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Honors Upper Division
Seminars (3 units)
Honors
upper division seminars are offered in a variety of general elective categories,
are reserved for honors students, and are taught by faculty who are experts in the
subject area. Note
that these topics will vary from year to year. Listed below are course offerings
for the 2004/05 academic year.
Click
on faculty names for individual faculty web sites and on course titles
for course web sites or syllabi, where available.
FALL
2004 SEMINARS:
Honors 302T:
World Cinema
(W 4:00-6:45)
Robert Davis, Radio TV Film
Examines various directors, film movements, national cinemas and
the increasing internationalization of the world film industry. (G.E. III.B.3. and V.)
Honors
303T: Minority Group Relations (TR 11:30-12:45)
Michael
Perez, Sociology
This seminar explores
the realities and conditions of minority-majority relations in terms of social,
political, cultural and economic causes and consequences of prejudice,
discrimination, ideology, with emphasis on major racial and ethnic minorities in
the United States. Comparative perspectives and social change are also addressed.
(G.E. III.C.2. and V.)
Honors
304T: Existential Group
(MW 1:00-2:15)
J.
Michael Russell, Philosophy
Honors seminar
that explores, on a personal level, how themes in the writings of
Existentialist philosophers pertain to the lifestyles, actions, and
feelings of the class participants. (G.E. IV.)
SPRING 2005 SEMINARS:
HONR 301T: History of Life
(TR 10:00-11:15) Course web
site:
http://biology.fullerton.edu/life
Douglas Eernisse, Biological Science
Exploration of the evolutionary history of life on Earth, introducing
scientific approaches to understanding evolutionary patterns and
processes. Specific cae histories will range from the origin of life to
the evolution of complex organisms, especially past and present
vertebrate animals. (G.E.
III.A.3)
HONR 303T: The Global Economy
(MW 1:00-2:15)
Jane Hall, Economics
Honors seminar providing the economic basis to understand and assess
trade, finance and international investment, and the impacts of
globalization on developing and industrialized countries. Topics
include: trade theory, trade relations/issues, regional economic
integration, exchange rates, financial flows, international
institutions. (G.E.
III.C. 2)
Honors
306: Women in American Society (TR 1:00-2:15)
Terri Snyder, Liberal Studies
Socio-cultural history of women and women's movements in American
society. Examination of cultural models of American womanhood--maternal,
domestic, sexual, social--their development and recent changes. (G.E. III.C.2., IV. and V.) |
