Fall 2005 Newsletter

Important Dates    |    CHC Hiring    |    Internships & Mentorships    |    Robert D. Clark Library
Computer Lab    |    CHCSA    |    Fall 2005 Course Descriptions    |    Literature
History    |    Special Studies    |    Colloquia    |    Special Course Offerings    |    Thesis Orientation
Thesis Prospectus    |    Individualized Study    |    Winter Term 2006

FALL 2005 - IMPORTANT DATES

September 20 - Tuesday
Late Advising for freshmen who did NOT meet with a CHC Advisor at IntroDUCKtion, and New Parent Reception.

September 21 - Wednesday
New Student Orientation

September 21 - 23
Week of Welcome

September 26 - Monday
Fall Term first day of class

October 23 - Sunday
Fall Term graduates' deadline for graduation and Winter Term graduates' priority deadline for graduation - apply at the Registrar's Office

November 11 - Friday
Veteran's Day - classes are in session

November 14 - 23
Winter Term registration

November 24 - 25
Thanksgiving vacation

December 1 - Thursday
Fall Term graduates' last day to submit final thesis copies to the CHC Office

December 2 - Friday
Fall Term last day of class

December 5 - 9
Fall Term finals week

CLARK HONORS COLLEGE IS HIRING: TWO POSITIONS AVAILABLE IN STUDENT COMPUTER SUPPORT back to top

Duties include helping students, faculty, and staff with software and hardware problems, solving printing problems, and assisting the systems administrator with miscellaneous tasks.

Qualified applicants have at least one year experience working with MS Windows 2000 Pro in a networked environment. Basic knowledge of PC hardware and printers required. Must be able to work and communicate well with a team. Mac experience desirable. Linux skills a plus.

Must be customer service oriented, and a current student at the University of Oregon. 10-15 hours a week, flexible schedule. Work study preferable, but not required.

Please submit a resume and an application (PDF, 49k) to the CHC Office, 320 Chapman Hall.

INTERNSHIPS & MENTORSHIPS back to top

The CHC Internship & Mentorship Program has undergone a period of growth and development. We now have more resources than ever to offer CHC students, including

• mentorships with CHC alumni
• internship networking and placement by CHC alumni
• social events aimed at fostering professional networks and relationships between students and alumni
• career workshops on searching for jobs or internships, interviewing, building and preparing resumes, networking, and other skills
• workshops on utilizing your CHC thesis to reach post-graduate goals
• upper division credit available for qualifying internships
• grants for unpaid, non-profit internships
• postings and emails of internship opportunities
• assistance with post-graduation preparation and planning.

We will be having a number of events this fall, including workshops on finding and securing internships, and mock interviews. We will also be actively matching students with mentors, in preparation for our Fall CHC Student/Alumni Luncheon. For upcoming activities, check the bulletin boards in Chapman Hall, or the CHC Events Calendar. If you have questions, check the website, or email CHC Internship & Mentorship Program Coordinator, .

ROBERT D. CLARK LIBRARY back to top

The Robert D. Clark Library has been under going several changes. One of the main projects currently underway is the reorganization of books and theses. The theses will be moved to lower shelves and many books will be leaving the library. However, it is in an effort to tailor our library to our students and faculty. Another project underway is to develop a collection policy that will outline which books we keep and which books we decide to let go. This policy will help future library interns to gather new materials for our library. We also have our own librarian, Eliz Breakstone, who holds office hours to assist students in their research. Her hours vary so check out the fliers posted in Chapman Hall and on the library website. Our library is certainly not one to judge by its cover. It's a great place to study and relax between classes. The Robert D. Clark Library is like an open book so come by and check it out.

DAVID E. BOYES COMPUTER LAB back to top

There is a new website for CHC Computer Support complete with online documentation, useful tips, and forms for account management. New students will need to request a CHC Computing account prior to using the computer lab in room 302 of Chapman hall. Requests may be made online at the website above. Returning students will need to renew their account, also at the aforementioned website. Due to waste and abuse of the free printing privilege by some students, print quotas will be instituted beginning in September. The exact limit has yet to be determined, but it will be generous enough so that most students won't be affected.

CHCSA - CLARK HONORS COLLEGE STUDENT ASSOCIATION back to top

The Clark Honors College Student Association is back on the scene and more active than ever, working to create an interesting and fun forum for CHC students to build community, develop leadership skills, and contribute to the administrative decision-making of Clark Honors College.
As a member of the CHCSA, students participate in a wide variety of functions such as organizing forums, helping design and determine the student physical space of Chapman Hall, and fundraising for local charities including the Domestic Violence Legal Defense Fund. This last spring, we hosted a Barbeque and Frisbee Golf Tournament to have fun and raise money for charity. Other events and projects have included revamping the CHC student lounge, trips to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon and exploring the coast during a weekend getaway at a beach house in Yachats, Oregon.
Future projects for the student group include bringing a snack and drink machine to Chapman Hall, displaying student art, purchasing a water filtration system for the lounge and hall water fountain, and designing a student-run magazine. In addition, CHCSA members help to determine Clark Honors College's future, possessing seats on the CHC Hiring and Curriculum Committees. In the future, we also hope to collaborate with the CHC Alumni Advisory Council in the recruitment of underrepresented students. Overall, the Clark Honors College Student Association provides students a valuable conduit to work closely with faculty and administration to expand the possibility of experience, growth, and opportunity within Clark Honors College.
Interested in change? Please attend our meetings. During Spring 2005 term they are Wednesdays at 3:30 pm in the Clark Honors College Lounge. Fall 2005 meetings will be announced on the website and the bulletin boards in Chapman Hall.

FALL 2005 COURSE DESCRIPTIONS back to top

LITERATURE back to top

HC 221H			4 Credits
CRN 13286	14:00-15:20	MW	CHA 307

Professor Frances Cogan

HONORS COLLEGE LITERATURE
"Heroes, Heroines and Virtue"

What makes a hero or heroine these days? Do we have a clear idea of heroic behavior or action today - or the idea a mixed mishmash of comic book super beings, cancer victims who have survived, civil rights leaders, soldiers, and sports figure? Where does virtue fit in with heroism? Is it a necessary ingredient? What model of virtue should we emulate and why? Do women represent the same heroic code? Do they have their own? If so, in what sense?
The classical and medieval periods were much clearer about the nature of heroism than we are today and clearer still about the virtue their heroes were expected to exhibit. Do we still admire many of the characteristics classically considered heroic? Can we discern something truly admirable in a Hektor, a Beowulf, an El Cid, a Roland, a Sir Gawain or Sir Lancelot? Are there Eastern heroic models of similar virtues and dimensions? Where should we fit the Monkey King or Tripitaka, for example, in our pantheon of heroes?
Fall term will try to answer these questions while studying primarily poetic form (narrative, dramatic, lyric) by both men and a woman (Sappho), from Greece, from China, from England (Anglo-Saxon), from Spain and Persia?
The period covered will stretch from Homer to 16h century China, from the Romans to 11th century Persia. Possible texts for the term include: The Iliad, Lyric Poetry by Sappho, The Trojan Women by Euripides, Miles Gloriosus by Plautus of Rhodes, The Aeneid by Virgil, Beowulf, and the female chivalric heroine. Silence, lyric poetry by Omar Khyyám, and the Chinese classic, Journey to the West.
The course will require 3 literary critical papers of medium or short length (3-5 pages, 2-4 pgs), for which a literary response journal, kept all term, can substitute for paper three.
Course will be run as a mixture of punctuated lecture and discussion, including small group work, as well as large group discussion. Students will be expected to have the reading done before coming to class so that meaningful discussion is possible. There will be a final in-class exam (with study sheet one week in advance), but no midterm.

HC 221H			4 Credits
CRN 13283	9:00-9:50	MWF	CHA 307
CRN 13284	11:00-11:50	MWF	CHA 307

Professor Helen Southworth

HONORS COLLEGE LITERATURE
"Heroes and Villains in Classical & Medieval Literature"

This course will cover a selection of ancient and early medieval texts. We will explore literary genres, use of literary language, ethical and moral issues, and social, cultural, and religious questions. We will explore how these texts provide and undermine the traditional interpretations brought to bear on them. We will also explore questions of canon formation, and ask what makes a book "great" or "classic."
Readings to include: Book of Job, Virgil's Aeneid, Homer's Odyssey, Sophocles' Oedipus the King, Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis, Irish Myths and Legends and Dante's Inferno.
Films to include: Michael Cacoyannis' Iphigenia in Aulis, Pasolini's Oedipus, and Peter Greenaway's The Divine Comedy.
Students will be required to write three short papers (3-5 pages) and take a final exam. There will also be other in-class writing assignments. Class will consist of some lecture, large and small discussion groups, with an emphasis on close textual analysis.

HC 221H			4 Credits
CRN 13285	13:00-13:50	MWF	CHA 307

Professor TBA

HONORS COLLEGE LITERATURE

Course description unavailable at this time.

HC 221H			4 Credits
CRN 13287	8:30-9:50	UH	CHA 307

Professor Monique Balbuena

HONORS COLLEGE LITERATURE
"Figurations of Femininity"

This course will focus on cultural configurations of gender and sexuality as they are portrayed in literature. We will discuss gender roles and sexuality and observe how the tension between sex and gender is represented in different literary genres. We will consider definitions of femininity, the construction of gender, and the construction of identity through gender. While observing the characters' perception of themselves, their willingness or unwillingness to live up to the expectations of their societies, we will also consider the relationship between sexuality and use of language (how do language and gender affect each other?).
Among the texts studied are Freud's "Femininity," Genesis 1-4 and 38, Sophocles' Antigone, Woolf's Orlando, Flaubert's Madame Bovary, and Patricia Galvão's Industrial Park.

HC 221H			4 Credits
CRN 13288	12:00-13:20	UH	CHA 307

Professor Toral Gajarawala

HONORS COLLEGE LITERATURE
"Categories"

In this course we will explore the representation of social stratification and general questions of class, caste, community and tribe as they appear in the epic, and lyric and narrative poetry. We will be studying works from various socio-cultural contexts. What insights do they offer us on how different early societies were structured and how those structures were maintained? How do these texts understand social relations? How do they treat issues of gender? We will attempt to answer these questions through close, careful analysis of the narrative strategies used in these texts and discussion of critical readings. Students will be required to write two short papers and take a final exam.
Some of the texts we will be studying are Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali - Niane, The Ramayana - Valmiki, The Inferno - Dante, The Pillowbook of Sei Shonagon - Morris.

HC 221H			4 Credits
CRN 13289	16:00-17:20	UH	CHA 307

Professor Steven Shankman

HONORS COLLEGE LITERATURE
"War, Peace, and the Hero in Ancient Poetry and Prose"

We will read foundational works from three different ancient cultures: Greece, China, and Israel. We will pay particular attention to the question of the kinds of values that these foundational works were meant to instill in their ancient audiences. What, for each culture, constitutes the exemplary person? In particular, what does each work have to say about the nature of heroism, war, and peace?
Emphasis will be on close and attentive reading of the texts. Literature, during this period, was meant to be taken in by the ear rather than the eye, and we will emphasize the oral/aural dimension of these works. We will read the whole of Robert Fitzgerald's translation of the Iliad, which is written in a supple blank verse that is the rough equivalent of Homer's dactylic hexameter line. Blank verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter) is the metrical form that arose, in sixteenth-century England, as a way to translate ancient epic verse (specifically Virgil's dactylic hexameter) into English. Blank verse is the medium in which Shakespeare wrote his plays and Milton his great poem epic poem, Paradise Lost. Students will train their ears to hear and scan ancient verse, even if (as is supposed) they do not know the ancient languages (Greek, Chinese, Hebrew) themselves; and to hear modern attempts at approximating the aural effects of ancient poetry and prose.

HISTORY back to top

HC 231H			4 Credits
CRN 13290	8:00-8:50	MWF	CHA 307

Professor Dayo Nicole Mitchell

HONORS COLLEGE HISTORY
"Introduction to the Global Past: the Ancient and Medieval Worlds"

This first installment of the year-long core sequence in history examines the ancient and medieval worlds, traveling around the globe to introduce students to Asian and African history as well as European and American. While our theme for the year will be the rise of the west to the dominant position it holds today, this early segment will focus on the rise of civilization itself. How did humans move from hunter-gatherers to city-states to empires? What assumptions and beliefs did they enshrine in an attempt to organize the society they lived in? How did their understanding of the world around them differ from continent to continent and change over the centuries, up to about the year 1500? We will consider the different ways in which historians have chosen to write the history of the pre-modern world.
Work inside and outside class will be designed to encourage students to develop a historian's eye for the grand patterns of world history and the connections and interactions among cultures. Assignments will focus on introducing students to close analysis of primary sources and building students' writing skills.
Among other texts, we will certainly use Guns, Germs, and Steel, by Jared Diamond. Peter Stearns, World History in Brief, serves as a general textbook for the year-long sequence - for this section, the FIFTH edition of Stearns is required.

HC 231H			4 Credits
CRN 13291	10:00-10:50	MWF	CHA 307
CRN 13292	12:00-12:50	MWF	CHA 307

Professor Roxann Prazniak

HONORS COLLEGE HISTORY
"Central Asia: Mediterranean/Himalayan routes in the making of world history [700 B.C.E. - 1500 C.E.]"

This course travels across the Eurasian continent from Greek city-states and Buddhist kingdoms to the early medieval era of Christian rulers and Sufi masters. Considering primary sources from both Europe and Asia, our focus is on social and intellectual interactions in the mid-continent areas we now refer to as Central Asia. With attention to the commercial and social practices that organized life for specific groups across Eurasia, we will traverse routes linking Changan to Constantinople. Interactions that defined Central Asia contributed to historical developments in regions to both the west and the east. Along the way we will explore aspects of the vast Hellenic metropolis of Ai Khanum, puzzle over the Tarim mummies, view the unique Greco-Buddhist sculpture of Gandhara, and analyze the conflict between Augustine's Christianity in Rome and the Manichaeism which found refuge in the Middle Kingdom capitals of Changan and Loyang. Our method is to let the interplay of social groups across this region illuminate our understanding of any one location and time period. We will practice interpreting primary sources and write brief position papers for seminar discussion.

HC 231H			4 Credits
CRN 13293	16:00-17:20	MW	CHA 303
CRN 13294	10:00-11:20	UH	CHA 303

Professor Reuben Zahler

HONORS COLLEGE HISTORY
"Early Civilizations: Social, Cultural, and Political Comparisons"

This course is the first of a three-quarter sequence designed as an "Introduction to Historical Thinking in a Global Framework." We will look at the origins and development of civilizations in three major geographic areas: the Mediterranean and Europe, China, and Mesoamerica (Central America and Mexico). Chronologically we will move from the beginnings of civilizations roughly to the fourteenth century. Each of these areas developed in virtual isolation from the others and encompassed enormous zones of human diversity and cultural exchange. We will, therefore, explore several distinct, rich sagas of the development of social, political, and cultural traditions. Our goal will be a) to understand these traditions, and the interconnections between these traditions, within each civilization; and b) to understand how and why these traditions change over time. In order to explore these civilizations in a cohesive manner, we will consider religion and literature, cultural and commercial exchange, art and warfare, political ideology and the ingredients of social status.
As means of investigation, we will study scholarly texts as well as the literature, art, and architecture of ancient cultures. We will investigate these societies, therefore, through historical studies as well as learning to interpret, for example, Babylonian law, Chinese poetry, Greek plays, Mayan myths, Roman architecture, and Christian art. Through using these sources we will explore the distinct creative forces within each culture, develop skills of critical thinking and interpretation, learn to ask analytical questions of our sources, and recognize the broad patterns that mark global history.

HC 231H			4 Credits
CRN 13295	14:00-15:20	UH	CHA 307

Professor Daniel Rosenberg

HONORS COLLEGE HISTORY
"Introduction to Ancient and Medieval History"

This course introduces students to problems in ancient and medieval history in Europe and the Mediterranean. The course takes a topical approach, focusing especially on the social functions of narrative, questions of body and sexuality, and religion as a cultural form. Texts include: Hesiod, Theogony; Plato, Symposium; Suetonius, Twelve Caesars; Augustine, Confessions.

SPECIAL STUDIES back to top

HC 199H			3 Credits
CRN 13280	12:00-13:20	MW	CHA 203

Freshman Seminar - open to non-CHC students

Professor David Frank

SPECIAL STUDIES
"Moral Reasoning Through Oral Advocacy"

Through the careful examination of famous public speeches by Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Jesse Jackson, Barbara Jordan and others, we will identify the principles of moral reasoning and effective public speaking. Students will write three-page papers on one famous speech and will take short examinations on the principles of moral public speaking. Once these principles are identified and understood, students will present three speeches and engage in two debates on race relations in America. These exercises will be designed to help in the development of the habits of mind and speech needed to wed knowledge to eloquence.

HC 399H			1-5 Credits
CRN 13297	16:00-17:20	MW	MCK 240B

Professor David Frank

SPECIAL STUDIES
"Forensics"

Clark Honors College hosts the nationally ranked University of Oregon Forensics Program. The program is designed to teach rhetorical habits of mind and speech through intercollegiate debate and individual events. The program travels to about thirteen tournaments, hosts two on-campus tournaments, and engages in some on-campus speaking activities. Two graduate teaching fellows are assigned to the program.
Debate students will be paired with partners and will be expected to conduct extensive research on the debate topics selected by the Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA) and the Parliamentary Debate Association. Novice and experienced student debaters are welcome, and students do not need to be Clark Honors College students to enroll.
Individual events students select from among ten to fifteen public speaking and oral interpretation events and, in addition, work to prepare and perfect speeches designed to persuade, entertain and move. Students are graded on their performances.

COLLOQUIA back to top

Colloquia Are Limited To Students With Sophomore Standing And Above

HC 421H			4 Credits
CRN 13307	10:00-11:20	MW	CHA 303

Professor Frances Cogan

HC ARTS & LETTERS COLLOQUIUM
"Seminar on the Fiction of Adventure"

This term we will be exploring the roots and the later developments of the adventure story or novel, from Homer's Odyssey to the latest extravaganza of Clive Custler's Dirk Pitt. Adventure tales are probably the oldest form of fiction, and they continue to be wildly popular, both in fiction and in film, today. Sometimes mistakenly viewed as "young adult literature," adventure novels were actually written for ordinary adults, but characterized by a strong and colorful "Plot of Action" fictional emphasis. We will explore this genre from a number of cultures (West, East and Middle East). We will explore as well the heavily male ethos of the tales and the differences between an "Adventurer" and a "Hero." We will also pose the question of whether there can be such a figure as a female adventurer.
Texts will include: Homer's Odyssey; "Sinbad the Sailor" (A Thousand and One Nights); "Bel and the Dragon" and "Susanna and the Elders" (Old Testament Apocrypha); "The Hungry Beggar Woman" (Ming Dynasty Tales); Marie de France's medieval lai "Guigemar"; Defoe's Robinson Crusoe; Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo; Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines; Hope, The Prisoner of Zenda; Custler, Treasure.
Course will require two 4-6 pg. Papers (using outside criticism and interdisciplinary research). One paper can be substituted for by a voluntary oral report on an adventure novel on the "outside" list, with a bibliography. No midterm, but a take-home final. An approved adventure project such as the 10 min. opening of your adventure video or film; an adventure short story; choice and adventure analysis of two vacations set up for men and adventure (eg. "Hellride down the Amazon") etc. Class will also feature an "Adventure Night" with pizza where any video projects, short stories, or pamphlets for adventurous trips are shared with the class.
Class will be in a lecture/report/class discussion format.
WARNING: Adventure literature is very male oriented. It's part of the genre. If this is offensive, don't sign up.

HC 421H			4 Credits
CRN 13308	10:00-11:20	UH	CHA 303

Professor Henry Alley

HC ARTS & LETTERS COLLOQUIUM
"The Comedy of Jane Austen"

The texts are Sheridan's comedy, The School for Scandal, and Austen's four major novels, Northanger Abbey, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Persuasion, all works of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Through close reading and discussion, the course will examine the works of the greatest comic novelist in English. Sheridan, who was a central influence on Austen, will serve as a means of understanding the principles of comedy, before we move on to the novels themselves. While discussing her work, we will not only look for these hallmarks of humor and laughter, but also at her timeless themes - the quest to find a suitable mate, the struggle to know the world while avoiding cynicism, the challenge of advancing beyond one's immediate family and one's own narrow point-of-view, and the search for privacy while still maintaining connection with a social world.
There will be two short papers and one long one. A reading journal will be optional. There will be a strong emphasis on discussion, and on listening to recorded passages from the books to appreciate tone, voice, and point of view. Videos of all the novels will be available.

HC 424H			4 Credits
CRN 16306	16:00-18:50	W	CHA 303
	9:00-9:50	F	CHA 303
	9:00-9:50	F	CON 106

Professor Mia Tuan

HC IDENTITIES COLLOQUIUM
"Modern American Race Relations"

Now more than ever we are in need of people who have invested the time and energy to develop thoughtfulness and sensitivity when it comes to issues of race. We need people who can speak intelligently about racial issues, who know the facts (or can be honest when they don't), and are able to juggle the complicated factors informing such issues. But equally important, we need people who understand first hand just how hard it is to engage with others around race and have developed the stamina and understanding to hang in there even during difficult times. The purpose of this course is to support individuals in developing these complimentary strengths by providing a comprehensive "taste" of the race relations field and ample opportunities to engage with one another around race.
Course requirements include weekly reading summaries and personal memos, graded attendance and participation, one 8-10 page paper, and a comprehensive oral final exam.

HC 431H			4 Credits
CRN 13309	18:00-20:50	M	CHA 303

Professor John Orbell

HC SOCIAL SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM
"Constructing Social Theory"

This course will introduce students to the art and (I hope) pleasure of constructing theory in science, in particular social science. It is intended to teach some basic skills and techniques, to give you practice and confidence in constructing your own theories and - for better or worse - to make you a habitual theorizer. The course is divided into five two-week modules, each presenting a distinct mode of theorizing in the social sciences. At the end of each module, you will write a brief theoretical paper (up to four pages, plus diagrams when necessary) using the theoretical mode in question to construct your own theory about some (broadly "social") process that interests you. Your subject matter might be chosen from your own life, from some fictional account, or some other social narrative that interests you. Each exercise will count for 20% of your final grade. In addition, I will ask each class member to present two or three (depending on the size of the class) abstracts summarizing the work of other scholars who have constructed theories using one or other of the theoretical modes in question. I plan to spend a good part of the class time in a "workshop" mode.

HC 434H			4 Credits
CRN 16350	12:00-13:20	UH	CHA 303

Professor Monique Balbuena

HC INTERNATIONAL CULTURES COLLOQUIUM
"Visions of the Maghreb"

Situated in the Northern tip of Africa, the Maghreb represented to France dreams of Oriental exoticism and colonial domination. To the Arab world it was the West, standing in contrast to the Mashreq, the East. There, in a kaleidoscope of peoples, cultures and traditions, languages such as French, Spanish and Italian coexist with literary Arabic, and Berber and Arabic dialects. The Maghreb, now formed by countries whose cultural hybridity predates colonialism, is "neither completely African nor entirely Mediterranean" (Abdallah Laroui). This ambiguous, "in-between" positioning, and the cultural and linguistic complex diversity that thus ensues must be taken into account when thinking the Maghreb.
In this course we will read literatures written mostly in French on and in the Maghreb. We will observe different images of the Maghreb formed during the French occupation and after the independence. We will analyze paintings, watch movies, and read historical descriptions. We will also consider the Jewish presence and contribution to Maghrebi literature and linguistic variety, observing the Jews' unique situation as neither the colonial power nor the autochtonous dominant majority. Elements of the history of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, as well as theoretical material on colonial and post-colonial literature will be covered.
Some issues on which we will focus are: the role of language in colonial domination and in one's quest for identity; the reality of francophonie and hétérolinguisme in the Maghreb; the role of memory and writing in the articulation of a hybrid identity; the preference for autobiographical narratives ("writing the self"); the ways in which gender operates to create and maintain social hierarchies within and between cultures.
Among the painters and authors we will study are: Eugène Delacroix, Théodore Chassériaux, Eugène Fromentin, Théophile Gautier, Alphonse Daudet, Pierre Loti, Guy de Maupassant, Charles Baudelaire, Sadia Lévy, Isabelle Eberhardt, Albert Camus, Mohammed Dib, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Layla Abu Zayd, Annie Cohen, Mohamed Choukri, Paul Bowles, Assia Djebar, Albert Memmi and Rachid Mimouni.

HC 434H			4 Credits
CRN 16760	14:00-16:50	W	LIB 115H

Instructors Raymond Birn and James Fox

HC INTERNATIONAL CULTURES COLLOQUIUM
"The History of the Book"

Why study the history of the book? There exist two mutually supportive approaches to the book as an object of study. For the past century scholars working in philology, paleography, and literature have developed a methodology for studying the book as an artifact - as an object from the near or distant past that yields information based upon formal presentation of a particular text. For these scholars books are more than boxes for transmitting ideas or vehicles for carrying illustrations. These scholars note how different editions of ostensibly the "same" text may yield variations and perhaps distorted meanings of it. Their bibliographical analyses disclose precious information about the copying, printing, and publishing practices of a particular time or place. For them books are archeological finds and must be submitted to specialized modes of interpretation. This approach to the book is known as codicology among scholars working on medieval and Renaissance books, and as analytical bibliography to scholars working on modern books and documents.
The second approach, comparatively recent in origin, often is known by its French name, l'histoire du livre, because it is associated with a group of French historians (and English-speaking specialists in French history). Allied to an influential movement in social and cultural history, l'histoire du livre covers subjects like literary property rights, censorship, marketing strategies, and the history of reading. A group of international scholars has collaborated on a magnificent history of the French-language printed book from the Renaissance through the twentieth century. It is a model for work in progress on the history of the book in Great Britain, Germany, the Low Countries, Australia, Canada, and the United States. We say "a" model, because different cultural, political, and economic traditions in each of these countries will distinguish its book history from the others. Once completed, all of these works nevertheless will represent one of the most important efforts at collaborative cultural history ever undertaken.
This course will offer the opportunity to consider the manuscript and printed book both as a physical object and as a transmitter of culture. We shall pursue issues linked to the histories of authorship, publishing and censorship. We shall meet with a collector, a calligrapher, a printer, and a person who makes her living as a writer. We shall analyze the physical construction of the book. Our resource will be the Knight Library, particularly its Rare Books Collection. You will have hands-on access to illuminated manuscripts and to early printed books. You will learn about the work habits of scribes, illuminators, printers, and booksellers. You will evaluate the impact of the book in Latin America and East Asia, as well as in Western Europe and the United States.
Students' grades will be based upon active class participation, two written exercises, and the cumulative results deriving from weekly written entries in a journal. We shall ask you to react to the readings by means of short (3-4 page) essays in your journal. Please hand in copies of your entries to each instructor on the appropriate due date. The entries you write are not meant to be finished papers; nor should they be idle ramblings. You are expected to comprehend the author's argument, summarize it, and, most importantly, respond to it in succinct fashion. What you hand in to the instructors should be akin to a draft review for a newspaper or magazine. All told, you will hand in eight journal entries and two exercises.
Class attendance is obligatory. Journal entries must be handed in on the day the analyzed readings are discussed in class. They will be returned to you at the next class session, with instructors' comments. You should be prepared to discuss your reactions to the reading assignment at the appropriate session.
Texts include Lucien Febvre and Henri-Jean Martin, The Coming of the Book. (Any available edition.), Christopher De Hamel, Scribes and Illuminators (Toronto, 1992), and Molly Gloss, The Jump-Off Creek (New York, 1999).

HC 441H			4 Credits
CRN 13312	8:30-9:50	MW	CHA 303

Professor Dennis Todd

HC SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM
"Columbia River Ecology"

We will explore the sciences of freshwater chemistry and ecology, review the history of the Columbia River watershed, examine the sources, causes, and effects of pollution, and investigate how the river basin can be cleaned up. Focusing on Oregon's effects on the river, students will discover and analyze, summarize, and critique information resources from a variety of disciplines. The class will develop an integrated, interdisciplinary perspective on environmental quality in the Columbia River and assemble an annotated bibliography and list of resources that will be made available to the public.

HC 444H			4 Credits
CRN 16307	14:00-15:20	MW	CHA 303

Professor David Frank

HC AMERICAN CULTURES COLLOQUIUM
"We Shall Overcome: African American Rhetoric from Dubois to Obama"

This course will survey twentieth century African-American rhetoric and study the civil rights movement as it was expressed on the University of Oregon campus. The course will center on two topics: Mississippi Freedom Summer (1964) and the Black Panther movement. University of Oregon students participated in Mississippi Freedom Summer and the Black Panthers supported a chapter on our campus between 1968 and 1970. In our study of African American rhetoric, we will consider the relationship between symbols and their use in creating and dismantling systems of racism. Toward this end, students will:

• Write a position paper responding to an article reflecting two divergent judgments of Barack Obama's address to the 2004 Democratic Convention.
• Write and present a rhetorical criticism of a major twentieth century African-American rhetorical effort.
• Collaborate in a group project designed to discover archival materials on the UO student participation in the Mississippi Freedom Summer and the Black Panthers. The groups will then develop written histories based on this research.
• Write a response to the University of Oregon five-year plan for institutional diversity.

SPECIAL COURSE OFFERINGSback to top

These courses may not satisfy CHC requirements, but may reserve spaces for CHC students or may feature CHC professors teaching in other departments or schools.

EDLD 199			2 Credits
CRN 12610	17:00-18:50	M	ED 136

Professor Sharon Schuman

PASS/NO PASS

SPECIAL STUDIES
"Public Speaking"

This course aims to help students gain confidence speaking before others in classes, presentations, and especially the oral thesis defense of the Clark Honors College. During the term students will have the opportunity to give 3 five-minute speeches: a self-introduction, an informational speech, and a persuasive speech. Students will also moderate, evaluate, ask and answer questions, view their own speeches on video, write 5 one-page response papers, and receive individual oral critiques. The class includes discussion of short readings about public speaking, short videos of famous speeches, and the occasional excursion to hear a visiting dignitary speak on campus. Open to all UO students, limited to 25, this class meets in McAlister Classroom in Walton.

HIST 410/510			4 Credits
CRN 13373	14:00-15:20	MW	PAC 30
CRN 13388	14:00-15:20	MW	PAC 30

Professor Dayo Nicole Mitchell

"History of the Atlantic World"

The Atlantic World is defined as the world created by the interaction among Europe, Africa and the Americas. The Atlantic crucible shaped modern notions of race, freedom, and citizenship. In the arena of the Atlantic world, Africans, Americans, Europeans and their descendants struggled over contradictory definitions of the nature of empire, Christianity, and capitalism.
The transatlantic slave trade and the products of slave labor drove an economic engine that tied together the four continents and the islands of the Atlantic world. Our course will focus on the development of the Atlantic world from about 1450 to 1825, covering such areas as the encounter between Europeans and Amerindians, the development of slavery in the new world, the role of sugar in European progress, and the political underpinnings of the slave trade in Africa. The course will culminate with an examination of the wave of Atlantic revolutions in British North America, France, Haiti, and Latin America. We will then finish off the term with a glance at emancipationist movements into the late nineteenth century.
Undergraduate and graduate students can purchase Robert Harms, The Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds of the Slave Trade, and Timothy J. Shannon, Atlantic Lives: A Comparative Approach to Early America, in full confidence that these books will be used, although they will not be the entirety of the reading. Class meetings will be a mixture of lecture and discussion, and attendance and participation will be evaluated. Undergraduate students should expect to write a total of 10-15 pages, spread throughout the term in several assignments, and to have a final exam. Graduate students planning to take this class are encouraged to contact me before fall term starts.

THESIS ORIENTATION back to top

HC 410H			1 Credits
CRN 16303	11:00-15:50	OCT 8	CHA 303

Professor Helen Southworth

CRN 16304	11:00-15:50	OCT 15	CHA 303

Professor Daniel Rosenberg

PASS/NO PASS ATTENDANCE MANDATORY

THESIS ORIENTATION WORKSHOP

This short class introduces Clark Honors College Students to the thesis project required of all our students. The workshop will meet for one day, plus one additional conference with the instructor. We will discuss what makes a successful thesis, what the student can hope to get out of the project, how to identify possible areas of interest, how to find appropriate faculty sponsors, how to identify courses which will provide necessary background, and how to plan the project so that it is manageable and rewarding, rather than burdensome. Other subjects include the difference between research-oriented and creative theses and how to incorporate plans for study abroad into their thesis plans. This workshop is NOT a substitute for HC 477 Thesis Prospectus (see below). This new workshop aims to assist students in the earlier and preliminary work of how to approach the thesis.

THESIS PROSPECTUSback to top

HC 477H			2 Credits
CRN 16308	12:00-13:50	M	CHA 303

Professor TBA

CRN 16309	8:00-9:50	U	CHA 303

Professor Dennis Todd

CRN 16310	14:00-15:50	H	CHA 303

Professor Toral Gajarawala

CRN 16311	10:00-11:50	F	CHA 303

Professor Frances Cogan

PASS/NO PASS ATTENDANCE MANDATORY

THESIS PROSPECTUS

Students will spend the majority of their time in this class polishing their prospectuses and then participating in a mock oral examination. Before enrolling in this class, students should have...

1. a primary thesis adviser, chosen from their major department or school,
2. a rough draft of their prospectus, following the guidelines in the Clark Honors College Thesis Manual,
3. consulted with their primary thesis advisor on possible second readers from their major department, and
4. filled out the Thesis Prospectus Application (PDF, 41k) and turned it in to the CHC Office prior to the registration period.

INDIVIDUALIZED STUDY back to top

If you wish to take an individualized study course, as listed below, please follow these steps.

1. Download the Permission to Register for Individualized Study (PDF, 21k) form on the CHC website, meet with a CHC faculty member, and determine the number of credits, grading option, and the title of the course as you want it to appear on your transcript. The instructor must sign the form.
2. Submit the completed form to the CHC Office so that you can be pre-authorized.
3. Register for the class.

HC 403H	CRN 13298	Variable Credits

THESIS

HC 405H	CRN 13299	Variable Credits

READING

HC 406H	CRN 13300	Variable Credits

SPECIAL PROBLEMS

HC 409H	CRN 13306	Variable Credits

PRACTICUM

WINTER TERM 2006 back to top

Please bear in mind that course offerings for the winter term are subject to change.

LITERATURE
HC 222H Honors College Literature - 7 sessions

HISTORY
HC 232H Honors College History - 6 sessions

SCIENCE
HC 208H Cosmology (Schombert)

SPECIAL STUDIES
HC 399H Forensics (Frank)

THESIS
HC 410H Thesis Orientation - 2 sessions
HC 477H Thesis Prospectus - 3 sessions

COLLOQUIA
Arts & Letters
HC 421H Amadeus: Mozart & Myth (McLucas)

SPECIAL COURSE OFFERINGS
JDST 399 The Jewish Diaspora in Latin America (Balbuena)
HIST 410/510 Central Asia: The Cultural Politics of Eurasian Exchange 1200-1900 (Prazniak)
HIST 410/510 The Savor of the Past: Questions in the History of Food (Rosenberg)

back to top

· Admissions · Our College · Curriculum · Opportunities ·
· Forms · Our Faculty · Administration · Alumni ·
· Gifts · Events · News · New Student Orientation 2007 · A-Z Index · Site Map · Contact · Home ·
· Printer Friendly ·

Phone: (541) 346-5414 · E-mail:

Contact the webmaster: