Lectures

Lecture Series

Each semester the WSU Vancouver Honors program offers a series of lectures by prominent scholars with national reputations. Honors students may attend the series for credit and participate in special discussions led by the guest lecturers. The lecture series is open to the public.

Current Lecture Schedule
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Previous Honor Program Curriculum and Events

Selected Honors Lecture Series
(Thursday evenings, open to the public, Honors students take for credit)

  • Emergence of Global Community
  • The Science in Science Fiction
  • Living Wisdom: Cultures of World Religions
  • American Identities and Global Experience
  • The Art of the Book
  • Environmental Ethics
  • Ways of Knowing in China and Cuba
  • Human Diasporas

Honors Seminars
(Max. 15 students, inquiry-based)

  • Media and War (History and Digital Technology and Culture)
  • Mathematics and Society (Math Education)
  • Arts-Based Educational Research (Education)
  • Gender, Family and Work (Sociology)
  • Slavery, Freedom and the Law in the Atlantic World (History)
  • American Constitutionalism (Political Science)
  • Science and Society (Psychology)

Sample Senior Projects
This thesis, internship, community service project, study abroad, team research or interdisciplinary research project culminates in a 20+ page paper based upon original research in the student's major field of study.

  • Regulating the "Peculiar Institution": A Comparative Analysis of Slave Law in Georgia and Pennsylvania
  • Impacts of Commercial and Residential Development Agricultural Lands in Clark County
  • Bases of Italian Public Support for European Integration
  • Land and Life: Colonialism & Generational Wealth Accumulation in Martinique
  • Traditional American Values Involving Interest Groups and Columbia River Dams
  • Market-Based Environmental Programs
  • Occupational Safety Correlates and Predictors of Injury Outcomes in the Hospitality Industry
  • Time-Course and Dose-Dependence of Systematically-Administered Interlenkin-1 Beta on Core Body Temperature, Nociception, and Activity
  • Restorative Justice
  • National Historic Reserve and National Park Service Research: Spanish-American War, Spanish Influenza, and World War I in Relation to Clark County
  • Georges Bataille: Cross Gender Identification Through Eyeball Mutilation in the Horror Film
  • Library Management Training
  • City of Vancouver, Washington, Asset Capitalization Policy
  • WSU Vancouver Website Usability Study: Test Results and Recommendations