Honors courses and seminars emphasize student participation and writing. They are for students who embrace the chance to work hard, read more, take risks, defend a belief, and challenge received wisdom. Students don't get extra credit, more quality points, or an easy A by taking Honors courses. They just get the most challenging and enriching educational experience they can find anywhere.
We regard the Honors curriculum as a learning laboratory, where new course ideas and new ways of teaching constantly stimulate teachers and students.
Honors Courses
Usually limited to 15-20 students, Honors sections and seminars emphasize classroom discussion and interaction with the professor. Please pay attention to any special registration notes (such as prerequisites, or permission required for enrollment). Unless otherwise noted, all registration and waitlists for these courses will be handled exclusively through the Honors Program office (225 Graham Memorial).
Course Offerings and Descriptions
Registration Information
Honors students will register for all their Spring 2010 courses online according to their assigned registration date and time (this is available on Student Central). Online registration for Honors courses will end at 8:00am on Monday, November 9, 2009. At that time, students seeking to enroll in additional Honors courses or wait list an Honors course will need to visit the Honors Program office in person at 225 Graham Memorial.
Students who are not in the Honors Program, but have an overall GPA of 3.0 or higher and meet any pre-/co-requisites, may enroll in or wait list Honors courses on a space-available basis in person at 225 Graham Memorial on Wednesday, November 11, 2009.
Registration and wait listing for Spring 2010 honors courses will continue in person at 225 Graham Memorial through Friday, December 18, 2009. After that date, the honors course wait lists will be purged. Once classes begin on January 10, 2010, you may only be registered in an honors course if you obtain the instructor's written permission and deliver it in person to the Honors Program office at 225 Graham Memorial.
Honors Contract
Junior and senior Honors students are eligible to engage in an Honors Contract, which offers students a way to pursue an Honors project of their own design within a regular course. The option is limited to upper-level (200+) courses in students' major field(s) of study (the single exception is the Creative Writing minor, in which students may undertake an Honors Contract). Junior and senior Honors students may pursue up to two Honors Contracts each academic year. Please see the Honors Contract Information Sheet for additional details, including the provisions for grading and recording Honors Contract work.
If you are interested in an Honors Contract, you should speak with your professors and work with them to design a mutually agreeable contract project. Honors Contract proposals for the Spring 2010 semester are due in the Honors office by 4:00 p.m., Wednesday, January 20, 2010. Please use the proposal form below. The Honors office will contact you by January 27, 2010 to let you know whether or not your Honors Contract proposal has been approved.
If you have questions, please contact Jason Clemmons in the Honors office (843-7756 or
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Dunlevie Honors Junior Colloquium
The Dunlevie Honors Junior Colloquium (HNRS 325) meets on eight Wednesday evenings throughout the semester, each session beginning with a social gathering, followed by a presentation from the faculty guest and small student-led discussion groups. Each semester, the colloquium focuses on a broad, interdisciplinary topic chosen by rising juniors. Some of Carolina’s most distinguished teachers and scholars are invited to share ideas, discoveries, and challenges with students. Topics for the colloquium in recent semesters have included Entrepreneurship, America in the World, Liberty, Fear, and Asia Rising.
Fall 2009, Medicine and Society
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| Gail Henderson, Professor of Social Medicine - "HIV/AIDS Care and Unequal Distributions" |
| Terrence Holt, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Social Medicine - "Narrative Medicine" |
| Randi Davenport, Adjunct Professor, Department of English & Comparative Literature - "Thinking About Madness" |
| Barry Saunders, Associate Professor, Department of Social Medicine - "Physicians and Stories" |
| Sue Estroff, Professor of Social Medicine - "Compulsory Care in the US" |
| Rebecca Walker, Assistant Professor, Department of Social Medicine - "Psychosocial Evaluation of Potential Organ Recipients: Justice and Social Values" |
| Jon Oberlander, Associate Professor of Health Policy & Management and Social Medicine - "Health Care Reform in 2009" |
| Michael McVaughn, Professor Emeritus, Department of History |
| Neel Ahuja, Assistant Professor, Department of English & Comparative Literature |
Spring 2009, Living on the Edge
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| Daniel Reichart, Associate Professor of Physics & Astronomy - "The Edge of Space" |
| Virginia Carson, Director, Campus Y - "The Edge of the Social Contract" |
| elin o'Hara slavick, Professor of Art - "The Edge of Art" |
| Gene Nichol, Jr., Director, Center for Poverty, Work, & Opportunity - "The Edge of Poverty" |
| Bob Cantwell, Professor of American Studies - "The Edge of the Suburbs" |
| Tim Marr, Associate Professor of American Studies - "The Edge of Life" |
| Greg Gangi, Director, Carolina Environmental Center - "The Edge of Energy" |
| Tyler Curtain, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature - "The Edge of a Species" |
Fall 2008, Asia Rising
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| Peter Coclanis, Associate Provost for International Affairs - "Head to Head: China, India, and the Asian Economy in the 21st Century." |
W. Miles Fletcher, Professor and Associate Chair, Department of History -
"From Ashes to Economic Superpower: Japan since 1945" |
| Jan Bardsley, Associate Professor of Japanese Humanities - "Princess Politics in Japan: Succession Crisis" |
| Kevin Hewison, Director, Carolina Asia Center - "How to Deal With a Financial and Economic Crisis: Evidence from Southeast Asia" |
| Michelle King, Department of History - "The Underbelly of China's Economic Development" |
| Gungwu Wang, National University of Singapore - "China in Asia" |
| Inger Brodey, Department of English & Comparative Literature - "Cowboys & Samurai" |
| Robin Visser, Department of Asian Studies - "China's Urban Revolution" |
Spring 2008, Liberty
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| Stephen Leonard, Associate Professor of Political Science - "Liberty: Personal or Political" |
| William Andrews, E. Maynard Adams Professor of English and Senior Associate Dean of Fine Arts and Humanities - "The Meaning of Freedom to Fugitive Slaves" |
| Jack Boger, Dean of the School of Law - "Civil Rights and the Law" |
| Sister Helen Prejean, 2007-2008 Hillard Gold '39 Lecturer - "Dead Man Walking: The Journey Continues" |
| Chris Routh, Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Scholar and Director, Carolina Business News Initiative - "Freedom of the Press" |
| George Leef, Vice President for Research, The John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy - "Classical Liberalism" |
| Charles Kurzman, Professor of Sociology - "Liberal Islam" |
| John McGowan, Ruel Tyson Distinguished Professor of English & Comparative Literature, Director of the Institute for Arts & Humanities - "Two Concepts of Liberty" |
Fall 2007, What Is Fear?
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| Jonathan S. Abramowitz, Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry - "Anxiety: Normal and Abnormal" |
| Navin A. Bapat, Department of Political Science - "Terrorism and the Politics of Fear" |
| Robert E. Daniels, Department of Anthropology - "Power, Politics, Paranoia: Is Everything an Inside Job?" |
| C. D. C. Reeve, Department of Philosophy - "What Fears Are, and Aren't" |
| Ruel Tyson, Department of Religious Studies - "That to philosophize is to learn to die" |
| Pamela Johnson, Department of Political Science - "Fear & Loathing: The Politics of Sexual Shame" |
| Jay M. Smith, Department of History - "Monsters and 'the enemy': France in 1765" |
Spring 2007, Living With Integrity: Ethics in Our Personal, Professional and Civic Lives
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| Thomas E. Hill, Kenan Professor of Philosophy - "Introduction to Ethics" |
| Douglas MacLean, Professor of Philosophy - "Environmental Ethics" |
| Jeff Spinner-Halev, Kenan Eminent Professor of Political Ethics - "Political Ethics" |
| Robert S. Adler, Professor of Entrepreneurship and Luther H. Hodges Sr. Scholar - "Business Ethics" |
| Bernard Boxill, Pardue Professor of Philosophy - "Ethics of War" |
| Ten Chin Liew, Department of Philosophy, National University of Singapore - "Religious Tolerance" |
| Superior Court Judge Carl R. Fox - "Legal Ethics" |
| Nancy King, Professor of Social Medicine - "Medical Ethics" |
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