LEARNING COMMUNITIES

Each cluster, or Learning Community, has an honors forum attached as the integrating course.

Following are clusters offered in Fall 2008:

 HON 223: Human Hist & Liberal Arts

Multidisciplinary Perspectives

Human history is far more than names and dates. It is anthropology as well as the history of complex social and political processes. If you have ever wondered – Who are we? Where did we come from? Why are things the way they are? – then this learning community is for you. Come study the art and science of what it means to be human!

This course is clustered with ANTH 151: Introduction to Anthropology (Kathy Fine) and HIST 160: Survey of Western Civilization I (Michael Martin)

Contact: Michael Martin

HON 221:Mortenson’s Three Cups of Tea

Innovative Thinkers

Greg Mortenson believes that, “When you educate a man, you educate an individual. When you educate a woman, you educate a community.” The course will examine how Mortenson helped to change the paradigm for understanding education specifically within gender issues, religious intolerance, ethical concerns, political pressures, and even the war on terror in remote Pakistani villages. The course will examine not only what Mortenson did, but why and how he accomplished the levels of success he did. This class will be the focal point for the learning cluster and centered around the Common Reading Experience book Three Cups of Tea.
This course is clustered with GWS 101: Intro to Gender & Women’s Studies (Keri Brandt) and PHIL 251: Moral Philosophy (Sarah Roberts-Cady)

Contact: Cathy Hartney