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University of California-Riverside Honors Program |
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UHP Courses |
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Recent and future UCR Honors Courses are listed here. |
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Upper Division Capstone Topical Seminar Sequences will be led by two or three faculty members who want to pursue innovative topics with Upper Division Honors students by teaching seminars. These may be existing courses that have been adapted for the Capstone Sequence, or new courses organized for this purpose. Students will receive course credit and an Upper Division Honors Notation on their transcript for completing the three quarter course sequence with grades of B or better. |
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New Courses: UHP supported a lower division seminar (HNPG012 ) on Global Health, Agriculture and Economic Development that was taught by Professors Nancy Beckage and Anil Deolalikar in the fall quarter of 2008. Honors senior Samantha Wilson served as the Teaching Assistant for this course, which focused on urban and rural health issues in the Global South, especially Africa. Some of the students will be traveling to Mali to participate in a research project. The course focused on human health and agriculture in developing countries and their relationship to global poverty, economic development, and technology. It emphasized developing solutions using an interdisciplinary focus. Provides potential leadership skills in addressing worldwide poverty. GEO 009 Oceanography Winter, 2009 Gordon Love A general introduction to the geological, physical, chemical, and biological processes related to the characteristics and evolution of the ocean system. Students gain an understanding of the important role oceans play in regulating climate and the cycling of elements on the Earth's surface and how the ocean system has been, and continues to be, one of the most important influences on life. HNPG038J PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST Spring 2009 Interdisciplinary Course Taught by: Howard Wettstein, Philosophy Department and Muhamad Ali, Religious Studies Department. The class focus is on understanding roots of conflicts and ways to resolve them. Approaches to the subject include: Religious studies, Political philosophy, Curiosity and emphatic, Dialogical and reconciliatory. The course will cover various areas of the Middle East, mainly Palestine and Israel, and some aspects of Afghanistan and Iraq. HNPG036K History and the Grand Canyon Spring, 2009 Mark Hinelin An exploration of the role of place in science. Introduces the natural history and human history of the Grand Canyon and the Colorado Plateau, with particular focus on geological, archaeological, and biological investigations of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Students participate in a field trip to the canyon and vicinity. Courses Being Developed: Nigel Hughes (Earth Sciences) is developing a new lower division honors seminar to be called “The Testament of Time,” which explores how we understand the history of the planet Earth. Perry Link (Comparative Literature) is developing an interdisciplinary honors course on China. Robert Nash Parker (Sociology) is developing an honors seminar on Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and spatial analysis. |
