THE HONORS PROGRAM
- Minimum Honors hours for Program = 24
- Admittance to the Honors program is by invitation
of the Director (see Honors Program section in Academic Information). The Honors
Program offers a four-year program which requires that students complete twenty-four hours
of Honors Courses. During the first two years students are required to take five
three-hour courses from the General Studies Requirements.
During the final two years, students must complete nine hours of Junior/Senior credits
taken from their major fields of study.
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- A. Honors Courses within the General Studies:
- In close consultation with an Honors advisor, select 5 Honors courses from:
- Take 0-6 hours from the following English Language General Studies:
- ENG 101HGS, Expository Writing I - 3 hours
- ENG 102HGS, Expository Writing II - 3 hours
- SPCH 100HGS, Fundamentals of Speech
Communication - 3 hour
- Take 0-15 hours from the following Humanities General Studies:
(Coursework must be from three separate perspectives)
- Take 0-6 hours from the following Literary Perspectives:
- ENG 235HGS, American Studies - 3 hours
- ENG 240HGS, Literary Classics - 3 hours
- HIST/ENG 280HGS, America-1960s - 3 hours
- ENG/ART/PSY 280HGS,
The Search for Myth - 3 hours
- ENG/CHEM/CSIS 280HGS,
Exotic Worlds: DNA, Gigabytes and Metaphor - 3 hours
Take 0-6 hours from the following Aesthetic Perspectives:
- ART 120HGS, Seminar in Art Appreciation - 3
hours
- ENG/ART/PSY 280HGS,
The Search for Myth - 3 hours
- MUS 100HGS, Introduction to Music - 3 hours
- THEA 120HGS, Introduction to the Theatre - 3
hours
- Take 0-6 hours from the following Historical Perspectives:
- HIST 210HGS, Western Civilization - 3 hours
HIST 211HGS, Western Civilization - 3 hours
HIST 212HGS, Non-Western World History - 3 hours
HIST 215HGS, Introduction to Latin America - 3
hours
HIST 250HGS, American History - 3 hours
HIST 251HGS, American History - 3 hours
HIST/ENG 280HGS,
America-1960s - 3 hours
- Take 0-6 hours from the following Philosophic Perspectives:
- PHIL 100HGS, Introduction to Philosophy - 3
hours
- PHIL 120HGS, Introduction to Ethics - 3 hours
- Take 0-3 hours from the following Mathematics, Statistics & Computer Science General
Studies:
- ENG/CHEM/CSIS 280HGS, Exotic Worlds: DNA,
Gigabytes and Metaphor - 3 hours
- Take 0-15 hours from the following Natural Sciences General Studies:
(Coursework must be from two separate departments; at least one of the courses taken
will have a laboratory component)
- CHEM 160HGS/CHEM 160L General Chemistry - 4
hours
- CHEM 161HGS/CHEM
161L, General Chemistry - 4 hours
- ENG/CHEM/CSIS 280HGS, Exotic Worlds: DNA, Gigabytes and Metaphor -
3 hours
PHYS 131HGS, Newton's Universe - 4 hours
- PHYS 132HGS, Einstein's Universe - 4 hours
- Take 0-15 hours from the following Social Sciences General Studies:
(Coursework must be from three separate perspectives)
- Take 0-3 hours from the following Economic Perspectives:
- ECON 100HGS, Contemporary Economic Issues - 3
hours
- Take 0-6 hours from the following Social Perspectives:
- SOC 100HGS, Introduction to Sociology - 3 hours
- SOC 250HGS, Anthropology - 3 hours
- Take 0-6 hours from the following Political Perspectives:
- PSCI 100HGS, Introduction to Political Science
- 3 hours
- PSCI 110HGS, Introduction to American Politics
- 3 hours
- PSCI 168HGS, Introduction to International
Politics - 3 hours
- PSCI 280H, Human Genome - 3 hours
- Take 0-3 hours from the following Geographic Perspectives:
- GEOG 104HGS, World Regional - 3 hours
- Take 0-6 hours from the following Behavioral Perspectives:
- ENG/ART/PSY 280HGS, The Search for Myth - 3 hours
- PSY 210HGS, Issue in Psychology - 3 hours
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- B. Junior/Senior Requirements
- Take 9 hours from:
- Honors Option Courses Variable Topics - 6 hours
- Honors Option Courses are selected major courses from the various disciplines which the
student may take as honors credit. The kind of study will vary from course to course and
from discipline to discipline.
- Senior Study Variable Topics - 3 hours
- The Senior Study, taken during the senior year, is the culmination of the student's
honors work directed by a professor in the major field.
- Graduate Courses - 1-3 hours
- A senior in the Honors Program may take one graduate course for Honors credit.
11 May 2006
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