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Prerequisite: Open to juniors or seniors in the Honors Program or with permission of the instructor. Considers recent global fiction that transcends boundaries of nation and language. Raises questions about race, gender, religion, political allegiance, violence, memory, history, and East/West relations. Authors may include Achebe, Gordimer, Salih, Endo, Nabokov, Ishiguro, Ondaatje, Roy, Lahiri, Rushdie, and Coetzee. (H2, CT)

Prerequisite: Open to juniors and seniors in the Honors Program. May be repeated once under a different topic. Advanced interdisciplinary study of a topic of interest to senior Honors students and faculty. Class discussion will be supplemented by independent research, collaborative projects, student presentations and guest speakers.

As an alternative to a departmental honors thesis, students in Hood’s Honors Program may elect to complete a 3-credit interdisciplinary paper or project (HON 499) during the fall or spring semester of the senior year.