Winter 2004 Newsletter

Important Dates    |    Job Opening    |    2003 History Essay Prizes    |    2003 Literature Essay Prizes
2003 Phi-Beta-Kappa Oregon Six    |    2003 Award Winners    |    2003-2004 Scholarship Winners
Mandatory Thesis Meeting    |    Annual Advising    |    Clark Honors College Student Association
Creative Arts Journal    |    Important Information for Seniors    |    Winter 2004 Course Descriptions
Literature    |    History    |    Special Studies    |    Colloquia    |    Seminars    |    Individualized Study    |    Spring Term 2004

WINTER 2004 - IMPORTANT DATES

November 17-26
Winter Term registration

November 18 - Tuesday
Mandatory Thesis Meeting, 4:00pm, 240 C. McKenzie Hall.

November 26 - Wednesday
Fall Term graduates' last day for oral thesis defense

November 27-28
Thanksgiving Vacation

December 2 - Tuesday
Creative Arts Journal submission deadline

December 4 - Thursday
Fall Term graduates' last day to submit final thesis copies to the CHC Office

December 5 - Friday
Fall Term last day of classes

December 8-12
Fall Term finals week

January 5 - Monday
Winter Term classes begin

January 16 - Friday
Spring Term graduates' priority deadline for graduation - apply at the Registrar's Office

January 19 - Monday
Martin Luther King Holiday

February 23 - March 5
Registration for Spring term

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

March 12 - Friday
Winter Term last day of classes

March 15-19
Winter Term finals week

March 22-26
Spring Vacation

JOB OPENING AT THE CLARK HONORS COLLEGE!back to top

CHC is looking for a librarian to provide for the general upkeep and improvement of the Robert D. Clark Library. This includes: shelving of books and materials; an ongoing program of general book upkeep and care (repairs, replacements, etc.); cataloguing and organizing new materials; purging the collection of old material; and helping to facilitate library development among the CHC student body, Faculty Library Council and CHC administration, including the acquisition of new library materials and strategies for the future usage and display of library resources. Successful applicant will have a broad knowledge of multiple academic disciplines, with a solid understanding of how to organize information. Some knowledge of libraries, including the Library of Congress system, and general book care also preferred. Leadership skills, including interpersonal relations and working with groups highly recommended. 4-6 hours per week. $8.50/hour

2003 HISTORY ESSAY PRIZESback to top

Winners (in alphabetical order):
·   Theresa Champ "Draft Resisters at Heart Mountain Relocation Camp"
·   Jessica Williams "Narrating a Truth: The Ambiguous Place of Victims in the TRC Hearings"
Honorable Mention:
·   Alicia Craven "Enigmatic Allegiances: The Politics of Salvador Dali"

2003 LITERATURE ESSAY PRIZESback to top

Winners:
·   Courtney Roby-Sage "Orlando: Woolf's Opus of Opposites"
Honorable Mention (in alphabetical order):
·   Cristen McLean "Nihilistic VITALITY: Pervasive DOOM"
·   Sarah Nelson "The Philosophy of Rousseau and George Eliot"
·   Matt Schorran "Animus Omnis"

2003 PHI-BETA-KAPPA OREGON SIXback to top

Each year six outstanding students are designated the Phi Beta Kappa Oregon Six. This year five of the Phi Beta Kappa Oregon Six are Clark Honors College Students. They are:

Jenelle Bray (Chemistry, Mathematics)
Marissa Gordon Picard (Political Science, Italian)
Oliver Levine (Computer & Information Science, Economics, Mathematics)
Erin Machell (Anthropology, History)
Ian Sullivan (Physics, Mathematics)

2003 AWARD WINNERSback to top

Anna Simone Barnett
Major: Biology
Thesis: Anticodon Context Effects in Glycine-Accepting tRNAs of Escherichia coli

Shannon Birk Wachter Boettcher
Major: Chemistry
Thesis: Electronic Plastics: Engineering Electric Fields in Polyacetylene Ionomers

Britta Marie Ameel
Majors: Humanities/French
Thesis: At the Aquarium and Other Poems: A Navigation in Poetics

Jenelle Kiara Bray
Majors: Chemistry/Mathematics
Thesis: The Structure, Biological Function and Local Dynamics of the Signal Transduction Protein CheY

Catharine Rose Hochhalter
Major: Psychology
Thesis: Temperament, Relational Styles, and Depressed Mood in Early Adolescence

Melissa Marie Magaro
Majors: Psychology/Spanish
Thesis: Depression and Deficits in Inhibitory Control

Paul J. Csonka
Major: Physics
Thesis: Quartz Fiber-PMT Cerenkov Detector for Spectrometric Applications

Ian Sorenson Sullivan
Majors: Physics/Mathematics
Thesis: Properties of Thin Vortex Rings

Margaret Ellen Maffai
Majors: Philosophy/Italian
Thesis: Self and Contract: Representation as the Condition of Politics and Political Belonging

Yasmin Lori Ravard
Major: Theater Arts
Thesis: Parable: a Director's Reflection

2003-2004 SCHOLARSHIP WINNERSback to top

CHC SERVICE SCHOLARSHIP
Ken Sneed, Mathematics

JEAN WITTEMYER SCHOLARSHIP
Matthew Rowan, Political Science

WILMA WITTEMYER SCHOLARSHIP
Benjamin Parrell, Spanish

WIGHAM FAMILY SCHOLARSHIP
Grace Wang, Biology

ANDREA GELLATLY SCHOLARSHIP
Melinda Reynolds, Spanish

EDWARD SARGENT III SCHOLARSHIP
Mara Broadhurst, Biology

JOY POUST SCHOLARSHIP
Wayne Bund, Theatre Arts/Art
Lark Sullivan, Spanish
Ting Ting Zhou, Psychology/Biology

MANDATORY THESIS MEETINGback to top

The thesis meeting is on Tuesday, November 18th in 240 C McKenzie Hall at 4:00 pm and it is mandatory for
·   Sophomores who plan to study abroad next year,
·   Juniors - all of you, and
·   Seniors who missed the meeting last year.
If you absolutely cannot make this meeting, you must contact Jody Green at 346-2511 or email:
jsgreen@uoregon.edu.

ANNUAL ADVISINGback to top

Students are strongly encouraged to see their advisers at least once a year to make sure that they are fulfilling all of the CHC core requirements. One of the most important aspects of the Clark Honors College experience is the close faculty advising available to our students. If you don't know who your adviser is, please come to the CHC Office or you may approach any of the CHC faculty and ask if they will advise you.

CLARK HONORS COLLEGE STUDENT ASSOCIATION (CHCSA)back to top

This is YOU. The CHCSA is an organization of CHC students for CHC students. Through CHCSA, you can
   ·   display your research or art in the college
   ·   have a voice in hiring new faculty
   ·   organize or participate in social events, road trips, political debates, film showings
   ·   invite authors or speakers
Watch for flyers throughout the college, check the website http://honors.uoregon.edu/community, or contact the CHCSA chair, Ken Sneed, at chcsa@uoregon.edu.

CREATIVE ARTS JOURNALback to top

Musical performances, dance, drawings, photographs, plays, poetry, stories, dialogues - all types of works are accepted for consideration. To ensure an unbiased selection process, include the title on your work, but not your name. Also, do not submit original works of art. Instead, submit a copy, a scan, or some other facsimile. Also complete a submission form in the CHC Office so that we have your contact information as well as your permission to include your work in the printed Journal, or on the CHC website. This form can be found at: http://honors.uoregon.edu/students/forms.
For more information, contact Meg Krugel, editor, chcarts@uoregon.edu, or faculty advisor, Prof. Helen Southworth. Previous issues can be viewed at: http://honors.uoregon.edu/community.

Submission deadline December 2, 2003

IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR SENIORSback to top

1. Thesis Seminar
The Thesis Seminar must be taken at least two terms before graduation. All seniors planning to graduate Summer 2004 should take the Thesis Seminar this Winter Term. Those who have not yet enrolled in the Thesis Seminar must file a Thesis Seminar Application (http://honors.uoregon.edu/students/forms) with Jody Green before they can enroll on a first-come, first-serve basis. Be forewarned that space is limited.

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 the term or the student will not pass the course. Seniors should also have a graduation analysis done in their major department.

3. Scheduling Oral Defense
Candidates need to schedule the week of their oral defense and a CHC thesis representative through Jody Green. Individual CHC professors are limited to one oral each week. Consideration will be given to a student's first choice of a CHC faculty representative if available. Schedules fill quickly so don't delay.
Once the oral defense has been scheduled, the student must submit the Thesis Evaluation form http://honors.uoregon.edu/students/forms to Jody Green no later than three weeks before the defense.

No Oral Defenses will be scheduled during or after the final two weeks of the term (Week 11 and finals) nor during Holidays, the vacation breaks, or summer term.

4. Fellowships
CHC Senior Research Fellowships are available for 2003-2004. Because the thesis and an oral examination are mandatory for graduation from the 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 form http://honors.uoregon.edu/students/forms 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 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 to Jody Green no later than the Thursday of Finals Week for the term in which you are graduating. Please submit a Graduation Final Information form:
http://honors.uoregon.edu/students/forms with your thesis.

WINTER 2004 COURSE DESCRIPTIONSback to top

LITERATUREback to top

HC 222H			4 Credits
CRN 22182	8:00-9:20	UH	CHA 307
CRN 22183	10:00-11:20	UH	CHA 307
CRN 24945	16:00-17:20	UH	CHA 307

Professor Louise Bishop (CRN 22182 & 22183)

Professor Elizabeth Bohls (CRN 24945)

HONORS COLLEGE LITERATURE
"ELSE(W)HERE: Journeys To Self And Other From Early Modern To Enlightenment"

This second term of the Honors College literature sequence organizes our readings around the idea of travel to explore important literary themes: language, individuation and identity, culture and cultural relativism, and the definitions of fact and fiction. These issues arise out of the concerns of traveler and narrator. For instance, a traveler's sympathy and identity relates to Socratic self-knowledge and its dark side, narcissism; the language of travel complicates ideas about real and imaginary, especially as we move into the age of enlightenment. Travelers' political and economic aims reflect and create public and private spheres, with their concomitant gendering: geography "maps" the human body. Because the West's colonial impulse grows exponentially from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries, the ethical dimension of travel and narrative has special meaning for this term of the HC Literature sequence. The ways in which literature indexes colonial expansion - through accommodation and critique - will be a theme throughout our readings.
Texts for the term: Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Man of Law's Tale," The Book of Margery Kempe (selections), Thomas More's Utopia, William Shakespeare's The Tempest, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's "Turkish Letters," Unca Eliza Winkfield's The Female American, and Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. Short contextual readings will be provided as needed.
Requirements include response papers, article summaries, formal papers, and a final exam. We will also show one film, Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books, which retells the story of Shakespeare's Tempest.

HC 222H			4 Credits
CRN 22184	12:00-13:20	UH	CHA 307

Professor Frances Cogan

HONORS COLLEGE LITERATURE
"Order: Moral and Otherwise"

This course intends to explore the various systems of human and divine order (moral, political, bureaucratic, individual, romantic, etc.) which writers suggest through their works. The time period studied (Italian Renaissance through 18th century) is particularly suited to this theme, since it is a time of religious warfare, political and military struggles, civil war, and dynastic turbulence. The emphasis this term will be on the genre of drama and we will study the elements of that genre in depth. We will also study one prose romance and one collection of Chinese detective stories, along with a series of handouts featuring sonnets. Works for the term include: Malory, Mort D'Arthur; Shakespeare, Julius Caesar; Molière, Misanthrope; Tirso de Molina, El Burlador de Sevilla; Aphra Behn, The Rover (Part I); Sheridan, The Rivals; Anonymous, The Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee. You will also have handouts featuring sonnets and lyrics by: Petrarch, Wyatt, Surrey, Sidney, Louise Labé, Elizabeth I, Ronsard.
There will be two 5-7 page medium-sized papers due, 1-2 short writing assignments (i.e., précis, paraphrase, etc.) and an essay final (with study sheet one week in advance). Class format is lecture/discussion/questions with small discussion groups working on open-ended but complex textual questions.

HC 222H			4 Credits
CRN 22181	12:00-12:50	MWF	CHA 307

Professor Cecilia Rosenow

HONORS COLLEGE LITERATURE
"A Sense of Discovery: Travel and the Construction of Identity"

This course explores the theme of travel as found in texts written during the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. By reading works such as Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's "Turkish Embassy Letters," Olaudah Equiano's The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (excerpts), and Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, we will interrogate the ways in which geographic and imaginative travel contributed to a sense of individual and national identity.
Classes will include lecture, group projects, and discussion. There will be two papers and a comprehensive final exam.

HC 222H			4 Credits
CRN 22180	11:00-11:50	MWF	CHA 303

Professor Sharon Schuman

HONORS COLLEGE LITERATURE
"The Good Life II"

Ancient European views of the good life were foundational for some, a source of rebellion for others, and an alternative not available to many. Here we explore the question, "How should we live and what should we value?" as posed by inheritors of ancient Western traditions. How does the question get reshaped, and what do we learn today from these efforts? How do the very forms created to express the most significant Medieval, Renaissance, and Neoclassical concerns come to buckle under the weight they bear?
Readings will include the "Prologue" to the Canterbury Tales, The Wife of Bath's "Prologue" and "Tale," "The Pardoner's Tale," and "The Nun's Priest's Tale," in Middle English, I Henry IV, (Shakespeare), The Rover (Aphra Behn), Paradise Lost (John Mil-ton), and Gulliver's Travels, Book IV (Jonathan Swift).
Class time will focus on discussion based on careful reading. There will be three short papers (2-6 pages), ungraded exercises, both in and out of class, a mid-term and a final exam.

HC 222H			4 Credits
CRN 22178	9:00-9:50	MWF	CHA 307
CRN 22179	10:00-10:50	MWF	CHA 307

Professor Helen Southworth

HONORS COLLEGE LITERATURE
"Spaces of Literature and Literary Spaces"

In this course we will explore the period extending from the late middle ages through to the enlightenment. We'll follow major historical development and trends. We'll examine the relationship between the individual and society, past and present, history and culture. We'll also explore definitions of western culture and ask what makes a work of art classic, great. This course will focus on issues relating to the use of space and time in literary works, utopias and dystopias, and literary places, real and imagined.
Texts will include: Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (selections) Christine de Pisan's Book of the City of Women, Milton's Paradise Lost (selections), Behn's The Rover, Shakespeare's The Tempest, Merchant of Venice or King Lear, More's Utopia, Voltaire's Candide and others.
Class time will be spent on close textual readings of the works, via discussion, semi-formal debate and some in-class writing. We'll also look at overarching themes and historical contexts. Students will keep a journal and be required to write two papers and complete two exams.

HISTORYback to top

HC 232H			4 Credits
CRN 22186	11:00-11:50	MWF	CHA 307

Professor Joe Fracchia

HONORS COLLEGE HISTORY
"Introduction to Historical Thinking in a Global Framework: 1350-1789"

In the beginning of the century near whose end Columbus crossed the Atlantic, the Chinese admiral Zheng He made seven major voyages throughout the South Pacific and across the Indian Ocean to the thriving trade centers on Africa's east coast. His fleet consisted of 62 ships, most of which were so large that Columbus's entire fleet of three ships could easily fit on their decks. Compared to the great cities of China, the Indian Ocean rim, and the Eastern Mediterranean, Europe was a rural and provincial backwater. By the end of the period covered in this course, Europe was about to complete its conquest of the world and the tiny kingdom of England had acquired an empire "on which the sun never set." This astonishing transformation and its consequences will be the topics of this course, which will be divided into three parts. In the first part we will take stock of the state of the world in 1350. Through comparative socio-cultural analyses we will glimpse the similarities and differences in how people lived and thought in China, in the Islamic World, in Africa and the Americas. We will analyze social forms in order to reconstruct modes of behavior and the tone of daily life; and we will interpret works of art and literature, religion and philosophy in order to understand how contemporaries perceived their world. In the second part of the course, we will focus specifically on the profound process of transformation effected in Europe by the advent of capitalism. We will focus on the motives behind European expansion and the sources of its success. In the third part of the course we will examine the global consequences of Europe's newfound economic and military power. Our major concerns will be: how European conquest and colonialization produced "third worlds," that is, economic underdevelopment, in much of the world; the consequences of the slave trade for Africa, the Americas, and Europe; the cultural contacts and conflicts that took place in the context of colonial domination. Since so many current conflicts, both within the West and around the world have their origins in this period, an understanding of Europe's rise to dominance and the origins and nature of its relations with the rest of the world is crucial to understanding the present.
Assignments include: a bibliography, two papers (5-6 pages), and a final exam.

HC 232H			4 Credits
CRN 22188	14:00-14:50	MWF	CHA 307
CRN 22189	15:00-15:50	MWF	CHA 307

Professor Kristen McCleary

HONORS COLLEGE HISTORY
"History of the Atlantic World, 1400-1820"

This course explores the creation of the Atlantic world beginning with the expansion of 15th-century European trade and ending with the independence movements of its European colonies in the Americas. The course focuses on the social history of the indigenous peoples, Africans, and Europeans who interact in the Americas and the labor systems that define the economic and social hierarchies that emerge out of this mixture. We will also explore the impact of European ideas and experiences as they are molded onto and reshaped by the inhabitants of the Americas. We will read a mixture of primary and secondary source documents and will also view segments of films throughout the quarter (Amistad, The Mission, Black Robe, and Quilombo). Primary sources include Robert Conrad's Children of God's Fire: A Documentary History of Black Slavery in Brazil; James Lockhart's Letters and Peoples of the Spanish Indies: Sixteenth Century; and two first-person narratives: the Captive Narrative of Mary Rowlandson and the Narrative of the Life of Olaudiah Equiano. Secondary sources include, John E. Kicza, Resilient Cultures: America's Native Peoples Confront European Colonization, 1500-1800 and John Thornton's Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1680.

HC 232H			4 Credits
CRN 22190	10:00-11:20	UH	CHA 303
CRN 24947	14:00-15:20	UH	CHA 303

Professor Roxann Prazniak

HONORS COLLEGE HISTORY

"'Contact zones' in Western European History: Scientific and Political Revolutions"

This course focuses on two "contact zones" that shaped Western Europe from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries. The first zone includes Islamic and Chinese contacts across Central Asia that accompanied the emergence of scientific thought and academic institutions in Western Europe. The second zone is the world of commerce and conflict across the Atlantic Ocean that was integral to political revolutions in Europe against the Church in Rome as well as against the monarchs that guided state-building.

HC 232H			4 Credits
CRN 24948	14:00-15:20	UH	CHA 307

Professor Daniel Rosenberg

HONORS COLLEGE HISTORY
"Worlds Old and New: Introduction to Early Modern History"

The second segment of the year-long introductory sequence examines the birth of modernity and the increasing contact and confrontation of the cultures and politics of Europe with those of the rest of the world. The course focuses especially on problems in the history of knowledge and epistemology including skepticism, empiricism, and rationalism and the relationship between cultural and intellectual change. Readings may include: Miguel Leon-Portilla, The Broken Spears; Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, René Descartes, Discourse on Method, Margaret Cavendish, The Blazing World, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, First and Second Discourses, Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano.

HC 232H			4 Credits
CRN 22185	8:00-8:50	MWF	CHA 307
CRN 22187	13:00-13:50	MWF	CHA 307

Professor Jordan Shapiro

HONORS COLLEGE HISTORY
"Introduction to Early Modern History: 1500-1800"

This course examines the history of the early modern era covering approximately the 16th through the 18th century. We will read about and discuss the Renaissance, the consequences of European contact with the Americas, the Protestant Reformation, the Enlightenment, European expansion around the globe, and conclude with the modern political revolutions in the U.S. and France. The focus of the course will be on Western and European history, largely because of the influence that Western Europe exerted on the rest of the world during this period. However, we will read texts from various perspectives on contacts between Western and non-Western people, regarding the Atlantic slave trade and other cultural and commercial sources of exchange.

SPECIAL STUDIESback to top

HC 399H			1-5 Credits
CRN 22191	16:00-17:20	MW	CHA 307

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 13 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 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.

COLLOQUIAback to top

COLLOQUIA ARE LIMITED TO STUDENTS WITH SOPHOMORE STANDING AND ABOVE.

HC 415H			4 Credits
CRN 22203	18:30-21:20	M	CHA 303

Professor Chet Bowers

WORLD PERSPECTIVES
"Environmental Ethics in Cultural Perspective"

The course will examine a number of approaches to environmental ethics, ranging from such classical statements as Aldo Leopold's land ethic and the principles of deep ecology articulated by Arne Naess, George Sessions, and Bill Duvall to recent efforts to represent John Dewey as an environmental philosopher. The writings on environmental ethics of J. Baird Callicott as well as eco-feminists will also be considered. A more cultural perspective on environmental ethics will rely upon ethnographies of non-western cultures such as Keith Basso's study of the Western Apache, and Frederique Apffel-Marglin's collection of essays on the Quechua of the Peruvian Andes. Lastly, the course will examine how language encodes a culture's understanding of relationships, the attributes of the participants in the relationship, and thus the moral codes that are largely taken-for-granted as an individual becomes a member of a language community. This latter segment of the course will help shift the focus of thinking of environmental ethics as rationally based to recognizing how the languaging processes of everyday life, which vary from culture to culture, influence our moral behavior and understanding of human/Nature relationships. The overarching theme of the course will be to assess how these different approaches to thinking about environmental ethics addresses the revitalization of the commons.

HC 415H			4 Credits
CRN 24949	9:00-9:50	MWF	CHA 303

Professor Timothy Gianotti

HONORS COLLEGE SOCIAL SCIENCE
"Militant Word and Martial Metaphor: Exploring the Martial Dimensions of Judaism, Christianity, And Islam"

The Abrahamic traditions share more than a common ancestor; they stand as inti-mately connected expressions of a shared worldview, built upon distinctly Near Eastern notions of law, justice, ethics, community, and religion. This connection is further en-riched by continual interaction, conflict and conversation throughout history, so much so that it becomes difficult, if not impossible, to speak about one without some reference to its sister traditions...
Within each member of this family, we encounter the language and imagery of mar-tial conflict, militancy, and war; and, rather than singling out any one of these traditions for such language and imagery, this initiative asserts that the subject is better served by approaching the martial dimensions of these three inter-related traditions in conversation with one another. In our class readings and discussions, then, we will embark upon an interdisciplinary exploration of phenomena of militant language and martial metaphor within the larger context of the religious visions of justice and peace. In doing so, we hope to create an atmosphere of thoughtful conversation and increased appreciation of these interrelated communities, histories, and textual traditions.
In addition to the common course readings, students will be asked to explore one of the following themes: WAR AND MARTIAL METAPHOR IN SCRIPTURE (historical context, authorial intent, and other exegetical perspectives on the occurrence of militant language in scripture); THE INNER WAR (psycho-spiritual applications and allegorical appropriations of the war motif in the Abrahamic spiritual traditions); PERSECUTION, MILITANCY, AND MARTYRDOM ("witnessing" to faith in the three traditions); NO GOOD? NO EVIL? VENTURING OUTSIDE THE FAMILY OF ABRAHAM (understanding martialism within a religio-philosophical context of nonduality); WOMEN AS ARCHETYPES OF MILITANCY AND SUFFERING (gendered perspectives on religious militancy within the Abrahamic traditions); JUST WAR? (philosophical and legal explications of war's necessity and/or legitimacy within the Abrahamic traditions); IMAGINING, CASTING, AND CONDEMNING THE OTHER (image-arguments for dehumanization, belligerence, and persecution as well as for coexistence and reconciliation); A WAR TO END ALL WARS FOREVER? (eschatological visions of a final conflict); PACIFISM (voices for an alternative to war within the Abrahamic traditions).
In their academic exploration of these themes, students will be expected to craft a research paper of moderate length (7-10 pages) and will be expected to make a class presentation based on their research.
For more information, contact Timothy J Gianotti, Assistant Professor of Islamic Thought, Department of Religious Studies, at gianotti@darkwing.uoregon.edu or 346-4823.

HC 415H			4 Credits
CRN 24950	8:30-9:50	UH	CHA 303

Professor Svitlana Kravchenko

WORLD PERSPECTIVES
"Environment and Human Rights"

A new movement at the international level and in some national systems seeks to link environment and human rights. This movement is asking for recognition of a "right to a safe and healthy environment" at international and national levels, and for protection of environmental advocates. It uses the language of traditional human rights but the goals of environmental policy.
This seminar will explore the scope and place for "environmental rights" in national and international law and public policy. What is their source? Is it legitimate for them to take their place alongside the more traditional rights? How can they be implemented? Does the recognition of such rights enhance democratic choice, or is it contrary to such choice?
Dr. Svitlana Kravchenko is in the second of two years at the University as Carlton Savage Visiting Professor in International Relations and Peace. She taught environmental law for fifteen years in the Soviet Union and ten years in a newly independent Ukraine. Nine years ago she founded the first public-interest law firm in Ukraine with her graduate students and for 6 years she has served as a "citizen diplomat" in international United Nations negotiations.
The course will require original research in libraries and the Internet, regular class attendance, active participation, and a substantial research paper. Students choosing to write their Senior Thesis on a topic related to the course can use the course paper as their Chapter One.

HC 421H			4 Credits
CRN 22204	10:00-10:50	MWF	CHA 303

Professor Richard Stevenson

ARTS AND LETTERS
"The Nineteenth-Century Novel of Initiation"

This course will center on the intensive study of a selection of American and European novels about young people entering the adult world of the nineteenth century. Four or five texts will be chosen from among the following authors: Austen, Stendhal, Charlotte Brontë, Dickens, Dostoevsky, James, Chopin, and Alain-Fournier. The course will be conducted in a discussion format and participants will be asked to write a series of short interpretive essays on the reading assignments.

HC 431H			4 Credits
CRN 22208	18:00-20:50	W	CHA 303

Professors Joseph Fracchia and Cheyney Ryan

SOCIAL SCIENCE
"Philosophy of Histoy"

HC 431H			4 Credits
CRN 22207	14:00-15:20	MW	CHA 303

Professor Bertram Malle

SOCIAL SCIENCE
"Understanding Other Minds"

Few characteristics distinguish humans from other great apes. Besides language, one of these characteristics is the capacity to understand and reason about mental states in other people. This seminar examines the evolutionary and developmental origins of understanding minds, its social function in communication, interaction, and culture, and the consequences of lacking a capacity to understand minds. This seminar is open to students from all disciplines. There is no explicit prerequisite, but I expect familiarity with empirical research methods and a readiness to tackle advanced readings from psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy. (A background chapter on research methods is available at the CHC Library.) For further questions, please contact me at bfmalle@uoregon.edu.

HC 431H			4 Credits
CRN 25102	18:00-20:50	U	CHA 303

Professor John Orbell

SOCIAL SCIENCE
"Evolution, Cooperation and Ethics"

What is the relevance of modern evolutionary psychology for the roots of human political and social behavior in particular, cooperative and ethically-bound behaviors? Classic and modern political and ethical theories (e.g., Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Rawls, as well as Modern Political Economy and much Feminist theory) are, characteristically, founded on assumptions about human behavior. Evolutionary psychology lets us evaluate those assumptions and, therefore, provides a basis from which such theories can be reassessed---at the same time providing a bridge between the life sciences and the social sciences. There are major but often isolated literatures relevant to this issue in Decision Theory, Biology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Economics, Anthropology, Sociology, Ethics and Political Science. We will look at some literature from all of those fields.

HC 431H			4 Credits
CRN 22209	16:00-18:50	H	CHA 303

Professor Daniel Rosenberg

HONORS COLLEGE SOCIAL SCIENCE
"Historical Epistemology"

This course explores the history of knowledge since the early modern period. During this term, we will be especially concerned with the relationship between self-conscious epistemologies such as are found in philosophy, science, and social science, and the often under-theorized social, cultural, and technical practices though which these knowledges are created. Much of the reading for this course will be difficult and theoretical. Students will choose topics for independent research. Readings may include: Michel Foucault, The Archaeology of Knowledge; Steven Shapin, Social History of Truth; Peter Burke, Social History of Knowledge,; Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer, Leviathan and the Air Pump; Mario Biaggioli, Galileo Courtier; Lorraine Daston, Classical Probability in the Enlightenment; Ian Hacking, The Taming of Chance; Mary Poovey, A History of the Modern Fact; Friedrich Kittler, Discourse Networks 1800/1900; Stephen Jay Gould, Ontogeny and Phylogeny; Hayden White, Metahistory; Mark Poster, Second Media Age; N. Katherine Hayles, How We Became Posthuman.

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HC 407H			2 Credits
CRN 22198	12:00-13:50	M	CHA 303
CRN 22199	16:00-17:50	M	CHA 303
CRN 22200	12:00-13:50	W	CHA 303

PASS/NO PASS    ATTENDANCE MANDATORY

Professor Sharon Schuman (CRN 22198)

Professor Joe Fracchia (CRN 22199)

Professor Dennis Todd (CRN 22200)

THESIS SEMINAR

This 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 a 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 prospectuses, following the guidelines in the Clark Honors College Thesis Manual (honors.uoregon.edu/students),
3. consulted with their primary thesis adviser on possible second readers from their major department, and
4. filled out the Thesis Seminar Application form (honors.uoregon.edu/students) and turned it in to the CHC office prior to the registration period.

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

1. Complete a Permission to Register for Individualized Study Courses form:
   http://honors.uoregon.edu/students/forms, 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 405H	CRN 22192	Variable Credits

THESIS

HC 405H	CRN 22194	Variable Credits

READING & CONFERENCE

HC 406H	CRN 22196	Variable Credits

SPECIAL PROBLEMS

HC 409H	CRN 22201	Variable Credits

PRACTICUM

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LITERATURE
HC 223H Honors College Literature - 7 sessions

HISTORY
HC 233H Honors College History - 7 sessions

ECONOMICS
HC 204H Honors College Introduction to Microeconomics (Thoma)

SCIENCE
HC 209H Honors College Science (Schombert)

SPECIAL STUDIES
HC 399H Forensics (Frank)

SEMINARS
HC 407H Thesis Seminar (Kraus)

COLLOQUIA
HC 412H Visions of Freedom III: The Constraining Violence of Race, Gender, and Class (Fracchia/Gary)
HC 412H The Ecological Footprint of Energy Generation (Bothun)
HC 415H Myth, the Media, and Nature (Maxwell)
HC 421H Word and Tone (Linton/Tedards)
HC 421H Jane Austen (Taylor)
HC 431H Economic Sociology (C. Southworth)
HC 431H The Human[ities] Response to War (Watson)
HC 441H Willamette River Pollution and Remediation (Todd)

SPECIAL COURSE OFFERINGS
ENG 620 The Idea of the Vernacular (Bishop)

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