College of Letters and Science Faculty Document No. 480
November 5, 1996
Annual Report of the Honors Program Committee 1997-98
- The Committee met six times during 1997-98: October 10, 1997; March 20, 1998; April 3, 1998; April 8, 1998; April 22, 1998; and May 5, 1998. Lawrence Baldassaro continued as Director of the Honors Program and Janet Jesmok as Assistant Director.
- The Bradley Foundation renewed its grant to the Honors Program for the second time. The Honors Program held two searches and the HPC approved the hiring of two new Bradley Assistant Professors this year: Katharine Streip, Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley, and David Southward, Ph.D. in English, Yale University. Members of the Bradley Search Committee were as follows -- Committee One: Jane Nardin (chair), Mary Louise Buley-Meissner, Cyrus Smith, Roger Sundell, Carlynn Smith (student),
And Larry Baldassaro (ex-officio); and Committee Two: Walter Weare (chair), Sylvia Schafer, Neal Pease, Bruce Allen, Amanda Harder (student), and Janet Jesmok (ex-officio). The Bradley Professors are voting Members of the Honors Program Committee.
- Honors Program Reports: The Freshman Admissions Report noted an upsurge in admissions of nearly 20% over 1996-97. Over half of the new students are outside of the College of Letters and Science. The gender ratios are 64% F to 36% M. The Honors Enrollment Reports indicated 382 students enrolled in Honors courses for the first semester and 274 for the second semester, an all-time high. The Recruitment and Retention Report noted an overall increase of 16 students for 1997-98.
- The committee approved wording changes to the HPC Charter to more accurately reflect the way the committee membership is appointed.
- The committee approved a proposal from Susan Burgess, Director of Women's Studies, to establish an Honors Seminar in Women's Studies (Course Number 958-380).
- The Committee approved the following new Honors seminar topics:
- Honors 200: "Really Fantastic Fiction (R. Kornman)
- Honors 200: "Scientific Ideas that Shaped Modern Thought" (K. McLeod)
- Honors 200: "Reasons and Virtue" (E. Wiland)
- Honors 200: "Responsibility and Personal Identity" (E. Wiland)
- Honors 200: "Contemporary Moral Issues" (E. Wiland)
- Honors 200: "The American Midwest in Modern Fiction" (D. Southward)
- Honors 200: "Interpretation of Poetry" (D. Southward)
- Honors 200: "The Passion Myth" (D. Southward)
- Honors 200: "Explorations in Modernism" (K. Streip)
- Honors 380: "The Art of Nonfiction Writing" (C. Kott Washburne)
- Anthro 381: "Gender and Archaeology" (B. Arnold)
- Bio Sci 380: "The Evolution of Darwin's Theory" (C. Wimpee)
- CompLit 381: "Narratives of India: Revelations and Discoveries" (M. Bullock)
- English 685: "American Migrations: The Fiction of Steinbeck, Cather, and Hurston" (K. Hamilton)
- History 399: "The American Presidency: Leadership and Crises from Washington to Nixon" (J. Schroeder)
- History 399: "From Eden to Earth Day: A Cultural and Political History of Nature and Environmentalism" (W. Weare)
- Phil 381: "Nietzsche, Foucault, and Postmodernism" (B. Gendron)
- Poli Sci 380: "Conflict, Crisis, and War" (D. Garnham)
- Soc 380: "Health, Illness, and Society" (D. Jaffe)
- In addition to Bradley Professors Harvey, Kornman, and Wiland, faculty members serving on the Honors Program Committee during 1997-98 were: Bruce Allen (resigned II, 1997-98), Lawrence Baldassaro,
(ex-officio), John Koethe, Eleanor Miller, John Norbury, Corliss Phillabaum (chair), Cyrus Smith, Campbell Tatham, Walter Weare, and Brian Wishne. Student members were Amanda Harder, Marco Loricco, Jamey Povlich, Carlynn Smith, and Jessica Wysocki. Assistant Director Janet Jesmok served ex-officio.
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