Spring 2015 HNRS Courses

Are you majoring in: Engineering, English, Physics, Humanities, Philosophy or another non-biology major and looking to fulfill your Gen-Ed requirement in Biology?

This Honors Biology for Non-Majors course will be taught with an emphasis on current biology and current biological research at LSU and at large.

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Are you majoring in: Engineering, English, Physics, Humanities, Philosophy or another non-biology major and looking to fulfill your Gen-Ed requirement in Biology?

This Honors Biology for Non-Majors course will be taught with an emphasis on current biology and current biological research at LSU and at large.

The course is designed... Read More...

The sky is part of our environment.  This course will investigate the many ways at which ordinary people as well as famous characters interact with the sky, from ancient times, and even a little into the future.  This is not your usual history‐of‐science class giving the linear development to modern... Read More...

This course offers students the opportunity to read some of the greatest literary works ever written, including F. Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, L. Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, and E. Zola’s Germinal. Lectures will put these works in historical perspective, vividly contrasting the histories of France and Russia in the nineteenth century.... Read More...

During the 20th Century the British fought two world wars, lost an empire, and developed a welfare state. From Winston Churchill to Margaret Thatcher to Tony Blair, their Prime Ministers have played a prominent role in world affairs. The British Invasion of the 1960s brought the Beatles, the Rolling Stones,... Read More...

This seminar is intended to introduce able students to selected major events in the history of Nazi Germany, 1933-1945, as well as the Holocaust — the eradication of European Jewry. Students will be introduced to a variety of styles of historical explanation — memoirs, polemics, novels, and works of analysis... Read More...

Under what political conditions did feminism emerge in Muslim societies? What are the issues involved in feminist debates on Islam today? Are there ways in which we can accommodate practice of religion and cultural diversity with equal opportunity and freedom for both men and women? This course will allow students... Read More...

This course is the gateway course for the LASAL Scholars Program. At its conclusion, students should have a basic understanding of the root causes of poverty in Louisiana; a basic understanding of the daily challenges that Louisiana children and families face who live in poverty; and a basic understanding of... Read More...

This semester, LSU Honors students have the rare opportunity of learning about the impact of Martin Luther King Jr.'s life from his colleagues. The LSU Honors College, in cooperation with the University System of Maryland, will offer a hybrid online course, HNRS 2013 Citizenship and Freedom: The Civil Rights Era.... Read More...

Does CEO character determine company strategy or is the strategy determined by the fit between company resources and the environment? Is it both? In what proportions?

We will investigate the determintive role of character in the strategy of 20th Century U.S. corporations.
What does character account for? Are... Read More...

This course is designed to approach the issue of art and its role in the commercial market place from a variety of perspectives. It is divided into two parts.  Part I will retrace the origins of the various "players" in the modern art market setting (dealers, auction houses, collectors, museums,... Read More...

A course about violence, society, race, and masculinity in the films of the most popular movie star of all time.

Students will study the entirety of Dante’s Divine Comedy (Inferno,Purgatory, Paradise), a work of great scope that aims to provide a complete picture of the reality of the cosmos and of human virtues and vices. One of the great masterpieces of world literature, Dante’s poem is a compendium of the... Read More...

The course is designed to focus on the question of the interrelation between philosophy and art. In effect, we will be looking for philosophers in the history of art and artists in the history of philosophy. The artistic works at issue will range from Greek sculpture and architecture, through Medieval... Read More...

Fiction, Poetry, Music, Art, Drama

Virginia Woolf, Willa Cather, George Bernard Shaw, T.S. Eliot, Igor Stravinsky, Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen

Creative artists respond to the Great War

Odysseus as he seeks peace after the Trojan War; Medea as she seeks revenge; Socrates as he seeks truth; Aeneas as he seeks Roman destiny; Dante as he seeks God; El Cid as he seeks justice; Monks as they seek illumination; Ovid and Petrarch as they seek love.

Odysseus as he seeks peace after the Trojan War; Medea as she seeks revenge; Socrates as he seeks truth; Aeneas as he seeks Roman destiny; Dante as he seeks God; El Cid as he seeks justice; Monks as they seek illumination; Ovid and Petrarch as they seek love.

Odysseus as he seeks peace after the Trojan War; Medea as she seeks revenge; Socrates as he seeks truth; Aeneas as he seeks Roman destiny; Dante as he seeks God; El Cid as he seeks justice; Monks as they seek illumination; Ovid and Petrarch as they seek love.

And so LSU has its first Honors College offering in Law: “The Constitution and American Civilization,” featuring Holmes and Cardozo, and aimed at LSU’s Brightest aspirants for law school and the legal profession.  I remember my own beginnings at LSU both as an undergraduate and as a law student, pouring... Read More...

This is a class on visualization methods and 3D data acquisition for undergraduates students. This course builds on a grants to LSU, include a W.M. Keck Foundation grant to build a unique tomography instrument and an NSF MRI grant for high-performance computing supporting interactive visualization.

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