Summer Courses 2009

Honors Program Summer Courses are Open to Everyone!!!   

HP 2151-01: Modern Japanese Society and Culture; 3 cr.; Humanities (CH), Global (G), A&S-Non-Western; TBA; Instructor Scott Mehl, Visiting Instructor from University of Chicago.

Summer 2009: May 11th - June 4th

Offered each May, this study-abroad course takes place largely in Japan, on the campus of Kobe College for Women, located between Osaka and Kobe. Students analyze historical and contemporary aspects of Japanese culture and society through readings, workshops, field trips, independent research projects, and a 3-day homestay with a Japanese family. Details regarding the cost and general itinerary will be available through the Honors Program Office, Merica 102, by the middle of fall semester.

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 HP 4151-01: Shakespeare in England and Italy; 3 cr.; Humanities (CH); TBA; Professor Peter Parolin, Department of English.

Summer 2009: May 10th - 30th

 After a two-day orientation in Laramie, we travel together to London and Stratford-upon-Avon where we attend productions of Shakespeare's Italian plays, talk with actors and directors about their productions, and tour museums, libraries, theaters, and other sites associated with Shakespeare and Italy.
After a week in London, we fly to Milan and then proceed to Verona (a walled medieval city and, of course, home of Romeo and Juliet) and Vicenza (where the 16th century Teatro Olimpico is the great parent of later indoor theaters). The final destination is Venice where the Rialto, the Doge's Palace, the original ghetto, and many other places call up the scenes of some of Shakespeare's greatest plays.
Course assignments: Reading at least eight plays by Shakespeare and others as well as important contemporary and historical documents, writing focused responses to the plays that we see, and researching a substantial paper on a topic related to a central concern of the course. The paper will be due a month after we return.

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Other 2009 Summer Courses: 

June 15th July 5th
HP 3153-01: The Art and Culture of Hip-Hop: 3cr; CA, D; CRN31646; MTWRF, 1:203:2, AS 226; Instructor Adrian Molina, Honors Program.

This course is an inter- and multi-disciplinary course that explores a culture and form of music that hundreds of millions of young people throughout the world identify with. Hip-Hop was born in the South Bronx, NY in the early 1970s, where African-American, Latino, and immigrant populations were essentially cast off as a result of the construction of the Cross Bronx Expressway, white flight into the suburbs, and the politics of abandonment. Hip-Hop music and culture has now spread throughout the world, and regardless of whether the discussion is about mainstream gangster rap or underground, socially and political conscious Hip-Hop, this emerging field of study has broad, cultural, social, political, and economic implications. Students will explore the following issues in this course: race relations, racism, sexism and misogyny, class struggle, urbanization, white flight, pan-ethnicity and ethnic/cultural Diasporas, civil rights era activism, post-civil rights Black and Latina/o leadership, activism through art, globalization, the co modification of art and culture in corporate America, and the perpetuation of racism and sexism through mass media.

June 15th June 28th
HP 4152-01: Cloud Forest Ecology: 3cr.; CS; CRN 31995; Laramie and Quito, Ecuador; Professor Scott Shaw, Curator of the Insect Museum.  

This course will begin with a week of class in Laramie in preparation for the journey to Quito, Ecuador, where you will have the opportunity to straddle the equator and investigate an ancient colonial city. After two nights in Quito, you will travel to a research station (Yana Yacu Research Station) high in the Andean cloud forest. Classes will continue at the field station mixed with extensive field experiences. On the way out there will be another two nights in Quito before heading home.

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July 14th August 7th
HP 4990-01: The American Founding: 3cr.; V; CRN31995; MTWR, 6-9pm, MH 103;Visiting Instructor Coyle Neal, Honors Program.

This course offers an overview of the American Founding period. The characters, events, and ideas surrounding the creation of American political institutions will be explored and discussed. Especially emphasized will be the debates over the nature of the new government and the influences those debates have today. The course will conclude with a survey of the Wyoming founding and a discussion of how it reflects of differs from the American Founding.
 

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