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The River Community
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THE COURSE SYLLABUS
ARCHAEOLOGY Marla Stutzman on the Megafauna
BIOLOGY Laina Vanisek on the Hydric Hammock
CHEMISTRY Sarah Sherwood on Nitrates in the River
CULTURAL STUDIES Alicia Stevens on Rural Character in Sorrento James Gooch on Sprawl
HISTORY Hanna Baz on Wekiva from the 1880's to the 1980's
MATHEMATICS Nora Thompson on Flow Dynamics
POLITICS Ryan Williams on How the System Works
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HONORS 302 spring 2001 In the spring of 2001, eight Honors Degree students at Rollins College took this course as an introduction to the kind of research and inquiry they will be expected to produce for their honors theses next year. We started with the history and literature of America's rivers, then focused on the Wekiva River in the last six weeks, and then each student studied some important feature of the River Community from the perspective of his or her own discipline. The result is a set of web projects from a variety of departments. When you click on the department, you will be introduced to the students and their projects. Most of them are somewhat interdisciplinary and all are designed to represent the complexity of their studies to a general audience in the manner of a journalist. Because of the high level of cooperation in this course and the unity of their topic, the projects can easily be interlinked. I have tried as general editor to supply those links for you. Most of the papers could have been improved with revision, but the time constraints of the course did not allow for that. In a few rare instances I have acted as a copy editor. But otherwise these projects represent entirely the work of the students.
Steve Phelan Professor of English Rollins College, Winter Park, FL 32789 email: phelan@rollins.edu |
