8 courses with the subject HONS, 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.
HONS 1000Honors Orientation0
This 20-hour, pre-term course will develop students’ knowledge and skills related to leadership, self-management, and interdependence. Specific topics will include personal responsibility and the relationship of choices to consequences, teamwork skills and commitment to civic/community engagement strategies, decision-making and the advantages of emotional intelligence in work and college settings. Students will design a personal plan for developing self-management skills as well as a group project related to community activism.
Introduction to Honors Seminar is the class that will prepare students to succeed academically in all subsequent standard and honors coursework. The class will be a mixture of interdisciplinary research skills, research methodologies, and exercises in critical thinking and sound writing. This is a reading and writing-intensive course and should be taken in the Fall semester of the first year.
Honors seminars are offered each term from categories designated Honors Seminar I, II, or III. These 1-hour classes meet once per week for 50 minutes and are taught by NPC’s finest faculty. Course content rotates each year, and students in the Honors A.A. plan are required to take one seminar from each category for a total of three hours. Students seeking the Departmental Honors diploma may also enroll if able. Honors Seminar I is in the field of Arts and Humanities
Honors seminars are offered each term from categories designated Honors Seminar I, II, or III. These 1-hour classes meet once per week for 50 minutes and are taught by NPC’s finest faculty. Course content rotates each year, and students in the Honors A.A. plan are required to take one seminar from each category for a total of three hours. Students seeking the Departmental Honors diploma may also enroll if able. Honors Seminar II is the field of Social Sciences.
This internship offers honors students an opportunity to work with an instructor to create an individualized course of study to meet their intellectual and career interests. The Honors Internship can be used to replace an Honors Seminar.
Honors Colloquium is a series of lectures and discussions from faculty and guest speakers on a particular theme. This is an interdisciplinary course, and each week will examine different topics from different academic disciplnes on the semester’s overall theme. The course culminates with presentations of service-oriented research projects. Students may take this course with or without Honors Colloquium Research. However, all students must either take this course with the research component or Arkansas Honors Seminar with the research component to satisfy the Program’s requirements. Students may enroll in Honors Colloquium a second tiem (without the research component) for additioanl honors credit.
Honors Research is an optional co-requisite course for students taking Honors Colloquium OR an honors seminar course and who intend to participate in the research component of Honors Colloquium or seminar courses. This course partially satisfies the research requirements of the Honors Program.
During their final semester, every Honors student will complete a substantial research paper, project, or creative endeavor subject to Honors Director approval and faculty supervision. Service learning or campus community projects are encouraged. The final result should reflect the skills and knowledge attained in the Honors curriculum, and will be presented to Honors students and faculty when complete.
