HON 1112-001  And Dignity for All              CRN 60381     Morgan
R 12-1:40 p.m.
Fulfills Spring Dignitas requirement. This is a continuation of Honors section 1 of Dignitas from the Fall. The course will be taught using the methods and at the level appropriate for Honors. 

 HON 1112-002  And Dignity for All             CRN 60382  Barrett   R 12-1:40 p.m.
Fulfills Spring Dignitas requirement.  This is a continuation of Honors section 2 of Dignitas from the Fall. The course will be taught using the methods and at the level appropriate for Honors. 

HON 2405 The World                                      CRN 60643     IDS: 02, 06, 07   Barrett
TR 4-4:50 p.m.
This course aims to give students, largely from the Upper Midwest, exposure to and an opportunity to analyze current issues from around the globe. Since the text is a British publication, it exposes students to foreign perceptions of the United States. Students will gain the research skills needed to quickly get additional information on events around the world.

HON 3350  Psychology of Human Sexuality CRN 61668     IDS: 01, 02, 06  Schroeder
MWF 1-2:05 p.m. 3/18-5/9
This course will involve reading and discussing the literature on selected, often controversial, topics in human sexuality.  Subjects include evolutionary psychology and mate selection, love styles and classifications, unlovely feelings such as jealousy, correlates of sexual orientation, the church and sexuality, contraceptives, resolving unwanted pregnancies, impact of pornography on sexual aggression, atypical sexual behavior, realities and politics of child sexual abuse, and sex therapy.  The course will emphasize the interactions between psychological factors and other influences -- biological, social, cultural, religious -- on sexual attitudes and behavior, and the study of sexuality as a scientific discipline.

HON 3390 Irish Literature                CRN 61669     Area Distribution: 04   Hagen
MWF 11:45 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
The incredibly rich fiction, drama, and poetry of a tiny island have produced four Nobel Prize winners in literature.  While we will read some texts written before the twentieth century, the emphasis will be on modern and contemporary literature, in part because it was written in English rather than Irish, but more importantly because Irish writers are among the giants of modern literature and some of the most brilliant writers working today.  Students will read, discuss, and write about important Irish literary texts, with a few forays into Irish myth, music, art, and history.

HON 3777  Applications of Game Theory   CRN 61628        IDS: 02, 05  Hoffman, Qson
TR 2-3:40 p.m.
Game theory is a set of analytical tools for studying the strategic behavior of individuals in both cooperative and non-cooperative settings.  In this course we will learn the principles of game theory, show how evolutionary biology has affected our understanding of game theory, and apply the principles of game theory to a wide variety of fields.  This course will use problems to develop our understanding of game theory.  In many applications of game theory, modeling the interaction of individuals can become quite complicated.  The use of computer simulations has allowed researchers to model complex strategic interactions and we will, in this course, use computer simulation models to help us solve various problems.   This course will appeal to students interested in economics, political science, psychology, biology, computer science-in general anyone wanting to learn formal tools for analyzing competition and cooperation in social interactions.

HON 4777/MER 4444 Seminar: The Book of Memory CRN 60602 IDS: 01, 04, 07, 11 Hodapp
MW 3:30-5:10 p.m.
The idea of the book in medieval and early modern cultures carried both physical and metaphorical meanings. Memory as a book a person  reads was one such metaphorical use. Guided by Mary Carruthers, Frances Yates, and others we will explore how medieval and early modern people used writing and other artistic means to record and shape memories both individually and culturally. We will also examine how certain writers create fictive worlds - cast as personal memories or culturally remembered experiences - to comment on their present political, cultural, religious, or philosophical situations. On the way, we will examine the advent and use of writing as a memorial technique through an on-going exercise in experimental archeology: we'll study and practice a little calligraphy and produce a manuscript. As an upper-level writing intensive course, this seminar will also use writing as a means to learning, leading to a final seminar paper that will become part of a class anthology of essays.

HON 4777 /HIS 4402 Human Rights in World History CRN 61670 IDS: 02, 07, 09  Poole
T 4-7 p.m.
This course is a research seminar divided into three parts. The first part (three weeks) is devoted to the concept and philosophy of human rights. Topics will include human nature, human dignity, natural law, and natural rights, with readings from philosophers such as John Locke and Immanuel Kant. The second part of the course (six weeks) will trace the historical development of human rights from the Enlightenment to the present day, with an emphasis on the twentieth century. In the third part of the course (six weeks), seminar participants will research, write, and present a major paper (25 pp.) on a topic related to human rights. Our main text will be Paul Gordon Lauren, The Evolution of International Human Rights: Visions Seen (2003). (Honors students will be able to present their projects at the Honors Conference in April.)

HON 4777 World War I                                CRN 61671     IDS: 02, 04, 07   Barrett
MW 3:30-5:10 p.m.
It is said by some that World War I ended the Age of Optimism and began the Modern Era.  It certainly triggered the fall of the Tsarist government in Russia, destroyed the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, and killed millions of young men who would have been the next generation of European leaders.  Some historians claim that World War II was just a continuation of the first war--that the two wars were really one with a twenty year uneasy truce in the middle.  After World War I, no one had any illusions that war was glorious and grand.  However, most people know few of the details about the war.  The goals of the course are to fill in some gaps and inspire a desire to learn more.

HON 4777  Global Poverty II                       CRN 61672 IDS: 01, 02  Morgan, Hoffman
MW 11:45 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
In this course we seek to answer three questions.  First, why are some nations poor and others rich?  Second, what programs have been shown to be effective in helping the poor especially the 80% of the world that lives on less than $10 a day?  Third, what is our moral obligation to the poor? 

HON 4888  Thesis  0-4 credits                                                CRN 60210
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HON 4999  Independent Study  0-4 credits                CRN 60211
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