{"id":113,"date":"2022-09-08T14:28:13","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T19:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/academics\/honors\/?page_id=113"},"modified":"2024-01-22T11:19:53","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T17:19:53","slug":"honors-seminars","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/academics\/honors\/program-overview\/honors-seminars\/","title":{"rendered":"Honors Seminars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">Honors Program students take between three and four HOPR 3700 Seminar classes on their path to graduation.<\/p>\n<h2>Current Seminar<\/h2>\n<p>Spring 2024: <strong>The Trickster<\/strong>, 3 credit hours<\/p>\n<p>Course ID 245792, HOPR 3700-01, T H 12:30 &ndash; 1:45, Sattgast 331, Dr. Mark Fulton<b><br>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p>A basic function of the human nervous system is to model the world and predict the future.&nbsp; Everyone tries to do this, and everyone periodically fails &ndash; either through ignorance, or through the general cussedness and unpredictability of everything.&nbsp; Many cultures have <em>personified<\/em> this unpredictable element, and we now know this figure as &lsquo;the trickster&rsquo;. In this course we will examine some of the many masks the trickster &ndash; <em>as a metaphor for unpredictability<\/em> &ndash; has worn over the years, and how people have attempted to imprison, exploit, emulate, or kill him.<\/p>\n<h2>Past Seminars<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Gilgamesh to Wonder Woman: Heroism Across Cultures and Disciplines<\/li>\n<li>Natives, Art, and Stereotype<\/li>\n<li>Extra-Terrestrial Life<\/li>\n<li>Information and You<\/li>\n<li>Artistic Expression in Soviet 20th Century<\/li>\n<li>Censorship and Free Speech<\/li>\n<li>Information, Misinformation, and Disinformation<\/li>\n<li>Race Relations in the 21st Century: Is There a New Black?<\/li>\n<li>The Tao of Animal: Understanding Human-Animal Communication Across Disciplines<\/li>\n<li>We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution, A Problem-Based Approach<\/li>\n<li>World War II: A Cultural Evolution for American Women and Minorities<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-113 gallery-size-small-image row row-cols-2 row-cols-md-2 my-4'><figure class='gallery-item text-center col'><a href='https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/academics\/honors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2022\/12\/Shaawano-1-scaled.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"570\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/academics\/honors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2022\/12\/Shaawano-1-570x380.jpg\" class=\"in-gallery-1 img-fluid shadow-1\" alt=\"Instructor teaching an Honors seminar\" columns=\"2\" size=\"small-image\" ids=\"579,578\" orderby=\"post__in\" include=\"579,578\" data-bp=\"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/academics\/honors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2022\/12\/Shaawano-1.jpg\" data-caption=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/academics\/honors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2022\/12\/Shaawano-1-570x380.jpg 570w, https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/academics\/honors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2022\/12\/Shaawano-1-767x511.jpg 767w, https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/academics\/honors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2022\/12\/Shaawano-1-991x661.jpg 991w, https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/academics\/honors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2022\/12\/Shaawano-1-1365x910.jpg 1365w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item text-center col'><a href='https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/academics\/honors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2022\/12\/photo-of-megan-judge-patrick-leeport-and-season-ellison.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"570\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/academics\/honors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2022\/12\/photo-of-megan-judge-patrick-leeport-and-season-ellison-570x380.jpg\" class=\"in-gallery-1 img-fluid shadow-1\" alt=\"megan judge, patrick leeport and season ellison\" columns=\"2\" size=\"small-image\" ids=\"579,578\" orderby=\"post__in\" include=\"579,578\" data-bp=\"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/academics\/honors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2022\/12\/photo-of-megan-judge-patrick-leeport-and-season-ellison.jpg\" data-caption=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/academics\/honors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2022\/12\/photo-of-megan-judge-patrick-leeport-and-season-ellison-570x380.jpg 570w, https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/academics\/honors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2022\/12\/photo-of-megan-judge-patrick-leeport-and-season-ellison-767x511.jpg 767w, https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/academics\/honors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2022\/12\/photo-of-megan-judge-patrick-leeport-and-season-ellison-991x661.jpg 991w, https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/academics\/honors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2022\/12\/photo-of-megan-judge-patrick-leeport-and-season-ellison-1365x910.jpg 1365w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honors Program students take between three and four HOPR 3700 Seminar classes on their path to graduation. Current Seminar Spring 2024: The Trickster, 3 credit hours Course ID 245792, HOPR 3700-01, T H 12:30 &ndash; 1:45, Sattgast 331, Dr. Mark Fulton A basic function of the human nervous system is to model the world and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"parent":58,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-113","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/academics\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/academics\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/academics\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/academics\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/academics\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/academics\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":775,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/academics\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/113\/revisions\/775"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/academics\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/academics\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}