Looking ahead to the spring semester, I'm posting the seminar list I got in an email from UHP. These classes have always been pretty entertaining and thought provoking, even if they do make you work a little bit. Curious as to what anyone else is hoping to sign up for.

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"HON 102C Winter Wolf Discovery adventure (Yellowstone; the participants will be registered for this by Dr. Blanton). One-credit hour, non-GER seminar. Instructor: Mr. Tim S. Blair HON 293E; Modern Irish Literature; 1145-0100 TH; GER: Literature; Dr. Mary Helen Thuente HON 293F; Poetry and Visual Culture; 0300-0415 TH; GER: Literature; Dr. Lamont Welch HON 293G; Love, Death, and Nature; 0130-0245 MW; GER: Literature; Dr. John N. Wall HON 294C; Comics & Religion: Visual Narratives of the Transcendent; 0430-0545 MW; GER: Religion; Mr. Darby Orcutt HON 294R; Religion & Conflict; 0130-0245 TH; GER: Religion; Dr. Anna Barry Bigelow HON 296A; Academic Research Strategies; 0130-0245 TH; GER: STS-Humanities; Ms. Amy VanScoy HON 299M; The Music of Language; 1015-1130 TH; GER: Visual & Performing Arts; Dr. J. Mark Scearce HON 341; Time Travel; 1015-1130 TH; GER: Philosophy; Dr. John W. Carroll [N.B. This is one of our most popular HON seminars, usually filling-up within the first few minutes of the opening of the registration system.] HON 351; American Ideals in a Global Perspective; 0300-0415 TH; GER: Social Sciences; Dr. Marvin S. Soroos [N.B. This is most likely the last time Dr. Soroos will teach this long-standing and popular HON seminar. So take it now if you are thinking about taking it!] HON 371; Environmental Science and Technology; 0600-0845 T; GER: Natural Sciences; Dr. Robert I. Bruck HON 398A; Issues in Aquatic Ecology; One-credit hour, non-GER seminar; 3-4 class meetings on campus, weekend field trip to coast (including a voyage in the intracoastal waterway). Dates TBA. Instructor: Dr. JoAnn Burkholder HON 398Z; Energy--it's not your father's Oldmobile anymore; One-credit hour, non-GER seminar; Registration by the UHP only (you can't register yourself). There will be a lottery drawing for the available spaces. If you are interested in taking this course, you should indicate so in an e-mail to Dr. Blanton. A message concerning this course will come out in the next few days; 0600-0800 T; Dr. Larry A. Nielsen, Provost of NC State."

I'll probably attempt Time Travel again since its a very popular course, so it must be pretty good right?!?! . If I can't make that, I'll probably try for 'The Music of Language' to get the Visual Arts humanity credit out of the way, or maybe take a class with the music school instead and go for 'American Ideals in a Global Perspective' and get the social science credit out, sounds like an interesting class too. If those fall through then "Issues in Aquatic Ecology" and "Winter Wolf Discovery adventure" appear to be cool travel courses...depending on what the wolf course is.

If you're looking for a course to take and need to get your religion credit I highly suggest "Religion & Conflict", Dr. Bigelow is fantastic as a professor and she keeps the class light hearted with her, uh, witty remarks. She's also very approachable during office hours and has a few interesting stories of her travels to the middle east. The class also is great for giving insight to what is happening with the war now and why it is occurring.

10/2/2007 12:21:43 PM

wow, they've added some pretty interesting courses since I was in the UHP. I took the Time Travel course years ago and highly recommend it.

10/10/2007 3:20:05 PM

-gag- I hated the Time Travel course. Yeah, sure, it was great in the beginning, and then it just went BAM! PHILOSOPHY. It took my best effort not to fall asleep on the poor professor. It just killed my interest.

Winter Wolf thing sounds interesting...I didn't take a Honors Seminar this semester and had a waiver for another semester (I didn't apply again for this semester), think they'll still let me enroll?

10/10/2007 6:27:37 PM

Wow, those classes are so much better than the seminars that they offered to the first group of us to go through UHP.

10/11/2007 7:54:01 PM

Most of these sound like complete bullshit.

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"HON 294C; Comics & Religion: Visual Narratives of the Transcendent;"

Seriously?

10/12/2007 12:36:54 AM