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In addition to the Interdisciplinary Humanities Sequence; the introductory-level humanities, social sciences and business seminars; the science laboratories; and the independent study courses that are scheduled each semester, the following courses are representative of the upper-level electives that are taught in the Honors Program. Please also see the University course catalog.

Art History

  • Archaeology of the Bible
  • Aristocrats, Intellectuals, and Regicides: Painting in France and England in the 18th Century

Biology

  • Sex Determination
  • Introductory Ecology
  • History of the Gene
  • Molecular Biology
  • Developmental Biology
  • Life in the Sea

Communication

  • Critical Pedagogy
  • Media Analysis and Criticism
  • Performance Art

Economics

  • Poverty and the American Economy
  • The Economics of Religious Organizations

Education

  • Perspectives on Inner City Education (Service-Learning Course)

English

  • Madness and Imagination
  • The Concord Writers
  • Chaucer: Gender, Narrative and Authority
  • Poetry in Process: Poetry Writing Workshop
  • Romanticism and History
  • James Joyce: Ulysses
  • The Renaissance Body
  • Studying Shakespeare: Methods and Problems
  • World War I in Literature
  • The Literature of the Screenplay, or How to Jam Your Foot in Hollywood's Door
  • African American Women's Literature: The Writings of Toni Morrison
  • Desert Traces and Urban Spaces: The Pre-Islamic Ode to the Modern Arabic Novel
  • Nation and Gender in Modern Irish Writing
  • Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe
  • Inscribing Gender in the Middle Ages

History

  • Dark Ages
  • Modern Environmental History
  • The Sixties: Politics and Culture
  • Dostoevsky's Russia, 1821-1881
  • Pacific Passages: American East Asian Relations
  • The African Diaspora in the Americas
  • Black and Irish: Explorations in the Construction of Identity; Interpretations of Shared Time and Space
  • Latin American Themes
  • Women in Developing Countries

Philosophy

  • Ancient Greece: The Good Life
  • Ethics in Literature
  • Existentialism: Theist and Atheist
  • Philosophical Issues of Race
  • Feminism, Ethics and Medicine
  • Medical Machines: Ethical Issues in Medicine, Technology and Public Policy
  • The Question of Evil
  • Thinking in Painting: Contemporary Questions in the Philosophy of Art
  • Simone de Beauvoir: Philosopher, Writer, Social Activist
  • Contemporary Critical Social Theory
  • Feminist Philosophy and Science
  • Technology and Society (Interdisciplinary course with Chemical Engineering)

Political Science

  • Constitutional Criminal Law
  • Mass Media Portrayal of Political and Social Reality
  • Political Campaigns and Elections
  • Powers of the Court
  • Russia in Transition
  • Jane Austen and Practical Philosophy
  • Religion and Politics in 20th Century Fiction

Theology

  • Postmodernism and Religion
  • Religious Attitudes in Contemporary Literature
  • Spirituality in the North American Context
  • Theology and Secular Reason
  • Mysticism, Consciousness and a Technological World
  • Hunger in Our Own Back Yard: United States, Philadelphia

Sociology

  • American Ethnic Folklore
  • Crime and Crime Control
  • Contemporary Russian Society
  • Abnormal Behavior
  • Gender and Irish Society
  • Third World Development
  • Urban Realities/ Suburban Perspectives
  • Women in Contemporary Society: Third World Women
  • Women in Arab Society

One-Credit Courses

  • American Sign Language
  • Eating Disorders
  • Ballroom Dance
  • Modern Dance
  • Introductory Piano
  • Poetry Workshop
  • Fresco Technique and Contemporary Art
  • Performance Art