Honors (HONS)

HONS 300     Four Trials     4 Credit Hours

To teach habits of informed criticism based on critical analysis of primary and secondary texts. This course will give Honors students the opportunity to learn reflective, critical listening and inquiry skills, which are essential to informed discussion of the Honors core course material. The content of specific courses will vary from semester to semester according to individual instructors. (F).

Restriction(s):
Can enroll if Attribute is Honors Program

HONS 311     Ways of Knowing     4 Credit Hours

A humanities-based interdisciplinary course on the ways of knowing and an investigation into the aesthetics of perception and theories of how our knowledge about the world and our place in it is being constructed. This class is an invitation for Honors students to “explore the ways we perceive ourselves and the world around us; to synthesize personal opinion with research; to create and articulate perception and identity." (F, W).

Prerequisite(s): HONS 300

Restriction(s):
Can enroll if Attribute is Honors Program

HONS 312     Ways of Seeing: Thinking about Justice     4 Credit Hours

A humanities-based interdisciplinary course designed to explore topics of public engagement and ethical responsibility that is building on the previous class: driven by a question of how we can apply ways of knowing in different forms of engagement. (F, W).

Prerequisite(s): HONS 300

Restriction(s):
Can enroll if Attribute is Honors Program

HONS 390     Honors Topic Course     3 Credit Hours

Full Course Title: Honors Topic Course Shell (F,W,S,OC)

Restriction(s):
Can enroll if Attribute is Honors Program

HONS 390C     Honors Topics Course     3 Credit Hours

Topic Title: Democracy, Division, and Hate- Democracy has been understood as a setting where equal citizens collectively make decisions about law and public policy in an environment of equality, fairness, and mutual respect. Political theorists from JS Mill to Rawls have attempted to define the conditions that make a democratic civil society possible. Today the world's democracies are challenged by powerful political movements based on intolerance and division. How should democratic theory respond to the challenge of hate-based political movements? The course reexamines classic ideas in democratic theory, current sociological research.

Prerequisite(s): HIST 365 or HONS 300

Restriction(s):
Can enroll if Attribute is Honors Program

HONS 400     Honors Advanced Seminar: Inter-Cultural Explorations     4 Credit Hours

In this advanced seminar, students in the Honors Program explore a topic in depth that connects various academic disciplines and cross-cultural contexts. (F, W).

Prerequisite(s): COMP 110 and COMP 220 and HONS 300

Restriction(s):
Can enroll if Attribute is Honors Program