HON100 Life Stories (Offered during the Fall semester):
Life Stories explores the interconnectedness of human experience across time and place.
Life Stories uses personal narratives and biographies to study the relationship between reflection and action
Coursework focuses on the challenges individuals faced, the choices they made, and how those choices shaped and defined their lives.
Studying life stories prompts contemplation of how we make choices, the connections between what we believe and what we do, and how we can build meaningful lives.
This course introduces students to honors-level reading, writing, and discussion.
Three credits
HON300 Honors Seminar
(Offered during both the Spring and Fall semester)
The honors seminar will focus on a question or theme of interdisciplinary interest and significance.
This seminar will involve substantial reading, discussion, research, and writing.
Each student will identify and develop a project topic that reflects his/her own academic interests.
An important goal of this course is to foster an understanding of different ways of knowing and learning – including one’s own – as a basis for personal growth and education. A second goal of this course is to prepare a proposal for the Honors Capstone.
Three credits
HON444 Honors Capstone (Offered during both the Spring and Fall semesters):
In the Honors Capstone, each student will produce an independent research thesis or creative project.
The capstone work may entail a faculty-student research project or an internship or independent study directed by a faculty member.
The project was proposed and approved during the Honors Seminar.
A summary of the capstone work will be presented at the Honors Colloquium at the end of the semester.
Three credits