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250. Sophomore Seminar.
Open to Honors students. (3). (SS).
Section 001 – Introduction to Historical Research. Understanding
of the past necessarily rests upon the study and assessment of
a great variety of records. These range from archaeological finds, official government documents, newspapers, diaries, letters to
rare books. Historians depend heavily upon the fact that such
materials have been collected and preserved by museums, archives, and even families. Here at Michigan are two well-known repositories
of historical materials, one the Bentley Library on North Campus, and the other the Clements Library on South University Avenue.
The first collects primarily those source materials that relate
to Michigan history, and the second collects primarily materials
pertaining to the discovery and early settlement of North America.
Early in the term we shall visit each library to see something
of the range and texture of their holdings. Then, each student
will carve out a modest historical problem or issue that can be
addressed from these sources during the remainder of the term.
Then the task will be to examine pertinent manuscript collections, take suitable notes, and put together an original work of history.
Again, the scope must necessarily be limited by materials available
and the time available to complete it. (Livermore)
Section 002 – Racism Underground: Hidden and Not So Hidden Prejudice in America. Public opinion surveys suggest that prejudice and racism have declined dramatically since the 1940s. Has racism really declined, or simply gone underground? Can people discriminate against others without being aware they are doing so? In this seminar we will learn about such "hidden" or covert forms of prejudice, as well as some not-so-hidden, more overt forms of prejudice. We will discuss how stereotypes can influence the way we see other social groups, and influence our feelings and attitudes towards members of these groups. The seminar will focus primarily on Black-White intergroup relations, but issues involving other ethnic groups (e.g., Asian-Americans, Jewish Americans, Native Americans, Latino/a Americans) and other sexual orientations will be included as well. (Sekaquaptewa)
Section 003 – Thinking About Intergroup Relations.
This course will serve as an introduction to various frameworks that psychologists and more sociologically oriented researchers
use in understanding intergroup perception/relations and the management
of conflict between social groups. The course will also deal with the important topic of cross-cultural relations. In addition to
class reading assignments, students will also reflect on the notions
of multiculturalism and social justice. The course will include
a modified seminar format, small group discussion sessions, and a considerable degree of interaction. (Ybarra)
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251. Sophomore Seminar.
Open to Honors students. (3). (HU).
Section 001 – Imagination. The Romantics made major claims
for imagination: that it was both an artistic and cognitive faculty.
Thus the seminar will begin by considering both the structure
of the Romantic literary imagination and the romantic theory of
knowledge in works by Wordsworth, Blake, Coleridge, Kant, and Fichte. Attention will then shift to more general questions: Does
artistic imagination tell us anything about reality? Can imagination
become a rigorous mode of cognition? What is its relationship
to rationality? Does some form of imagination have a place in
science and ethics? The nature of metaphorical thinking will be
considered, as will the function of imagination in scientific
revolutions, the psychology of perception, and visual art. (Amrine)
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252. Sophomore Seminar.
Open to Honors students. (3). (NS).
Section 001 – The History of Medicine and the Art of Humbug.
This course centers around the evolution of modern medicine, including
early Western medical concepts and the introduction of scientific
method. In addition, attention will be directed at current fads;
acupuncture, ESP, astral projections, chiropractic, diets, etc.
Students are required to read one book from the suggested reading
list that is provided on the first day of class and write two
papers, a short paper at midterm and a 5-6 page paper at the end
of the term. (Malvin)
Section 002 – Race and Racism. This course examines the relationship between science and racist social policies historically
and in the present day. Through a focus on polygeny, eugenics, the holocaust, and the relationships between race and intelligence
and crime, the course particularly examines how anthropological
work has been used and abused in socio-political arenas. During the course we will grapple with questions about the existence
and definition of race, the validity of various biological claims
for racial differences in behavior and the consequences of basing
social policy on these claims. Students will come to appreciate
how the worlds of science, politics and society are interrelated
and how their relationship has been used to undermine and sometimes
promote different racial and ethnic groups. Requirements: Class
participation is required. Students will be responsible for presentations/leading
class discussion after the fourth week and for a written version
of their presentation. There will be a final take-home exam. (Caspari)
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370. Junior Seminar on
Research Methods. Honors student and permission of
instructor. (1-4). (Excl). May be repeated for a total of eight
credits.
Section 001 – Rhetoric of Evidence in Research. (Credits: 2 or
3 *). This upper-class course is concerned with modes of
inference from evidence across all of the arts and sciences, from
physics through the humanities. The discussion will emphasize
commonalties among disparate disciplines in the rhetorical modes
in which ambiguous evidence is used: modes such as preponderance-of-evidence
arguments, statistical inference, graphics, experiments, or abduction.
The seminar meets weekly, Tuesday evenings. Often an invited faculty
guest will review the history and the reasoning underlying some
earlier publication (handed out the week before), whereupon the
seminar will weigh in with a generalized critique. The attack
might question the target article's exclusion of plausible alternatives, for instance, or anomalies not pursued, or ambiguities remaining;
or it might inquire as to the origin of the disciplinary community's
a priori agreement that certain questions of this sort need not
have been raised in the main text. In past years, the tenor of these sessions has corresponded to that of a strenuous doctoral
defense, but the outcome is rarely so predictable.
* To receive two hours of credit, the student must either submit
a term paper drawing upon themes common to some subset of these
presentations (not necessarily those of the student's own concentration)
or take charge of the seminar for one half of one of these sessions, using a reading of his or her own choice. Those wishing three
credit hours must both submit a paper and lead half a session.
Maximum class size 15, by permission of the Honors Office. (Bookstein)
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493. College Honors Seminar.
Permission of instructor or of the Honors Director.
(1-4). (Excl). May be repeated for a total of eight credits.
Section 001 – Art and Geometry: Cicumscribing Patterns in Islamic
Art. (3 credits). For Fall Term, 1998, this section is offered
jointly with History of
Art 394.003. (Bier)
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