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		DePauw University HONR101: Honor Scholar Seminar
		Science Fiction
		Dr. Arthur B. Evans EC 204, aevans@depauw.edu home page: http://academic.depauw.edu/~aevans (site last updated: December 2014)



Class Web Pages (These web pages are posted with the implicit agreement of the students who created them. If any student does not wish his/her web page to appear here, they need only to notify Prof. Evans and it will be removed from the site.)



Spring 2003:

	Nader Abouelgubein on the SF of H. G. Wells J. J. Burns on God and Religion in SF Jacob Garbe on Tad Williams John Grimes on Minority Report Allen Lynch on Races and Racism in SF Michel Martin Del Campo on Dark Heroes in Speculative Fiction David Morine on Time Travel Josie Strong on Terry Pratchett's Discworld David Szydloski on Gene Wolfe's The Fifth Head of Cerberus

Spring 2004:

	Mayghin Brown on Neil Gaiman Lauren Guggina on GATTACA Steve Karacic on Time Travel Amelia Lyle on E.T., the Extra-Terrestrial Tim Lyon on J.R.R. Tolkien Chris Powell on Equilibrium Gauri Sarin on The Matrix Andy Strasburg on Vanilla Sky
Spring 2005:

	Janelle Blasdel on Roald Dahl Katie Brown on Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern *Jessie Hemmelgarn on The Time Machine: Novel versus Films* Colleen Jensen on The Fifth Element Alex Krzywicka on Gibson's Neuromancer and The Matrix Emilee Mc Stay on 12 Monkeys Elaine Reams on Star Trek: The Animated Series Justin Sikes on Nefarious SF Villains Rob Snyder on Orson Scott Card Drew Stanley on Peter Hamilton's The Night's Dawn Trilogy Andy Williams on C.S. Lewis's Space Trilogy

Spring 2006:

Michael Akinbola on Robotic Dystopias

Patricia Anderson on Michael Crichton

Rob Bramlett on Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey

Anjali Desai on Back to the Future

Ryan Johnson on Ray Bradury's The Martian Chronicles

Juliana Keller on Asimov's 3 Laws of Robotics

Joanna Kieschnick on Ursula K. Le Guin's Left Hand of Darkness

Javaneh Nekoomaram on Genetically Mutated Superheroes

Jessica Rooney on Music in SF Film

Julie Rooney on Firefly

Todd Schmid on Eugenics in Science Fiction

Yvonne Williams on Gynoids, Fembots, and Female Cyborgs


Fall 2007:

	Tyler Archer on The Jetsons Matt Brauer on Octavia Butler's "Bloodchild" Sarah Chamberlain on Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale Kirsten Gersch on Close Encounters of the Third Kind Kyle Hall on Children's Science Fiction Kerry Hobson on Judith Merril Andrea Hutchinson on Atlantis Kristina Locke on Fritz Lang's Metropolis Craig Melancon on Carl Sagan's Contact Kevin Milne on Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers Kate Pickering on Robot Love Stephanie Wood on E. M. Forster's "The Machine Stops" Kate Wright on Terry Gilliam's Brazil


Fall 2008:

	David Baughman on Frank Herbert's Dune Kara Bischak on Hugo Gernsback Nathan Cummins on Wall-E Ann Marie Elliott on Soylent Green Karishma Kollipara on Cloning Carolyn Latta on Nuclear Apocalypse in SF Roy Leaf on Ursula K. Le Guin J.C. Pankratz on C. L. Moore Alyssa Pilli on Donnie Darko Elaine Wiley on Kurt Vonnegut


Fall 2009:

	Kartik Amarnath on Music and SF Katie Broecker on Jurassic Park Jeff Easterling on Mars Fiction and Speculation About the Red Planet *Paul Fesenmeier on South Park* and SF** Ben Hoffman on The Fourth Kind Chris Jennings on Heroes Allison Jones on Blade Runner and Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Austin Livesay on Languages in SF Jess Macy on Kate Wilhelm's Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang Emily Miller on Margaret Cavendish's The Blazing World Stephen Shapiro on Red Dwarf Janelle Thixton on Women-Only Worlds Tess Thompson on The Stepford Wives MacKenzie Weeks on The Rocky Horror Picture Show Rae Winters on Daniel Keyes's Flowers for Algernon


Fall 2010:

	Jillian Balser on Robert Sheckley Kelly Blair on Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games Rachel Dauenbaugh on I Am Legend Kate Harris on James Patterson's Maximum Ride Brittany Hayes on The Twilight Zone Long Hoang on Children of Men Elise Lockwood on Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower Heidi Meuth on Lewis Padgett's "Mimsy Were the Borogroves" Andres Munoz on Franklyn Abby Prine on Cordwainer Smith Ben Roess on Avatar Camille Veri on A Clockwork Orange


Fall 2011:

	Tyler Bussian on 28 Days/Weeks Later Chelsy Fields on The Bicentennial Man Nick Hebebrand on Utopian Visions in SF Celia Klug on Genetic Engineering Jacob Mark on Steampunk Colleen McArdle on Alien Invasion and Colonization Evan Miller on Fahrenheit 451 Stefanie Pavlick on Lost in Space Rachel Robin on Dr. Strangelove Dakota Watson on Falling Skies


Fall 2012:

	Karly Anderson on Mars Attacks! Shannon Hall on Animals in SF Montana Hoenig on Eugenics in SF Risa Kanai on Inception Sara Lejsner on Moon Nico Moorman on Invisibility Caroline Moriarity on Transformers Devon Ross on I, Robot Morgan Shaner on Prometheus Rhys Weber on Battlestar Galactica Jacob Zieba on SF in 1990's Cartoons


Fall 2013:

	Blake Beckemeyer on Perfect Socialism Mallory Benson on Elysium Amy Brown on the Female Companions of Dr. Who Maggie Furtner on Terminator 2: Judgment Day Allison Hills on 2001: A Space Odyssey Max Jacobsen on Racial Conflict in Star Trek Megan Karbowski on Ender's Game Christine Kim on The Road Sarah Pistorius on The X-Files Mary Reising on Terraforming Mars Fred Soster on The Day After Tomorrow Jessica Tilley on Interspecies Romance in SF


Fall 2014:

	Lilly Burba on the Science and Fiction of Orphan Black *Emily Chen on Planet of the Apes: From Novel to Film* Jeanne Cullen on Social Issues in the X-Men Miranda Dafoe on CyberPunk Samuel Eads on Stephen King's Under the Dome Abby Joens-Witherow on Independence Day Peter Nolan on Immortality in SF Alexandra Schmerge on Children's SF Films Thomas Shelton on Transhumanism and SF Lauren Stazinski on Land of the Lost

Class Web Pages

(These web pages are posted with the implicit agreement of the students who created them. If any student does not wish his/her web page to appear here, they need only to notify Prof. Evans and it will be removed from the site.)