Summer 2007 Honors Colloquia
Note: In order to graduate on time, remember to keep your Honors Distribution choices on file in the Honors Office. See "honors distribution" to download the forms.
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Brouse by Type of Colloquium or
Brouse by Session when the Colloquium is offered
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List by Type of Colloquium: (see below for list by session offered) _______________________________________________________
Honors Colloquium for Humanities
[34323] 1870: 250-401 Honors Colloquium for Humanities. Dr. Nancy Yoder, Honors Complex 183, MTuesTh 10:00-11:40 a.m. First five week session
[34324] 1870:250-402 Honors Colloquium for Humanities. Dr. Stanley Akers , Honors Complex 082, MTWR 8:15-9:30 a.m. Second five week session
[33359] 250-403 Honors Colloquium for Humanities. Sarah M. Akers, Honors Complex 092, MTW 8:15-9:55 a.m. Third five week session
[34788]1870: 250-405 Honors Colloquium for Humanities. Cheryl Anne Morris, Honors Complex 082, MWF, 10:00-11:40 a.m. Second five week session
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Honors Colloquium for Social Sciences
[30029] 1870:360-401 Honors Colloquium for Social Sciences. Sarah M. Akers, Honors Complex 092, MTW 8:15-9:55 a.m. Second five week session
[34325] 360-402 Honors Colloquium for Social Sciences. Dr. Stanley Akers , Honors Complex 082, MTWR 8:15-9:30 a.m. Third five week session
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Honors Colloquium for Natural Sciences
[35086] 1870:470-403 Honors Colloquium for Natural Sciences. Dr. R. Joel Duff, Second 5-week summer session, Tues Thurs 12:00-2:30 p.m.
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List by Session Offered: (see above for list by colloquium type)
Summer I. First five week session
[34323] 1870: 250-401 Honors Colloquium for Humanities. Dr. Nancy Yoder, Honors Complex 183, MTuesTh 10:00-11:40 a.m.
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Summer 2. Second five week session
[34324] 1870:250-402 Honors Colloquium for Humanities. Dr. Stanley Akers , Honors Complex 082, MTWR 8:15-9:30 a.m.
[34788]1870: 250-405 Honors Colloquium for Humanities. Cheryl Anne Morris, Honors Complex 082, MWF, 10:00-11:40 a.m.
[30029] 1870:360-401 Honors Colloquium for Social Sciences. Sarah M. Akers, Honors Complex 092, MTW 8:15-9:55 a.m.
[35086] 1870:470-403 Honors Colloquium for Natural Sciences. Dr. R. Joel Duff, Tues Thurs 12:00-2:30 p.m.
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Summer 3 Third five week session
[33359] 250-403 Honors Colloquium for Humanities. Sarah M. Akers, Honors Complex 092, MTW 8:15-9:55 a.m.
[34325] 360-402 Honors Colloquium for Social Sciences. Dr. Stanley Akers , Honors Complex 082, MTWR 8:15-9:30 a.m.
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Colloquium Descriptions:
HUMANITIES COLLOQUIUM
Summer 1
[33359] 1870:250-401 Honors Colloquium for Humanities, Dr. Nancy Yoder, Honors Complex 183, MTuesTh 10:00-11:40 a.m.
ACTING ETHICALLY IN THE WORLD: HOW DO WE DECIDE WHAT TO DO?
Dr. Nancy Yoder
Dietrich Bonheoffer, Lutheran pastor, set aside his pacifist principles to participate in a plot to kill Hitler and was executed. What would you have done? Sharon Watkins, former vice president at Enron, faced corporate leaders inside the company and then testified against them in court about the company’s fraudulent financial procedures. Would you have done that? At my house, we are installing ecologically sound light bubs but don’t recycle. What do you do?
In this intensive summer session, come to examine multi-disciplinary approaches to ethical decision-making. Explore questions of ethical decision-making such as: do we grow in to ethical understanding? are we born with moral natures? if we must be taught, how do we learn? When we ponder what is right, how do we use empathy, assess risk or consider joy?
Co-constructing the course with the instructor, participate in choosing some of the readings and situations for ethical analysis and doing individualized reading to investigate your individual choices of ethical dilemmas. We will read from a compilation of excerpts developed by the instructor and supplemented with student discoveries.
Simultaneously, participate in building a community of scholars, learning to be metacognitive about inquiry through dialogue. Improve your own discussion skills and assume leadership for your student-colleagues’ learning by researching and presenting an ethical dilemma from at least three disciplines or frames of reference, then leading a class discussion in making ethical choices
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Summer 3
[33359] 1870:250-403 Honors Colloquium for Humanities, Sarah M. Akers, Honors Complex 092, MTW 8:15-9:55 a.m. Third five week session
MOVIES IN TIME
Sarah Akers
This course will examine several motion pictures, ranging from the silent film era to the present day, all of which are based on actual historical events or subjects. We will compare the content of the films with the established facts, and discuss how a work of art (such as a film) can either enhance or diminish our knowledge of history.
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NATURAL SCIENCES COLLOQUIUM
Summer 2
[] 1870:470-401 Honors Colloquium for Natural Sciences. Dr. R. Joel Duff
The Value of the Historical Sciences to Current Questions
Dr. R. Joel Duff
A simple distinction is sometimes made between the so-called historical and experimental sciences. Historical science is typically the investigation and understanding of past events. The disciplines of archeology, geology, biology and physics all have areas of research that involve the attempt to explain the origin and current state of what we observe in the world today. This colloquium will focus on understanding the distinction of historical and experimental science, what we can learn from historical sciences, and how that information can and does play a large role in developing our opinions about many present day concerns. For example, opinions about the significance of global warming, or even its existence, are predicated on scientist’s understanding of how and why the climate has changed in the past. In geology, the study of plate tectonics as an explanation for the origins of many of the earth’s features has a strong influence on our conception of future volcanic and earthquake risks. This course will look at a number of examples of significant theories that are the result of research in the historical sciences including plate tectonics, solar system evolution, and biological evolution. The course will consist of a number of short research seminars with discussion. Readings from the primary and secondary literature will required along with some short writing assignments
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