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 provides books and dinner.
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, Government, Henry Thoreau's Walden
Doug Oetter, Geography, Herman Hesse's Siddartha
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, IDS, 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, Philosophy, Fatima Mernissi's Dreams of Tresspass
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, IDS, 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, Philosophy, Fatima Mernissi's Dreams of Tresspass
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
