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05-13-2008, 02:27 PM
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#1 | | New Member
Join Date: Apr 2008
Posts: 12
| Favorite Honors Seminars and Professors
What were your favorite honors seminars and professors and why? I'm going to be a freshman in the Honors program this fall and I'm hoping to find out more information. | 
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05-13-2008, 02:37 PM
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#2 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 1,478
| I'd also like to know. Specifically in the areas of economics, philosophy, and political philosophy. | |
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05-13-2008, 10:47 PM
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#3 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Sevilla, Spain
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| HONR289Y - Novels and Who We Are, heck any literature class with Dr. Sibbie O'Sullivan
HONR248H - it's a class about delinquency and mental illness with Dr. Peter Leone...very interesting; counts for two CORE requirements
I hear HONR217 - Life, The Multiverse and Everything: Developing an Individual Cosmovision is a fun class.
There's a facebook group called "honors seminars" that you could look at. | |
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05-14-2008, 10:10 AM
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#4 | | Member
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Arlington, VA
Posts: 652
| My all-time favorite (not offered every semester): HONR268T - The Great Gatsby and American Culture with Dr. Cathy Barks. Everything about this course from the professor to the readings and the projects and discussion was wonderful.
HONR208W - Ghosts and Magicians in Performance with Dr. David Schlossman -- lit class, takes a good look at the history of urban legends, "scary stories", etc. Materials ranged from Hamlet to an excerpt from The Crucible to the movie The Sixth Sense.
I wish I'd had time to take more!! There are so many on the list that sound great. | |
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05-14-2008, 11:25 AM
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#5 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Sevilla, Spain
Posts: 1,932
| Yeah I hear Dr. Barks is awesome. I think it's offered in the fall semester. | |
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05-14-2008, 06:58 PM
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#6 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Nov 2006
Posts: 148
| honr238t: the body and literature - Sibbie O'Sullivan
I would take anything with Sibbie. She's pretty awesome. Take note though. If you suck at writing you probably won't get an A. I got a B, but I would definitely take the class again. It was that much fun. | |
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05-15-2008, 03:00 AM
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#7 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: University of Maryland
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| I heard you get to watch porn for HW. | |
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05-15-2008, 03:01 PM
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#8 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Sevilla, Spain
Posts: 1,932
| Sibbie is awesome; I'm definitely taking another class from her when I get back from Spain. | |
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05-19-2008, 04:00 PM
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#9 | | New Member
Join Date: Apr 2008
Posts: 12
| thanks for all your responses! I was also wondering if any of you knew if the J.R.R. Tolkien seminar is good? | |
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05-20-2008, 10:48 AM
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#10 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Sevilla, Spain
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| All I know is that it's extremely popular and fills up EVERY semester in like 10 seconds. | |
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05-22-2008, 04:51 PM
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#11 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 1,043
| Another plug for Life, The Multiverse and Everything.... HONR217. D took 3 honors seminars (plus the intro/research one) this past school year ....this was hands-down, her favorite. | |
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05-23-2008, 04:43 PM
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#12 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: University of Maryland
Posts: 1,102
| Does anyone know anything about HONR238F the animal cognition one? | |
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