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HONR 205: Honors Seminar in the Natural Sciences: Discovering the Quantam World*

Professor Kurt Fletcher (Astronomy and Physics Department)

In the first few decades of the 20^th century, physics was transformed by a series of experiments, observations, and explanations that revealed the astonishing mathematical description of the subatomic world.  How did this revolution happen?  Topics include: Young’s Double Slit Experiment, the Michelson-Morley Experiment, Blackbody Radiation and the Ultraviolet Catastrophe, the Photoelectric Effect, Rutherford scattering, Atomic Spectra, the Compton Effect, Schrodinger’s Equation, the Copenhagen Interpretation, and what it all means.

*This course does not satisfy the Natural Science requirement because it does not have a lab component.

DEI/WCV/HONR 207: Honors Seminar in Diversity, Difference, and Pluralism: (Mis)Representations of Native American Identities

Professor Jonathan Auyer (Philosophy Department)

When you think about representations of Native Americans, what comes to mind? Do these representations accurately portray the identities of Native peoples or do they contain (and perpetuate) harmful stereotypes? This course includes two aims: it will look at the many ways that Native Americans and Indigenous peoples have been represented across in a range of media (by having students view and read fiction and nonfiction media representations of Native Americans); it will also investigate the impact of those (mis)representations on Native American and Indigenous identities (by having students read both non-scholarly and scholarly texts  (in philosophy and Native American studies) addressing the harmful portrayals of Native American stereotypes  as well as the structures and systems that perpetuate them.

*This course satisfies both the World Cultures and Values (WCV) credit and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) GLOBE attribute credit.

Please note: the Edgar Fellows Program will sunset in 2027 and is no longer accepting new students. ºÚÁÏÍø offers all students a distinctive honors college learning experience.