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Course Criteria
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1.00 Credits
An honors seminar for more advanced students centered on a topic, research project, or other academic activity pertinent to one of the academic disciplines. Prerequisites: open to junior and senior Honors Forum students and other highly motivated students with advanced standing, appropriate course background, or permission of the instructor.
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1.00 Credits
Weekly discussions, readings, and presentations for seniors who are working on their culminating discipline-based or interdisciplinary projects. As students present their emerging research projects, they explore different modes of inquiry among the various academic disciplines, compare processes of discovery and methods of research, and examine claims made by disciplines for the value of their modes of apprehension and expression. Discussions will provide highly motivated seniors with an opportunity to connect with interdisciplinary linkages introduced in the Scribner Seminars and students' four years of course work. L. Simon, P. Boshoff, Honors Forum Faculty
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4.00 Credits
An independent research or project opportunity for well-qualified junior or senior students working at honors level. In consultation with a sponsoring faculty member, the student proposes to the Honors Council a project that builds upon the student's academic background and interest and concludes in an honors paper or project to be shared with the wider student community. Honors Independent Study may not be substituted for available honors courses.
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3.00 Credits
The formation of Europe: from the breakdown of Roman political authority in the West in the fourth century to the rise of national states and their conflicts in the fourteenth. (Fulfills social sciences requirement.) E. Bastress-Dukehart
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3.00 Credits
The evolution of modern European politics, society, and thought: from the Renaissance and Reformation to the French Revolution. (Fulfills social sciences requirement.) E. Bastress-Dukehart
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3.00 Credits
An intensive examination of the revolutions in economics, politics, and society in Europe from 1789 to 1914. Emphasis on the French and industrial revolutions; the rise in nationalism, liberalism, socialism, imperialism, and the women's movement; international rivalry and diplomacy culminating in World War I. (Fulfills social sciences requirement.) M. Hockenos
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3.00 Credits
An intensive examination of the political, economic, social, and cultural history of Europe from World War I. Emphasis on world wars, fascism, Nazism, communism, the Holocaust, new nations and nationalism, the Cold War, and the collapse of Soviet communism. (Fulfills social sciences requirement.) M. Hockenos
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3.00 Credits
A brief study of a number of significant issues in history. Students will be introduced to the discipline of history and will have an opportunity to develop and improve writing skills. (Fulfills social sciences requirement.) The Department
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3.00 Credits
Explores Latin America society from initial encounters between Europeans and Native Americans to early-nineteenth-century wars of independence. Focuses on interactions among native American, African, and European peoples and institutions. Topics include conquest and colonization; church, crown, and commoner; labor and environment; class and caste; women; and commerce in principal Spanish districts (Peru, Central America, and Mexico), Portuguese Brazil, and French Saint Domingue (Haiti). (Fulfills social sciences requirement; designated as a Cultural Diversity course.) J. Dym
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3.00 Credits
Introduces the economic, political, social, and intellectual history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin America. The course material is organized both thematically and chronologically, focusing on a series of topics that are key to understanding the emergence of the former colonies of Spain, Portugal, France, and England into a group of distinct nation-states. Topics include legacies of empire, political participation, and national identity in multicultural contexts, as well as dictatorship and democratization. (Fulfills social sciences requirement; designated as a Cultural Diversity course.) J. Dym
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