HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES
Honors English |
The Shaping of the Modern World |
American Presidency |
| small, seminar-sized settings | stimulating discussion | research opportunities |
HON 124: HONORS ENGLISH
Tuesdays & Thursdays, 10:00 - 11:15 a.m.LITERATURE
& REVENGE
From
aesthetic & cultural perspectives, we’ll examine some of the ways in which
literature throughout the world has reflected the impulse to seek vengeance.
Included in our reading will be:
Aeschylus's
The Libation Bearers
Shakespeare's Hamlet
Dante's Inferno
Aharon Appelfeld'sThe Iron Tracks
Selections from Murasaki
Shikibu's The
Tale of Genji
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Short stories by:
Edgar Allan Poe Anton Chekhov William Trevor Lan Samantha Chang Louise Erdrich |
Poems by:
Alicia Partnoy Dorothy Parker Letitia Elizabeth Landon Edna St. Vincent Millay Kishwar Naheed Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi Kofi Anyidoho |
HON 124 satisfies the requirement for that course in all programs.
Pre-requisite: ENG 123 and permission of the instructor, Professor Connie Ostrowski. Contact Professor Ostrowski (ostrowcj@gw.sunysccc.edu) or Professor Carol A. DeFries, department chair, (defrieca@gw.sunysccc.edu) for further information.
HON 144: THE SHAPING OF THE MODERN WORLD
Mondays, Wednesday, and Fridays, 1:00 -
1:30 p.m.
HON 144, The Shaping of the Modern World, is an honors level alternative to Western Civilization Since 1715 (HIS 127) that students with a strong interest in history might want to consider.
This semester we will be reading
such fascinating works as Isaiah Berlin's The Hedgehog and the Fox,
Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, Crane Brinton's Anatomy of a
Revolution, and Jonathan Spence's The Chan's Great Continent: China in
Western Minds. The course provides a global perspective, with a considerable non-western component, and enables each student to select a theme of particular interest to be
explored independently and shared with the class. In the past such themes as
military history, economic history, painting, women and society and others have
been developed in terms of their eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth century
perspectives. The diversity of student interests adds much to the class.
Pre-requisite:Permission of the instructor,Professor David Hughes. Contact Professor Hughes (hughesdm@gw.sunysccc.edu)Professor Carol A. DeFries, department chair,(defrieca@gw.sunysccc.edu) for further information.
HON 271: AMERICAN PRESIDENCY
Mondays, Wednesday, and Fridays, 9:30 - 10:20 a.m.
The course studies the institution of the presidency as well as presidential character, which uses a model to predict performance of present and future presidents. In the course of the 20th century, the American presidency has emerged as the premier national political institution, eclipsing the Congress in both power and prestige. This course will investigate the origin and development of the presidency as the single most powerful office of national government and explore the extent and limits of contemporary presidential power by studying the practice of various recent president, primarily Truman through Clinton.
This class can function as a Social Science elective for the Honors and several other programs.
Pre-requisite:POL 123 and permission of the instructor, Professor Alan Carter. Contact Professor Carter (carterar@gw.sunysccc.edu) or Professor Carol A. DeFries, department chair, (defrieca@gw.sunysccc.edu) for further information.
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