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"The Global Challenge"(UNHP 1101 and 1102) is a six-credit interdisciplinary, team-taught course focusing on globalization. The course is designed to encourage honors students to become “global thinkers” by fostering both an understanding of the complex and interlinked issues facing our global society and a view of the United States within a much broader context. The Global Challenge is a required course sequence for all first-year honors students.
| UNHP 1101 Honors Humanities: This Global Challenge course is an interdisciplinary investigation of current global controversies and issues that utilize literature, art, and other forms of cultural expression as paradigms for exploration. |
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Prof. Reece Auguiste- is a visiting Assistant Professor with an M.S. from Marlboro College in Vermont. His academic interests include film theory, television studies, global media, internet architecture and cyberculture. Professor Auguiste is a Writer/Producer/Director, whose films have explored issues of post-colonial identity and the socio-political dimensions of migration. His films have been shown at numerous International Film Festivals, and garnered many awards including the Josef Von Sternberg Award, The Golden Hugo and the International Documentary Association Award, for exceptional creative achievement in non-fiction and television production. He has also worked with the BBC and Channel 4 Television (UK), and is the author of numerous articles and essays in film journals and art publications. |
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Prof.Leigh Anne Duck received her Ph.D. from The University of Chicago in 2000 and is now an Assistant Professor of English at The University of Memphis. Having published articles on Zora Neale Hurston, William Faulkner, and V. S. Naipaul, she is currently working on a book about twentieth century southern literature and the narration of racial segregation. Her research interests include literary modernism, US cultural studies, psychoanalysis, and genre theory. Dr. Duck is the Director of the English Honors Program. |
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Dr. Allison Graham received a
Ph.D. from the University of Florida. Dr. Graham's teaching specialties include Film History, Theory, and Criticism. Dr. Graham is the author of "Lindsay Anderson" and numerous articles in film and humanities journals and film and television anthologies. She is the Co-producer of "At the River I Stand," national Emmy award nominee and winner of Erik Barnouw Award from the Organization of American Historians.
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Prof. Holly Lau received a Master of Fine Arts degree from Ohio State University and joined The University of Memphis faculty in 1991 where she is an Associate Professor. Professor Lau's teaching specialties are in the areas of modern dance, dance history, and Labanotation. She serves as choreographer for University productions and director of Voices, the dance company of The University of Memphis. Professor Lau has received national performance and choreography credits and is the Artistic Director and founder of The Arts / Bruce Connection promoting arts based learning. |
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Dr. Michelle Vigneau, Assistant Professor of oboe and member of the Memphis Woodwind Quintet, received a Bachelor’s degree from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, a Master’s from the New England Conservatory of Music, and a DMA in oboe performance from the University of Texas. She has taught at the University of Texas, Colby College, Bates College, the Portland Conservatory of Music, the University of Cape Town, and the University of Mary Hardin Baylor. Dr. Vigneau has performed with orchestras and chamber ensembles throughout the United States and Mexico and spent three years playing in the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra. She joined the faculty of the University of Memphis in 2003. |
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D. Gray Matthews (Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University) Assistant Professor Rhetorical Criticism; Rhetoric, Community, and Social Change. Research published in Southern Communication Journal. Past editor of Peace and Conflict Communication newsletter. Research presented at state, regional and national conferences. |
| UNHP 1102 Honors Social Science: This Global Challenge course focuses on the phenomenon of globalization- its causes, nature, and economic, political, and cultural consequences. Both courses will require students to think carefully about what it means to be and act as a global citizen. |
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Dr. Phillip Kolbe is an Associate Professor of Finance and Real Estate and Director of the Graduate Program in Real Estate Development for the Fogelman College of Business at the University of Memphis. A former Air Force special operations officer and a corporate president and CEO, he has authored numerous publications on real estate and finance. He received the Distinguished Teaching Award from The University of Memphis and was the first recipient of the Thomas W. Briggs Foundation Excellence in Teaching Award. He is also a recipient of the Mortgage Bankers Association of America Fellow Award for Excellence in Teaching. He was recently awarded the University College Advising Award and the Suzanne Downs Palmer Professorship in Teaching. |
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Hsiang-te Kung is a Full Professor and has been the Chairman of the Department of Geography and Planning at The University of Memphis from 1992 to 2001. He received his B.S. with a geography major and geology minor from the University of Chinese Culture and received both his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, Tennessee. He has co-authored three books, published more than fifty referee articles in the professional journals, and received more than 30 research grants. He has been a visiting professor and lecturer in China. He was born in Wuhan, China, and is the 75th generation from Confucious. He was nominated for the distinguished teaching service award four times and received awards for Superior Performance in University Research (SPUR) for Outstanding Research Activities twice. |
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Prof. Robin Roach B.S. Dietetics, Memphis State University, 1976; R.D. Dietetic Internship, University of Arkansas Medical Center, Little Rock, 1977; M.P.H. Nutrition, Tulane University School of Public Health, New Orleans, 1980; Fellowship Nutrition, University of Tennessee Child Development Center, Memphis 1982; Ed.D. Science Education, Vanderbilt University , Nashville , 1989. Areas of interest include: nutrition, applied nutrition, methods in nutrition education, study abroad, and world hunger. For complete details go to: https://umdrive.memphis.edu/g-HSS/WebPages/Faculty/Dr_Robin_Roach.htm
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Dr. Michelle Safa is a Professor of Anthropology
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Dr. Juliann Waits - Visiting Assistant Professor: Environmental and evolutionary ecology, population genetics, and molecular biology.
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