<p>What did you guys pick? I picked:
Seeds of Change
Parasitic Diseases
General Chemistry
Writing and Love
Dostoevsky and Nietzsche
Neurotheology
Intermediate Spanish I</p>
<p>I really kind of picked randomly...I don't remember what order I listed them in, either, except Gen Chem was #1.</p>
<p>You're taking 7 classes?</p>
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<p>I think for honors class selection you have to rank the classes you want and you get one or two. He/she is not taking 7 classes. I am not in the honors program so correct me if I am wrong. I have only taken honors classes when they werent filled.</p>
<p>Yeah, I think ASMAJ is right. You have to take 2 honors classes a semester I think, but we have to pick 7 because they do it by lottery.</p>
<p>1: Neurotheology </p>
<p>2: The Tao of Star Trek </p>
<p>3: Writing & Love </p>
<p>4: Music and Health </p>
<p>5: Dostoevsky and Nietzsche </p>
<p>6: Ethics: Theory and Practice </p>
<p>7: History by Hollywood: Cold War to Civil Rights</p>
<p>neurotheology was my number 1 too</p>
<p>the honors website says we need to enroll in at least one honors class during our first four semesters</p>
<p>I was looking up some information on neurotheology, because I have never here of the topic before. Found this and thought it was interesting. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.numenware.com/article/489/%5B/url%5D">http://www.numenware.com/article/489/</a>
syllabus: <a href="http://www.spiritualityandhealth.ufl.edu/ufcourses/neurotheology2005.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.spiritualityandhealth.ufl.edu/ufcourses/neurotheology2005.pdf</a></p>
<p>A new course at the University of Florida, Neurotheology: The Interface between the Brain and the Divine, may be the only university course in neurotheology taught anywhere in the world—does anyone know of others?</p>
<p>The course has been developed by Dr. Lou Ritz, an Associate Professor of Neuroscience at the university. According to his biography, his research interests are concerned with spinal cord injury and repair. One paper he’s written involves watching how cats balance themselves with their tails, then shows how breaking their tails (called sacrocaudal transection; ouch!) leads them to lose their balance and fall more often. He’s also a co-director of the Center for Spirituality and Health at UF.</p>
<p>From the syllabus:</p>
<pre><code>Are religious and spiritual experiences brain-based? If they are, what are the implications to understanding brain circuitry? If they are not, what are the implications to our understanding of who we are? Our course – Neurotheology -will investigate the neural correlates of religious and spiritual experiences and the implications of such relationships.
Topics to be explored include: organization of higher cortical function in the human brain; effects of cortical brain lesions on our perception of reality; the variety of religious experiences; modern brain imaging; meditation and spiritual experiences; brain correlates of meditation; eastern and western views of the mind; how the brain constructs reality; attention and awareness; mind-body medicine; psychedelics and mystical experiences; the neurobiology of emotions; the God gene – the genetic basis of spiritual experiences.
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<p>I’d like to see the detailed syllabus for this course, including the reading materials. And it would be great if Dr. Ritz could turn the course into a book providing a balanced overview of the field—in spite of all that’s been written, such an overview still does not exist.</p>
<p>Neurotheology? What will they think of next...</p>
<p>Lol Gator, my thoughts exactly. :P</p>
<p>A lot of those Honors courses seem silly, did anyone else notice "The Tao of Star Trek (or Star Wars?)?" They have another one about chick flicks or something too, lol. They look like fun but silly classes lol.</p>
<p>Yeah, some were rediculous. I considered signing up for the chick lit one, but you don't actually get to ready trashy girl books, you read books about trashy girl books. Way to take all the fun out of me reading dumb books.</p>
<p>I'm excited about taking silly but fun classes with smart people!</p>
<p>I'm surprised there seem to be so few Honors college people on CC, since people on this site are usually so achieving, e.g. "Oh I did really bad on my SAT, I only got a 1530", that type of thing.</p>