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
| ENL 106H | Honors English | Freshman year |
| HIS 110H | Honors History I | Freshman year |
| HST 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 |
| ENG600H | English Seminar (Various topics) |
| GLS170H | Honors Physical Geology I |
| GLS171H | Honors Historical Geology II |
| 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.