Program of Study
Honors Program Course Offerings
Courses in the Honors Program differ in design and content from traditional classes. Honors classes are smaller, allowing greater individual interaction with faculty members, and the seminar format is favored, giving students the opportunity to learn from one another. Field trips and sessions with outside speakers contribute to a particularly enriched academic experience. Honors Flowsheet
Senior Year
ENG 106H Honors English Freshman year
HIS 110H Honors History I Freshman year
HIS 111H Honors History II Freshman year
SPC 102H Honors Speech Freshman or sophomore year
ENG 284H Literature I: Honors Sophomore year
ENG 285H Literature II: Honors Sophomore year
IDS 600H Honors Seminar I Spring of Junior year
IDS 601H Honors Seminar II Fall of Senior Year
Senior Honors Project Senior Year
Honors Electives:
(At least two need to be completed)
BIO115H Honors Biology-Organisms (w/ laboratory)
BIO116H Honors Biology-Cells (w/ laboratory)
BUS 170H Honors Introduction to Business (pending approval)
CHE300H Chemistry in Contemporary Life
ENG600H English Seminar (Various topics)
GLS170H Honors Introduction to Geology
GLS171H Honors History of Geology II
HIS600H Honors History Seminar
NUR601H Honors Nursing Research I
NUR602H Honors Nursing Research II
PHL350H Topics in Ethics: Honors
PHL600H Honors Seminar in Philosophy
POL110H Honors Seminar: Topics in Political Science
PSY320H Foundations of Psychology: Honors
SOC202H Introduction to Sociology: Honors
Directed Study Course for Senior Honors Project
Honors Program Course Load
Honors students typically take a partial load of honors-level courses in a given semester. Because many honors classes take the place of the college-wide required courses, our first-year and second-year students tend to enroll in more honors-level courses than they will in later semesters, when they concentrate on courses within their majors.
Senior Honors Projects
The goal of the Senior Honors Project is to allow a student to study in depth, under the aegis of a faculty mentor, a topic about which he or she is passionate. The projects take on many forms depending on the students' fields of study and interests. Art, theater, and music students, for example, may take on a project that finishes with a campus presentation or exhibit. Generally speaking, projects entail extensive background research and the creation of an original piece of work which may be a scholarly analysis, an experimental report, an exhibit of original artwork, or the completion of a student-initiated service project. Each Senior Honors Project is documented in a bound thesis that becomes part of the library's permanent collection.