Students will interact with campus researchers and creative artists, will participate in service learning and leadership development, will acquire research and study skills applicable to their future endeavors and will reflect upon what it means to be a full member of a community of learning. This course is required of all Honors College students in their first Fall semester. This course introduces students to a range of research materials, both print and electronic, and provides an opportunity for students to undertake an interdisciplinary research project. Students will examine and evaluate library sources and methodologies. They write an interdisciplinary literature review, and present the findings of their research to an academic community.
Research is conducted in consultation with an assigned faculty mentor and librarian mentor.
Non-members of the Honors College may enroll with permission of the instructor and the Honors College. Course will meet in Room 259. Beginning with King Lear, Shakespeare's darkest and profoundest family tragedy, the course examines comparable plays from Classical Greece and twentieth centruy Europe and America. In this interdisciplinary, interactive course, students will explore their questions about the civilizations of India and China, while reviewing their historical overviews and examining their art as windows onto their cultures. Following introductory lectures, each student will identify first with one nation's cultural heritage, selecting from a choice of resources for background, and then role reverse to the other nation, sharing insights in class intercultural dialogues.