Lincoln (Neb.) - Aug. 21, 2000 - Some freshman honors students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will be seeing a lot of red this fall, and not just in Memorial Stadium on football Saturdays.
Those enrolled in Chemistry 191H, "The Color Red," will examine Nebraska's most popular color from a series of academic angles. Each week, the one-hour course will focus on a different aspect of red, with UNL faculty from appropriate disciplines serving as guest lecturers on red in poetry, art, psychology, sociology, politics and the physical sciences.
"Red is a great color. It's our most ubiquitous color and it's the one most often used in advertising," said Mark Griep, associate professor of chemistry, and the faculty member who developed the course. "I obviously chose the color red because Nebraska is the 'Big Red,' but it's not my intention to focus on that facet."
Griep said he starting thinking about the course after he noticed a similar course offering while visiting the University of Minnesota's chemistry department Web page.
"The idea incubated in my mind for a while and then last spring I stepped down as vice chair of the chemistry department because I wanted to enter the teaching pool," he said. "For several years, the chemistry department has offered these one-hour honors courses and I thought this might be a good way to get back into teaching."
The course will meet at 4:30 p.m. on Wednesdays in room 29 of Hamilton
Hall.
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