Honors courses are designed to teach you how to bounce ideas off of other students, learn collaboratively, and actively – both inside and out of the classroom. Classes are usually discussion-based and often taught through an innovative, hands-on approach that put you at the center of what happens in class.
Honors courses won't add time to your degree completion. They provide a challenging alternative that fulfills your graduation requirements and enhance your career path.
You can take courses such as:
- The History of Mad Science
- Clickbait: News, Media, and Politics in the U.S.
- After 9/11: American Literature of Public Crisis
- Anthropology of the Contemporary U.S.
- The Geography of Food
- Biology of Plants Plants & People
- Environmental Justice
- Trading Myths: Sailors, Stories, and the Cosmos of Greek Myth
- Honors Jazz History
- 40+ total section offerings each year from all academic areas
| ANTH 220 | Cultural Anthropology |
| ANTH 230 | Anthropology of the Contemporary US |
| ANTH 293 | Environmental Justice |
| ART 100 | Honors Drawing I |
| ART 101 | 2D Design |
| ART 200 | Honors Drawing II |
| BIO 111 | Science, the Environment, & Sustainability |
| BIO 132 | Human Biology |
| BIO 141 | Plants & People |
| CHEM 135 | College Chemistry I |
| CS 144 | Computer Science I |
| ECON 210 | Principles of Macroeconomics |
| ECON 215 | Principles of Microeconomics |
| ENGL 111 | Honors Freshman English Seminar 1 |
| ENGL 113 | Honors Freshman English Seminar 2 |
| GEOG 310 | Geography of Food |
| HDFS 195 | Seminar in Lifespan Human Development |
| HDFS 460 | Religious Diversity and the Workplace |
| HIST 121 | Modern US History |
| HIST 323 | Immigration & Ethnic History |
| HIST 360 | Asian History |
| HIST 377 | History of Ideas |
| HIST 392 | History of Mad Science |
| HIST 396 | The Age of Revolutions |
| INMGT 400 | Organizational Leadership |
| LIT 307 | After 9/11: American Literature of Public Crisis and Trauma |
| MUSIC 231 | Honors Jazz History |
| PHIL 220 | Multicultural Philosophy |
| POLS 210 | American Government |
| PSYC 110 | General Psychology |
| SOC 290 | Global Political Ecology |
| SOC 385 | Globalization and Social Change |
| STAT 130 | Elementary Statistics |
Honors courses get you involved in your learning, allowing you flexibility to chart out your own questions and projects, while getting guidance and support from our most engaged, enthusiastic, and innovative faculty members. Many courses get you outside the classroom and into the field, have undergraduate research opportunities, or other extra features you wouldn't find in any other courses.
