BOOK DISCUSSIONS
Each semester we offer a small number of book discussions facilitated by Georgia College professors over dinner. As with our dinner seminars, these informal, "learning beyond the classroom" experiences at a professor's home are designed to stimulate thought and discussion, and promote student-faculty interaction. Each book discussion group is limited to about ten students. The Honors Program loans the books and provides dinner.
SPRING 2012
Warner Belanger, Religion, Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go
Hank Edmondson, Political Science, Franz Kafka's The Trial
Steve Elliott-Gower, Political Science, Chris Buckley's Boomsday
Bruce Gentry, English, Flannery O'Connor's "Good Country People"
Gael Guzman-Medrano, Languages, Isabel Allende's Ines of My Soul
Pate McMichael, Mass Comm, Richard Ford's The Sportswriter
William Risch, History, Kim Edwards' The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Dan Bauer, Education, Markus Zusak's The Book Thief
Beauty Bragg, English, Toni Morrison's Beloved
Ryan Brown, Mathematics, Warren St. John's Outcasts United
Cynthia Orms, Accounting, Benjamin Ajak's They Poured Fire on Us
Caitlin Powell, Psychology, Haruki Murakami's After Dark
Amy Sumpter, Geography, Flannery O'Connor's "A Late Encounter with the Enemy"
Dan Bauer, Education, Virginia Woolf's Orlando
Hank Edmondson, Political Science, Thomas Mann's Death in Venice
Steve Elliott-Gower, Political Science, Ian McEwan's Solar
Mark Huddle, History, Joan Didion's Salvador
Pate McMichael, Mass Communication, Cormac McCarthy's The Road
FALL 2010
Ryan Brown, Mathematics, Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex
Dorothy Leland, President, Hikaru Okuizumi's The Stones Cry Out
Caitlin Powell, Psychology, Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five
Amy Sumpter, Geography, Daniyal Mueenuddin's In Other Rooms...
Rob Viau, English, Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale
Henry Wang, Philosophy, Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis
SPRING 2010
SPRING 2010
Myron Avila, Modern Languages, Isabel Allende's The Infinite Plan
Dan Bauer, Education, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 100 Years of Solitude
Linda Bradley, Education, William Young's The Shack
Hank Edmondson, Political Science, Henry Thoreau's Walden
Doug Oetter, Geography, Herman Hesse's Siddhartha
Amy Sumpter, Geography, Victor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning
Henry Wang, Philosophy, Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilych
FALL 2009
Melanie DeVore, Biology, Arturo Warman's Corn and Capitalism
Bruce Gentry, English, Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find"
Amit Poddar, Marketing, Salman Rusdie's The Satanic Verses
Chuck Ryan, Management, W. Edwards Deming's The New Economics
Evelyn Sweet-Hurd, His Name Was Donn (discussion with the author)
SPRING 2009
Sunita Manian, IDST, Khalid Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns
Eustace Palmer, English, Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions
Amit Poddar, Marketing, Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies
FALL 2008
Dan Bauer, Education, Emma Larkin's Finding George Orwell in Burma
Dorothy Leland, President, Fatima Mernissi's Dreams of Trespass
Bruce Gentry, English, Flannery O'Connor's "Good Country People"
Ben Scafidi, Economics, Milton and Rose Friedman's Free to Choose
Elaine Whitaker, English, Ernest Gaines's A Lesson Before Dying
Tina Yarborough, Art, Erin Hogan's Spiral Jetta
E-mail: honors@gcsu.edu
SPRING 2009
Sunita Manian, IDST, Khalid Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns
Eustace Palmer, English, Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions
Amit Poddar, Marketing, Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies
FALL 2008
Dan Bauer, Education, Emma Larkin's Finding George Orwell in Burma
Dorothy Leland, President, Fatima Mernissi's Dreams of Trespass
Bruce Gentry, English, Flannery O'Connor's "Good Country People"
Ben Scafidi, Economics, Milton and Rose Friedman's Free to Choose
Elaine Whitaker, English, Ernest Gaines's A Lesson Before Dying
Tina Yarborough, Art, Erin Hogan's Spiral Jetta
E-mail: honors@gcsu.edu
