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Study of grammatical structure and translation of selections from Greek authors. This course fulfills 3 semester credit hours of the University's foreign language requirement. Open to non-honors students.
Prerequisite: HON 131. Continuation of the work of HON 131, further developing translation skills. This course fulfills 3 semester credit hours of the University’s foreign language requirement. Open to non-honors students.
Study of grammatic structure and translation of selections form Latin authors. Consideration of the nature and philosophy of language. This course fulfills 3 semester credit hours of the University’s foreign language requirement. Open to non-honors students.
Prerequisite: HON 141. Continuing study of the nature and principles of language by means of a serious study of Latin grammar, vocabulary and more complex specimens of Latin literature. This course fulfills 3 semester credit hours of the University’s foreign language requirement. Open to non-honors students.
Study of the principles of good writing and practice in writing organized, coherent, thesis papers.
Prerequisite: HON 143. Study of the principles of good writing and practice in writing organized, coherent, thesis papers.
Prerequisite: HON 102 or consent of instructor. Introduction to history from the Renaissance through the French Revolution, followed by seminars on the greatest books of the time. Readings from Chaucer, Machiavelli, Montaigne, Descartes, Pascal, Shakespeare, Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau. Open to non-honors students.
Prerequisite: HON 201 or consent of instructor. Introduction to history during the nineteenth and twentieth century, followed by seminars on the greatest books of the time. Readings from M. Shelley, Thoreau, Melville, Marx, F. Douglass, Joyce, and T.S. Eliot. Open to non-honors students.
The literary uses of language in narrative and dramatic genres, including medieval English epics, Shakespearean tragedy and comedy, and modern African-American fiction. Attention is given to literary analysis and to effective composition.
HON 212: Language IV: English Lyric Poetry The literary uses of language in lyric poetry from the English-speaking world. Attention is also given to advanced composition.
Prerequisite: HON 144. The process, principles, and methods of writing a research paper. The required paper will be on a topic related to the student’s major or professional goal.
Prerequisite: HON 144 or equivalent. Intermediate study of the principles of good writing, with particular attention to and practice in writing a research paper.
Prerequisite: HON 122. The triumph of Newtonian mechanics and its significance. Concepts of mass, motion, force, and gravity are explored.
Evolutionary theory and its relation to genetics. The background to and development of Darwin’s theory of evolution. The search for the carrier of the genetic code and the discovery of DNA. Readings from such authors as Aristotle, Paley, Lamarck, Darwin, Mendel, Watson, and Crick. Open to non-honors students.
Prerequisite: ENG 101. An exploration and comparison of ideas and values reflected in readings from selected cultures of the ancient world.
Prerequisites: ENG 101 and IGS 200 or consent of director. An exploration and comparison of the ideas and values reflected in texts from Christian and Islamic traditions of late antiquity, through the Middle Ages, and to the Renaissance and Reformation.
Prerequisites: ENG 101 and IGS 201 or consent of director. An exploration and comparison of ideas and values reflected in readings from selected cultures in the modern world.
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