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Fall 2003
HONR 100 Honors Forum 2 credits
(PermReq) Grade Method: P-F This course is required
of all students entering the Honors
College with fewer than 30 credits,
excluding advanced placement credits. The
course willintroduce students to the
academic method and tradition and to the
pursuit of excellence through Honors.
Students will interact with campus
researchers and creative artists, will
participate in service learning and
leadership development, will acquire
research and study skills applicable to
their future endeavors, and will reflect
upon what it means to be a full member ofa
community of learning.
[3237] 0101 M..........4:00pm- 6:00pm (LH2 ...) MCKUSICK, J
HONR 201 Methods and Materials of Research 3 credits
(PermReq) Grade Method: REG/P-F Research is an
integral part of all academic endeavors.
This course will provide students with the
opportunity to develop both research
skills and knowledge of major library
resources in different fields by
researching a topic in an
interdisciplinary manner. Students will
learn to use print and electronic
resources, including online scholarly
indexes and the Internet. Students will be
required to develop a search strategy,
select appropriate sources, evaluate
identified material, produce an annotated
bibliography on their topic, and to
present their experiences to the class.
As this course is offered through the
Honors College permission is required by
them for non-Honors students. This course
is cross-listed, and the principal is HONR
201. Class will meet in Room 259 of the
Albin O. Kuhn Library.
[3238] 0101 MW.........2:00pm- 3:15pm (TBA) SULLIVAN, K
HONR 300A General Honors Seminar Questioning the 3 credits
Arts
(PermReq) Grade Method: REG/P-F This seminar is
devoted to interpretation in the visual
and literary arts. Each week there will be
a theme for discussion, such as: art as
autobiography (how is life transformed
into art?), the comic and the serious (how
can comedy be used to convey serious
themes in art?), the masterpiece (how do
we recognize one?), art about art (what
can works of art teach us about the making
of art?), art and ethics (how do works
compel us to think more deeply about
ethical issues?). Our methodology will be
inductive rather than deductive. That is
to say, we will start with individual
works of art, read them carefully, and
probe them for their philosophical
implications--asthetic, ethical, and
ontological. Students will write a term
paper with a thesis that can be defended.
[3239] 0101 TuTh......10:00am-11:15am (MP 012) SPITZ, E
HONR 300B General Honors Seminar The Bardic VOice in 3 credits
the Three Ancient Epics
(PermReq) Grade Method: REG/P-F This seminar will
examine The Iliad, The Odyssey, and The
Aeneid, three ancient epic poems that
contain much of the oirgins of Western
thought and art. We will consider these
works as separate formal constructs and in
relation to each other. We will explore
such things as the relationship between
author and audience, form, mythology,
archaeology, and the historical and
cultural milieu in which these ancient
epics were created. ALso listed as ANCS
350H.
[3240] 0101 MW.........8:30am- 9:45am (FH 225) GLASSER, J
HONR 300C General Honors Seminar Globalization and 3 credits
World Cities
(PermReq) Grade Method: REG/P-F This course will
examine the relationship between
globalization and cities. The processes of
economics, political, and cultural
globalization are reflected and embodied
in urban trends. Topics studied include
the creation of global command cities,
urban spectacles and cultural
globalization, and the various attempts by
cities around the world to become global
centers. Material will be drawn from the
urban experience around the world. Also
listed as GEOG 400A.
[3241] 0101 Tu.........4:00pm- 6:45pm (BS 120) SHORT, J
HONR 300D General Honors Seminar Technology and 3 credits
Perception
(PermReq) Grade Method: REG/P-F This seminar
investigates the interplay between
technological development of time-based
media in the arts and the evolution of
human perception. Relevant readings and
visual and acoustical examples from both
the arts and the history of mass media
(film, radio, television. video art,
computer/Internet) provide the context for
discussion. Conceptual and perceptual
change wrought by the rapid evolution of
media in arts during the twentieth century
will be the primary focus. Viewing
examples range from media classics, such
as cinemia inventors the Lumier Bros. and
the early German film Metropolis to modern
classics--Chris Marker's La Jette,
Godard's Weekend, Cocteau's Orphee, and on
to video installations, the early works of
Nam June Paik, Bill Viola, and Gary Hill.
Reading examples include such writings as
Marshall McLuhan's The medium is the
massage and Walter Benjamin's The Work of
Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
to contemporary writings such as The
Perfect Machine--Television and the Bomb
by Joyce Nelson; Electronic Civil
Disobedience by Critical Art Ensemble, and
Art and Artists in the age of Electronic
Media by Margot Lovejoy. Also listed as
ART 392A.
[3242] 0101 TuTh.......1:00pm- 2:15pm (FA 207) STURGEON, J
HONR 300E General Honors Seminar English Romantic 3 credits
Literature
(PermReq) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD Class will meet
in LIB 216F. Also listed as ENGL 405.
Enrollment in this seminar is limited to
participants in the Wordsworth Summer
Program. Also listed as ENGL 405.
[3243] 0101 MW.........5:30pm- 6:45pm (TBA) MCKUSICK, J
HONR 300F General Honors Seminar History and Culture 3 credits
of France
(PermReq) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD Enrollment in
this seminar is limited to participants in
the Honors College Study Travel Program.
[3244] 0101 Time and room to be arranged MCKUSICK, J
HONR 300G General Honors Seminar When Worlds Collide 3 credits
(PermReq) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD In the late
eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries,
America, France and Greece all experienced
political revolutions that marked a
fundamental break with the recent past.
Individuals such as Thomas Jefferson and
Napoleon Bonaparte were directly involved
in those revolutions, but at the same time
they were actively and deeply engaged with
the distant past. Earlier excavations at
Pompeii and Herculaneum had revealed how
much of the past the earth might still
hold; those excavations also represented
the birth of scientific archaeology and
they even contributed to the development
of Charles Lyell's geological theories. In
America, Thomas Jefferson himself
excavated a prehistoric burial mound,
while Charles Willson Peale recovered the
skeleton of a mastodon that he displayed
in the New World's first museum.
Napoleon's invasion of Egypt led to the
discovery and decipherment of the Rosetta
Stone and sparked the first wave of
Egyptomania that was to sweep over the
western world. Traditional education in
the Classics and Romantic poetry together
inspired young men from both England and
America to measure, accurately record, and
restore ancient architecture, to search
for (and appropriate) classical Greek
statues, and to fight in the Greek War for
Independence. In this seminar, we will
explore the exploration of the past that
took place during an age of revolution,
romanticism and rediscovery. Our approach
will be interdisciplinary; our goal will
be to learn about pioneers in rediscovery
who lived in an age that saw great
progress both in the humanities and in the
sciences.
[3245] 0101 TuTh.......7:00pm- 8:15pm (FA 006) MASON, R
HONR 300J General Honors Seminar Literature of the 3 credits
Holocaust
(PermReq) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD An examination
of the experiences of the Holocaust
through works of poetry, drama,
autobiography,film, and/or the novel. Most
of the selections relate the Holocaust as
it was experienced, after the writers
translated those experiences into art,
making their personal tragedies into
recognizable truths. Prerequisite: JDST
274 or another course in twentieth-century
European History. Also listed as JDST
320H and ENGL348H.
[3246] 0101 W..........4:30pm- 7:00pm (MP 103) GOLDENBERG, M
HONR 300K General Honors Seminar Performance in 3 credits
Baltimore
(PermReq) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD Anthropologists,
semanticists, and artists in all genres
are actively exploring the notion of
"performance" through academic discourse
and public presentation. What was thought
to constitute performance has moved beyond
the stage and screen(s) into galleries,
stadiums, and the street. After
researching and discussing aspects of
performance theory, students will attend a
variety of events and visit a number of
sites in Baltimore that exhibit different
aspects of performance. Students will
discuss and write about their responses to
these various experiences, and complete a
project in which, individually or as a
group, they create a performance of their
own.
[3247] 0101 W..........2:30pm- 5:00pm (THTR117) KREIZENBECK, A
HONR 390 Reflections on Community Service 3-4 credits
(PermReq) Grade Method: REG This course provides
opportunities for reflection on the
principles and techniques of community
service. It introduces students to basic
methods of community service, offers
background in the cultural, political, and
social contexts of community service, and
serves as a forum for discussion of issues
surrounding civic engagement and social
responsibility. Students apply concepts
and skills they develop to actual
experiences in community service.
Permission required from the Shriver
Center and Honors College.
[3248] 0101 Time and room to be arranged MCKUSICK, J
HONR 400 Honors Independent Study 1-4 credits
(PermReq) Grade Method: REG/P-F Independent study or
research under the guidance of a faculty
mentor. Courseguidelines are available in
the Honors College. This course is
repeatable for a maximum of eight credits.
Prerequistes: Junior standing and
permission of the Honors College.
[3249] 0101 Time and room to be arranged LASHER, L
HONR 410 Honors Internship 1-4 credits
(PermReq) Grade Method: REG/P-F This course offers
academic credit for an internship or other
applied learning experience. For each
credit hour, student interns perform 3
hours per week of supervised tasks for a
business, government, or non-profit
agency. This course is repeatble for a
maximum of 8 credits. Prerequistes: One
college-level writng course and permission
of the Honors College.
[3250] 0101 Time and room to be arranged MCKUSICK, J
HONR 490 Senior Honors Project 1-4 credits
(PermReq) Grade Method: REG/P-F A formal research
paper, an extended essay, a report of
experimental research, a performance or
other creative effort that represents the
outcome of anindependent project by a
member of the Honors College. Permission
to register will be granted after the
student submits a written statement
describing the proposed Honors project,
which is then approved and signed by a
faculty mentor and the Honors College
course director. Prerequisites: Senior
standing and permission of the Honors
College.
[3251] 0101 Time and room to be arranged LASHER, L