8 courses with the subject HON, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
HON 101Honors Colloquium
This course is interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, and geared toward debate and dialogue. Students explore unexpected topics and learn to analyze from a variety of perspectives including race, class, gender, and sexuality. The course is designed to further develop students' critical thinking, writing, and oral presentation skills. It also connects first year students to a larger, intellectually curious community through special events. Topics vary widely but connect to contemporary questions and problems. The course offers a seminar discussion led by College President Michael Alexander. Past topics have included: cultural notions of bodies and body art; graphic novels; sex and death; telling life stories; truth, terror, love, and
This spring semester topic seminar is an introduction to the Honors Program that builds on the foundation each student acquired in First-Year Seminar and brings depth to at least one of the four knowledge perspectives encountered there. The course presents knowledge and meaning as things that are made through human activity and intellectual engagement. It aims to startle and incite, using an unexpected topic to challenge assumptions, engage debate and dialogue, and to further develop critical thinking and writing. Discussions aim to provoke contagious enthusiasm for intellectual inquiry and help students realize the power of ideas, including their own, in shaping the world. The course employs cross-cultural or global perspectives and introduces concepts of race, class, gender and sexuality as lenses through which knowledge
• This spring semester topic seminar is an introduction to the Honors Program that builds on the foundation each student acquired in First-Year Seminar and brings depth to at least one of the four knowledge perspectives encountered there. • The course presents knowledge and meaning as things that are made through human activity and intellectual engagement. It aims to startle and incite, using an unexpected topic to challenge assumptions, engage debate and dialogue, and to further develop critical thinking and writing. Discussions aim to provoke contagious enthusiasm for intellectual inquiry and help students realize the power of ideas, including their own, in shaping the world. • The course employs cross-cultural or global perspe
This course uses community-based service learning to examine issues of social justice in order to develop critical, capable, and ethical leaders and team-builders. Students explore obstacles, challenges, and failures of leadership as well as models for success. With the aim 1) to differentiate service learning from voluntary service, and 2) to promote leadership, social justice, and real world problem-solving among students, service activities are supported and analyzed through reading, writing, and discussion. Prerequisite: HON101 or permission from Honors Program Director
This is a supportive workshop environment in which to shape a project and take it through stages of research with the help and feedback of a team. This workshop allows you to undertake a Component without attaching it to another professor or course. It is also an opportunity to pursue a Component investigation on a topic of your interest that just won’t work well in one of your other courses for the term. Component projects from the past HON299 workshops have included everything and anything:?Performance Art and Its Audience Impact; Crypto Currencies (Bitcoin and More); The Eastern Roots of Yoga and Its Western Consumption; Impact of Birth Order on Learning; The Saw Movie Franchise; Campaign against the R-Word; Cybersecurity Chal
Finally! Do you dream of doing an Honors Component that is not attached to one of your semester courses? Have an idea, a passion, a project? Something that will deepen your knowledge or build professional skills, something you need to research whether that research takes traditional or non-traditional forms? This new Independent Component workshop aims to provide workshop structure to that dream so you can collaborate with others, share your enthusiasms and your work and get the guidance you need. Register now with an idea and we will frame it and connect to faculty mentors in the first three weeks of the term. This course is open to anyone who wants to 1. Design a solo Component: your own a solo Component unattached to a course2. Be selected for the Honors Program Socia
This course guides student research on challenging, provocative, and multi-dimensional topics. The course takes seminar form, using debate, dialogue, reading, writing, and individualized research to develop the student's interdisciplinary perspectives, moral and cultural understanding, and problem-solving skills. Topics vary widely. Past courses have included: HIV/AIDS in America; The Wire: Intersections of Class, Power, Crime, and Choice; Sextopia; The Postcolonial World; Bioethics; Revolutions and Revolutionary Thought; Women and Beauty. Most courses fulfill either a Multicultural, Moral/Ethical or Aesthetic area of inquiry. Prerequisites: Junior standing, HON101, HON205, or permission from Honors Program Director.
This course occurs fall term only and is required for all Honors Program graduates. It brings senior students together across majors to critically discuss and evaluate their academic and personal development. Students engage in critical reflection on the education they have had and the men and women they have become. They work to present a clear, concise statement of who they are, what they have been able to accomplish, and a sense of how they want to develop from here. Students meet weekly and help each other create a retrospective understanding of the value and significance of each of their individualized Honors Components, their interdisciplinary Honors Courses, and their major course of study. Students discuss, present, and d
