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Honors College_Honors 112 Class "Screw This Virus"_Essay, Patrick Fleming

Honors College

Essay by University of Maine student Patrick Fleming for HON 112, featuring COVID-19.

Room For Opportunity: An Investigation Of Catholic Student Life At The University Of Maine, Jacob Buttarazzi

Honors College

Like most Honors graduates before me, the final work for this thesis became something much different than what I had originally intended. Originally, I wanted to make short videos and blog posts about the nature of religion at UMaine. However, the project evolved into a short documentary focused specifically on Catholic students. I produced, directed, shot, and edited the film. My primary goal was to investigate whether or not Catholic students felt like a minority and how that affected them. I was repeatedly forced to reevaluate my own experience with faith throughout the production process. As a practicing Catholic, I …

Honors College_Honors 112 Class "Screw This Virus"_Alternate Final Exam Prompt, Sharon S. Tisher, Melissa Landenheim

Honors College

Email thread featuring messages from Melissa Ladenheim, Associate Dean, Honors College, University of Maine to the Provost Office and from Dr. Ladenheim to Sharon S. Tisher, Lecturer, School of Economics and Honors College, University of Maine regarding one optional prompt for Tisher's take home exam in the two Honors 112 classes that incorporated COVID-19.

Honors College_Honors 112 Class "Screw This Virus"_Examination & Essay Responses, Katie Quirk, Melissa Ladenheim

Honors College

Honors 112 Final Essay Exam questions and excerpts from student's responses for a class taught by Katie Quirk, Lecturer, Honors College and College of Education, University of Maine.

Also, includes email thread featuring messages from Melissa Ladenheim, Associate Dean, Honors College, University of Maine to the Provost Office and from Dr. Ladenheim to Professor Quirk regarding the course material.

Humanizing The Humanities: A Historical, Cultural, And Philosophical Examination Of The Disintegration Of Humanities Higher Education, Nicholas Moore

Honors College

This essay is an examination of the multifaceted reasons humanities education in American colleges is losing standing and funding. Historical, cultural, and philosophical perspectives are used to analyze the grounds that have justified the decreasing levels of support for humanities education. Historically, there is no longer any external justification provided, as there was when Sputnik was launched and the Cold War was endured. Culturally, the high culture model of ascension through the accrual of cultural signifiers is no longer the dominant form of raising one’s status, as it was when the humanities could be justified as cultural initiation. Philosophically, market-based …