9 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 Colloquium1
(Freshmen) This course seeks to guide students in understanding honors education, academic majors and minors, determining career possibilities resulting from those areas of study, and preparation needed for graduate study or successful placement in the field. Students will have opportunities for professional and personal development, including discussions with faculty and professionals in the fields of study offered by Shaw University. It also seeks to help them understand the purpose and value of higher education, to develop positive attitudes toward the teaching-learning process, and to acquire coping skills that are essential for successful college life.
(Freshmen) This course will explore the historical and modern-day connections between society, race and class and those social institutions which influence such divisions. It will delve into origins of opinions and self-perceptions of elite groups within society or privilege for certain people. Emphasis will be placed on historic notions of class and present-day understanding of social status through major social institutions particularly focused upon by W.E.B. DuBois and E. Franklin Frazier - education, the Black Church/religion, politics, the Black press and Black business. Classic works as well as contemporary studies and media are used. This class seeks to train students to become well-read, understanding the world around them through accounts in the media and academic sources, how daily events impact their lives, and how they have a responsibility to instigate change.
(Sophomores) Through readings, discussions and presentations by persons from different areas of expertise in leadership capacities, students will develop an awareness of challenges to and ideals of leadership, particularly emotionally intelligent leadership. Students will be encouraged to investigate their own leadership ideals, shortcomings and challenges. Students will learn the responsibilities of leadership within a group, and how leadership is exemplified through planning, meeting management and time management.
(Sophomores) This immersion course in ethnography uses classic works/texts as a basis of ethnographic study - a first hand, detailed account of a particular culture or event which may contest and/or sustain stereotypes of particular groups, with particular emphasis on the African American experience.
HON 221Honors Special Topics - Special Topics: Honda Campus All-Star Challenge1-3
(OPEN to ALL Shaw University students) This course is designed to expose students to a diverse field of knowledge, to include current events, African-American history, American history, geography, math, science, social science, art, religion, fine arts, music, literature, sports, and pop culture in an atmosphere of preparation for academic competition. In the context of the subjects covered, the students will be instructed in “structured knowledge acquisition” as well as instruction in the fundamental techniques, rules, basic team strategies and the research processes for academic competition. The course uses metacognition approaches to research strategies and technologies for data collection as a paramount methodology in academic knowledge competition. Students will be offered opportunities of an experiential nature through participation with the Shaw University Honda Campus All-Star Challenge program.
(Juniors) This course allows students to do necessary planning for a successful launch into the future after college. It emphasizes how practical issues such as devising a realistic budget, determining employment possibilities, planning for graduate school, and securing living arrangements can add to the confidence of new college graduates.
(Juniors) This course will focus on graduate study preparation, with the task of planning and the implementation of a plan of action for evaluating potential graduate/ professional schools, graduate school examinations, applications, personal statements, and graduate school finance planning, among other activities.
(Seniors) This introductory course offers an overview of general research methods . It provides the basic tools needed to conduct research while also developing the skills necessary to critically evaluate the research of others. This course aims to: introduce students to the basic elements of research design; improve students’ ability to critically evaluate the research of others; enhance students’ understanding of what it means to be a researcher; familiarize students with the problems and limitations of studying the critical issues through firsthand experience with data collection; and demonstrate the relevance of general research methods to one’s everyday lives.
(Seniors) This CAPSTONE class focuses on senior students’ last few months in college - reviewing their experiences, planning immediate needs of their final semester, and planning for their futures as active members of the work force or graduate students. Students prepare final resumes, graduate school essays, and elevator speeches to confidently present themselves. Students complete their senior research projects for presentation in a public forum.
