4 courses with the subject HNR, 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.
HNR 120Ways of Seeing3
This course introduces interdisciplinary methods for interpreting history, literature, philosophy, art history, and the humanities in general. Students will examine both written and visual culture spanning several centuries and identify how interdisciplinary interpretations broaden our understanding of the human experience (required for all incoming Honors students).
An introduction to individuals, movements, and events that significantly redefined a discipline or some aspect of the human experience. Four or five instructors from different disciplines will teach two-week (4 class) increments on a significant figure, movement, or event in their discipline. The course instructor will tie these together in an overall consideration of how these changed the course of history.
This non-credit course is required of all honors students and meets three times each semester. Sessions generally explore themes or topics from honors courses. The format varies, but may include lectures, debates, discussions, or presentations by faculty, students, or guest speakers; discussion among participants is always emphasized. This forum provides student/student interaction across classes and majors in addition to student/faculty interaction.
This required, senior-level seminar is a contract course that will result in the creation of an interdisciplinary honors project. The seminar will meet several times throughout the semester to help students create a research plan, share information, draft material, and collaboratively edit and review their ideas. The emphasis of the seminar will be on developing a professional project after a process of self-directed research, writing, and peer review. In addition, students will assist each other to develop and expand their ideas, using the integrative skills they have gained in the honors program. Each student’s project, will entail either a journal length paper consisting of original research, or a visual or performing arts project, or an academically-based, service-learning project, which will demand some original research and will be accompanied by a substantial written commentary. Projects and papers will be completed under the direction of the instructor of the capstone course and one additional faculty member. In either case, all projects must be approved by the honors faculty, presented to the campus community and placed (in some fashion) in the university’s online honors journal Honorus.
Upper-level standing in the honors program and approval of project proposal form by the appropriate faculty. All projects must be approved by the honors faculty and one appropriate outside reader. In addition, visual and performing arts projects must be approved by the chair of the fine arts department; service-learning projects must be approved by the director of service-learning.
