Honors colloquia are interdisciplinary courses taught by a select group of Lynchburg College faculty. Designed expressly for students in the Westover Honors Program, the colloquia explore fundamental social, philosophical, artistic, and scientific issues.
Recent Colloquia | Fall 2017 and Spring 2018
Recent colloquia
- The World of Harry Potter and Harry Potter in the World
- The American Songbook
- Don’t Eat the Daisies – Plants of Renown and Danger
- What is Happiness?
- God’s Problem: Explaining Evil and Suffering
- Writer’s in Exile
- Jock Culture: Sport in Contemporary America
- Evil and Politics
- Churchill
- Jefferson Explored
- The Face of Battle
- Ethics and the Health Sciences
- Truth, Lies and Deceptions
- Fat America: Nutrition and the Contemporary Health Crisis
- Frankenstein: Or, the Promise and Peril of Synthetic Biology
Colloquia 2017-2018
Fall 2017
Ethics and the Health Sciences
Dr. Laura Kicklighter
The Rest is History…Or is it?
Professor Tracy Simmons
Making Big Money: The Creation of 21st Century Entrepreneurs
Dr. Timothy Schauer
Patriotism, Protest, and Social Change in 20th Century America: Through Film and Popular Song
Professor Naomi Amos
(Un)objective Science
Dr. Nancy Cowden
Spring 2018
Call of Duty – Stories of Conflict from World War I to the Hunger Games
Professor Rachel Willis
Soccer and Society: “Tell me how you play and I’ll tell you who you are.”
Dr. Dave Hageman
Defeat the Enemies of the Earth! Leadership, Teamwork, and Communication: Strategies to Interact More Effectively
Dr. Steve Smith
Powers of Persuasion: Jane Austen’s Literary Legacy
Dr. Beth Savage
Jock Culture: Sport in Contemporary America
Dr. Thomas Bowman
Big Universe, Small Screen: Science Fiction Television and Popular Culture
Dr. Mike Robinson