|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Course Criteria
Add courses to your favorites to save, share, and find your best transfer school.
-
3.00 Credits
Examination and analysis of the origins, causes, dynamics, processes and consequences of intercultural and intergroup conflicts, international conflicts.
-
3.00 Credits
Interdisciplinary study and discussion based on required reading in primary sources. Specific content determined periodically by the Honors Council. Each colloquium meets once a week for three hours throughout the semester.Credit, three hours.
-
3.00 Credits
The indigenous peoples of North America have a long and illustrious history. It is also a tragic past, beset with deceit and violence toward themby later settlers and by the governments of colonies, states, and the United States. This course offers a comprehensive examination and evaluationof the life and legacy of American Indians, including tribal beliefs and customs, well-known tribal chiefs, interaction with post-Columbus settlers of North America, government policy and treatment toward Native Americans over the last three centuries, and contemporary issues affecting American Indian communities. Special attention is given to the plethora of positive contributions bequeathed by Native Americans. The approach to analysis of material is interdisciplinary, consistent with DSU Honors Program and General Education Program objectives.
-
3.00 Credits
This Honors Colloquium offers a comprehensive review and analysis of the VietnamWar. Employing the Emmy-award winning video series, "Vietnam: A Television History," books on the conflict, documents reflecting the views of governments involved, and the writings and recollections of Vietnam veterans themselves, this course will probe the historical, political, and social aspects of the war and its aftermath. Students will be given the opportunity to express their oral and written opinions throughout the course. By gaining an understanding of this event, students will not only become aware of the reasons for our involvements, but will be able to assist in the ongoing healing process together with helping to ensure that mistakes in policy are not repeated.
-
3.00 Credits
This Honors seminar employs an interdisciplinary emphasis to comprehensively investigate humankind' s efforts to explore outer space. The course approaches the topic from historical, technological, political, and cultural perspectives. Students will gain information from class discussions, readings, videos, and research assignments. We will also schedule a field trip if possible.
-
3.00 Credits
Technology is a basic feature of all human societies. It has been of unquestioned importance in allowing the physical survival of the human species. Society' s level of technology is crucial in determining which cultural ideas and artifacts emerge or are even possible. As Veblen puts it "human evolution and human society are the consequences of techno economic development. To understand the direction and change over the course of human history, we must understand first of all the techno economic process" Not only is technology crucial in defining sociocultural processes but the development and use of particular technologies are strongly affected by society' s social, economic and political arrangements. The course is designed to critically examine the dynamic interrelations between technological advancements and social structure and societal evolution.
-
3.00 Credits
In this course, students will learn basic exercise technique, and nutrition. Students will additionally learn to develop a fitness plan for a first time endurance runner. At the end of the semester, the class will produce a 5k for the Delaware State Honors Program. Honors students should gain a n understanding of the need for mind, body and soul health: the need for not only education but to keep their bodies in a healthy condition.
-
3.00 Credits
This course explores the social, political and economic relationships between two of America' s most unique racial and ethnic groups. Of particular focus will be the interactions between the two groups in urban American neighborhoods; within the Civil Rights movement; and in a variety of cultural settings such as literature, the film industry and the music industry over the course of the 20th century.
-
3.00 Credits
This Honors Program colloquium utilizes diverse tools to examine American politics, culture, sports, and science during the always-controversial decade of the 1970s. We will probe catalysts of change which led to the period; analyze persons, policies, and events which took place during the span, and assess the contribution of the 1970a to American history. From Secretariat's great Triple Crown run to President Nixon's resignation and everything in between, hang on for the wild ride that is the Sensational Seventies.
-
3.00 Credits
This course reviews the concept of risk as explored in the psychology (interpersonal risk), financial profiling (Risk-seeking or risk-adverse investors), then focuses on how risk influences the disciplines of Military History, Sociology, Literature, Art and Mass Comunications.Topics include novels about risk and personality development as experienced through adventure stories and plotting.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Privacy Statement
|
Terms of Use
|
Institutional Membership Information
|
About AcademyOne
Copyright 2006 - 2024 AcademyOne, Inc.
|
|
|