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|HON 201, secs.
001-004|GER Credit for Honors Seminars|Honors
Seminars|See Spring
2004|
New
Freshman Seminar: Inquiry, Discovery, and the Arts
HON
201, secs. 001-004
Our
new seminar was created especially for freshmen
and designed to introduce you to the many ways
that an academic community goes about making knowledge
through inquiry-, creativity-, and discovery-based
learning.
This
seminar is a study of theatre arts that treats
the theme of inquiry and discovery--its risks,
its creativeness, its ambiguities and complexities,
and its moral dilemmas--through selected works
from several media-theatre, music, visual arts,
and film. You will analyze works in terms of their
historical context and internal structure as well
as their treatment of the nature of inquiry and
discovery.
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This
year the seminar will focus on the play Copenhagen,
which recreates the 1941 visit of Werner Heisenberg,
who was then in charge of the Nazi nuclear power program,
to Niels Bohr, his mentor, and collaborator in creating
quantum mechanics, complementarity, and the uncertainty
principle, in German- occupied Denmark.
Taught by two of our most innovative faculty members,
Drs. David Greene and Linda Holley, the seminar will
also include guest speakers.
Please note that this seminar will fulfill your GER
requirement for a course in the study of visual and
performing arts. In order to accommodate guest speakers,
we have blocked out a common meeting time on your schedules, "Honors
Program Blo, ii" (H 5:20-6:15). This block does
not constitute additional class hours, but ensures
that you will be able to attend the three scheduled
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GER
Credit for Honors Seminars
Honors
Seminars will fulfill GER Credit for UHP students according
to the following series:
HON
291 - Honors Special Topics-Mathematics
HON 292 - Honors Special Topics-Natural Sciences
HON 293 - Honors Special Topics-History/Literature
HON 294 - Honors Special Topics-Philosophy/Religion/Arts
HON 295 - Honors Special Topics-Social Science
HON 296 - Honors Special Topics-Science, Technology, Society-H&SS
Perspective
HON 297 - Honors Special Topics-Science, Technology, Society-Natural
Sciences
Occasionally, departments have specific requirements for
GER courses that will need to be addressed on a student-by-student
basis. See the Director of the Honors Program for details.
Honors
Seminars
HON
292B, 001 Physics and Music
HON 292C, 002 Science and Religion
HON 293H, 001 Plagues and Epidemics
HON 293I, 002 Latin American Literature
HON 294M, 001 Ethics
HON 295F, 001 Controversial Issues in Psychology
HON 295D, 001 American Ideals in a Global
Perspective
HON 296R, 001 Cross Culture Technology
Transfer
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Name: Physics and Music
Course: HON
292B, 001
Credit: 3
hours, Natural Science GER
Time: 11:20
to 12:35
Days: Tuesday,
Thursdays
Location: Cox
209
Instructor: P.
Stiles
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Description:
What
are musical sounds and how are they produced? How
are such sounds controlled and added together all
in search of making music? What is the central
role of physics in understanding the production
of music? For thousands of years musical instruments
were used. What was their evolution and their involvement
in making music? What are scales and temperaments?
Why are sounds musical to one person and yet perhaps
not to another? Concepts will be explained in both
mathematical and non-mathematical terms and students
will be responsible for understanding one approach.
Demonstrations with student involvement and instrument
building required.
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Name: Science and Religion
Course: HON
292C, 002
Credit: 3
hours, Natural Science GER
Time: 11:20
to 12:10
Days: Monday,
Wednesday, Friday
Location: HA
358
Instructor: J.
Hubisz
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Description:
Science and religion have often been described as “at
war” with each other whereas, in fact, the
evidence shows much support of science by religion
and much stimulation of religion by science.
Students
will be required to ask, “What do we know
. . . ?”, “How do we know . . . ?”, “Why
do we believe . . .?”, and “What is
the evidence for . . .?” when broaching a
new area of study. By doing so each student will
better be able to support and understand his or
her own position or perhaps begin to question preconceptions.
Course
requirements include class participation, several
short assignments, and three special projects.
Attendance at occasional special events will be
encouraged.
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Name: Plagues and Epidemics
Course: HON
293H, 001
Credit: 3
hours, Literature GER
Time: 09:10
to 11:05
Days: Monday,
Wednesday, Friday
Location: TG
117
Instructor: A.
Henley
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Description:
In a time when HIV-AIDS threatens to plunge much
of a continent into political and social chaos,
when entire branches of the US government are
closed because of fear of anthrax contamination,
when the initial vanguard of US healthcare
workers are receiving smallpox vaccinations
to defend against bio-terrorist attacks, it
is instructive to consider ways in which epidemic
diseases have affected individuals and communities
in throughout history.
From
ancient Athens to 17th-century London to modern
Africa, epidemic diseases have presented mankind
with some of its greatest challenges, threatening
economies and nations as well as the suffering
individual. These challenges
and the manner in which individuals, families,
and governments have responded to them are accurately
and compellingly reflected in literary works.
Plague narratives rank among the
oldest forms of historical writings; epidemics
loom large as a theme in works as different as
17th-century broadsheets and 19th-century triple-decker
novels; and the language of disease and plague
has entered our language as powerful and evocative
metaphors (James Amelung, “Introduction.” Journal
of the Plague Year. Oxford UP, 1991. 6-7). Thus
reading, discussing, and writing about a variety
of literary texts concerning the impact of widespread
disease upon personal and communal experience will
enable students to explore the interaction between
epidemics and human values.
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Name: Latin American Literature
Course: HON
293I, 002
Credit: 3
hours, Literature GER
Time: 09:50
to 11:05
Days: Thursdays
Location: HA
215
Instructor: H.
Jaimes
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Description:
Ever since the discovery of the Americas in 1492,
the search for a cultural memory has been one
of the most emblematic traits of the Latin
American culture. Through every artistic expression
we can find that authors and artists have placed
great importance on their medium as memory
and its representation.
This
seminar will explore through literature and film
a diverse group of works whose themes revolve around
memory. Through live discussions, we will analyze
how these set of discourses are put into practice
in order to achieve their aim. A representative
selection of texts from the Colonial times to the
present will be studied.
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Name: Ethics
Course: HON
294M, 001
Credit: 3
hours, Philosophy GER
Time: 01:05
to 02:20
Days: Thursdays
Location: WN
122
Instructor: K.
McShane
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Description:
The purposes of this course are to introduce students
to some of the main concepts and theories in
the field of ethics, and to give them experience
in making and justifying ethical decisions.
Over the course of the term, we will consider
some the basic questions of ethics: How can
we tell right from wrong and good from bad?
What is it to be a "good" person?
What should we do when two or more of our ethical
principles conflict?
We
will look at how philosophers have answered these
questions in the past and think about how their
answers might be relevant to contemporary ethical
dilemmas. Our readings will include both classical
and contemporary texts. In this course students
will have a chance to consider the most basic questions
of right and wrong, and in doing so they will learn
how to think critically, reason carefully, and
write articulately.
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Name: Controversial Issues in Psychology
Course: HON
295F, 001
Credit: 3
hours, Psycology GER
Time: 02:35
to 03:50
Days: Thursdays
Location: Withers
328
Instructor: K
St. Clair
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Description:
Controversial psychological issues are encountered
in a complex world. This course introduces
the student to psychology and contemporary
topics to illustrate how psychologists address
the controversies.
The
NC State University community is no less complex
than the world. While at NC State differing opinions
and points of view confront and challenge the engaged
and connected student. Confronting differing opinions
responsibly, respectfully, and wisely promotes
intellectual and value development; and facilitates
comprehension, evaluation, and decision making
in the face of uncertainty.
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Name: American Ideals in a Global Perspective
Course: HON
295D, 001
Credit: 3
hours, Sociology GER
Time: 01:05
to 02:20
Days: Thursdays
Location: CAL
212
Instructor: M.
Soroos
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Description:
The “victory” of the United States and
the Free World over the Soviet Union and communism
twelve years ago brought an end to the Cold War that
had dominated world affairs for the preceding 40
years.
The
United States entered the 21st century as the only
remaining superpower, and American ideals such
as democracy, freedom, human rights, market economics,
and free enterprise were being embraced around
the world as never before. However, the terrorist
acts of September 11 reminded Americans that not
all peoples welcome the international dominance
of the United States and regard American ideals
as a threat to their deeply held cultural values.
This course will examine core American
ideals, how they evolved, what differentiates them
from competing ideologies, and the extent to which
they are transferable to countries with very different
cultures, histories, and levels of economic development.
It will also critically inquire about the extent
to which the United States has been achieving its
ideals and how successful it has been in promoting
these values globally.
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Name: Cross Culture Technology Transfer
Course: HON 296R, 001
Credit: 3
hours
Time: 04:05
to 05:20
Days: Thursdays
Location: HA
160
Instructor: P.
Tavakoli, D. Greene
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Description:
The era of Globalization is an era of exchange of
ideas, technologies and goods between cultures.
This course examines the issues arising from
the exchange of technologies and values between
different cultures. Inquiry guided case studies
give students the opportunity for independent
research and critical thinking about the impact
of cross-cultural exchanges. These case studies
will help students understand the nature of
research, its excitement, its risks, its need
for creativity, and the ethical issues it raises.
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