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Home > Curriculum > Course Descriptions > Spring 2003 Newsletter
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Summer Term 2003
CALENDAR (Back to Top) February 24 - March 7 March 14 - Friday March 17 - 21 March 20 March 24 - 28 March 31 - Monday April 11 - Friday May 5 - 9 May 13 - Tuesday May 19 - 30 May 26 - Monday June 6 - Friday June 9 - 13 June 12 - Thursday June 13 - Friday June 14 - Saturday June 23 - Monday GRADUATION APPRECIATION DINNER AND DANCE (Back to Top) Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall 2003 graduates are invited to the Graduate Appreciation Dinner and Dance on Tuesday, May 13 in the EMU Ballroom. Please make sure that your UO address is correct so that you will receive your invitation in the mail. Sorry, this is for graduates only, not spouses or sweethearts. GRADE POINT AVERAGE (Back to Top) Students must have at least a 3.0 grade point average in order to graduate from Clark Honors College. Students whose cumulative GPA falls below 3.0 will have two terms to raise it. If this does not occur, students may petition to remain in Clark Honors College. If you have concerns about your GPA, please contact your CHC advisor. CLARK HONORS COLLEGE GRADUATION CEREMONY (Back to Top) Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall 2003 graduates, their families and thesis advisors, CHC faculty and staff are invited to attend the Clark Honors College Commencement on Friday, June 13, 2003 in the EMU Ballroom, 7:00-8:30 p.m. A reception in the Fountain Courtyard will immediately follow the commencement ceremony. A number of awards, including several honorary fellowships, will be presented to outstanding graduating seniors. Seniors should come to the CHC Office in May to pick up invitations and to let the staff know how many people will be attending. Contact the CHC Office for more details. If you do not let the CHC Office know that you will be attending, your name will not be read at the ceremony. FINAL GRADUATION FORM (Back to Top) All students who are graduating should complete a Final Graduation Form, which is available on the CHC website at honors.uoregon.edu/students/forms, and submit it to the CHC Office. CLARK HONORS COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPS (Back to Top) Clark Honors College will award scholarships to continuing students. To qualify, you must have completed at least one year at CHC, have a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.7, and remain enrolled full-time (minimum 12 credits per term) during the 2003-04 academic year. More specific criteria for some scholarships are listed below. Application materials must be submitted to the CHC Office by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, March 14. In addition to the scholarships listed, the Wigham Family, Wilma Wittemyer and Jean Wittemyer scholarships are awarded based on faculty nominations and no application is required. Winners of all scholarships will be announced in May. CHC Service Award Andrea Gellatly Memorial Scholarship Edward C. Sargent III Scholarship Joy Poust Scholarship IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR SENIORS (Back to Top) All forms mentioned in this section (in italics) are available online at: honors.uoregon.edu/students/forms 1. Senior Thesis Seminar 2. Graduation Analysis 3. Scheduling Oral Defense Once the oral defense has been scheduled, the student must submit a Thesis Evaluation to Jody Green no later than three weeks before the defense. No Oral Defense of Thesis will be scheduled during or after the final two weeks of the term (Dead Week and finals week) nor during the vacation breaks during the nine-month academic year. 4. Fellowships 5. Final Thesis Copies SPRING 2003 COURSE DESCRIPTIONS LITERATURE (Back to Top) HC 223H 4 Credits Professor Sharon Schuman HONORS COLLEGE LITERATURE In 2003 we are almost too cynical even to ask "how should we live and what should we value?" Although we crave answers to this question no less than others have over the centuries, we face major obstacles to the asking, let alone the answering, of it. This course will explore some of these obstacles as presented, resisted, or surmounted by some of the finest writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Texts will include the "Ode on a Grecian Urn" (John Keats), "My Last Duchess" (Robert Browning), Frankenstein (Mary Shelley), "Dover Beach" (Matthew Arnold), "The Second Coming" (W.B. Yeats), "The Love-Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (T.S. Eliot), "The Windhover" (Gerard Manley Hopkins), three short stories (Franz Kafka), Notes from Underground (Dostoevsky), Beloved (Toni Morrison), and White Teeth (Zadie Smith). Class time will focus on discussion based on careful reading. There will be two short papers (2-5 pages), one research paper (8-10 pages), ungraded exercises and group work, both in and out of class, a midterm, and a final exam. HC 222H 4 Credits Professor Bennett Huffman HONORS COLLEGE LITERATURE The debate I have been having in my head is between seminal texts and representative texts, literary historical timeline, cultural diversity, and gender balance. Choosing ten-weeks worth of texts is impossible. It would be nice to pick a representative play, poem, and novel from every fifty-year period between 1650 and the present, but there just is not enough time. Instead I have chosen to focus on the key literary issues of the period. We shall be reading ten books, supplemented by handouts starting with the Japanese Haiku of the seventeenth century moving through Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage the most popular romantic poem of its day, through Austen, Whitman, Elliot, Woolf, Pirandello, and ending with Ginsberg, Kesey, and Sam Shepard. HC 223H 4 Credits Professor Louise Bishop HONORS COLLEGE LITERATURE This third term of Honors College Literature continues the last two terms' literary-historical survey. The course requires attentive reading of both primary texts and literary criticism; it also requires, at the end of the term, the production of an original research paper. To meet the course's goals we will divide our reading of primary texts and their secondary criticism among four literary-critical modes from the last two centuries:
After reading a nineteenth-century novel (Eliot or Bronte), we will approach modernism through poetry (T.S. Eliot) and novel (Wolfe), then move to Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things to assess colonialism and post-colonialism. We will read a play and novel through which to understand postmodernism. Requirements will include response papers, article summaries, annotated bibliographies, a class presentation, and a term paper. HC 223H 4 Credits Professor Frances Cogan HONORS COLLEGE LITERATURE This term we will be discussing the struggle between the individual and society. Does the individual have the right to refuse to follow society's rules, and if so, under what circumstances? Does Society have the right to protect itself from aberrant individuals who wish to cause the breakdown of society and the growth of chaos? How do the rights of the one and the many find a balance which is neither societally repressive or individually destructive? To do this we will study authors from a variety of races, nationalities, ethnicities. We will study as well both male and female authors. During this term, this theme will be studied primarily in the genre of fiction, and students will learn to analyze the work using the elements of that genre, such as point of view, characterization, plot, setting, and theme. We will also explore the theme outside fiction in handouts which offer examples of both the Pre-Romantic and the Romantic poets in England, France, Germany, and the U.S. and in one modern play as well. Texts will include: HISTORY (Back to Top) HC 233H 4 Credits Professor Daniel Rosenberg "Modernity and Its Discontents" In this, the third and final segment of our year-long introductory history sequence, we will examine notions of modernity and modernization, asking whether these are the best possible terms in which to think about the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. We will be especially attentive to historical problems that challenge our preconceptions about meaning and direction in history. We will also concentrate on methods and practices of historical research. HC 233H 4 Credits Professor Roxann Prazniak "Western Europe: Global Emergence and the Decentering of Europe" This course examines the 19th and 20th centuries in Western Europe and the world. During this period, European industrial power reached its zenith globally and then self-destructed through internal warfare, bringing the United States and the Soviet Union into competition for worldwide authority. We will continue our method of looking at Western Europe in a comparative framework in order to grasp a more complex understanding of both Europe's historical patterns and historical analysis itself. Our readings will include Geothe's Faust, The Railway Journey by Schivelbusch, Weintraub's Silent Night on the Christmas truce of World War I, and Lao She's play The Teahouse. Short written assignments will accompany these readings for the first seven weeks of the course. The last three weeks will focus on the completion of a ten-page research paper on a topic of your choice. HC 205H 4 Credits Professor Gloria Tseng HONORS COLLEGE HISTORY This course will cover the nineteenth and twentieth centuries from a comparative perspective. The Opium War, imperialism, and the two world wars will be the main themes for the course. Reading assignments will include Remarque's All Quiet On the Western Front, Achebe's Things Fall Apart, Snow's Red Star Over China, Kovaly's Under A Cruel Star, and Wiesel's Night. HC 233H 4 Credits Professor André Lambelet HONORS COLLEGE HISTORY In the third term of the year-long Honors College History sequence, we will study politics, society, and culture in Europe from 1789 to the present, as well as the impact of European colonial contact . We will study the great transformations that helped form the world we live in, touching on themes of revolution, subjugation, and emancipation. Readings will include selections from Tocqueville, Wollstonecraft, Marx, Freud, and others. SPECIAL STUDIES (Back to Top) HC 199H 3 Credits Freshman Seminar - open to non-CHC students. Professor David Frank SPECIAL STUDIES Through careful examination of famous public speeches by Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Jessie Jackson, Barbara Jordan, and others, we will identify the principles of moral reasoning and effective public speaking. Students will write one three-page paper on one famous speech and will take a short examination 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 habits of mind and speech needed to wed knowledge to eloquence. MACROECONOMICS (Back to Top) HC 205H 4 Credits Professor Mark Thoma HONORS COLLEGE MACROECONOMICS The objective of the course is to understand how the macroeconomy functions. We will study the determination of national income, the price level and inflation, unemployment, and interest rates. The focus is on how these macroeconomic aggregates are determined and what causes changes in these aggregates over time, i.e., the reasons for economic growth and business cycles. The operations of the Federal Reserve System and the effects of monetary policy, the effects of fiscal policies such as changes in taxes and government expenditures and the effects of budget deficits, and the effects of supply side policies on the economy are also examined. Course requirements include several homework assignments, a midterm, a comprehensive final exam, and a short paper. The midterm and final will be essay questions and problems. The paper topic is to examine a current macroeconomic issue using the analytical tools developed in the course. The main text for the course is Macroeconomics Principles and Policy by William J. Baumol S. Blinder, 9th Edition. SCIENCE (Back to Top) HC 209H 4 Credits Professor James Schombert HONORS COLLEGE SCIENCE The 21st century will be a golden age for scientific knowledge and technological progress. During this last century, our view of Nature shifted from a Cartesian-Newtonian view of a clockwork Universe to an expanding Universe ruled by chaos, complexity and quantum uncertainty. This course will explore scientific topics concerning the macroscopic world, microscopic world and cosmology (dynamics, elementary particles, galaxies, Big Bang) in the context of the philosophy of science that we use to apply meaning to reality (reductionism, emergence, holism and creation). The website for this class is zebu.uoregon.edu/~js/21st_century_science. COLLOQUIA (Back to Top) COLLOQUIA ARE LIMITED TO STUDENTS WITH SOPHOMORE STANDING AND ABOVE. HC 415H 4 Credits Professor Robert Kyr HC WORLD PERSPECTIVES COLLOQUIUM Open to CHC students and School of Music students (see below for registration instructions). Please contact Robert Kyr when you enroll for the course (346-3766 or rkyr@oregon.uoregon.edu). In this period of war and increased conflict throughout the world, this course offers students the opportunity to study the text and music of works by some of the greatest composers who have addressed peace-related themes, including Benjamin Britten, Serge Prokofiev, Giuseppe Verdi, Arnold Schoenberg, John Adams, Steve Reich, and Lou Harrison. The class will also study the "Requiem of Reconciliation," a work by 14 composers from around the world which was commissioned to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the end of World War II. Class materials include videos, a film ("Alexander Nevsky" which was directed by Sergei Eisenstein), compact discs, and special interviews of the featured composers that were given by the instructor himself. Class projects will be two medium-length papers and a creative project. For the latter, students will write the text for a musical work that will be created by selected composers from the School of Music. PLEASE NOTE: THERE ARE NO MUSIC PREREQUISITES FOR THIS COURSE; also, it may be used for the Arts & Letters or Multicultural distribution requirement. When you enroll to take the course (or if you have questions), please contact Robert Kyr by email (rkyr@oregon.uoregon.edu) or phone (346-3766). REGISTRATION INSTRUCTIONS: The enrollment cap is 24 total students, 16 Clark Honors College students and 8 School of Music students (composers and theorists). School of Music students must come to the CHC Office (CHA 320) for a limit override and a restriction override in order to register for the class. HC 421H 4 Credits Instructor Maram Epstein, EALL HC ARTS & LETTERS COLLOQUIUM Even though the two masterworks, Remembrance of Things Past and The Dream of the Red Chamber, share many themes and aesthetic features, each can be read as representative, perhaps even a culmination, of the respective cultural and aesthetic traditions that shaped the author's worldview. The goal of the course will be to learn how to read these two sprawling non-linear narratives and gain an understanding of how each constructs the central protagonist not so much as an agent (since neither of them really seems to do anything) but as a lyric consciousness whose identity is shaped through aesthetic and emotional reactions to external events. In Remembrance of Things Past, Marcel Proust gives full expressions to the longings and anxieties of latenineteenth century European romanticism confronting the technological, social, intellectual and aesthetic challenges of twentieth-century modernity. Much like the impressionist painters who were his contemporaries, Proust created his own narrative style that is as much about the expression of his own subjectivity as it is about the world he describes. The earliest readers of the manuscript described it as unreadable and with little or no worthwhile content; while we might often share their frustration, the goal of our readings will be to understand how Proust's non-narrative style reflects the new definitions of self, identity and perspective emerging with the romantic emphasis on the individual and the new science of psychology. Cao Xueqin's Dream of the Red Chamber is an equally ambitious and complex attempt to create a model of individuality through aesthetics and memory. Strikingly, the search for individual meaning in this eighteenth-century Chinese novel does not culminate in the individual consciousness, as it does for Proust, but in a Buddhist understanding of the cyclical nature of life and the need to transcend the ego. My vision for this comparative course is that we will read a significant portion of the first two volumes of each novel. Both of these autobiographical works are non-narrative and engage complex and culturally-based symbolic vocabularies; both deal with the big questions of individual identity and meaning. The most basic task will be to learn how to read these lyric novels. My goal is for us to read each work within its own cultural context to gain a deeper understanding of how similar tropes, themes and values (aesthetic taste, love, jealousy, ethnic difference, gender inversions and homosexuality, to name just a few) can mean very different things within different aesthetic traditions. Clearly a 10-week course cannot do justice to these two masterworks. All I can hope for is that students will finish the course with: i) a deeper appreciation of the aesthetic complexity of each text; and ii) having confronted two profoundly different constructions of the meaning of individual identity. Students will make a presentation on some aspect of each novel, write a short 5-page paper on each work (based on their presentation). They will then write a longer comparative paper (about 12-15 pages) analyzing how an aesthetic feature (such as characterization or architectural symbolism) or theme (such as illness, desire, or artistic production) is utilized by each author. HC 415H 4 Credits Professor André Lambelet
On August 26, 1789, the French National Assembly voted to adopt the "Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen." Its first article began, "Men are born and remain free and equal in rights." Yet if the French can be thought the authors of the modern notion of human rights, French practice was more ambiguous than this optimistic document affirmed. In this course, we will look at the way in which the lofty principles of universal human rights collided with France's colonial ambitions. Topics we will address will include: debates over slavery during the French Revolution; the Haitian Revolution; the challenge to liberal principles posed by French colonial ambitions; the place of race in French culture and in citizenship debates in France; and decolonization. HC 421H 4 Credits Professor Sonya Packer HC ARTS & LETTERS COLLOQUIUM This course will make you value your accumulated knowledge, information and understanding, cherish your own definitions and delight in your own well-turned phrases. You will follow a principled process ethically designed to ensure that your argument reaches and moves its listeners and respects their responses. Whatever your field of endeavor, whatever your thesis, your successful advocacy will need your heart, your mind and your strong vocal presence. In Oral Advocacy you will use them all. HC 421H 4 Credits Professor Sherrie Barr HC ARTS & LETTERS COLLOQUIUM How should we "read" today's dance stories? What should we "see" to understand the performance's unfolding tale? Dance-theatre artists engaged in the contemporary narrative seem to be in a place where private and public spheres overlap. Boundaries are further blurred as strands of dance, text, and other theatrical elements are woven into the narrative. In these unfolding spectacles, whose story is being told can often be as revealing as the actual tale. In this class we will examine how the contemporary narrative in dance performance can come to life and perhaps, even give meaning to the cultural world-at-large. Videos will be a primary source for examining this trend of the narrative spectacle in performance. Essays will inform us about the choreographer's sense of personal identity, the role of the performers, and the play of the everyday in the postmodern tale. Videos, readings, and our discussions will provide us with the lens to see, hear, and play with our stories. As there are some relevant performances happening in our area during the Spring Term, the possibilities of attending a live performance will be discussed within the first week. Choreographers and works to be examined include Bill T. Jones' The Promised Land/Last Supper and Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake, and Mark Morris' The Hard Nut. No special knowledge of dance is presumed. Requirements: brief reflective writing, class presentations. HC 421H 4 Credits Professor Frances Cogan HC ARTS & LETTERS COLLOQUIUM This term we will explore the development of the Gothic in literature, not only American and English, but also French and German as well. We will focus on the two "kinds" of Gothic literature that evolved: "Terror Gothic" and "Horror Gothic", the first represented by Ann Radcliffe and Stephen King's Misery, the other by Lewis' The Monk and horror literature like Salem's Lot. In each case, we will debate the central question of all Gothic literature: what is the nature of Evil, and is it located inside or outside and independent of human beings? TEXTS studied will include the following: There will be two critical papers required (5-7 pgs) and an oral report on a work of outside reading which may substitute for the second paper. Final will be essay and take-home OR it can be substituted for by a "Gothic Project." These in the past have included such things as architectural models of a building described in one of the works or of a specific room; original Gothic short stories; Gothic paintings and stained glass; performance of Gothic music (i.e. "Danse Macabre" on a flute), and a series of three Gothic drawings (pen and ink or charcoal) illustrating one of the works. Grading will be as follows: 2 papers (or one plus oral report) = 60% of final grade; final exam or project = 30%; class participation and preparation = 10%. No more than one absence is excused without my approval. HC 441H 4 Credits Instructor Dennis Todd and Robert Zimmerman HC SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM Most of us live in a common-sense reality where Newtonian mechanics describes the actions of objects, living organisms are readily distinguished from the non-living environment, and matter and energy are distinct and separate. But science says that common sense is an illusion, that reality is far more mysterious than it seems. In this course, we will concentrate on our fundamental assumptions about life, energy, and matter. We will ask, "What is life?" and "What is real?" Relativity, quantum physics, and theoretical biology give answers that are profoundly different from the everyday beliefs that most of us hold. Class participation and in-class discussions will be emphasized. Attendance and punctuality are essential. Grades will be based on weekly reading responses, two term papers, and class presentations. SEMINARS (Back to Top) HC 407H 2 Credits PASS/NO PASS ATTENDANCE MANDATORY Professor Gloria Tseng SENIOR THESIS SEMINAR This Senior Thesis Seminar is specifically designed for those students who plan to graduate "off-cycle" - Summer, Fall or Winter term, or who will not be a student in residence Fall Term. Students will spend the majority of their time in the seminar polishing their prospectuses and then participating in a mock oral examination. Before enrolling in the seminar, students should have...
OPEN-ENDED COURSES (Back to Top) If you wish to take an open-ended course, as listed below, please follow these steps.
Please note that open-ended courses are subject to the same deadlines as all other courses. HC 403H CRN 32112 Variable Credits HC 405H CRN 32113 Variable Credits HC 406H CRN 32114 Variable Credits HC 409H CRN 32120 Variable Credits DON'T MISS OUT! Did you want to take Professor Alley's great class on Reading and Writing Fiction last this Winter term, but couldn't get in? It's being offered again in the Summer! SUMMER TERM 2003 (Back to Top) HC 421H 4 Credits Professor Henry Alley HONORS COLLEGE ARTS & LETTERS The texts will be the stories of Welty, Carver, Porter, Woolf, O'Connor, and Walker. I believe students can learn to use basic narrative techniques through the reading and discussion of classic modern short stories. The course will begin with the raw material -- the journal -- then move on to autobiography and fictionalized first-person accounts to finally third-person short stories which shift points of view and use interior monologue. In class, stories will be discussed to highlight technique, as well as the major concerns of characterization, style, tone, and plot. At appropriate times, students will listen to recordings of authors reading their own work, in order to encourage an understanding of prose rhythms, pace of plot, nuance of dialogue and, finally, literary ambiguity. Also, at various intervals, students work will be duplicated and discussed, so that each person has a chance to get feedback. Students will be encouraged to attach those journal entries which gave rise to their finished work, so that the creative process may be considered as well.
Writing assignments include several stories and a writer's journal. Class enrollment limited to twenty-two.
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