UMass Amherst

Honors Seminar Book Selection:
Fall 2009 - Spring 2010


Dean's Readers 2007-8

Each year a group of senior honors students work with the director of Curriculum Development to select the texts for the coming year. As part of this Capstone Experience course, known as the Honors Seminar Scholars, the students choose research questions that have grown out of their close readings of one of the two selected texts and craft theses to explore them. These theses are sometimes only loosely related to the texts from which their inspiration is drawn, but are still of interest to others reading the same works.
     The following papers were produced by last year's scholars. If you don't have Adobe Acrobat Reader, you may download it for free here.

Ten Little Indians

Ten Litte Indians Cover Why We Chose This Book

Inversion and Subversion, Alterity and Ambivalence: "Mimicry" and "Hybridity" in Sherman Alexie's Ten Little Indians by Eva Becker

The Freedom to Believe: Spiritual Options in Ten Little Indians by Alice Bergin
The Indian Gaming Regulatory Act and Violations of Tribal Self-Determination Policies by Seth York

In Pursuasion Nation

In Pursuasion Nation Coer Why We Chose This Book

Pornography and the Internet's Effect on Girl's Health by Christina Breed

Welcome to Advertainment by Natasha Labbe

Soma in Brave New World vs. Moksha-Medicine in Island: Looking at Huxley's Fictional Models from a Contemporary Psychopharmacological Standpoint by Sarah Laurenzano

The Meaning of Wal-Mart's Low-Priced Food by Justine Le