COLLOQUIUM

A colloquium is a class that is co-taught between two professors. Here at Anderson College’s Honor program, it means more than that. Participants are the only ones who are allowed to take these specialized courses. The interdisciplinary colloquiums are set up so that you will receive 6 hours of general education credit for taking a 3 hour course. Students receive 3 credit hours for each of the subjects that is represented in the study. Below is a listing of the most recent and current colloquiums offered and a brief description of the discussed material.

Coming Soon:

Spring 2004	(Honors credits in Literature and Religion)
Fall 2003	(Honors credits in Speech and International Studies)

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SPECIAL DOUBLE FEATURE for Spring 2003

Spring 2003	Payne and Trammell: History of Western Economic Development. This course will examine the history of economic development in Europe and the United States. Subjects will include feudalism, mercantilism, selections of theorists like John Locke and Adam Smith, Smith’s influence on America’s Founding Fathers, evolution of the American economy, and analysis of the contemporary economic picture and the mixed economies of Europe and the United States. (Honors credits in History and Social Science)
Spring 2003	Kozel and Sprague: Biomedical Ethics. The course will explore current ethical issues relating to biology, medicine, and the environment. This course is cross-listed as BIO 0299 and will enroll Honors and non-Honors students. (Honors credit in Natural Science only)
Fall 2002	Linscott and Marek: Terrorism: Psychological Foundations and Biological Tools. In light of the effects of 9-11-01, the course covers the psychological mechanisms underlying terrorism, the imprint of terrorism on its victims, and the biological mechanisms underlying potential weapons of terror. (Honors credits in Social Science and Natural Science)

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Spring 2002

Mynatt and Tribble: The Dynamics of Cult Behavior. The course addressed questions of who joins a cult, what is the appeal, what is the profile of the average cult member; examined individual cult groups and the theological claims made by them; evaluated both the sociology behind cult membership and the doctrinal assertions that form the cult’s belief system. (Honors credits in Religion and Social Science)

Fall 2001

Haughey and Wood: The Great War. The course focuses on the gripping hold that WWI continues to hold on America. This war and its effects are explored through history, poetry, fiction, song, and film – how the human spirit transcends the horrors of war. (Honors credits in History and Humanities)

Honor’s Classics:

Spring 2001	Christopher and Payne: Economic Psychology. The course explores the interface between economics and psychology, with emphasis on phenomena such as the psychological and economic aspects of unemployment, affluence, poverty, compulsive consumption, and credit abuse. Importance of decision making, as studied by economists and psychologists, serves as a course focal point. (Honors credit in Social Science and Humanities)
Fall 2000	Kozel and Lassiter: Impact of Biology on History II. The course explored issues raised by Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (1997); explores the question of why civilizations develop when and where they do. (Honors credits in History and Natural Science)
Spring 2000	Emery and Haughey: World Cultures in Business and Literature. The course acquainted students with the cultural dimensions which explain why and how people from different cultures act and behave the way they do. By reading selected literary works from various cultures, students were also introduced to the ways in which business in conducted in various cultures and the extent to which these business operations are observed and violated. (Honors credits in International Studies and Literature)
Fall 1999	Mynatt and Tribble: The Dynamics of Cult Behavior. The course addressed questions of who joins a cult, what is the appeal, what is the profile of the average cult member; examined individual cult groups and the theological claims made by them; evaluated both the sociology behind cult membership and the doctrinal assertions that form the cult’s belief system. (Honors credits in Religion and Social Science)
Spring 1999	Hanley and Kozel: The Impact of Biology on Literature. The course examined the impact of biology – with emphasis on environmental science – on literature, and how that medium can enrich the expression of the science. The course addressed the way in which authors from around the world have documented their feelings, ideas, and opinions about the natural world within a literary context. (Honors credits in Humanities and Natural Science)
Fall 1998	Kozel and Lassiter: The Impact of Biology on History I. The course addressed the question of how humans have affected and been affected by their fellow organisms. Topics included: influence of disease on human culture, biological and cultural consequences of the European discovery of the New World, plants that have transformed human culture, changing views of the relationship of humanity to the natural world. (Honors credits in History and Natural Science)
Spring 1998	Tribble and Webb: Issues at Center Stage. The course explored social issues in contemporary drama. (Honors credits in Social Science and Literature)
Fall 1997	Burks and Carroll: The Bible and Music. The course introduced students to selected Western Art compositions, their composers, the period in which they were written, the compositional techniques used in the works, and the scriptures on which they are based so as to give the student a fundamental understanding and appreciation of these compositions and the relationship between the music and the scripture. (Honors credits in Fine Arts and Religion)
Spring 1997	Mulligan and Webb: Politics and the Media. The course examined the significance of the American political process and the mass media, their impact on the American public, and their impact on each other. (Honors credits in Social Science and Speech)