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The follow listings represent the full catalog of courses offered in the Honors Program. Please note that not all the courses listed below may be available at any given semester. For detailed descriptions for the classes being offered in the current semester, please view the Current Offerings page.

HON 1000 - Interdisc Humanities I:PHI

Description: Major works and ideas from the classical Graeco-Roman and Christian traditions. Emphasis on philosophical ideas. Extensive reading and writing requirements. Team-taught.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006

HON 1001 - Interdisc Humanities I:LIT

Description: Major works and ideas from the classical Graeco-Roman and Christian traditions. Emphasis on literature and drama. Extensive reading and writing requirements. Team-taught.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006

HON 1002 - Interdisc Humanities I: HIS

Description: Major works and ideas from the classical Graeco-Roman and Christian traditions. Emphasis on historical development. Extensive reading and writing requirements. Team-taught.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
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HON 1003 - Interdisc Humanities I: THL

Description: Major works and ideas from the Graeco-Roman and Christian traditions. Emphasis on religious thought and development. Extensive reading and writing requirements. Team-taught.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006

HON 1004 - Interdisc Hum I: Soc Sci

Description: Major works and ideas from the Graeco-Roman and Christian traditions. Emphasis on social and political thought and development. Extensive reading and writing requirements. Team-taught.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2002, Fall 2001

HON 1050 - Interdisc Humanities II: PHI

Description: Major works and ideas from the Medieval period to the French Revolution. Emphasis on the evolution in philosophy from medieval to modern. Extensive reading and writing requirements. Team-taught.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2006, Spring 2003

HON 1051 - Interdisc Humanities II:LIT

Description: Major works and ideas from the Medieval period to the French Revolution. Emphasis on the evolution in literature from medieval to modern. Extensive reading and writing requirements. Team Taught. (3 cr) Sem 2. Two coreq: HON 1050, 1052, 1053, 1054.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007

HON 1052 - Interdisc Humanities II: HIS

Description: Major works and ideas from the Medieval period to the French Revolution. Emphasis on the historical evolution in thought and institutions from medieval to modern. Team taught.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2005, Spring 2004, Spring 1998, Spring 1997

HON 1053 - Interdisc Humanities II:THL

Description: Major works and ideas from the Medieval period to the French Revolution. Emphasis on the evolution in religious thought and institutions from medieval to modern.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007

HON 1054 - Interdisc Hum II: PSC

Description: Major works and ideas from the Medieval period to the French Revolution. Emphasis on the evolution in political thought from medieval to modern. Extensive reading and writing requirements. Team taught.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007

HON 1070 - BIO: Biology for Today & Lab

Description: See BIO 1505. Lecture with BIO 1505; Honors laboratory section.
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Credit Hours: 4.0
Last Offered: Fall 2001, Fall 1999, Fall 1998, Fall 1997

HON 1071 - BIO: Science & Environ Issues

Description:
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Corequisites: BIO 2101
Credit Hours: 4.0
Last Offered: Spring 2001, Spring 2000

HON 1073 - BIO: Microbes Rule the World

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Credit Hours: 4.0
Last Offered: Fall 2006, Fall 2005, Spring 1997

HON 1080 - ECO: Microeconomics

Description: The price system; demand and supply analysis; the production process; analysis of market structures.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Fall 2005, Fall 2004

HON 1081 - ECO: Macroeconomics

Description: The economic system and its fundamental principles; economic functions of government, monetary and fiscal policy, and international trade.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006, Spring 2005

HON 1100 - COM: Rhetoric, Com & Publ Perf

Description: Principles of communication related to speech composition and delivery; finding, analyzing, organizing and presenting material in ways appropriate to and effective with diverse audiences.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2000

HON 1102 - ACC: Prin of Managerial Acc

Description: How management accounting information can be used to help firms achieve strategic goals and profitability objectives. Use of an entrepreneurial perspective to examine how managers apply risk measurement and management techniques to business planning and control systems. Case-based learning to help students develop communication, technology, and teamwork skills.
Prerequisites: (ACC 1101 or HON 1101)
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006, Spring 2000

HON 1241 - ACS: Trad in Conversations

Description: Core humanities seminar based principally on texts and readings drawn from primary sources up to 1650. Extensive written work and seminar discussions. Required readings: Hebrew and Christian scriptures, selections from the works of Augustine, Greek and Renaissance works. Readings from different genres and disciplines. Themes developed by the instructor in accordance with the selected readings.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006

HON 1242 - ACS:Modernity& Its Discontents

Description: Core humanities seminar based principally on texts and readings drawn from primary sources, 1650 to the present. Extensive written work and seminar discussions. Readings from different genres and disciplines in each of the following five historical eras: Early Modern, Enlightenment, Romantic, Modernist, Contemporary. Themes developed by the instructor in accordance with the selected readings, including a specific Augustinian theme.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006

HON 1331 - ENG: The Literary Experience

Description: Introduction to literature and methods of literary analysis. Close readings of texts from a variety of perspectives; includes works from a range of genres and periods. Extensive writing requirements.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2007

HON 1380 - ETH:Trad & Contemp Life

Description: Major Western ethical traditions as they apply to selected contemporary ethical problems, with special consideration of Jewish and Christian perspectives.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Fall 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008

HON 1381 - ETH: Service Learn Practicum

Description: Community service practicum addressing the task of needs assessment, community organizing, project planning and implementation.
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Credit Hours: 1.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Fall 2009, Fall 2007, Fall 2006

HON 1435 - HIS: Themes in Mod World His

Description: Major historical moments and themes in the political, economic, and cultural transformation of diverse nations and regions of the world during the past several centuries. A topical and interpretive approach designed to provide a historical and cross-cultural context while exploring the origins and implications of the changes that have come to characterize the "modern" world.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008

HON 1501 - CSC: Language & Computation

Description: Introduction to linguistics and its role in the development of computer languages and technologies. Topics include conceptual issues in linguistics, computation, and grammars as generative devices for computer languages. Philosophical and historical perspectives on the "cognitive Revolution."
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2000, Fall 1998

HON 1502 - CSC: The Universal Computer

Description: Basic concepts and building blocks for the building of modern computers; important algorithms and their efficiency; idealized automata, universality, limits to computation, and the Church-Turing thesis. Fulfills math/computing core requirement.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2002, Spring 2002

HON 1503 - CSC: Laptop Instrument

Description: Music structure and theory; programming structures, algorithms and language to create music on your laptop; component of Living in the KnowlEdge Society project (NSF) connecting computing with other disciplines.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010

HON 1601 - MAT: Mathematical Ideas

Description: Mathematical ideas that have influenced other disciplines and the field of mathematics. Designed for students not intending further study in mathematics. Calculus not required.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2000, Fall 1999, Spring 1998, Spring 1997

HON 1755 - PHI: Intro to Philosophy

Description: Issues of God, persons and nature, and knowledge. Special consideration of classical and Christian perspectives.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008

HON 1801 - PSC: Intro American Government

Description: Fundamentals of American government: foundation in political thought, separate and collective functions of government structures, policy, role of individual in system.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006

HON 1802 - PSC: Intro Internat Relations

Description: Factors in relations between states; the nature, elements and role of power; problems faced by the modern state system.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2004, Fall 2003

HON 1811 - PSY: General Psychology

Description: Fundamental concepts of psychology, with emphasis on the description of normal human behavior and its underlying factors.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 1998, Fall 1997, Spring 1995

HON 1825 - THL: Christianity Trad & Trans

Description: Major themes of the Christian traditions from historical, scriptural, and theological perspectives.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008

HON 1826 - THL: Service Learn Practicum

Description: Community service practicum addressing the task of needs assessment, community organizing, project planning and implementation.
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Credit Hours: 1.0
Last Offered: Spring 2005, Spring 2004, Fall 2003, Spring 2001

HON 1827 - THL: Christianity in History

Description: The emergence, growth, and transformation of Christianity: doctrinal developments and institutional issues, historical development of Christianity with emphasis on Christianity's role in the emergence of western societies. Role of Christian symbolism and ritual in shaping the lives of ordinary people in the Christian world. An orientation to the academic study of religion.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2006, Spring 2004, Fall 2003

HON 1911 - SOC: Introduction to Sociology

Description: Fundamental concepts of sociological behavior, with emphasis on development of the social individual, collective and group behavior, social institutions and culture.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006

HON 1996 - Gateway Portfolio I

Description: Autobiographical essay; resume; ACS seminar portfolio documents, and selected work from other core classes -- with integrating narratives; reflective narratives of cultural events attended, campus activities, and civic engagement undertaken; sustained e-portfolio dialogue with peers.
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Credit Hours: 1.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006

HON 1997 - Gateway Portfolio II

Description: ACS seminar portfolio documents; selected work from other core classes; cultural events; campus activities; civic engagtement; expansion of integrating and reflective narratives; sustained e-portfolio dialogue with peers.
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Credit Hours: 1.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007

HON 1998 - Gateway Portfolio III

Description: Revision of autobiographical essay and resume; review and further development of integrating and reflective narratives as more fully informed by the study of additional academic disciplines, cultural events, campus activities, and civic engagement; sustained e-portfolio dialogue with peers.
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Credit Hours: 1.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2007

HON 1999 - Gateway Portfolio IV

Description: Continuation of HON 1998; E-portfolio presentation: reflective narrative of competence gained in Intellectual Discourse across the Disciplines; Campus Leadership; Culture Literacy; Civic Engagement.
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Credit Hours: 1.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2008

HON 2000 - Interdisc Humanities III: PHI

Description: Major works and ideas of the 19th and 20th centuries, with emphasis on philosophy. Extensive reading and writing requirements. Team-taught.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008

HON 2001 - Interdisc Humanities III: LIT

Description: Major works and ideas of the 19th and 20th centuries, with emphasis on literature. Extensive reading and writing requirements. Team-taught.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 1995

HON 2002 - Interdisc Humanities III: HIS

Description: Major works and ideas of the 19th and 20th centuries, with emphasis on historical developments. Extensive reading and writing requirements. Team-taught.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Fall 2003

HON 2003 - Interdisc Humanities III: THL

Description: Major works and ideas of the 19th and 20th Centuries, with emphasis on religious thought. Extensive reading and writing requirements. Team taught.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Fall 2005

HON 2004 - Interdisc Humanit III: SOC SC

Description: Major works and ideas of the 19th and 20th centuries, with emphasis on social science thought. Extensive reading and writing requirements. Team-taught.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2005, Fall 2004, Fall 2003

HON 2160 - Contemporary Topics in Finance

Description: Contemporary issues and topics in Financial Management, financial markets, investments or international finance. Senior standing.
Prerequisites: (FIN 1113 or HON 1113) and (FIN 2227 or HON 2227) and FIN 2323 and (FIN 2114 or HON 2114)
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2004

HON 2550 - Humanities Seminar

Description: Interdisciplinary study of distinctiveness of humanistic knowledge, humanist perspectives on the social and natural sciences, hermeneutics and interpretation, objectivism and relativism.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007

HON 2560 - Social Science Seminar

Description: Methodology of empirical and statistical analysis in the social sciences. Computer applications to data analysis, model designs and theory testing.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007

HON 2570 - Natural Science Seminar

Description: Methods and issues related to scientific research, including representation and evaluation of data, value questions, and the nature of scientific certainty.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007

HON 2700 - FIN: Topics in Finance

Description:
Prerequisites: (FIN 1113 or HON 1113)
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2005, Spring 2004, Spring 2003, Fall 2001

HON 2750 - FIN: Topics in Finance

Description:
Prerequisites: (FIN 1113 or HON 1113)
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Credit Hours: 3.0
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HON 2800 - MKT: Topics in Marketing

Description:
Prerequisites: (MKT 1137 or HON 1137)
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Credit Hours: 3.0
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HON 2850 - MKT: Topics in Marketing

Description:
Prerequisites: (MKT 1137 or HON 1137)
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Credit Hours: 3.0
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HON 2993 - Internship

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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Fall 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008

HON 2996 - Internship

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Credit Hours: 6.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Fall 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008

HON 3000 - Art and Art History

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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2006, Fall 2004, Fall 2001, Fall 2000

HON 3050 - Art and Art History

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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006, Spring 2005

HON 3100 - Classics

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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2003, Fall 1996

HON 3150 - Classics

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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 1997

HON 3200 - Economics

Description:
Prerequisites: (ECO 1001 or HON 1080) and (ECO 1002 or HON 1081)
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2002, Fall 2000, Fall 1998, Fall 1997

HON 3209 - ECO: International Economics

Description: Comparative advantage; gains from foreign trade; Heckscher-Ohlin doctrine; technology and product cycles; tariff theory and policy'; other protection measures; econom integration; foreign exchange rates; fixed and flexible rates; balance of payments; multinational corporations.
Prerequisites: (ECO 1001 or HON 1080) and (ECO 1002 or HON 1081)
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Spring 2006

HON 3250 - Economics

Description:
Prerequisites: (ECO 1001 or HON 1080) and (ECO 1002 or HON 1081)
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2006, Spring 2005, Spring 2004, Spring 2002

HON 3300 - Education

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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2005, Fall 2000, Fall 1999

HON 3301 - MGT: Policy Formulation Admin

Description: Strategic management of organizations. Strategic planning and cross-functional decision-making. Lecture and analysis are employed.
Prerequisites: (MGT 1102 or NS 4100 or MS 0401) and (DIT 1141 or MGT 1141) and (FIN 1113 or HON 1113) and (MKT 1137 or HON 1137)
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2007

HON 3302 - Policy Form & Admin Practicum

Description: Group learning project with VSB Centers of Excellence or area non-profit organizations and/or start-up businesses. Offered to VSB seniors and Honors students.
Prerequisites: HON 3301
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2008

HON 3350 - Education

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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2001

HON 3400 - Communication

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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2004

HON 3450 - Communication

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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007

HON 3600 - Literature

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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Fall 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008

HON 3601 - Literature

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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006

HON 3602 - Literature

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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Fall 2002

HON 3650 - Literature

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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007

HON 3651 - Literature

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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007

HON 3652 - Literature

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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006

HON 3800 - Geography

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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 1998, Spring 1995

HON 3850 - Geography

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Credit Hours: 3.0
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HON 4000 - History

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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006

HON 4001 - History

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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Fall 2005

HON 4002 - History

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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2000

HON 4050 - History

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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006, Spring 2005

HON 4051 - History

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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2006, Spring 2005, Spring 2004, Spring 2002

HON 4052 - History

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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2005, Spring 2002

HON 4100 - Mathematics

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Credit Hours: 3.0
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HON 4101 - Mathematics

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Credit Hours: 3.0
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HON 4150 - Mathematics

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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2004, Fall 2003, Spring 2001, Spring 2000

HON 4151 - Mathematics

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Credit Hours: 3.0
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HON 4300 - Philosophy

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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006

HON 4301 - Philosophy

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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2006, Fall 2005

HON 4302 - Philosophy

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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2006, Fall 2005

HON 4350 - Philosophy

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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007

HON 4351 - Philosophy

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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2006, Fall 2005

HON 4352 - Philosophy

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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2006, Spring 2005, Spring 2004

HON 4353 - Philosophy

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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2006, Spring 2005, Spring 2001

HON 4500 - Political Science

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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006

HON 4501 - Political Science

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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 1999

HON 4502 - Political Science

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Credit Hours: 3.0
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HON 4550 - Political Science

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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007

HON 4551 - Political Science

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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006, Spring 2002

HON 4552 - Political Science

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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2002

HON 4700 - Psychology

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Credit Hours: 3.0
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HON 4701 - Psychology

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Credit Hours: 3.0
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HON 4750 - Psychology

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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2006, Spring 2005, Spring 2003, Spring 2002

HON 4751 - Psychology

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Credit Hours: 3.0
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HON 4800 - Theology & Religious Studies

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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2007

HON 4801 - Theology & Religious Studies

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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Spring 2006, Fall 2005

HON 4850 - Theology & Religious Studies

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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007

HON 4851 - Theology & Religious Studies

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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2007, Spring 2006

HON 4900 - Sociology

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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2005, Fall 2004, Fall 2003, Fall 2002

HON 4901 - Sociology

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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2005, Fall 2004, Fall 2003, Fall 2002

HON 4950 - Sociology

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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2006, Fall 2005, Spring 2005

HON 4951 - Sociology

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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2006

HON 5000 - BIO: Intro Ecology

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Credit Hours: 4.0
Last Offered: Fall 1997

HON 5050 - Biology

Description: Advanced seminar in Biology; topics to be determined by the instructor of record.
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Credit Hours: 4.0
Last Offered: Spring 1995

HON 5051 - Biology

Description: Advanced seminar in Biology; topics to be determined by the instructor of record.
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Credit Hours: 4.0
Last Offered: Spring 1995

HON 5052 - Biology

Description: An analysis of the interplay of genetic, physiological, environmental and critical timing factors in determining the sex of an individual. Students will collect data from the primary literature of the various sub-disciplines of biology in order to develop models and testable hypotheses as to how genetic and physiological factors interact. A modified problem-based approach will be used to guide students in their comprehension of facts and generation of testable hypotheses.
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Credit Hours: 4.0
Last Offered: Fall 1996, Fall 1995

HON 5100 - Theatre Theory and Performance

Description: Topics, genres, and practice in production, performance, and critical vocabulary with which to analyze and discuss what is seen and read; texts which engage critically with performance. Staging challenges and performance possibilities offered by stage scripts.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010

HON 5200 - Ideas and Texts

Description: Six professors from as many disciplines analyze a text of significance that has had an impact on their own intellectual development. May be repeated for credit.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2005, Spring 2004, Spring 2002, Fall 2001

HON 5300 - Psychology: Topics

Description: Phenonema of eating disorders; symptoms; psychological, physiological, and social factors.
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Credit Hours: 1.0
Last Offered: Spring 2000, Fall 1998, Fall 1997, Spring 1997

HON 5400 - Performing Arts: Dance

Description: Intensive experiential courses in performance, literary, and plastic arts. Individual and group participation directed toward reflexive understanding of one's self as engaged in the process of creativity.
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Credit Hours: 1.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Fall 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008

HON 5410 - Performing Arts: Instrument

Description: Intensive experiential courses in performance, literary, and plastic arts. Individual and group participation directed toward reflexive understanding of one's self as engaged in the process of creativity.
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Credit Hours: 1.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Fall 2009, Spring 2009, Spring 2008

HON 5420 - Performing Arts: Theatre

Description: Intensive experiential courses in performance, literary, and plastic arts. Individual and group participation directed toward reflexive understanding of one's self as engaged in the process of creativity.
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Credit Hours: 1.0
Last Offered: Spring 1996, Spring 1995

HON 5430 - Performing Arts: Voice

Description: Intensive experiential courses in performance, literary, and plastic arts. Individual and group participation directed toward reflexive understanding of one's self as engaged in the process of creativity.
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Credit Hours: 1.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Fall 2001

HON 5435 - Music Theory

Description: The art of music as an expansion of metaphoric language, including images from the visual arts,scientific and philosophic ideas.
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Credit Hours: 1.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2006, Spring 2004

HON 5440 - Literary Arts: Poetry

Description: Intensive experiential courses in performance, literary, and plastic arts. Individual and group participation directed toward reflexive understanding of one's self as engaged in the process of creativity.
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Credit Hours: 1.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007

HON 5450 - Literary Arts: Prose

Description: Intensive experiential courses in performance, literary, and plastic arts. Individual and group participation directed toward reflexive understanding of one's self as engaged in the process of creativity.
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Credit Hours: 1.0
Last Offered: Spring 2003, Fall 2002

HON 5460 - Plastic Arts: Painting

Description: Intensive experiential courses in performance, literary, and plastic arts. Individual and group participation directed toward reflexive understanding of one's self as engaged in the process of creativity.
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Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2007, Spring 2007, Fall 2006

HON 5470 - Plastic Arts: Sculpture

Description: Intensive experiential courses in performance, literary, and plastic arts. Individual and group participation directed toward reflexive understanding of one's self as engaged in the process of creativity.
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Credit Hours: 1.0
Last Offered: Spring 2006

HON 5480 - American Sign Language

Description: The structure and production of ASL, linguistic expression through face and body. Deaf culture and literature.
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Last Offered: Spring 2010, Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2007

HON 5490 - Culture Leadership Workshop

Description: Civic engagement skill set development in global events; cultural trends; intercultural communication; and discourse across academic disciplines.
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Credit Hours: 1.0
Last Offered: Fall 2005

HON 5500 - Ind Study & Research

Description: Independent Study and Research
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006

HON 5501 - Ind Study & Research

Description: Independent Study and Research
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007

HON 5506 - Ind Study & Res Science

Description: Independent Study and Research in Science
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006

HON 5507 - Ind Study & Res Science

Description: Independent Study and Research in Science
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007

HON 5599 - Teaching Practicum

Description: Intern teaching under supervision of full-time faculty metnor; weekly meetings with Practicum Coordinator. Participation by invitation of Director to seniors with manifest potential for graduate work/college teaching.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010

HON 5600 - Seminar for Visiting Professor

Description: Seminar topic to be determined by visiting professor.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2005, Spring 2004

HON 5601 - Seminar for Visiting Professor

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HON 5700 - Colloquia

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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Fall 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008

HON 5701 - Colloquia

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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Fall 2005

HON 5702 - Colloquia

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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Fall 2005

HON 5703 - Colloquia

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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2005

HON 5750 - Colloquia

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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008

HON 5751 - Colloquia

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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007

HON 5752 - Colloquia

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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Spring 2006, Spring 2005, Spring 2004

HON 5753 - Colloquia

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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2004, Spring 2002, Spring 2001

HON 5999 - Proseminar: Research Methods

Description: Fundamental concepts, terms, and practices of scholarly research in the humanities, including strategies for conducting exhaustive literature reviews, annotated bibliographies, and work-in-progress class presentations. Emphasis upon individual research projects in the specific disciplines of projected Senior Thesis topics. Required of students in the humanities and history who intend to pursue the six-credit Senior Thesis option.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007

HON 6000 - Senior Thesis I

Description: Major independent research project under the direction of a thesis advisor. The first semester includes a comprehensive proposal and bibliography, research design, detailed outline, and substantive writing sample.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Fall 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008

HON 6001 - Senior Thesis I

Description: Major independent research project under the direction of a thesis advisor. The first semester includes a comprehensive proposal and bibliography, research design, and preliminary outline.
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Credit Hours: 2.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Fall 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008

HON 6002 - Senior Thesis II

Description: Major independent research project under the direction of a thesis advisor. In addition to completing the thesis, students must participate in the Senior Research Conference and thesis defense.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Fall 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008