HONORS ACTIVITIES: Some Highlights

Team-taught classes on:

• the Renaissance
• Sleep and Dreams
• Dante's Inferno
• Disney
• Histories of the Future
• Joan of Arc (on film)
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Kundera, and film adaptation)
• "This American Life" (radio and t.v.)

Co-edited Scholars House, a journal produced by the College Scholars juniors (Spring 2005). Sample essays include: A Night in Okefenokee, To Denmark and Back, Will Lecture for Food, Coming of Age: Wizard of Oz and Spirited Away, Liberia, Orchidaceae: The Most Adaptable of Plants, Café Ocelotl (original recipes), Music: The Storyboard of Life.

Wrote CWRU description for Petersons honors program catalogue.

Supervised Senior Projects on:

• organizing a concert in University Circle for 3 inner-city marching bands
• training as a doula/midwife assistant
• research on child lead poisoning in the city of Cleveland
• designing a teaching brochure on the Madagascar environment for the Cleveland Botanical Garden
• a series of original short stories (science fiction)
• preparation for volunteer work at a hospital in Tanzania
• a research survey on college student use of pharmaceutical drugs to deal with depression

Active in:

• Planning orientations
• Updating website
• Meeting with Multicultural Affairs re: recruitment
• Evaluating student applications
• Advising
• Scheduling and advertising guest speakers
• Fundraising (seeking endowments)
• Staffing
• Setting up an alumni network
• Recruiting faculty and planning faculty meetings
• Maintaining budgets
• Planning joint classes

Helped plan (optional) summer reading group

Arranged special visit to the Print Gallery of the Cleveland Museum of Art, in conjunction with a "Self-Portraits" unit. Close-up viewing of prints by Rembrandt, Berthe Morisot, Matisse, Kathe Kollwitz, Chagall, Diego Rivera, Picasso.

Coordinated "Honors Students' Works in Progress" Presentation for the university