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Keystone Project

The Keystone Project is the curricular core of the Honors Humanities Program. In their first semester colloquium, ARHU 105, students choose a topic, theme, issue, or area of study for the Keystone Project. Over the next three semesters, students work to develop their chosen project. One of the goals of Keystone Project is to provide students with the opportunity to work with one topic for an extended period of time, to engage in the research process and methods, and to change and adapt their project as needed.

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Selected Keystone Projects:

• Understanding Art as an Affecting Presence: An Analysis and Practical Application of Color Theory in the Works of Mondrian, Rothko, and Miro
  Camilo Sanin (Art Studio and Art History)

Research into the color theories of Mondrian, Rothko, and Miro and application of these theories to the student's own studio works including painting, drawings, and sculpture.

• Heya Hon': A Linguistic Analysis of Baltimorese
  Cindy Caviglia (Linguistics)

The first linguistic analysis of the Baltimore dialect in a cultural and historical context. Presented at Undergraduate Research Day, spring 2006.

• The Terrapist, UMD's Magazine of Satire and Enlightenment Andrew Bowen (Finance and History)

• Greenroofs: A Proposal for the University of Maryland
  Margaret Crenshaw (Biology and English)

Considering the aesthetic and environmental needs and responsibilities of the UMCP campus, this proposal outlines and informs strategies for two "green roofs" on campus.

• “GIANT STEPS”: Forming a New Concept of Music Education
  Brian McGillen (Music Education)

This paper examines the problems that music education faces in elementary and secondary school contexts and in the higher education training of future music educators. It propose holistic and effective strategies for solving these problems.

• "She is Beautiful, No?"
  Maya Jackson (Theatre)

• “…with unabated fury.” A Vision of Civil War Battles: Antietam and Gettysburg
  Tom Decker (History)

• Documentary Film on the Millennial Generation and the "Get Out the Vote" Movement
  Lindsay Denmark (Journalism)

• Comparative Study of German, Soviet, and American WWII Propaganda
  Lauren Dudley (Government & Politics)

• Cultural Study of "Sex and the City"
  Amanda Lee (Government & Politics)

• Novel on Colonial Latin America
  Wang Mingyue Li (International Business)

• Langley Park Children's Theater Troupe
  Monica Fernandez (Animal Science)

• 'Red Dreams': A novel of old myths and new stories; where Angels and crazies meet at the end of the world
  Daniel Greene (English and Psychology)

• A Study of the Implication of Art as a Measure of Societal Happiness in a Capitalistic Economy
  Paul Lehmbeck (Economics)

• Women's Rights in Islam: An Examination of the Quran , the Hadith , and Modern Political Rule
  Rayyan Ghuma (Government & Politics)