in Dance and Life

HONR 298L What Things Mean

HONR 298M Creativity and the Experience of Grief

Fall 1999 Courses that Have Been Offered Previously:

HONR 218A In Search of Ancient Astronomies

HONR 218C Western Intellectual Heritage: The Hero and Society

HONR 218L Language and Mind

HONR 228A Science and Pseudoscience

HONR 228G Sea Monsters & Deep Sea Sharks (3 credits)

HONR 228K Sea Monsters & Deep Sea Sharks (1 credit)

HONR 228Q People and Particles: Nuclear Physics and Society

HONR 238Z Understanding the World Through Reading

HONR 239D The Language of Visual Communication

HONR 239K The Discovery of Personality in Literature

HONR 248G Social and Group Violence in America

HONR 248O The Military and the Media

HONR 248W America in the 1960s

HONR 249I The Examined Life

HONR 249J Economics and the Environment

HONR 258A Untold Stories: Modern Women Writers Re-imagining the Western Tradition

HONR 258K Words & Swords: Shakespeare's (De)Constructive Language

HONR 258N Computers: From Logic to Thinking Machines

HONR 258O The Kinesiological Bases of Sport

HONR 258T Tools of Fiction: Literature and/as Creative Writing

HONR 258V American Attitudes Toward Warfare and the Military

HONR 258W Exploring Homophobia: Demystifying Lesbian and Gay Issues

HONR 258Y Economic Well-Being

HONR 259J American Suburbia

HONR 259Q Conformity, Rebellion, and Identity: A Literary Perspective

HONR 259S The Body and Literature

HONR 268E Gods, Demons, and Mythology

HONR 268J Religion & Progress: Islamic Science, Politics, and Economics

HONR 268N The First Amendment on the Line: Religion and the Public Schools

HONR 268R The Cultural Significance of Astronomy

HONR 268W Re-Telling the Tale

HONR 268Z Mask, Image, Identity: The Mystery of the Face

HONR 269C Mythology

HONR 269V High Tech, Culture and Economic Development: Biotechnology in Asia

HONR 278B Policy Conundrums in Science and Medicine

HONR 278D Women & Religion

HONR 278E Our Environment: What Does Science Have to Do With It?

HONR 279VImagining God: Theological Explorations in Modern Writing

HONR 279W The Solar System

HONR 279Z Variations on The Odyssey

HONR 288A Black Women and The Public Eye

HONR 288G Culture in the Americas

HONR 288I L'Enfant & Later: Washington City as a Work of Art

HONR 288K Let's Talk About Race: The Social Construction of Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the United States

HONR 288L Medical Devices: Applied Ethics and Public Policy

HONR 288N Cultural Differences in 3D Objects

HONR 288O Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience

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

HONR 348J Contemporary Social Issues

HONR 359A Writing Workshop

HONR 359B Alternatives to Violence

HONR 378W The McDonaldization of Society


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