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.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Fall 2005
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.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Fall 2005
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.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered:
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.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Fall 2005
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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Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2002, Fall 2001
HON 1016 -
DIT: Introduction to MIS
Description: Fundamentals of business computing applications and an introduction to the concepts of Management Information Systems. Laptop required.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2007, Fall 2006
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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Corequisites:
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.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006
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.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
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 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006
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 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007
HON 1060 -
Conservation, Laws & Apps.
Description: Kinematics; Newton's laws of motion and universal law of gravitation; rotational dynamics; hydrostatics and hydrodynamics. Linear momentum, energy and angular momentum conservation: collisions, space travel, satellite and planetary motion, static equilibrium and the mechanics of the human body. Recommended for Arts majors who have had high school Algebra, Trigonometry and Geometry, or two semesters of Mathematics.
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Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 4.0
Last Offered: Fall 2002
HON 1068 -
BIO: General Biology I Lab
Description: Laboratory to accompany General Biology I.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites: BIO 2105
Credit Hours: 0.0
Last Offered:
HON 1069 -
BIO: General Biology II Lab
Description: Laboratory to accompany General Biology II.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites: BIO 2106
Credit Hours: 0.0
Last Offered:
HON 1070 -
BIO: Biology for Today & Lab
Description: See BIO 1505. Lecture with BIO 1505; Honors laboratory section.
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Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 4.0
Last Offered: Fall 2001, Fall 1999, Fall 1998, Fall 1997
HON 1071 -
BIO: Science & Environ Issues
Description:
Prerequisites:
Corequisites: BIO 2101
Credit Hours: 4.0
Last Offered: Spring 2001, Spring 2000
HON 1073 -
BIO: Microbes Rule the World
Description:
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Credit Hours: 4.0
Last Offered: Fall 2006, Fall 2005, Spring 1997
HON 1075 -
BIO: Gen Biology & Laboratory
Description: See BIO 2105. Lecture with BIO 2105; Honors laboratory section.
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Credit Hours: 4.0
Last Offered: Fall 2006, Fall 2004, Fall 2003, Fall 2002
HON 1076 -
BIO: Gen Biology II & Lab
Description: See BIO 2106. Lecture with BIO 2106; Honors laboratory section.
Prerequisites: HON 1075 or BIO 2105
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 4.0
Last Offered: Spring 2007, Spring 2006, Spring 2005, Spring 2004
HON 1080 -
ECO: Microeconomics
Description: The price system; demand and supply analysis; the production process; analysis of market structures.
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Corequisites:
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 1090 -
BL:Legal Env Bus & Society
Description: The sources, nature and substantive principles of American law; its moral and ethical dimensions; the judicial process; comparison with other legal system impact of government regulations.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Fall 2007, Spring 2007, Fall 2006
HON 1095 -
ACC: Adv. Computer App & Actg
Description: Communication, database, presentation, and advanced spreadsheet software; the Internet; web site design. Financial accounting concepts and terms, transaction analysis, financial statements, and ration analysis. Critical evaluation of new technologies. Basic proficiency in Microsoft Excel required.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2000
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 1101 -
Prin of Financial Accounting
Description: Understanding business by being able to understand the financial statements. Accounting concepts, transaction analysis, analytical procedures, valuation and allocation, revenue recognition and expense matching, and cash flow analysis - operating, investing, and financing. Includes appropriate use of technology.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Fall 2005, Fall 2004
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)
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006, Spring 2000
HON 1113 -
FIN: Principles of Finance
Description: The theory and techniques of financial management. Time value of money; risk and return; financial analysis and planning; working capital management, capital budgeting; cost of capital; strategic long term financing decisions.
Prerequisites: (ACC 1101 or HON 1101) and (DIT 2010 or HON 2010) or MAT 1235 or MAT 2310 or MAT 4310 or ECE 3720 and (ECO 1001 or HON 1080) and (ECO 1002 or HON 1081) and (MIS 1006 or DIT 1006 or HON 1016)
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Fall 2007, Spring 2007, Spring 2006
HON 1137 -
Principles of Marketing
Description: Description and evaluation of the ways in which goods and services are developed to meet customer and consumer needs and distributed for domestic and international consumption; economic, government, social, and other environmental forces in relation to the marketing function; emphasis on relevant social problems and responsibilities.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Spring 2006, Fall 2004
HON 1141 -
Operations Management
Description: Concepts and techniques for problems in manufacturing and service organizations. Topics: decision-making, forecasting, resource allocation, project management, management, quality, materials management, technology, and strategy.
Prerequisites: DIT 2010 or HON 2010 or STA 2108 or MAT 1235
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Spring 2007
HON 1219 -
CSC: Artificial Intelligence
Description: Formal systems, modeling of intelligent processes by computer programs, representation of knowledge; Natural Language Processing. Historical and philosophical foundations of AI.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 1995
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 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Fall 2005
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: Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006
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 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007
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: Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Spring 2006, Fall 2005
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: Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007
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 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: Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007
HON 1771 -
PHY: General Physics I Lab
Description: Experiments in mechanics, heat, and sound with emphasis on individual and group research.
Prerequisites: PHY 1100
Corequisites: PHY 1100
Credit Hours: 1.0
Last Offered: Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Fall 2005, Fall 2004
HON 1772 -
PHY: General Physics II Lab
Description: Experiments in light and electricity with emphasis on individual and group research.
Prerequisites: PHY 1100 and HON 1771 or PHY 1101
Corequisites: PHY 1102
Credit Hours: 1.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006, Spring 2005
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 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Fall 2005
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: Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007
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 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Fall 2005
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 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 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 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 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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Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Fall 2003, Fall 2002
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 2007, Fall 2006, Fall 2005, Fall 2004
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 2010 -
Business Statistics
Description: Statistical concepts and methods used in business and economics, including Probability, Discrete Probability, Sampling Distributions, Confidence Intervals, Hypothesis testing, Regression analysis, and Chi-Square Distribution, (ANOVA).
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2007
HON 2114 -
FIN: Intermed Corporate Fin
Description: Risk and return relationships; valuation models; cost of capital; capital structure; capital budgeting; dividend policy; international financial transactions; financial statement analysis and forecasting; working capital management.
Prerequisites: (FIN 1113 or HON 1113)
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2005, Spring 2005, Spring 2004, Spring 2003
HON 2140 -
FIN: Intro to Derivatives
Description: Risk and return relationsips, valuation models, cost of capital, capital structure, capital budgeting, dividend policy, international financial transactions, financial statement analysis and forecasting, working capital management. This course is writing-enhanced. Senior standing.
Prerequisites: FIN 2323
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2004, Spring 2004, Fall 2003, Fall 2002
HON 2150 -
Intl Financial Management
Description: The financial operations of multinational corporations and financial institutions with an emphasis on the international financial environment, foreign exchange rish management, multinational working capital management, foreign investment analysis, financing foreign operations, and international banking. Junior or senior standing.
Prerequisites: (HON 1113 or FIN 1113) and (ECO 3109 or HON 3209)
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Fall 2005, Fall 2004
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)
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2004
HON 2197 -
Marketing Research
Description: The principal internal and external procedures used in collecting, processing, and evaluating both quantitative and qualitative data; research design; management of information for decision making.
Prerequisites: (MKT 1137 or HON 1137) and (DIT 2010 or HON 2010)
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2006, Spring 2005
HON 2200 -
ME: Introduction to Dynamics
Description: Kinematics, velocity and acceleration of points on rigid bodies using cartesian, cylindrical, and tangent-normal reference frames. Mass center motion of contact force free bodies; projectile motion, planetary, satellite, and ballistic missile motion. Translational motion of the mass center of bodies acted on by contact forces. Plane rotational motion of bodies acted on my contact forces and moments.
Prerequisites: ME 2100 or CEE 2101
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Fall 2005, Fall 2004
HON 2227 -
FIN: Fixed Inc Mkts & Valuatn
Description: An introduction to the structure and operation of the money, capital, mortgage, derivatives, and international financial markets; flow of funds from savers to borrowers; efficiency of financial markets; theories of interest rates; term structure of interest rates. Junior or senior standing.
Prerequisites: (FIN 1113 or HON 1113)
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2005
HON 2231 -
ME: Thermodynamics I
Description: Elements of thermodynamics theory, system and control volumes, properties of pure substance, ideal gas, heat and work interactions, first and second laws, entropy.
Prerequisites: MAT 2500
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2006
HON 2239 -
ME: Heat Transfer I
Description:
Prerequisites: ME 3100 and MAT 2705 and (ME 3600 or CEE 3500)
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006
HON 2250 -
Corporate Social/Environ Resp.
Description: Social, ethical, political, and spiritual dimensions of corporate social and environmental responsibility; external pressures contributing to corporate responsibility; contemporary examples of strategic, operational and marketing initiatives; corporate leaders in social and environmental practices. Restricted to Junior or Senior standing.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Spring 2006, Spring 2004, Spring 2003
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 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006
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 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006
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 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006
HON 2700 -
FIN: Topics in Finance
Description:
Prerequisites: (FIN 1113 or HON 1113)
Corequisites:
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)
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered:
HON 2800 -
MKT: Topics in Marketing
Description:
Prerequisites: (MKT 1137 or HON 1137)
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered:
HON 2850 -
MKT: Topics in Marketing
Description:
Prerequisites: (MKT 1137 or HON 1137)
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered:
HON 2993 -
Internship
Description:
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007
HON 2996 -
Internship
Description:
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Credit Hours: 6.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007
HON 3000 -
Art and Art History
Description:
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2006, Fall 2004, Fall 2001, Fall 2000
HON 3050 -
Art and Art History
Description:
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006, Spring 2005
HON 3100 -
Classics
Description:
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2003, Fall 1996
HON 3150 -
Classics
Description:
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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)
Corequisites:
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)
Corequisites:
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)
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2006, Spring 2005, Spring 2004, Spring 2002
HON 3300 -
Education
Description:
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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)
Corequisites:
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
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008
HON 3350 -
Education
Description:
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2001
HON 3400 -
Communication
Description:
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2004, Fall 2002, Fall 2001
HON 3450 -
Communication
Description:
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006
HON 3550 -
HUM/PHI: Human Person
Description: What is human nature, human destiny? How does one become more deeply human? What does it mean to act for the human good? How can we discover meaning in primordial human experiences such as love, mortality, finitude, and suffering? Fulfills an upper level Philosophy in the Core Curriculum.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2006
HON 3551 -
HUM/PSC: Society
Description: Political, economic, and family life dominate our concerns and yet we seem synical about possibly finding meaning in them. How is our dependent, rational nature developed through marriage, family, work, markets, and government? Fulfills an upper level Political Science in the Core Curriculum.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2006
HON 3600 -
Literature
Description:
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007
HON 3601 -
Literature
Description:
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Fall 2005
HON 3602 -
Literature
Description:
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Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Fall 2002, Fall 2001
HON 3650 -
Literature
Description:
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006
HON 3651 -
Literature
Description:
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006
HON 3652 -
Literature
Description:
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006
HON 3800 -
Geography
Description:
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Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 1998, Spring 1995
HON 3850 -
Geography
Description:
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered:
HON 4000 -
History
Description:
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Fall 2005
HON 4001 -
History
Description:
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Fall 2005
HON 4002 -
History
Description:
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2000
HON 4050 -
History
Description:
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006, Spring 2005
HON 4051 -
History
Description:
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2006, Spring 2005, Spring 2004, Spring 2002
HON 4052 -
History
Description:
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2005, Spring 2002
HON 4100 -
Mathematics
Description:
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Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered:
HON 4101 -
Mathematics
Description:
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Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered:
HON 4150 -
Mathematics
Description:
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Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2004, Fall 2003, Spring 2001, Spring 2000
HON 4151 -
Mathematics
Description:
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Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered:
HON 4300 -
Philosophy
Description:
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Fall 2005
HON 4301 -
Philosophy
Description:
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2006, Fall 2005, Fall 2004
HON 4302 -
Philosophy
Description:
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2006, Fall 2005, Fall 2004
HON 4350 -
Philosophy
Description:
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006
HON 4351 -
Philosophy
Description:
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Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2006, Fall 2005, Spring 2005
HON 4352 -
Philosophy
Description:
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2006, Spring 2005, Spring 2004
HON 4353 -
Philosophy
Description:
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2006, Spring 2005, Spring 2001, Spring 2000
HON 4500 -
Political Science
Description:
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Spring 2006
HON 4501 -
Political Science
Description:
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 1999
HON 4502 -
Political Science
Description:
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered:
HON 4550 -
Political Science
Description:
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006
HON 4551 -
Political Science
Description:
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006, Spring 2002
HON 4552 -
Political Science
Description:
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2002
HON 4700 -
Psychology
Description:
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered:
HON 4701 -
Psychology
Description:
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered:
HON 4750 -
Psychology
Description:
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2006, Spring 2005, Spring 2003, Spring 2002
HON 4751 -
Psychology
Description:
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered:
HON 4800 -
Theology & Religious Studies
Description:
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Spring 2006
HON 4801 -
Theology & Religious Studies
Description:
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Spring 2006, Fall 2005
HON 4850 -
Theology & Religious Studies
Description:
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006
HON 4851 -
Searching for God
Description:
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2007, Spring 2006, Spring 2005
HON 4900 -
Sociology
Description:
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2005, Fall 2004, Fall 2003, Fall 2002
HON 4901 -
Sociology
Description:
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2005, Fall 2004, Fall 2003, Fall 2002
HON 4950 -
Sociology
Description:
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2006, Fall 2005, Spring 2005, Spring 2004
HON 4951 -
Sociology
Description:
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2006, Spring 2005
HON 5000 -
BIO: Intro Ecology
Description:
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
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.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
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.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
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.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 4.0
Last Offered: Fall 1996, Fall 1995
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.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
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.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
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.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 1.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007
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.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 1.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Fall 2007, Spring 2007
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.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
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.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 1.0
Last Offered: 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.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
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.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 1.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006, Spring 2005
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.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
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.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 1.0
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.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
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.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 1.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2002, Spring 2001
HON 5490 -
Culture Leadership Workshop
Description: Civic engagement skill set development in global events; cultural trends; intercultural communication; and discourse across academic disciplines.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 1.0
Last Offered: Fall 2005
HON 5500 -
Ind Study & Research
Description: Independent Study and Research
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Fall 2005
HON 5501 -
Ind Study & Research
Description: Independent Study and Research
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006
HON 5506 -
Ind Study & Res Science
Description: Independent Study and Research in Science
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Fall 2004
HON 5507 -
Ind Study & Res Science
Description: Independent Study and Research in Science
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006
HON 5600 -
Seminar for Visiting Professor
Description: Seminar topic to be determined by visiting professor.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2005, Spring 2004
HON 5601 -
Seminar for Visiting Professor
Description:
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered:
HON 5700 -
Colloquia
Description:
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006
HON 5701 -
Colloquia
Description:
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Fall 2005, Fall 2004
HON 5702 -
Colloquia
Description:
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Fall 2005
HON 5703 -
Colloquia
Description:
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2005
HON 5750 -
Colloquia
Description:
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Spring 2007
HON 5751 -
Colloquia
Description:
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2004
HON 5752 -
Colloquia
Description:
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2006, Spring 2005, Spring 2004, Spring 2003
HON 5753 -
Colloquia
Description:
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: 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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Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006
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.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007
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.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 2.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007
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.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007
HON 7050 -
Game Theory and the Law
Description: Game theoretical frameworks for rational interaction in legal decision-making. Appropriate game strategies for selected legal problems. Solution concepts in game theory and applications to legal cases.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 1998
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