Honors Seminar Titles 1999-2011
Fall 1999 (2)
"Mass Media and Death"
"Evolutionary Psychology"
Spring 2000 (3)
"Joyce and Irish Politics" *
"History in the Latin American Novel and Film"
"Toward a Science & Religion Dialogue"
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Fall 2000 (2)
"The Cultural History of Reading in America"
"Revolutions in Science"
Spring 2001 (4)
"Current Issues in African History & Thought" *
"Immigration and Ethnicity" **
"The African-American Family Romance"
"Visual Art, Eye and Brain"
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Fall 2001 (4)
"French Creole Cultures of the Americas" *
"Shimmering Words and Flickering Images"
"Existentialism in Hispanic Literature"
"Connections: Math & Art & Music & Science"
Spring 2002 (3)
"The Culture and Art of Ancient Rome" *
"Media in American Society" **
"Sensational Fictions: Scandal & the 19th Century Novel"
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Fall 2002 (5)
"Kings, Queens, Palaces and Paintings: Royalty in Indian History" *
"Art, Creativity and Madness"
"Revolutions in Science"
"Biological Rythms"
"Fairy Tales"
Spring 2003 (5)
"Al-Andalus: History and Culture of Islamic Iberia" *
"Shakespeare and the Creation of the Modern"
"Overcoming the Odds"
"Science/Religion Dialogue"
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Fall 2003 (6)
"Cultural Origins of Modern Germany" *
"Connections: Math, Art, Music & Science"
"Stress and Trauma"
"Philosophy & Mental Illness"
"Evolution and Culture"
"Mysticism: Cross-Cultural Perspectives"
Spring 2004 (6)
"The Land of the Rising Sun: Traditional Japan in the 21st Century" *
"A Broadway Theatre Experience" **
"Legacies of War"
"Women’s Memoirs and Self-Portraits"
"Identity Development in Women"
"The African Revolution: Theories and Fictions of Postcoloniality"
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Fall 2004 (8)
"Shaping Identity in an Evolving Society: Lessons from post-Apartheid South Africa" *
"Personal Identity and the Self"
"Philosophies of Propaganda"
"Fairy Tales"
"Fundamentalisms"
"Science, Magic, and Religion"
"Film and the Post-Modern"
"Exercise Psychology"
Spring 2005 (9)
"Britain and the Transition to the Modern World" *
"Comparative Analysis of US and Canadian Urban Development" **
"Death, Dying, and Bereavement"
"European Symbolist Movement"
"Visual Art and Seeing"
"Intellectuals and Anti-Intellectualism in the Modern World"
"The Past and Culture in African-American Literature"
"Holocaust: The Human Image"
"Globalization and Cities"
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Fall 2005 (11)
"Comparative Criminal Justice Systems" *
"Medical Ethics"
"The Sexual Self"
"Existentialism & Freedom Across the World"
"Connections: Math, Art, Music, & Science"
"Infant Mental Health"
"Infant Development"
"Poetry and the Commonweal: Three American Poet Laureates"
"Religious Symbolism in American Popular Culture"
"Study of Latin American Cities Through Film"
"From Lenbach House to the Dachau Gates: German Art, Literature and Culture in the Twentieth
Century"
Spring 2006 (13)
"The Roots of the Republic" *
"Outsiders & Visionary Art" **
"Iberian Anthropology"
"Art & Human Development"
"Speech & Hearing"
"Sleep, Dreaming and Biological Rhythms"
"Gender & Sexuality in the Renaissance"
"Anti-Terrorism Rhetoric"
"Ibsen’s Women: Art and Society"
"Race, Gender, & Criminal Justice"
"The Grawemeyers Awards"
"The Pacific Century"
"Business Ethics
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Fall 2006 (12)
"Tolkien in Print and Film" *
"Philosophy & Mental Illness"
"The Sexism Mystique"
"For the Love of the Game"
"Misuse of Biology in Pop Culture"
"Revolutions in Science"
"South Asian Culture and Society"
"Fundamentalisms"
"Holy Men & Holy Women in Medieval Culture"
"Babies, Bonding & the Brain"
"Child Health & Development"
"Personal Creativity and Innovation in Business"
Spring 2007 (13)
"Fairy Tales" *
"The Mongol World Empire"
"Overcoming the Odds"
"Color Science"
"Orwell: Truth & Politics"
"History and Theory of the (Literary) Avant-Garde"
"US-Latin American Relations"
"Science & Religion"
"Jane Austen and Film"
"What it Takes to be a CEO"
"Business Ethics"
"Leadership & Service"
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Fall 2007 (13)
"Discovering Darwin" *
"Classical Archaeology of Ancient Greece and Rome"
"Children, Health and the Environment"
"CONNECT: Math, Art, Music, & Science"
"Reading the Natural Landscape"
"Urban Waters"
"Global Ecopolitics"
"Sartre and Pan-African Thinkers"
"Coping with Conflict"
"Language and Gender"
"Personal Creativity and Innovation in Business"
"Environmental Education"
"Sleep, Dreaming and Biorhythms"
Spring 2008 (13)
"The Art and Society of Ancient Greece" *
"Immigration & Ethnicity" **
"Women’s Memoirs & Self Portraits"
"Connecting Research to the Community I"
"Connecting Research to the Community II"
"Ethics in Film"
"What it Takes to be a CEO"
"William Blake"
"Spanish & African Amer. Children’s Literature"
"Tocqueville & the Shaping of American Politics"
"American Pop Culture: From the Beatles to Watergate"
"Art Wars"
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Fall 2008 (12)
"South Asian Culture and Society" *
"Urban Water" **
"Reading the Natural Landscape"
"Environmental Communication"
"Environmental Law"
"Art, Culture and the Environment"
"Body & Health I: The Individual"
"Literacy in Theory and Practice"
"Jane Austen & Film"
"The American Presidency"
"Coping with Conflict"
"Personal Creativity and Innovation in Business"
Spring 2009 (13)
"War & Conscience"
"For the Love of the Game"
"Tradition & Renewal in Japanese Art"
"Local Food"
"More & Machiavelli"
"Decadents, Aesthetes, and the Femme Fatale"
"What it Takes to be a CEO"
"American Pop Culture: From the Beatles to Watergate"
"Knowledge in the Age of Enlightenment"
"Era of Lincoln"
"Devotion and Demons: Medieval Popular Religion"
"Body & Health II: The Community"
"Connecting With the Community"
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Summer 2009 (1)
"Teaching about Climate Change"
Fall 2009 (11)
“The Fantastic in Modern Literature and Film”
“Leadership: Passion and Skill, Power and Influence”
“Renewable Energy”
“Executive Effectiveness”
“Personal Creativity and Innovation in Business”
“Seeing and Art”
“Health and Exercise Psychology”[Sustainable Health: Individual, Community, and
Environmental Perspectives]
“Tocqueville & the Shaping of American Politics”
“William Blake and the Culture of Revolution”
“Love and Death in Lawrence and Woolf”
“Coping with Conflict”
Spring 2010 (10)
"International Environmental Issues" *
"Art Wars II: Blame Canada" **
"State & Economy-WR"
"Peace Studies"
"The Graphic Memoir-WR"
"Gustave Courbet & Eduard Manet: the Birth of the Modern Artist in Paris-WR"
"Parenting: Science and Practice"
"What it Takes to be a CEO"
"Body & Health II: The Community-WR"
"Poets, Priests, and Politicians-WR"
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Fall 2010 (14)
"US and Panamanian Relations from the Canal to the Twenty-First Century-WR"
"Following the Fork"
" Environmental Communication"
"Indie Publishing-WR"
"A Course in Thriving-WR"
"Body & Health, The Individual"
"Executive Effectiveness"
"Personal Creativity and Innovation in Business"
"The United Nations and the Organizing of Int’l Life-WR"
"Literature & Madness-WR"
"Film and the Postmodern-WR"
"Sleep, Dreaming, & Biological Rhythms-WR"
"Race & Gender Issues-WR"
"Coping with Conflict-WR"
Spring 2011 (14)
"International Criminal Justice Systems"*
"Death & Dying"
"The American Century in Movie Musicals"
"Designing Greener"
"A LGBTQ History of the United States-WR"
"Science literacy and Popular Culture"
"What it Takes to be a CEO"
"The Literature of the Civil War-WR"
"Body & Health II: The Community-WR"
"Speech & Hearing-WR"
"Theories and Contemporary Issues in International Relations-WR"
"Legal History-Revol, Slavery & Rights-WR"
"Sartre and Pan-African Thinkers"
Architecture?
* International Travel seminar
** National Travel Seminar