Honors Courses and Seminars - Fall 2006
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CLASS NO. |
CLASS NAME |
CLASS SECT. |
TITLE |
TIME |
DAY |
ROOM |
CR. |
INSTRUCTOR |
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CLUSTER ONE |
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12393 |
GCOM 121H |
0012 |
HUMAN COMM: PRINCIPLES & PRACTICES |
11:00am-12:15pm |
TT |
HARR 0112 |
3 |
Mayfield, L. |
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12394 |
GCOM 122H |
0008 |
HUMAN COMM: INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATIONS |
11:00am-12:15pm |
TT |
HARR 2113 |
3 |
Sylvest, S. |
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12395 |
GCOM 123H |
0008 |
HUMAN COMM: GROUP PRESENTATIONS |
10:10-11:00am |
MWF |
HARR 2102 |
3 |
Conis, A. |
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12366 |
GWRT 103H |
0001 |
CRITICAL READING & WRITING |
5:00-6:15pm |
TT |
HARR 2112 |
3 |
Gumnior, E. |
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12367 |
GWRT 103H |
0002 |
CRITICAL READING & WRITING |
8:00-8:50am |
MWF |
HARR 2103 |
3 |
Schick, K. |
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12461 |
GWRT 103H |
0003 |
CRITICAL READING & WRITING |
9:05-9:55am |
MWF |
HARR 2103 |
3 |
Schick, K. |
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13897 |
GPHIL 120H |
0001 |
CRITICAL THINKING |
9:05-9:55am |
MWF |
JACK 002 |
3 |
Bolyard, C. |
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13898 |
GPHIL 120H |
0002 |
CRITICAL THINKING |
10:10-11:00am |
MWF |
JACK 002 |
3 |
Bolyard, C. |
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11472 |
GHIST 150H |
0001 |
CRIT ISSUES RECENT GLOBAL HIST |
11:15am-12:05pm |
MWF |
JACK 001A |
3 |
Owusu-Ansah, D. |
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15644 |
HON181E |
0001 |
WAYS OF KNOWING |
10:10-11:25am |
MW |
KEEZ 307 |
3 |
Kohen, A. |
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This seminar will have 3 broadly defined goals: (i) exploring the historical and modern concepts of a university (ii) exploring alternative forms of "knowledge" and how it is acquired and (iii) developing appreciation and understanding of multi-disciplinary approaches to learning. Limited to Incoming Freshmen Only. Honors Learning Community only. |
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15810 |
HON181E |
0002 |
WAYS OF KNOWING |
1:25-2:40pm |
MW |
KEEZ 307 |
3 |
Oberst, B. |
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Limited to Incoming Freshmen Only. |
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15811 |
HON181E |
0003 |
WAYS OF KNOWING |
3:35-4:50pm |
MW |
ROOP 213 |
3 |
Oberst, B. |
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Limited to Incoming Freshmen Only. |
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CLUSTER TWO |
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12465 |
GENG 248H |
0001 |
SURVEY OF AMER. LIT. II |
2:00-3:15pm |
TT |
KEEZ 414 |
3 |
Thompson, M. |
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13893 |
GMUS 206H |
0001 |
INTRO TO GLOBAL MUSIC HON |
11:15am-12:05pm |
MWF |
MUS 0204 |
3 |
Connell, A. |
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15634 |
GPHIL 101H |
0001 |
INTRO TO PHILOSOPHY |
1:25-2:40pm |
MW |
ROOP 212 |
3 |
Knorpp, W. |
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15635 |
GPHIL 101H |
0002 |
INTRO TO PHILOSOPHY |
2:50-4:05 |
MW |
ROOP 212 |
3 |
Knorpp, W. |
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CLUSTER THREE |
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11477 |
ISAT 180H* |
0001 |
HONORS SEMINAR & ANALYTIC METHODS |
3:30-4:45pm |
TH |
ISAT 143 |
3 |
Deaton, M. |
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15663 |
BIO 114H** |
0001 |
ORGANISMS |
10:10-11:00am 3:35-6:25pm |
MWF TU |
BURR 0238 BURR 0229 |
4 |
Pesce, A. Joynes, C. |
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*ISAT 180H To be taken in conjunction with GISAT 141 & 112 works like an honorsoption. |
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**BIO325H is the corequisite to BIO114H. Honors Students, Biology Majors, Pre-Dentistry, Pre-Med, Pre-Optometry, Pre-Pharmacy, Pre-Physical Therapy, or Pre-Veterinary Medicine only. |
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CLUSTER FOUR |
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There are no Cluster Four classes offered this semester. |
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CLUSTER FIVE |
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10399 |
GPSYC 101H |
0001 |
GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY |
1:30-4:00pm |
W |
MAUR 101 |
3 |
Baker, S. |
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15582 |
GPSYC 101H |
0002 |
GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY |
11:00am-12:15pm |
TT |
HHS 2201 |
3 |
Abrahamson, C. |
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HONORS OPTION. Students may use Honors Option to earn honors credit for any non-honors upper level (300 or above) JMU course not regularly offered as an honors course. (To complete an honors option in a 200-level class, the class MUST be REQUIRED for your major.) Honors Options may NOT be completed in any 100-level classes or in any class the Honors Program offers on a regular basis. There is no limit on the number of honors options that honors students may attempt, but not more than two honors options should be attempted in any given semester. Within the first two weeks of class, the student should secure an honors option application form from the Honors Office, meet with the professor and negotiate a contract (complete the form), and return the completed application to the Honors Office no later than Friday, September 8, 2006 |
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HONORS SEMINARS |
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15812 |
HON 200A |
0001 |
ARAB EMIRATES |
3:30-4:45pm |
TT |
ROOP 213 |
3 |
Oberst, B. |
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This course will be an interdisciplinary seminar on the United Arab Emirates. It will include several video conferencing meetings with Emirati students who will be reading some of the same materials |
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12902 |
HON 200G |
0001 |
MULTICULTURAL AWARENESS |
3:30-6:00pm |
TU |
HHS 0210 |
3 |
Evans, K. |
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Cultural studies concerns itself with the meaning and practices of everyday life; in the course, we use the
term "culture" inclusively rather than exclusively. Cultural studies researchers often concentrate on how a
particular phenomenon relates to matters of ideology, race, social class, and gender, as we will do in the class. Research in the field of cultural studies has included wide-ranging topics such as youth and subculture, identity, visual culture, and the culture of work and play. |
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15620 |
HON 200G |
0002 |
MULTICULTURAL AWARENESS |
2:00-3:15pm |
TT |
HHS 2202 |
3 |
Evans, K. |
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Cultural studies concerns itself with the meaning and practices of everyday life; in the course, we use the
term "culture" inclusively rather than exclusively. Cultural studies researchers often concentrate on how a
particular phenomenon relates to matters of ideology, race, social class, and gender, as we will do in the class. Research in the field of cultural studies has included wide-ranging topics such as youth and subculture, identity, visual culture, and the culture of work and play. Limited to the Honors Learning Community Only. |
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13845 |
HON 200K |
0001 |
GULLAH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE |
9:30-10:45am |
TT |
LIB 203 |
3 |
Opala, J. |
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The Gullah are a distinctive group of African Americans who live in the coastal low country region of South Carolina and Georgia. Due to their social and geographical isolation, the Gullahs have preserved more of their African linguistic and cultural heritage than any other black community in the US. This course is an introduction to the Gullahs' unique language and storytelling tradition. Students will learn to read Gullah stories, identify African influences in Gullah speech, and interpret the meanings of Gullah tales that resemble stories still told in Africa today. They will also learn about the efforts of Gullah people to preserve their distinctive language and culture in the modern world. |
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15600 |
HON 200V |
0001 |
DIVERSITY AND MULTICULTURALISM: What you need to know to be Successful in today's Society |
1:30-4:00pm |
W |
TAYLOR HALL 304 |
3 |
Davenport, Z. |
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During this seminar, students will explore issues regarding diversity and multicultural competencies. This course is strategically designed to create a safe environment that will challenge and support thoughts and opinions regarding diversity. Through the use of video clips, workshops, guest speakers, and experiential learning, students will have the opportunity to learn, explore, experience, discuss, and reflect on topics related to diversity awareness, women's issues, issues related to disabilities, privilege, socio-economic status, and sexual orientation. |
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13839 |
HON 200Z |
0001 |
SEMINAR IN HISTORY OF SLAVERY |
12:30-1:45pm |
TT |
ROOP G026 |
3 |
Opala, J. |
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In this seminar will students will read and discuss four recent studies of the history on New World slavery. These works cover every aspect of slavery history from the European political and economic matrix of the Atlantic slave trade, to the operation of the slave trade on the African coast, to the infamous Middle Passage, to plantation slavery in the Americas, to the distinctive contributions Africans made to New World civilization. |
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15160 |
HON 300F |
0001 |
GODELL, ESCHER & BACH: An Eternal Golden Braid |
5:00-7:30pm |
TU |
ISAT 350 |
3 |
Kander, R. |
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Students in this honors seminar will be spent carefully reading, critically discussing, and reflectively writing about the incredibly complex and intricate themes and patterns that recur throughout this great work of non-fiction, written by Douglas Hofstadter. Besides being a profound and entertaining meditation on human thought and creativity, this book looks at the surprising points of contact between the music of Bach, the artwork of Escher, and the mathematics of Gödel. GEB debates the question of consciousness and artificial intelligence in an attempt to discover what "self" really means. Introducing the reader to cognitive science, GEB draws heavily from art to illustrate fine points in mathematics. The topics presented range from mathematics and meta-mathematics to programming, recursion, formal systems, multilevel systems, self reference, and self representation. |
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15162 |
HON 300G |
0001 |
PIONEER PERFORMANCES |
3:30-4:45pm |
TT |
KEEZ G-3 |
3 |
Rebhorn, M. |
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This course begins with the premise that the American frontier never really existed as a geographical or historical fact but rather as a set of performative practices conditioned by geography and history. To understand the frontier, therefore, and how crucial a role its performance has played in the shaping of national identity, this course will explore a range of "pioneer performances"--from novels by Owen Wister and Cormac McCarthy to Indian plays and anti-Western drama, from films like Stagecoach and Brokeback Mountain to contemporary "cowboys" like the Marlborough Man. The idea here is not to ignore historical or cultural contexts, bur rather to use a range of different media to map out the ways the frontier operated and continues to operate as a crucial flashpoint for understanding what it means to "act" American. |
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13842 |
HON 300W |
0001 |
A WOMEN'S COLLOQUIUM |
5:15-7:45pm |
W |
CHAN 131 |
3 |
Evans, K. |
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The course examines contemporary women's issues in America, bringing attention to the experiences, contributions, and special concerns of women in many walks of life. The seminar is multidisciplinary, featuring presentations by class members and lecturers who will address the position of women in the academy and the labor market. Topics include Constitutional law, psychology, justice and sexuality, cultural values, women’s health, women and religion, reproductive rights, the feminization of poverty. | ||||||||||||