Winter 2005 Newsletter

Important Dates    |    Knight Library Display    |    New Resident Faculty    |    New Visiting Faculty
CHC Administrative Staff    |    Mandatory Thesis Meeting    |    Creative Arts Journal
Annual Advising    |    Internships & Mentorships    |    Scholarship Opportunities
Research Assistance    |    2004 Winners    |    Information for Seniors
Winter 2005 Course Descriptions Literature    |    History Special Studies    |    Colloquia
Special Course Offerings    |    Thesis Prospectus Individualized Study    |    Spring Term 2005

WINTER 2005 - IMPORTANT DATES

November 15-24
Winter Term Registration

November 15, 16 & 17
Mandatory Thesis Meeting

November 24 - Wednesday
Fall Term graduates' last day for oral thesis defense

November 25-26
Thanksgiving Vacation

November 29 - Monday
Deadline for unpaid internship scholarship applications

December 3 - Friday
Fall Term last day of classes

December 6-10
Fall Term finals week

December 9 - Thursday
Fall Term graduates' last day to submit final thesis copies to the CHC Office

January 3 - Monday
Winter Term classes begin

January 7 - Friday
Creative Arts Journal submission deadline

January 17 - Monday
Martin Luther King Holiday

January 30 - Sunday
Winter Term graduates' last day to apply for graduation. Apply online.

February 21 - March 4
Registration for Spring term

March 11 - Friday
Winter Term last day of classes

March 17 - Thursday
Winter Term graduates' last day to submit final thesis copies to the CHC Office

March 14-18
Winter Term finals week

March 21-25
Spring Vacation

"UNITING EAST AND WEST" KNIGHT LIBRARY DISPLAY back to top

A new exhibit, "Uniting East and West: The Life and Work of Gertrude Bass Warner," is currently on display in the Knight Library. Warner helped found the University of Oregon's art museum. She served as its first director, donated her private collection of Chinese and Japanese art as the museum's signature collection, and traveled extensively to continue developing the museum's holdings. The exhibit features letters, unpublished manuscripts, Shinto shrine memorabilia, glass lantern slides, and rare books from the Warner archives. Clark Honors College cosponsored the exhibit. It was designed by Ce Rosenow, Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature, with the help of many CHC students and student employees, including Julie Blakely, Elizabeth LaDu, Margaux Meganck, Elissa Orre, Kaitlin Paul, Ashley Rees, and Erica Rothman. The opening reception for the exhibit was held on October 19th in the Knight Library Browsing Room and featured a talk and slide presentation by Roxann Prazniak, CHC Associate Professor of History.

NEW CLARK HONORS COLLEGE RESIDENT FACULTY back to top

Monique Balbuena, Assistant Professor of Literature. Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2003; M.A. Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, 1993; B.A., Federal University of Rio De Janeiro, 1987. Professor Balbuena is a scholar of Jewish literatures and languages, specializing in Sephardic poetry written in Ladino. She has been a Harry Starr Fellow in Judaica at Harvard University, and has published extensively in Brazil on Poe, poetry and other topics. She has done a great deal of translation into Portuguese, including authors such as Harold Bloom, Edmond Jabès and Yehuda Amichai.
Toral J. Gajarawala, Assistant Professor of Literature. Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2004; M.A., New York University, 1999 A comparatist, Professor Gajarawala studies the representation of marginality in literature, examining in particular the narrative strategies used to codify race and caste. Her current project focuses on Beur (immigrants to France of North African origin) and Hindi Dalit (untouchable caste) literature.
Dayo Nicole Mitchell, Assistant Professor of History. Ph.D., M.A., University of Virginia, 2005, 1999. B.A., Williams College, 1997. As an Atlantic historian who is fascinated by the connections and conflicts among Europe, Africa, and the Americas, from approximately 1500 to 1900, Professor Mitchell looks forward to offering courses that examine issues of empire, nationality, diaspora, and the environment within the Atlantic context. Her own work delves into the intersection of race and citizenship in the early 19th century British Caribbean, and she recently completed a dissertation titled The Ambiguous Distinctions of Descent: Free People of Color and the Construction of Citizenship in Trinidad and Dominica, 1800-1838. Researching the manuscript took her to archives holding original documents in London and the Caribbean - a small perk of studying the history of empire in the Atlantic world.

NEW CLARK HONORS COLLEGE VISITING FACULTY back to top

Jeremiah Kitunda, Visiting Assistant Professor of History. Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 2003; M.A. Miami University, Ohio, 1998; M.A., BA University of Nairobi, Kenya, 1998, 1993. Professor Kitunda's dissertation is entitled, The Spread of Water Hyacinth and other Aquatic Weeds in the African Great Lakes up to 1999. His field of study is Environmental History of Africa and Comparative World History. He has written several conference papers. Professor Kitunda is married with two sons and enjoys adventure, camping and politics.
Eric Leed, Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Ph.D., University of Rochester, 1972; B.A., University of Oregon, 1964. Professor Leeds' teaching fields are Modern Europe, Renaissance and Reformation, and Russian History, War and Society, 20th Century. His research field is 20th Century, the History of Travel and Communication, World War II. He is the author of Shores of Discovery: How Expeditionaries Have Constructed the World.

CHC ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF back to top

There are plenty of new faces in the Administrative Offices of Clark Honors College. Who are they, and what can they do for you?

Brandon Finch, Receptionist and Admissions Coordinator

had his hands all over your admission file

reserves CHA 303 (if available) and gets projectors for your thesis defense

has a lost and found for the CHC

can approve your flyers for posting on the hall bulletin boards

knows who can answer your questions in the office or on campus if he cannot

Brandon graduated with honors in Theatre Arts from the UO, cum laude.
Quote: You too can live your dreams, I'm living proof. Beefcake! BEEFCAKE!!!

Carol Giantonio, Student Services Coordinator

lets you know if you've made the Director's List

notifies you when you've been awarded a scholarship

assists you if you're heading toward academic probation

Carol has been at Clark Honors College since 1987 in one form or another.
Quote: Ask for help when you need it and you will succeed in the Clark Honors College. Your advisor, your professors and all of us on the CHC administrative staff are here to help you.

Pat Griffin, Academic Coordinator

helps you register for Thesis Prospectus and Individualized Study courses

schedules your thesis defenses

tracks your progress toward graduation

determines what emails you receive via the CHC Student listserv.

Pat has an M.A. in Human Development from Washington State University.
Quote: Please don't hesitate to contact me; I'm here for you.

Kate Kevern, Office Manager and Executive Assistant to the Director

makes the class schedules

is your newsletter editor

is the supreme overlord of course overrides

Kate is a Sun Devil from ASU and has coached the U.S. Physics Team.
Quote: I have to schedule early morning and evening classes. It's not that I want to.

Mary Newton, Accountant

gets your scholarship and award checks

sends your essay contest gift certificates

makes sure you get paid if you work for CHC as a tour guide, faculty research assistant, or intern

provided your ice cream at New Student Orientation

Mary graduated in accounting from Brigham Young University a year ago. She likes to count beans and tell cheesy jokes.
Quote: A string walked into...

Shirley Perez West, Development and Promotions Coordinator

orders the refreshments at meetings and social events

wants to hear about your accomplishments

will gladly accept donations when you're a successful alumnus

Shirley has a B.A. and M.S. from the UO School of Journalism.
Quote: Watch for surplus cookies in the student lounge.

MANDATORY THESIS MEETING back to top

Sophomores who plan to study abroad next year,

Juniors, all of you, and

Seniors who missed the meeting last year must attend one of the following thesis meetings in Chapman 207:

Monday, November 15, 4:00-6:00 pm

Tuesday, November 16, 6:00-8 pm

Wednesday, November 17, 5:00-7:00 pm

If you absolutely cannot make one of these meetings, contact Pat Griffin. At 346-2511.

CREATIVE ARTS JOURNAL back to top

The theme for the 2004-2005 Clark Honors College Creative Arts Journal is "2004: What Did it Mean to You?" showcasing works relating to the events of this year. All types of works are accepted for consideration. To ensure an unbiased selection process, include the title on your work, but not your name. Please submit copies, scans, or some other facsimile rather than original works. Also include a Creative Arts Journal Submission Form with each work so that we have your contact information as well as your permission to include your work in the printed Journal, and/or on the CHC website.
For more information, contact Meg Krugel, editor, or faculty advisor, Prof. Henry Alley. Previous issues can be viewed on the CHC website.
Submission deadline January 31, 2005

ANNUAL ADVISING back 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.

INTERNSHIPS & MENTORSHIPS back to top

The Internship and Mentorship Program is as busy as ever this winter term! While we continue to match students with mentors, our big focus for winter will be internships! Summer internships are highly competitive, and often have early application dates, so for those who are looking for a summer position, the time is now! The CHC Internship and Mentorship is ready to help! Our term activities will include: weekly postings of internship opportunities in Chapman Hall, student sign-ups for the CHC alumni internship program, and a workshop on "Finding, Securing, and Making the Most of an Internship." For those who are career oriented, we will be hosting workshops on "Using Your Thesis to Reach Your Post-Graduate Goals." In addition, we have a wide variety of materials and publications to help students in finding jobs and internships, all available at http://honors.uoregon.edu/students. Keep an eye out for posters and watch the CHC website website for all these great activities! You'll be glad you did!

SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITIES FOR UN-PAID INTERNSHIPS back to top

In the interest of helping CHC students to benefit from internship experiences and in support of non-profit groups, the Clark Honors College has scholarship funds available to provide financial assistance and compensation for students who wish to pursue non-paid internships. This money may be used for expenses such as cost of relocation, transportation, cost of living, etc. Awards will be based on the merits of the project and on the funds available in a given year. Dollar amount will be allocated based upon a student's individual needs up to a maximum of $1,000 dollars per person. Applications for internships that have been secured for Winter or Spring 2005 should be submitted to the CHC office by November 29. See the CHC website for more details and for an application form.

RESEARCH ASSISTANCE AT THE ROBERT D. CLARK LIBRARY back to top

This past September, Eliz Breakstone joined Knight Library as the new Clark Honors College Librarian. She will be providing in-class instruction and reference assistance to CHC students. Beginning in November, Eliz will be available for research assistance in the Robert D. Clark Library, 301 Chapman,

Wednesdays 10am-noon

Thursdays 2-4pm

Stop by and pick her brain for help with any of your assignments, from your first freshman research paper to your honors thesis. If you can't make office hours, you are always welcome to send an email to Eliz.

2004 WINNERS back to top

These 2004 Winners received monetary awards, scholarships, or gift certificates to the University of Oregon Bookstore. The Commencement Award Winners were honored at the Spring 2004 Commencement ceremony.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR SENIORS back to top

1. Thesis Prospectus
Thesis Prospectus, HC 477H (formerly Thesis Seminar, HC 407H) must be taken at least two terms before graduation. All seniors planning to graduate Summer 2005 should take Thesis Prospectus Winter 2005. Those who have not yet enrolled in Thesis Prospectus must file a Thesis Prospectus Application with Pat Griffin before they can enroll on a first-come, first-serve basis. Be forewarned that space is limited.

2. Graduation Analysis
Students taking Thesis Prospectus 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 select a CHC thesis representative through Pat Griffin. 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 a Thesis Evaluation to Pat Griffin 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 10 and finals) nor during Holidays, the vacation breaks, or summer term.

4. Fellowships
CHC Senior Research Fellowships are available for 2004-2005. 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 costs, 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 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 Pat Griffin no later than the Thursday of Finals Week for the term in which you are graduating. Please submit a Graduation Final Information form with your thesis.

WINTER 2005 COURSE DESCRIPTIONS back to top

LITERATURE back to top

HC 222H			4 Credits
CRN 24188	8:00-8:50	MWF	CHA 307

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 Milton), 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 24189	9:00-9:50	MWF	CHA 307

Professor Henry Alley

HONORS COLLEGE LITERATURE
"Emerging Voices in the Renaissance and the Neoclassic Age"

The texts are Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Shakespeare's King Lear, Behn's The Rover, Milton's Paradise Lost, Pope's "Essay on Man," Austin's Pride and Prejudice and Kurosawa's Ran.
The course will explore major debatable literary topics, as proposed by classic texts. We will look at the gain and loss of ideal worlds proposed by the Renaissance and Restoration (Aphra Behn, Shakespeare, Mil-ton), and the subsequent equilibrium attained by the 18th century (Pope and Austen). The class will also study the forms of tragedy (King Lear, Ran), comedy (The Rover, Pride and Prejudice), and epic (Paradise Lost). We will be particularly interested in how previously marginalized voices - in women, in political rebels, in people in underprivileged classes, in artists - actually acquire a voice in these texts.
Class will consist of discussion, lecture, and semi-formal debate. In lecture, particular emphasis will be given to recent scholarship, which calls for a new focus on great women authors, such as Aphra Behn, as well as a revision of how we view such classic writers as Milton, Austen, and Shakespeare. We will also be looking at a film script and film, Ran, a Samurai version of King Lear created by the great Japanese director, Kurosawa.
Writing assignments will emphasize close readings to the texts. There will be papers, plus a journal. The course will be a balance of lecture and discussion.

HC 222H			4 Credits
CRN 24192	16:00-17:20	MW	CHA 303

Professor Ce 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 24190	12:00-12:50	MWF	CHA 307
CRN 24191	14:00-14:50	MWF	CHA 307

Professor Helen Southworth

HONORS COLLEGE LITERATURE
"Spaces of Literature and Literary Spaces"

In this class we'll focus on questions of colonialism and intertextuality in the literature of the early modern period through to the beginning of the nineteenth century. The class will be organized around two central canonical works: Shakespeare's "The Tempest" (1610) and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818). In each case we'll read works that shaped the ideas of the authors of these two works and a series of pieces influenced by them. We'll read a selection of the following: Thomas More's Utopia (1516), Aphra Behn's Oronooko (1688), Montaigne's "Of Cannibals" (1580), Milton's "Comus" (1634), W.H. Auden's poem "The Sea and the Mirror" (1944), Aimé Césaire's play "Une tempête," (1968), José Enrique Rodo's "Ariel" (1922), Milton's Paradise Lost (1674) and Goethe's Sorrows of Young Werther (1774). We'll view Peter Greenaway's film "Prospero's Books" (1991) and Derek Jarman's "The Tempest." There will be both exams and papers. If you would like to get some reading done during the winter vacation, start with "The Tempest" and Frankenstein.

HC 222H			4 Credits
CRN 24193	10:00-11:20	UH	CHA 307

Professor Frances Cogan

HONORS COLLEGE LITERATURE
"Order: Moral and Otherwise"

By what do you order your life? What is the guiding interest or principle around which you organize every-thing else? Different centuries have come up with different answers. Passionate love for a woman is one center or order; the code of Honor is another; religious beliefs and heroism are yet more. We will be studying primarily drama, but the texts will cover from the Middle Ages to the mid 18th century. The works we study will include: Tirso, Burlador de Sevilla (Spain); Aphra Behn, The Rover (Part 1); Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1; Marlowe, Dr. Faustus; Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer (all from England); Corneille, Le Cid; Molière, Tar-tuff (both from France). Other non-dramatic texts include Malory's Mort D'Arthur and (from China) The Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee (includes a layette in the middle of the novel) and poetry from the Renaissance by Petrarch, Wyatt, Sidney, Queen Elizabeth I, Katherine Philipps, Louise Labé, (and modern) sonneteer Edna St. Vincent Millay.
Class will require two medium length critical papers, for one of which a literary journal kept all term will substitute. No midterm but an essay final in class. Play scenes by volunteering members of the class will be part of the instruction and will gain extra credit, as well the same sort of "Adventurous topics" which require outside research. The class will also feature lecture broken up by questions, as well as small and large group discussion.

HC 222H			4 Credits
CRN 24194	14:00-15:20	UH	CHA 307

Professor Louise Bishop

HONORS COLLEGE LITERATURE
"What's love got to do with it?"

Medievalists assert that romantic love has been an engine for literary production and, arguably, self-fashioning and self-scrutiny since the time of the troubadours. Even its name, "romance," comes from a word that refers to an era (medieval), an area (southern France, Italy, and Spain), and a story (roman). We will be gauging the creation and transmogrification of romantic love as evidenced in literature from what is called in the west the Middle Ages through the Enlightenment, roughly the thirteenth through eighteenth centuries CE.
In order to think through literary expressions and social meanings of romantic love, we will begin with Provençal lyrics and medieval love songs against which to read Dante's Vita Nuova, the work in which the poet recounts his love for Beatrice and creates her as a special kind of muse. After looking at a few of Petrarch's sonnets, we will read Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale, followed by parts of The Book of Margery Kempe and Christine de Pizan's City of Ladies. We will read the poetry of Mirabai, a sixteenth-century Indian poet, along with Shakespeare's sonnets, to re-evaluate divine and earthly love. After consideration of The Princess of Cleves, a seventeenth-century novel by Madame de Lafayette, we will conclude with part of an anti-romance, Voltaire's Candide, and Jane Austen's Persuasion.
Requirements include response papers, summaries and responses to critical articles, two formal papers, and a final exam.

HISTORY back to top

HC 232H			4 Credits
CRN 24196	10:00-10:50	MWF	CHA 307
CRN 24198	13:00-13:50	MWF	CHA 307

Professor Dayo Nicole Mitchell

HONORS COLLEGE HISTORY
"1450-1800: Building a Global Framework"

The oft shortchanged "middle" portion of a survey in world history is surely one of the most exciting and poignant eras in the evolutionary process that created the world we live in today. The four centuries between medieval and modern times saw the transformation of the Indian Ocean world, the rise of the Atlantic Ocean system, and the addition of the Pacific territories to the global framework that by the time of the French Revolution connected all the habitable continents into one interdependent whole. The ascent of the European empires to worldwide domination set the pattern for the future we inhabit.
Our course will concentrate on analyzing the connections between regions, and most particularly on the in-traction between Amerindians, Europeans, and Africans in the making of the Atlantic world. We will not, how-ever, forget that conflicts and exchanges across the Atlantic frequently depended upon the dynamics of power and trade in Asia. We will also investigate the changes wrought in the daily lives of ordinary people as individuals, goods, and ideas circumnavigated the globe. We will examine not only the processes that created the global framework but the competition among historians and other scholars to explain the causes and effects of the world system.
Students will be evaluated upon class participation and investment in the course as well as quizzes, a final exam, two medium-length papers, and structured research assignments designed to familiarize students with the tools they will need to complete the long paper in the third term.

HC 232H			4 Credits
CRN 24199	15:00-15:50	MWF	CHA 307

Professor Jeremiah Kitunda

HONORS COLLEGE HISTORY
"Modern World History up to the End of the First World War"

This course examines World History from the Middle of the 15th century to the end of the First World War. Using both lectures and discussion we will examine historical developments of various parts of the World within that period. The main themes include expansion and contact between European and non-western cultures, continuity and change, and the rise of new global political and economic order. Students will analyze two documents and write papers based on documents of their own choice. The documents assigned for the course constitute both primary and secondary sources - some are old and overly biased if not simply subjective. No document should be accepted at the face value without exploring its weaknesses and strengths. Peter Stearn's World History will be our main reading text. A selection of very interesting primary materials covering this period will appear in the syllabus for this course. The course will use selected films and primary mate-rials from University of Oregon Archives and Special Collections.

HC 232H			4 Credits
CRN 24202	17:00-18:20	UH	CHA 307

Professor Eric Leed

HONORS COLLEGE HISTORY

This course will focus upon the transformation of traditional into modern societies through the agency of the French Revolutions (1789-1870). It will be organized around the theme of honor and we will spend the major-it of our time examining how the social value of individuals was negotiated in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Early Modern period before we go on to look at the impact of the French Revolution. The course will use primary sources and is for students who like to read.

HC 232H			4 Credits
CRN 24197	11:00-11:50	MWF	CHA 307

Professor Joseph 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 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 24200	8:30-9:50	UH	CHA 307
CRN 24201	12:00-13:20	UH	CHA 307

Professor Roxann Prazniak

HONORS COLLEGE HISTORY
"South Asia: Contact Zones in the Early Modern World, 1400-1800"

This course examines problems in historical inquiry by focusing on areas of contact in the Atlantic and Asian zones of cross and intra/societal exchange. Our topics include the significance of the shift from overland routes to sea routes across the Indian and Atlantic Oceans in the 15th century. We will look at maritime activities before and after this transition to explore ways in which commercial, military, social, and political relations took shape in the early modern era. We will also examine the processes of modern state-building in relation-ship to the movement of commodities and technologies across different political environments. Our readings include Chinese and Portuguese accounts of Calicut on the Indian Ocean, reports on the voyages of Zheng He, Vasco da Gama, and Columbus, as well as readings in the scientific and religious traditions of Ibn al-Shatin and Copernicus.

SPECIAL STUDIES back to top

HC 399H			3 Credits
CRN 24204	16:00-17:20	MW	CHA 307

Professor David Frank

This course is open to non-CHC students.

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 de-bate 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.

COLLOQUIA back to top

Colloquia Are Limited To Students With Sophomore Standing And Above

HC 421H			4 Credits
CRN 26860	12:00-13:20	UH	CHA 303

Professor Frances Cogan

HC ARTS & LETTERS COLLOQUIUM
"The Historical Novel"

THIS CLASS REQUIRES HEAVY READING
(approx. 200-250 pgs. a week)

This seminar will define, develop and extend the definition of the "historical novel" as differentiated from the "historical narrative" or the romance, showing the various means by which an author can use history to present ideas and agendas. We will explore the perennial questions surrounding historical fiction. How "historical" must it be? Whose idea of history is it? Is it basically a cleaver, catchy method of presenting ideological attitudes, for example? Must the novel use only "real" people? How many? Must the historical novel be realistic in all its details and its setting? What are the authorial aims of the invented historical novel, the disguised historical novel or the documented historical novel? Where do we put a "fake document" like Graves' I, Claudius? How do the aims change, given the kind of historical novel?
The following are the texts for the course: DICKENS, Charles Tale of two cities; SCOTT, Sir Walter, Waverly; DUMAS, Alexandre, The Man in the Iron Mask; HUGO, Victor, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Notre Dame de Paris); WILLIS, Connie, The Doomsday Book; GRAVES, Robert, I, Claudius; BROWN, Rita Mae, High Hearts; CRANE, Stephen, The Red Badge of Courage.
There will be one required oral report (with handed-out bibliography) on an outside novel, along with a long critical research paper requiring research and an essay final or special Historical Novel project.

HC 421H			4 Credits
CRN 24215	14:00-15:50	M	CHA 303
	14:00-14:50	W	CHA 303

Professor Suzanne Clark

HC ARTS & LETTERS COLLOQUIUM
"The University in Peace and War"

This course is about the rhetoric of the sixties, student protest, civil rights, and the Vietnam era. We will ex-amine the involvement of universities, particularly Oregon universities, in the rhetoric of peace and war, using literary and rhetorical texts and documents as well as university archives. The focus will be on the period from the early 1960s era of civil rights activism to student protest and the Vietnam War.
We will carry out archival research and interviews as well as textual analysis to write a paper (one long or several equivalent short papers) about the arguments involved in a particular event or text. There will be guest speakers with special knowledge of that period, help from writers and archivists about effective uses of inter-views, archives, collections, and documents. There will be a final conference during which students and guests may present and discuss the ideas developed in their papers.
Texts and documents to consult: Protest documents from the Sixties; Papers from archives and special collections of the University of Oregon, particularly the Robert D. Clark papers; Kenneth Metzler, Confrontation (the writer will meet with us); selections from the following: Long Time Gone : Sixties America Then And Now (ed. Alexander Bloom); Todd Gitlin, The Sixties: Years of Anger, Days of Rage; Angela Davis: an Autobiography; Eldridge Cleaver, "The White Race and Its Heroes," Soul on Ice.
Films include: Arguing the World (Bell, Glazer, Howe, and Kristol), Berkeley in the Sixties, Getting Straight.
Interviews and guest speakers include: Heather Briston, university archivist, former president Robert. D. Clark, President David Frohnmayer; VP Dan Williams, Kenneth Metzler, members of the faculty, former student activists, journalists, and others.

HC 421H			4 Credits
CRN 26859	18:00-19:20	UH	CHA 303

Professor Toral Gajarawala

HC ARTS & LETTERS COLLOQUIUM
"Spaces of Confinement: A Study of Prison Literature"

This course will examine fictional and non-fictional works from various socio-cultural contexts that address the prison in both its literal and metaphorical configurations. We will begin by studying Michel Foucault's crucial text Discipline and Punish, which traces the rise of the prison as an outgrowth of a system of bodily regulation, control and surveillance. The course will then proceed in two sections, the first of which will consider fictionalized representations of the prison and its community. Possible texts may include: Charles Dickens' Little Dorrit, Vladimir Nabokov's An Invitation to a Beheading, Calixthe Beyala's Your Name Shall Be Tanga. We will consider such issues as the physical, emotional, and political space of the prison, metaphors of exclusion, prison writing and forms of resistance, the notion of writing as a 'place', as well as questions of authority and power. The second section of the course will consider autobiographical literature that draws on authors' own prison experiences. Possible texts may include: the poetry of Dennis Brutus, Nawal el Saadawi's Memoirs from a Women's Prison, George Jackson's Soledad Brothers, Leonard Peltier's My Life is my Sun Dance. In examining these texts we will ask how the autobiographical tradition is manipulated and reconfigured in this 'genre' of prison literature, how it treats notions of community and isolation, how narrative represents violence etc. The course will attempt to address a broader question throughout the term: In general, how does literary narrative delineate space? What are the constraints and freedom that encourage such a delineation? More specifically, how does a study of prison literature help us to understand hierarchies and divisions of social space, both inside and outside the prison?

HC 421H			4 Credits
CRN 26861	14:00-15:20	UH	CHA 303

Professor Mark Johnson

HC ARTS & LETTERS COLLOQUIUM
"Metaphors We Live By"

Over the past three decades metaphor has moved from being a minor peripheral topic in literature to being recognized today as a fundamental process of human conceptualization and reasoning. Because humans are metaphoric creatures, metaphor plays a central role in virtually every topic, field, or discipline one can imagine. We will trace the discovery of the importance of metaphor in how people think, evaluate, and act. We will ex-amine some of the most significant evidence from psychology, philosophy, linguistics, and the cognitive sciences that reveals how metaphors work, why we have the ones we do, and how they are grounded in the nature of our bodies and brains. I believe that acknowledging the key role of metaphor requires us to rethink some of our most well-entrenched views about human mind, thought, and language. Students will have an op-port unity to investigate the key defining metaphors and their implications for our lives--in fields that interest them the most, such as ethics, religion, politics, economics, science, philosophy, and art.

HC 421H			4 Credits
CRN 26862	10:00-11:20	MW	CHA 303

Professor Jeffrey Mason

HC ARTS & LETTERS COLLOQUIUM
"The Political Theatre of Arthur Miller"

We are going to break new ground in the study of Arthur Miller, whom some consider America's leading playwright, by moving past the prevailing interpretation of him as a social dramatist to examine the profoundly political nature of his plays, his essays and his life outside of the theatre. We'll read eight plays from the early All My Sons to the more recent The Archbishop's Ceiling, and we'll consider them in light of their historical circumstances of production as well as Miller's many opinion pieces, including the satirical ones about privatizing Congress and executions. Miller is concerned with human rights, loyalty, betrayal, repression and the Holocaust, and the backbone of his work has involved a search for a way for people to treat each other with integrity in spite of the abuses of authority that frequently prevail; the classic Miller situation stages the individual standing against the power structures that surround him.
We'll attend Death of a Salesman at VLT and A View From the Bridge right here on campus. We'll also sit in on a symposium on violence in literature and the arts, sponsored by the Morse Center for Law and Politics, that will feature scholars from all over the country.
Requirements? Come to class. Participate actively in discussions. Write two critical papers (1000-1500 words each) and devise a final project that could be a longer paper, a prepared debate on an issue, a performance of a scene, or anything else appropriate that you might imagine.

HC 431H			4 Credits
CRN 27939	18:00-20:50	W	CHA 303

Professor John Orbell

HC SOCIAL SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM
"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 434H			4 Credits
CRN 26213	8:00-9:50	U	CHA 303
	8:30-9:50	H	CHA 303

Professor David L. Li

HC INTERNATIONAL CULTURES COLLOQUIUM
"Cinematic China: Mobility, Modernity and Globality"

"Cinematic China" is designed as an educational equivalent of travel, intellectual tours in the celluloid, analogue, or digital universe that will enhance our understanding of the actual peoples and places which appear so remote to us. Following the metaphor of travel, the class insists on a circular trajectory around the globe, moving from the hinterlands of mainland China to its cities, to the former British colony of Hong Kong, to the global metropolis of New York, to Taipei, Taiwan, only coming home to roost back in Hong Kong (the "Fragrant Harbor"), an island of transience, yet a colony no more.
This traveling trajectory renders contemporary China on a "transnational" map, not confined within a single nation-state. It sets China in motion as well, just like the very motion pictures we study, in a series of intangible imageries with real visceral effects. If motion characterizes mankind's mastery over their material circumstances, and mobility signifies modernity, what "Cinematic China" intends to explore is the very meanings of being "Chinese" when China is no longer a space of "stand still" as it is traditionally conceived. In this sense, the very instability of what China is and what China means speaks broadly of a global condition of volatility that no one seems able to transcend. The plots of the movies and plights of the protagonists are finally not about them on the other side of the Pacific Rim but about us in our increasingly interconnected planet of widening social chasms.
Term grade is based on class participation and attendance, a number of short papers, and a take-home final (research paper).

HC 434H			4 Credits
CRN 24212	12:00-13:20	MW	CHA 303

Professor Svitlana Kravchenko

HC INTERNATIONAL CULTURES COLLOQUIUM
"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 441H			4 Credits
CRN 26863	14:00-15:20	MW	LIB 42

Professor Gregory Bothun

HC SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM
"Energy Policies"

This course will deal with the issues of alternative energy sources and sustainable energy sources and the kind of policies which would be required to facilitate their implementation. Students will perform an objective cost-benefit analysis on various forms of alternative energy in order to determine what is feasible on a large scale (e.g. wind, solar, hydro, etc). We will pay particular attention to some of the barriers associated with get-ting the public and or various State Legislatures to invest more in alternative energy and we will examine the positive and negative effects of energy deregulation. Depending upon the results of the presidential election, we will critically examine the components of either the Bush or Kerry energy plan. We will also critically exam-in the local controversy surrounding the proposed 900 Megawatt Advanced Gas Turbine facility to be cited in Coburg.
Throughout the term, students will be organized into small teams to investigate and report/write on various issues and should come to class prepared to debate certain aspects of some energy issues. The student teams will also give a presentation at the end of term on possible sustainable energy solutions for the City of Eugene over a 50 year timescale. 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 alter-native 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 working solutions to energy shortages.

HC 441H			4 Credits
CRN 26864	10:00-11:20	UH	CHA 303

Professor Nathan Tublitz

HC SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM
"Mysteries of the Brain: Neuroscience and Society"

This course will provide science and non-science HC students with a basic understanding of neuroscience, the study of the brain. Students will acquire an understanding of the complexities underlying brain function, learn about the methods and fundamental processes underlying scientific research, gain an appreciation of the role and limitations of basic biomedical research in our society, and explore ethical dilemmas in neuroscience research. Students will also improve critical thinking and communication skills through oral presentations and written work.
The course will begin with a brief discussion of the scientific method and the role of science in today's society. This will be followed by an overview of nervous system structure and function. The remainder of the course will focus on a sequential in-depth study of 3-4 diseases of the nervous system, e.g. Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Huntington's chorea, amyotropic lateral sclerosis (ALS), depression, bipolar disorder and/or others. Each section will consist of several lectures and 1-2 student-led presentations. Some sections will include demonstrations, lab exercises and/or field trips. Students will be expected to give one oral presentation, learn to read the scientific literature, write several papers and participate in classroom discussion.

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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.

EDLD 199			2 Credits
CRN 23569	17:00-18:50	M	DYM

Professor Sharon Schuman

PASS/NO PASS

SPECIAL STUDIES
"Public Speaking"

This course aims to help students gain confidence speaking before others in classes, presentations, and especially the oral thesis defense of the Clark Honors College. During the term students will have the opportunity to give 3 five-minute speeches: a self-introduction, a speech on a specialized subject before a lay audience, and a persuasive speech. Students will also moderate, ask and answer questions, view their own speeches on video, write one-page self-evaluations, and receive individual oral critiques. The class includes discussion of short readings about public speaking, short videos of famous speeches, and the occasional excursion to hear a visiting dignitary speak on campus. Open to all UO students, limited to 20.

HBRW 312			4 Credits
CRN 27124	14:00-15:50	MW	PLC 810

Professor Monique Rodrigues Balbuena

This course is taught in Hebrew.
Prerequisite: HBRW 113 or equivalent.

BIBLICAL POETRY
"To Love in Hebrew"

Since the Bible, Hebrew poets have been writing about love. Indeed, human love and love of God have been central themes in Hebrew poetry, in a corpus that spans centuries and crosses several continents.
This course is a survey of Hebrew love poetry, starting with the foundational text the Song of Songs, and continuing through Medieval Spain and Renaissance Italy, to Yemen and present-day Israel. As the main inter-text to future love poems, the Song of Songs will be revisited repeatedly throughout the course. We will identify motifs and themes, discuss the representation of gender in the poem, the relationship between sacred and pro-fan love and poetry, and the process of allegorization and canonization of the poem.
Questions we might ask: what is the position of the woman in a traditional love poem? How is this traditional poem subverted when the addressee is another man? Or when the speaker herself is a woman? How do women writers manipulate the genre? How do the changing norms of love poetry in different traditions affect the genre and the portrayal of desire? How do Hebrew poets rewrite the Bible and the liturgical texts? Where is the line between sacred and profane love? And, on a somewhat different note, how has love poetry been used to further national and religious causes?
Required Readings:

Bloch, Chana & Bloch, Ariel. The Song of Songs, a New Translation

Amichai, Yehuda. Poems of Jerusalem and Love Poems

Selections from:

Alcalay, Ammiel. Keys to the Garden: New Israeli Writing

Kaufman, Shirley et al. The Defiant Muse: Hebrew Feminist Poems, from Antiquity to the Present

Scheindlin, Raymond. Wine, Women and Death: Medieval Hebrew Poems on the Good Life Scheindlin, Raymond. The Gazelle: Medieval Hebrew Poems on God, Israel, and the Soul

Carmi, T. The Penguin Book of Hebrew Verse

Bernshaw, Stanley et al. The Modern Hebrew Poem Itself

And a reader with essays, to be purchased separately.

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HC 477H			2 Credits
CRN 27756	8:00-9:50	M	CHA 303
CRN 27755	16:00-17:50	U	CHA 303
CRN 27754	10:00-11:50	F	CHA 303

PASS/NO PASS ATTENDANCE MANDATORY

Professor Dennis Todd (CRN 27756)
Professor Louise Bishop (CRN 27755)
Professor Helen Southworth (CRN 27754)

THESIS PROSPECTUS

This Thesis Prospectus 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 this course polishing their prospectuses and then participating in a mock oral examination. Before enrolling in Thesis Prospectus, 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,
3. consulted with their primary thesis adviser on possible second readers from their major department, and
4. filled out the Thesis Prospectus Application and turned it in to the CHC office prior to the registration period.

The seminar will begin with several weeks of instruction and aid in polishing prospectuses. The majority of the term will involve oral presentations by all students with the primary thesis adviser present.

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

1. Complete a Permission to Register for Individualized Study Courses form,
2. 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.
3. Submit the completed form to the CHC Office so that you can be pre-authorized.
4. Register for the class.

Please note that individualized study courses are subject to the same deadlines as all other courses.

HC 403H	CRN 24205	Variable Credits
THESIS
HC 405H	CRN 24206	Variable Credits
READING & CONFERENCE
HC 406H	CRN 24207	Variable Credits
SPECIAL PROBLEMS
HC 409H	CRN 24211	Variable Credits
PRACTICUM

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LITERATURE
HC 223H Honors College Literature - 7 sessions

HISTORY
HC 233H Honors College History - 6 sessions

THESIS
HC 477H Thesis Prospectus (Cogan)

COLLOQUIA
Arts & Letters
HC 421H Spaces of Confinement: A Study of Prison Literature (Gajarawala)
HC 421H Word and Tone: German Poetry and Song (Linton/Tedards)
HC 421H Jane Austen (Taylor)
HC 421H Issues in Public Art (Wojick)

Social Science
HC 431H Words and Things (Rosenberg)
HC 431H Normal People Behaving Badly (Hodges)

Identities (IP)
HC 424H Literature By and About Gay Men (Alley)

International Cultures (IC)
HC 434H Sugar, Slavery & Revolution: History of the Atlantic World 1492-1888 (Mitchell)
HC 434H The Arts and Global Politics (Kraus)

SPECIAL COURSE OFFERINGS
SPAN 490/590 Latin American Poetry and Translation Today (Balbuena)
ENG 410/510 Middle English Mystics (Bishop)

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