Spring 2004 Newsletter

Important Dates    |    Short Story Reading    |    Scholarships    |    Graduate Appreciation Dinner
Commencement Banner Carrier    |    Commencement    |    Final Graduation Form
Grade Point Average    |    Important Information for Seniors    |    Spring 2004 Course Descriptions
Literature    |    History    |    Economics    |    Science    |    Colloquia    |    Special Course Offerings
Seminars    |    Open-ended Courses    |    Fall Term 2004

SPRING 2004 - IMPORTANT DATES

February 23 - March 5
Spring Term registration

March 11 - Thursday
Winter Term graduates' last day to submit final thesis copies to the CHC Office

March 15 - Monday
Winter Term last day of class. Scholarship application deadline (page 2)

March 15-19
Winter Term finals week

March 22-26
Spring Vacation

March 29 - Monday
Spring Term first day of classes

April 9 - Friday
Spring Term graduates' deadline and Summer Term graduates' priority deadline to apply for graduation.
Apply at the Registrar's Office

May 3-7
Summer Term registration

May 11 - Tuesday
Graduate Appreciation Dinner and Dance for 2004 graduates

May 17-28
Fall Term registration

May 31 - Monday
Memorial Day holiday - no school

June 3 - Thursday
Spring Term graduates' last day to submit final thesis copies to the CHC Office

June 4 - Friday
Spring Term last day of class

June 7-11
Spring Term finals week

June 11 - Friday
CHC Commencement

June 12 - Saturday
UO Commencement

June 21 - Monday
Summer Term first day of class

SHORT STORY READING BY HENRY ALLEY back to top

Henry Alley, CHC literature professor and author, will read his short story, "The Rembrandt Brother-hood" in the Robert D. Clark Library on Tuesday, April 13 at 7:30 pm, followed by a reception at 8:30 pm. "The Rembrandt Brotherhood," the story of a gay American tourist in Holland who becomes changed by a Dutch painting, received Honorable Mention in the Richard Hall Memorial Contest, overseen by the Lambda Foundation at their Literary Festival in Provincetown, Massachusetts

Prof. Alley will also distribute free copies of another of his personal works, "The Summer of the Beautiful Pink Hydrangea," which was published by Harrington Gay Men's' Fiction Quarterly.

CLARK HONORS COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPS back to top

For all scholarships, students must
·   have completed one full year in CHC
·   be in good academic standing
·   remain enrolled full-time (minimum 12 credits per term) for the following academic year
For additional information, see Scholarships and Other Opportunities

GRADUATE APPRECIATION DINNER AND DANCE back to top

Fall, Winter, Spring, and Summer 2004 graduates are invited to the Graduate Appreciation Dinner and Dance on Tuesday, May 11 in the EMU Ballroom at 6:30 p.m. 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.

COMMENCEMENT BANNER CARRIER back to top

Each year one CHC graduating senior is chosen to carry the Robert D. Clark Honors College banner in both the CHC and UO Spring Commencement ceremonies. As part of this honor, the college will cover the cost of the banner carrier's regalia. If you are interested in being the banner carrier for Clark Honors College, please submit the following information to Brandon Finch in the CHC Office no later than Friday, April 9: your name, home address, phone number, and email address. You must graduate Spring 2004 and attend both commencement ceremonies to be eligible. The banner carrier will be chosen by CHC Director Richard Kraus and will be notified at the end of April.

CLARK HONORS COLLEGE COMMENCEMENT back to top

Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall 2004 graduates, their families and thesis advisors, CHC faculty and staff are invited to attend the Clark Honors College Commencement on Friday, June 11, 2004 in the EMU Ballroom at 7:00 p.m. A reception in the Fountain Courtyard will follow the commencement ceremony at approximately 8:30 p.m. A number of awards 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 by way of the Final Graduation Form. 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 plan to graduate should complete a Final Graduation Form and submit it to the CHC Office.

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, stu-dents may petition to remain in Clark Honors College. If you have concerns about your GPA, please con-tact your CHC advisor.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR SENIORS back to top

1. Thesis Seminar
The Thesis Seminar must be taken at least two terms before graduation. All seniors planning to graduate Spring 2005 should take the Seminar Fall 2004. Those who have not yet enrolled in the Seminar must file a Thesis Seminar Application with Jody Green before they can enroll on a first-come, first-serve basis. Be forewarned that spaces are limited and fill quickly.

2. Graduation Analysis
Students taking the Thesis Seminar are required to meet with their CHC Advisors for a preliminary graduation analysis. This must occur before the end of Thesis Seminar or the student will not pass the course. Students should also have a graduation analysis done in their major department.

3. Scheduling Oral Defense
Students need to schedule the week of their oral defenses through Jody Green. Be prepared with sev-eral options for both dates and CHC professors for your committee. There is a limit of one oral per week for each CHC professor. Don't delay - weeks fill quickly - and don't assume you can get the CHC faculty member of your choice.
Once the oral defense has been scheduled, the student must submit a Thesis Evaluation Form to Jody Green no later than three weeks before the defense.

4. Fellowships
CHC Senior Research Fellowships are available for 2004-2005. Because the thesis and an oral examination are mandatory for graduation from Clark Honors College, it is important to be able to count on financial help with the expenses of producing a thesis. Typical expenses reimbursed are: Costs of required books that are unavailable in libraries, copying expenses, lab equipment and long distance phone calls connected with research.
In order to receive fellowship support, students must submit receipts and a Senior Research Fellowship Application to the CHC office after the final two copies of the thesis have been turned in. Emergency requests for funds in advance of completion of the thesis may be submitted for special review anytime after the senior thesis prospectus, signed by the faculty advisor, has been submitted to CHC.

5. Final Thesis Copies
Final copies of the thesis must be turned in no later than the Thursday of Week 10 (the week before finals) for the term in which you are graduating. Please attach a Thesis Envelope Cover Sheet to the outside of your envelope.

SPRING 2004 COURSE DESCRIPTIONS back to top

LITERATUREback to top

HC 223H			4 Credits
CRN 32145	8:00-8:50	MWF	CHA 307

Professor Ce Rosenow

HONORS COLLEGE LITERATURE
"Modernism/Modernity"

This course explores the literatures of the 19th and 20th centuries as they move into and out of the mod-ernist period. During the term we will read works from many countries including Germany, Italy, England, the United States, and Japan as we consider literary responses to the concept of modernity. We will pay special attention to instances of formal innovation and to the impact that literatures of different cultures had on one another. This class also contains an emphasis on research and writing. To this end we will discuss various critical approaches to literature, engage in scholarly research, and produce moderate-length research papers on one or more of the texts covered in class. There will also be a midterm, a final, and occasional short assignments.

HC 223H			4 Credits
CRN 32146	10:00-11:20	UH	CHA 307

Professor Louise Bishop

HONORS COLLEGE LITERATURE
"Waves of Change"

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:
·   the creation of the novel in the nineteenth century and its use of "medieval" as a theme
·   the advent of twentieth-century modernism
·   the colonial impulse and post-colonial critique
·   post-modernism and the "new"
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 (Tom Stoppard's "Arcadia") and novel (TBA) 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
CRN 32147	10:00-11:20	UH	CHA 303
CRN 32148	12:00-13:20	UH	CHA 303

Professor Helen Southworth

HONORS COLLEGE LITERATURE
"Webs of Modernism"

This course focuses primarily on literature of the Modernist period (roughly 1890-1945), but ranges across the 19th and 20th centuries. We'll begin by looking at modernist antecedents, then we'll read a range of modernist works. We'll end the course by exploring the modernist legacy in the late twentieth century. Texts will be selected from among the following: Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, Thomas Hardy's Return of the Native, Henry James' The Ambassadors, Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea, Wyndham Lewis' Tarr, Richard Wright's Native Son, T.S.Eliot's The Wasteland, Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, Marcel Proust's Swann's Way, Michael Cunningham's The Hours, Monique Truong's Book of Salt, Hong Ying's K or the Art of Loving. The class will be a mixture of lecture and discussion. Requirements include a 5 page midterm paper and a 10 page final research paper. Participation in class discussions is essential.

HC 223H			4 Credits
CRN 32149	12:00-13:20	UH	CHA 307
CRN 32150	14:00-15:20	UH	CHA 307

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:
Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front
Dumas's (pere) The Count of Monte Cristo (abridged)
Lee's Farewell My Concubine
Mamet-Oleanna
Merlinda Bobis The Kissing (short. Stories)
Orwell - 1984
Thurber - My Life and Hard Times
Bedford Handbook
Handouts in class: examples of poetry from among most of the following poets: Burns, Blake, Shelley, Keats, Byron, Wordsworth, Hugo, Lamartine, Emerson, Dickinson, and Goethe.

HC 223H			4 Credits
CRN 32151	18:00-19:20	UH	CHA 307

Professor Henry B. Wonham

HONORS COLLEGE LITERATURE
"Forms of Literary Anarchy"

Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism, Modernism, and Post-Modernism are some of the benchmarks typi-cally employed to chart the parallel development of European, British, and American literary history during the last two centuries. Scholars and critics devise such impressive "isms" to mark decisive shifts in the in-tellectual spirit of an era or region, and yet in an important sense each of these terms signifies the same thing: namely, a revolutionary urge to transcend expressive forms associated with history and convention in order to speak, write, and act "naturally." With-out obscuring real differences between writers of various periods, we will take this drive toward the transcendence of form as our unifying theme, measuring its im-pact on literary experiments by Romantics and Post-Modernists alike. Along the way, we will encounter some of the great works of Western intellectual history, including philosophical writings by Rousseau, Schiller, Emerson, Nietzsche, and Heidegger; poetry by Wordsworth, Coleridge, Whitman, Dickinson, T.S. Eliot, Frost, Stevens, and Williams; and fiction by Goethe, Flaubert, Mann, Faulkner, and Pynchon.

HISTORYback to top

HC 233H			4 Credits
CRN 32153	10:00-10:50	MWF	CHA 307
CRN 32154	11:00-11:50	MWF	CHA 307

Professor Joseph Fracchia

HONORS COLLEGE HISTORY
"Revolutions in the 'Modern' World"

Before the "Dual Revolution," that is, the Industrial Revolution of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and French Revolution of 1789, the term "revolution" was generally used to mean "the moving round in an orbit or circular course" characteristic of heavenly bodies. Even the English Revolution of 1688 and to a significant degree the U.S. anti-colonial revolt of 1775 were carried out with the intent of returning to, or restoring, a(n imagined) previous state of affairs. In the wake of the Dual Revolution, however, "revolution" came to mean "a turning over," an "upheaval," that gives rise to something qualitatively new. This course will focus on the various kinds of revolutions (political-legal, socio-economic, anti-colonial, feminist) that have occurred since 1789.
The first part of this course will focus: first on the fundamental transformation of European society by the French and Industrial Revolutions; second, on the augmentation of European military might by the latter and the partitioning of virtually the entire world into European colonies. Beneath its formidable façade in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, European society at its zenith was rent by deep class, gender, and racial faultlines that led to left (communist)- and right (fascist)-wing revolutions and to the collapse of "civilization" into the barbarism of the second Thirty-Years War (more commonly known as World Wars I and II). Europe's self-destruction and the emergence of the U.S. and Soviet Union as "superpowers" will be the third theme of the first half of the course. The second half will focus anti-colonial revolutions in Africa, the Middle East and Asia that imbricated the Cold-War superpowers. The concluding week of the quarter will focus on the state of the world since the fall of the Soviet Union and East Block in 1989.
Readings include: Henrik Ibsen, A Doll House, Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto, Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, and selected readings from Rosa Luxemburg, W.E.B. DuBois, Ngugi wa Thiongo, Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Kwame Nkruhma, Chinua Achebe, Julius Nyrere, Nelson Mandela, V.I. Lenin, Adolf Hitler, Mao Zedong; documents from the U.S. Women's movements.
Writing Assignments: 3-4 page review of a book to be used for your research paper; 10-12 page research paper; final exam.

HC 233H			4 Credits
CRN 32157	14:00-15:20	MW	CHA 307
CRN 35037	18:00-19:20	MW	CHA 307

Professor Kristen McCleary

HONORS COLLEGE HISTORY
"Resistance Movements: Global Contractionism Social Movements, and the Individual in the Twentieth Century"

This course approaches the history of the twentieth century through the prism of global social movements. Following the dawn of "modernity," we see an increased political and social interest on the individual. How do individuals then assert their own rights against state power? We will examine the development of the concept of human rights and social justice that emerge out of enlightenment thought. How do Western concepts become absorbed and adapted in a global context? By looking at a variety of case studies we will seek to answer the following questions: what defines a social movement? What are the circumstances under which social movements have developed in the last century? What strategies of resistance are used by each social movement and are they successful? Social movements are often composed of full-time activists, occasional participants and sympathizers who challenge the established power structures. We will interpret social movements broadly and carefully examine the global structures that have created both the space and the need for social change to occur. Amongst the movements, both global and local, peaceful and violent, we will consider are the following: workers, temperance, suffragist, national independence, anti-apartheid, student protests, civil rights, and pro-democracy.

HC 233H			4 Credits
CRN 32152	9:00-9:50	MWF	CHA 307
CRN 32155	12:00-12:50	MWF	CHA 307
CRN 32156	13:00-13:50	MWF	CHA 307

Professor Jordan Shapiro

HONORS COLLEGE HISTORY
"Visions and Versions of Freedom: Topics in Modern History: 1789-2004"

For most Americans and many other people around the globe, "freedom" is an unequivocally worthy ideal. Few of us would doubt the centrality of freedom of speech and thought to our society, and indeed, throughout the modern era, these ideas have inspired political and social change around the world. However, what exactly do people mean when they invoke the principle of "freedom?" This course will examine various ways freedom has been conceptualized, valued, and expressed during the last 200 years. We will look at pivotal political movements (e.g., the French Revolution), writings of renowned thinkers (e.g., Marx, Freud) and important social changes (e.g., industrialization, "globalization") in which actors have championed different and competing visions of liberty. In doing so, we will also discover uneasiness with "wrong" or excessive forms of freedom. In turn, the scrutiny we pay to the various manifestations of "freedom" will contribute to building a vocabulary for confronting historical change of various kinds.

ECONOMICS back to top

HC 204H			4 Credits
CRN 35738	12:00-13:50	UH	CHA 227

Professor Mark Thoma

HONORS COLLEGE MICROECONOMICS

The purpose of this course is to introduce students to fundamental microeconomic concepts and to the tools utilized by economists and policy makers. In general, the focus will be on theoretical models of consumer and producer behavior in markets and their application towards real world problems and policies. The fundamental economic concepts in this class will help students disentangle many complex issues facing the world economy today and prepare them for further study in economics.

SCIENCE back to top

HC 209H			4 Credits
CRN 32114	10:00-11:20	MWF	WIL 112

Professor James Schombert

HONORS COLLEGE SCIENCE
"21st Century 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 412H			4 Credits
CRN 35039	16:00-17:20	MW	CHA 303

Instructors Carla Gary and Joseph Fracchia

This course satisfies UO's Identity, Pluralism, and Tolerance multicultural requirement.

HC IDENTITIES COLLOQUIUM
"Visions of Freedom III: The Violence of Constraint - Theoretical Questions, Lived Experience, and Legal Issues in Race and Class"

In our world, in which "violence" is defined as that which "criminals" and "terrorists" do, we might do well to recall the etymology of the English term - from the Greek ßia, meaning bodily strength, but which has the derived meaning: "to constrain." Seen as "constraint," "violence" becomes a much wider and deeper term, referring not just to the exercise of physical force, but as the exercise of any kind of constraint that infringes on a person's or a group's freedom. Seen as "constraint," then, violence is the direct opposite of "free-dom" - a term that has become so inflated today that it is applied to, in order to sell, everything from shoes, to cars, to cell phones. In this course we intend to return to this original meaning of "violence" in order to rethink notions of freedom. We will focus primarily on race and class, but also on how race and class are mediated by gender, and study how these socially constructed categories exercise constraints that obstruct the freedom of those whose identity and life-experience are defined by them. By exposing the constraining dimensions of violence, we will be able to define in greater depth the hidden dimensions of freedom.
In the first two-thirds of the course we will study first the categories of race and class and then the rela-tions (intersecting, parallel, opposing) between them. In the study of these categories, our inquiry will be concerned with three issues: the social construction of the category; the consequences of its institutionali-zation; and the lived experience of those whose lives are constrained by them - both the violence suffered and the forms of resistance they develop.
In the final third of the course we will turn attention to the problem of social inequalities and the law. We will focus on legal battles over questions of comparable worth, affirmative action, and reparations for slave labor in order to determine what dimensions of freedom are embedded in our constitution and to what di-mensions might it be myopic if not blind.
Readings include: Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth; Robin D.B. Kelley, Yo Mama's Dysfunctional; Paule Marshall, Praisesong for the Widow; Richard Wright, Native Son: Studs Terkel, Working; W.E.B DuBois, Selected Writings; Barbara Garson, The Electronic Sweatshop; Robert Howard, Brave New Workplace.

HC 415H			4 Credits
CRN 32163	14:00-15:20	UH	CHA 303

Professor Ann Maxwell

HC INTERNATIONAL CULTURES COLLOQUIUM
"Myth, the Media, and Nature"

This course will use contemporary media to explore the manner in which mythology adds meaning to the human experience. "Nature" will be the subject of exploration. The question, "What myths are we living now?" will anchor all inquiry. We will work to understand the ebb and flow of in our current world as it is revealed through our most ubiquitous source for story - the media.
To launch our discussion, we will examine the human capacity for mythmaking through the lens of archetypal psychology. We will consider various perspectives on the concepts of archetype, unconscious process, and the language of the unconscious - dream and image. Using these perspectives we will look at contemporary media - movies, television, advertising, and print media (newspaper and magazine) - to identify emerging and concurrent mythic themes that illuminate our current relationship to the natural world.
Authors informing our inquiry write in a wide range of disciplines. Some to be required are Joseph Campbell, Mircea Eliade, Sigmund Freud, James Hillman, C. G. Jung, and William Shakespeare. Additional readings by contemporary scholars who examine the relationship of myth and the human psyche will be assigned. Specific additional readings, relevant to your final topic, will also be required.
Class meetings will consist of some lecture with an emphasis on informed discussion. Course requirements will include an 18 to 20-page paper or a 20-minute formal presentation to the class by a limited number of students.

HC 421H			4 Credits
CRN 32165	16:00-18:50	M	CHI 125

Professors Marilyn Linton and Ann Tedards

HC ARTS & LETTERS COLLOQUIUM
"Word and Tone: German Poetry and Song"

Some of the most beautiful poetry in the German language has become celebrated throughout the world in its most popular form, that of the Lied, or German Art Song. Are you interested in poetry and what it tells us about ourselves and about a society's culture, history, and politics? Are you drawn to music and want to learn more about the short compositions of some of the best known German and Austrian composers? Then consider "Word and Tone." This course offers an in-depth examination of selected Lieder (German Art Songs) and their respective poets and composers, such as Goethe and Eichendorff, and Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, and Wolf. The course is designed for students from all disciplines. An elementary knowledge of the German language and the basics of music suggested, but not required. In addition to readings, lectures and discussion, the class will listen to selected recordings and attend performances.

HC 421H			4 Credits
CRN 32166	16:00-17:20	UH	CHA 307

Professor Donald Taylor

HC ARTS & LETTERS COLLOQUIUM
"Jane Austen"

Jane Austen is one of the two or three major novelists in English. Around her twentieth year she began to quietly revolutionize both the subject matter and the techniques of the young English novel. In our discussions we will explore these advances and her ability to people the conventional plot of the popular romance with an astonishing variety of unique invented characters and their interrelationships.
Grades will be based on the extent and quality of participation in class discussion and on six papers of 1000 to 1500 words, one for each of her six major novels.

HC 431H			4 Credits
CRN 35040	16:00-18:50	H	CHA 303

Professor Caleb Southworth

HC SOCIAL SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM
"Economic Sociology"

Economic sociology attempts to explain the social context in which economic laws function. The econ-omy itself - particularly the historical origins of markets and capitalism - are a classical area of inquiry within sociology. To over-simplify the differences between economic sociology and economics, we could say that economics is particularly interested in the development and testing of economic laws within mar-kets, whereas economic sociology explores the conditions under which markets or economic institutions come into existence. Of course, many economists and sociologists study similar problems. And economic sociology is related to the psychology of individual choice, political economy, and economic history. In short, economic sociology is the sociological perspective applied to economic phenomena.
What do economic sociologists study? You will develop a sophisticated answer to this question by the end of the course, but let's consider three well-known studies. One investigator examined the importance of social networks (web of acquaintances) were involved in finding a job. His surprising conclusion was that weak ties (people other than friends and family) were more important than strong ties. Another study exam-ined how a market for life insurance was developed in the 1900s despite such a commodity being termed "ghoulish" and "immoral." The author concludes that economic necessity and demand were not central in creating this market, rather ideological and cultural factors were causal. A third study of "informal work" in both Latin America and cities in the United States found that people often engaged in off-the-books, un-regulated employment that does not appear in official statistics. While some economists theorized that such marginal work, such as scavenging, petty reselling, and home agriculture, should disappeared as the labor market and economy expanded during industrialization, economic sociologists found that some large manufacturing firms in industrial economies employed informal workers.

HC 431H			4 Credits
CRN 35041	8:30-9:50	MW	CHA 303

Professor Jack Watson

HC SOCIAL SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM
"The Human(ities) Response to War"

At a time when we find our country involved in war, a study of how human beings have used various form of artistic communication to express their personal reaction to the reality of war offers an opportunity to better understand war within a larger context and to examine our own reactions.
The course will include a study of drama (Lysistrata, The Trojan Women, Henry V, Tracers, Mirror-Polishing Storytellers (Iran), the novel (Playing for Time, Black Rain,(Japan) Sarah Morgan, The Sorrow of War (North Vietnam), poetry from Norse sagas ,World War I, and the Gulf War, music including "The Star-Spangled Banner", popular songs of World War II, and Britten's War Requiem, and various examples of monuments, propaganda, protest materials, political cartoons, photography, film, and essays.
Assignments will include four response essays, and a "non-discursive" response which may be an original writing (not an essay), a visual art endeavor, a musical composition, a dance piece, a photographic essay or compilation, or other creative project approved by the instructor. There will be no mid-term exam, but a take-home final will be required.

HC 441H			4 Credits
CRN 32169	10:00-11:20	MW	LIB 42

Professor Gregory Bothun

HC SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM
"The Ecological Footprint of Energy Generation"

This course will deal with the issues of alternative energy sources and sustainable energy sources. The intent is to perform an objective cost-benefit analysis on each form of alternative energy in order to deter-mine what is feasible on a large scale. Full consideration will be given of the ecological footprint of various forms of energy generation since that is what the NIMBY public will react most viscerally to. We will pay particular attention to the efficiency of each alternative energy source as well as what limitations exist in terms of extracting usable energy. We will critique in detail the published Bush energy plan as a template for our energy future.
Currently each form of alternative energy has a passionate set of advocates that insist their form is the "solution". The reality is that regional combinations of different technologies are the only real solution - there is no one answer. The problem is complex at all levels. There are engineering challenges, infrastructure challenges, political challenges, economic consequence, and cultural impediments.
Students will be organized into small teams to investigate and report/write on various issues and will also seek out solutions that hypothetically would provide sustainable power to the City of Eugene for the next 50 years.
The main goals of this class are:

• to gain an understanding of the cost-benefit ratio of various alternative energy sources to see what is feasible on the large scale and what is not.
• to understand some of the various obstacles associated with actual implementation of production line alternative energy facilities.
• to do simple calculations regarding the cost of energy usage and the required infrastructure to deliver a certain amount of power.
• to gain an understanding of how difficult it is to overcome culture barriers, knee-jerk reactions and the prevalent NIMBY attitude to actually come up with a working solution.

HC 441H			4 Credits
CRN 35042	TBA	TBA	CHA 303

Professors Dennis Todd and Paul Engelking

HC SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM
"Willamette River Pollution and Remediation"

In the 1970s, the Willamette River achieved international fame as a restoration success story. After more than a century of gross pollution, cleanup efforts by industries, municipalities, and citizens restored the river to apparently healthy conditions throughout its length. But now, a section of the river is listed as an EPA Superfund site, fish suffer from pollution-caused lesions and skeletal deformities, industries dump millions of pounds of toxic chemicals into the river each year, and runoff from yards, streets, fields, and timber lands carries sediment, petroleum products, pesticides, fertilizers, and other pollutants into the river.
In this class, we will explore the science of freshwater ecology, review the history of the river and watershed, examine the sources, causes, and effects of pollution, and investigate how the river can be cleaned up. Student presentations, guest speakers, and lectures will present varied perspectives. Course requirements include class participation, term papers, presentations, and weekly reading reports, but no exams. There will be one required field trip on Saturday, April 24.

SPECIAL COURSE OFFERINGS back to top

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

ENG 410/510			4 Credits
CRN 31756/31767	14:00-15:20	UH	MCK 125

Instructor Louise Bishop

Non-English majors can register for this class 3 days after the first day of registration.

"Medieval Literature: The Idea of the Vernacular"

In 1999, a ground-breaking anthology of Middle English texts and criticism appeared from Penn State Press. The Idea of the Vernacular, edited by four prominent scholars including Nicholas Watson, shows the self-conscious attitudes of many Middle English named and anonymous authors towards their language and literature. Examples include works from the thirteenth through the fifteenth centuries and touch on devotion, politics, medicine, history (English, Scots, Roman, Trojan), and drama, among other topics. The editors include five essays to ground their assertions about Middle English vernacularity.
As a class we will read selections from each of the book's three parts. We will also work through the five essays, and graduate students will have additional essays to read as well as the requirement to produce an annotated bibliography of secondary sources. Requirements for undergraduates include two short (1000-word) and one long (2500 word) essays; graduate students will compose, in addition to the bibliography, one short paper and a term paper. Additional class meetings will be arranged for graduate students.

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HC 407H			4 Credits
CRN 32161	10:00-11:50	F	CHA 303

PASS/NO PASS     ATTENDANCE MANDATORY

Professor Richard Kraus

THESIS PROSPECTUS SEMINAR

This Thesis Prospectus 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...

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 adviser on possible second readers from their major department, and
4. filled out the Thesis Seminar Application and turned it in to the CHC Office prior to the registration period.

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If you wish to take an open-ended course, as listed below, please follow these steps.

1. Complete a Permission to Register for Open-ended Courses form, 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 the 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 32158	Variable Credits
THESIS

HC 405H	CRN 32159	Variable Credits
READING & CONFERENCE

HC 406H	CRN 32160	Variable Credits
SPECIAL PROBLEMS

HC 409H	CRN 32162	Variable Credits
PRACTICUM

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SCIENCE
HC 207H Honors College Science (Todd)

PSYCHOLOGY
HC 211H Honors College Introduction to Experimental Psychology (Anderson)

LITERATURE
HC 221H Honors College Literature - 8 sessions

HISTORY
HC 231H Honors College History - 8 sessions

SPECIAL STUDIES
HC 199H Moral Reasoning and Public Speaking (Frank)
HC 399H Forensics (Frank)

THESIS SEMINAR
HC 407H Thesis Seminar - 5 sessions

COLLOQUIA
HC 412H Toward Understanding Contemporary American Race Relations (Tuan)
HC 421H Mahatma Gandhi (Earl)
HC 421H Women Pen Science (Bishop)
HC 431H Corporeal/Culture (Fracchia)
HC 431H Constructing Social Theory (Orbell)
HC 441H Cosmology (Schombert)
HC 441H Democracy and Technology (Douglas)

SPECIAL COURSE OFFERINGS
CRWR 451/551 Projects in Writing (Alley)

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