The Honors College
           at West Chester University
Dr. Kevin Dean, Director
703 S. High Street
West Chester, PA 19383
Phone: 610-436-2996
Fax: 610-436-2620 honors@wcupa.edu
  "To be honorable is to serve"
 
 

A History of Honors Seminars from 1981-Present

 
 

1981

HON301

The Arts: 1900-1920

 

1982

HON302

Race

 
 

HON303

Elizabethan England

    
 

HON304

Death and Dying

 

1983

HON305

Humor

 
 

HON306

Vienna Around 1900

 
 

HON307

History of Utopias

 
 

HON308

Future Energy Alternatives

 

1984

HON309

Male/Female Language

 
 

HON310

Ethics, Humanism & Science

 
 

HON311

Crime in America

 
 

HON312

Romanticism

 

1985

HON313

Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Women  
 

HON314

The Brain, Free Will & The Meaning of Life

 
 

HON307

History of Utopias

 
 

HON315

The Age of Reason

 

1986

HON301

The Arts:  1900-1920 

 
 

HON316

The Economics of Education

 
 

HON317

Hunger & Famine in Africa

 
 

HON318

Ways of Making the World

 

1987

HON313

Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Women  
 

HON319

Science & Human Values

 
 

HON320

Global Issues

 
 

HON321

The Sin of Success:  Business in American Literature  

1988

HON322

The Sociology of Mental Illness

 
 

HON323

The Child in History

 
 

HON324

Gender, Ware & Peace

 
 

HON325

The Modernization of China

 

1989

HON326

Sport in the Socio-Cultural Process

 
 

HON327

Western Culture in the Computer Age  
 

HON328

Aging in America: New Ideas for Old Issues  
 

HON329

Chronicles and Narrators of America: Discovery and Conquest

 

1990

HON330

History, Politics & the Novel

 
 

HON331

Impact of Aids on Society

 
 

HON302

Race

 
 

HON332

The Revolutionary Drama: Pirandello, Brecht, Genet, etc..  

1991

HON333

The Environment

 
 

HON301

The Arts: 1900-1920 

 
 

HON334

Reasons for Rhetoric

 
 

HON335

Women, Minorities & the Western Art

 

1992

HON336

Astronomy and Culture

 
 

HON337

American Culture of the Great Depression  
 

HON338

American Indians of the Delaware Valley   
 

HON339

Literacy: An Ideological Perspective  

1993

HON302

Religion: Preservation and Change

 
 

HON402

America After the Cold War

 
 

HON301

Discovering America

 
 

HON401

Medieval Art, Literature & Science

 

1994

HON302

Environmental Ethics 

 
 

HON402

U.S. & The Middle East

 
 

HON301

Life and Times of Fredrick Douglass

 
 

HON401

Development in Mexico and Central America  

1995

HON302

The Double Figure

 
 

HON402

The American Economic Experience

 
 

HON301

The Pursuit of Pleasure

 
 

HON401

Postmodern Anthropology

 

1996

HON302

Leaping in the Dark

 
 

HON402

Culture: Myth of Greece

 
 

HON301

The Americas, Politics & Economics in 20th Century Fiction  
 

HON401

Twentieth Century American Alternative Publishing

 

1997

HON302

ROM & ROLL: Reading Electronic Texts (multimedia course)  
 

HON402

Ethical Issues in the Mass Media

 
 

HON301

The America Chronicles

 
 

HON401

Ethical Implications of Computer Technology  

1998

HON302

Individual, Totalitarian & Authoritarian Societies  
 

HON402

Fashion Statements  

 
 

HON301

Medieval Women's Culture

 
 

HON401

France Regards America

 

1999

HON302

Ethics & Moral Choice

 
 

HON402

Economic Themes

 
 

HON301

Questioning the Millennium

 

2000

HON301

Global Business Issues 

 
 

HON401

Communicating Friendship

 
 

HON302

Community & the Arts

 
 

HON402

Persuasion, Rhetoric & Action

 

2001

HON301

Radicals: Agents of Change

 
 

HON401

Vampires   

 
 

HON302

Nation Building - South Africa

 
 

HON402

Building Community

 

2002

HON301

Hero's Journal

 
 

HON401

Numeracy

 
 

HON301

Horror Icons

 
 

HON302

Lessons from South Africa

 
 

HON402

Family Communication

 

2003

HON301

The Mexican Connection

 
 

HON302

Insights from South Africa

 

 

HON451

Artistic Collaboration

 
 

HON402

Peer Assisted Learning

 

2004

HON382

South Africa Vision

 
 

HON402 80/81

Hitler & Nazi Germany

 
 

HON302

Insights from South Africa

 
 

HON402

Serial Killers  

 
 

HON402

US Foreign Policy & Politics

 

2005

HON351

Propaganda & Satire

 
 

HON352

Insights from South Africa

 
 

HON452

US Foreign Policy & Politics 

 
 

HON451

Peer Assisted Learning 

 
 

HON382

Community Partnerships for South Africa - S.A. service project students  
 

HON352

Insights from South Africa

 
 

HON452

US Foreign Policy & Politics

 

2006

HON382

Community Partnerships - South Africa    
 

HON451

Peer Assisted Learning

 
 

HON352

Insights from South Africa

 
 

HON452

Cooking, Consumption & Creation: Fiction, Film & Popular Culture  

2007

HON351

China Perspective 

 
 

HON451

Digital Video Production

 
 

HON451

Globalization Perspectives

 
  HON352 Political Communication  
  HON452 Music, Power and Politics