Honors Program Course Offerings

There are two types of Honors courses:

Seminars investigate the human experience from multiple perspectives of different disciplines. Courses are cycled for variety and taught by full-time faculty from various departments. They are designed to encourage robust independent thinking, active student participation, and specialized research opportunities. Enrollment is extremely limited. These seminars typically fulfill either a Core or Enriched Core requirement and satisfy the WI, or “Writing Intensive,” requirement.

Honors-designated Core classes provide the opportunity for students to fulfill their Core requirements in a more intimate learning environment with other Honors students.

Honors Program Seminars

Honors seminars often fulfill a Core or Enriched Core requirement and satisfy the writing-intensive (WI) requirement. The substitutions are advertised by the co-Directors before registration each semester. Once the class has been completed, the student must fill out the “Substitution Form for Honors Classes” on the portal. Courses related to the planning and execution of the Honors Project (HP 400 and HP 405) count toward general electives.

When registering, Honors students should remind their faculty advisors that they are Honors students and that Honors seminars often meet Core and Enriched Core requirements.

Course Offerings (please note this list is not comprehensive and students should check the offerings each semester):

• HP 300 Introduction to Contemporary South Asian Literature and Film (EN Core 2 or Global Awareness and Cultural Understanding)
• HP 312 Exploring Diversity: Privilege and Oppression (Core Social Science or Global Awareness and Cultural Understanding)
• HP 315 Creativity and Society (EN Core 2 or AH 122)
• HP 316 Exploring Women’s Studies (EN Core 2)
• HP 320 Capitalism and Socialism (PO 125)
• HP 323 GAIA: A Theory of Ecology (BI 106)
• HP 324 Violence and Political Change (PO 125 or Ethical Inquiry and Applications)
• HP 329 Inner Voices, Outer Choices (PS 101)
• HP 330 Ideal Self and Reality (PS 101)
• HP 331 Psychology and Film (PS 101)
• HP 332 The Family in U.S. Literature (EN Core 2)
• HP 335 The Holocaust in Film (Ethical Inquiry and Applications)
• HP 338 Art and Identity (AH 122)
• HP 340 Utopian Societies (EN Core 2 or PS 101)
• HP 342 South Africa: From Apartheid to the Rainbow Nation (HI 102 or Global Awareness and Cultural Understanding)
• HP 345 Music and Technology (MU 122)
• HP 347 Science: Visions and Reality (CH 105 or Global Awareness and Cultural Understanding)
• HP 348 Language, Self and Society (AN 225 or Global Awareness and Cultural Understanding)
• HP 353 Values and Visual Culture (AH 122)
• HP 354 Music and Postmodernism (MU 122)
• HP 357 Comparative Genocide (HI 102 or PO 125)
• HP 360 Globalization (BU 101)
• HP 361 Literature and Science (EN Core 2)
• HP 362 Ecology and Society (BI 106)
• HP 363 U.S. Ethnic Literature (EN Core 2)
• HP 364 Medieval Studies (EN Core 2)
• HP 365 Controversial Legal Issues (BU 101 or PO 125)
• HP 366 Film: Politics and Propaganda (CO 230 or Global Awareness and Cultural Understanding)
• HP 367 Suffering in U.S. Literature (EN Core 2)
• HP 368 French Autobiography (LA Core 2)
• HP 369 Ethical Issues (PH 210 or Ethical Inquiry and Applications)
• HP 370 Interpreting Modern Art (AH 122)
• HP 371 Renaissance Studies (AH 122 or EN Core 2)
• HP 372 Decolonization (PO 125)
• HP 373 French Popular Culture (LA Core 2)

Honors-designated Core Courses

Honors-designated core courses do not have the HP course code; the course code reflects the department under which the course is housed. Instead, the Honors designation can be found in the course title. For example, EN 111 – College Writing corresponds to the non-Honors section of college writing, whereas EN 111 – (HP) College Writing corresponds to the Honors section of college writing.

Course Offerings (please note this list is not comprehensive and students should check the offerings each semester):

• EN 111 (HP) College Writing
• EN 120 (HP) Writing Power
• HI 102 (HP) The Shaping of the West
• PS 101 (HP) General Psychology
• TH 102 (HP) Introduction to Christian Theology