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Honors Courses

How Are Honors Courses Different?

Honors courses are more interactive, discussion-based, and hands-on than other courses but not more difficult or more work. They are typically smaller and designed to enhance your critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Courses might include field trips, travel study, visits from guest speakers, and more.

Honors courses are open to honors students only, excluding those only in the Honors in Major program. Honors courses count toward the honors citations and minor and may satisfy degree requirements for your major, general education, and open electives. You aren't taking more courses, but taking honors courses that fulfill multiple requirements.

"My favorite part of the Honors College was the courses, which were often unique subjects designed by whoever was teaching them. I got to see a different side of the instructor because there was a personal touch to what was going on in the classroom."

-Ryan Frabizio, B.A. in English, B.A. in History

Honors seminars are unique courses offered exclusively to honors students. These courses are developed by honors faculty and incorporate interdisciplinary perspectives to engage you beyond your major. Seminars with a HAAH, HSBS, or HSCI prefix satisfy general education requirements.

New courses are added periodically and noted with (New).


HAAH 2000H The U.S. at War


HAAH 2010H Race in Art

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HONR 1000C Myth and Fairy Tale in Modern Culture

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HONR 1000D Future History

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HONR 1000G The Problem of Consciousness


HONR 1000J Culture Wars


HONR 1000N Genetics and Genealogy

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HONR 1000S The Nature of Truth


HONR 1000U You: A Critical Analysis

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HONR 1000W We Are All Biased: Social Stratification

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HONR 1010A Read It, Watch It, Play It: Transmedia Storyworlds

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HONR 1010B The Healthy Woman, Mothers to Cyborgs

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HONR 1010C Alt-Facts & Fake News: Media Literacy in the Digital Age


HONR 1010D Water & Sustainability

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HONR 1010E The US Supreme Court and the Cultural Revolution: Studying the Legacy of the Warren Court

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HONR 1010G Intro to Protein Modeling


HONR 1500 Honors Reading Seminar


HONR 2000C History of Economic Development


HONR 2000E Utopias and Dystopias

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HONR 2000H Famous American Trials


HONR 2000K Inappropriate Relationships


HONR 2000N The "F" Word: Feminism and Culture


HONR 2000R The Misbehaving Brain

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HONR 2000U The Idea of the Hospital


HONR 2000V The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Philosophy and the Western Film


HONR 2000W The Pathography: Patients' Stories of Illness


HONR 2000X Conspiracy Theories

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HONR 2010A Sleep and Dreams


HONR 2010B Deciphering Diversity in the Law


HONR 2010G Medical London: Culture and Context

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HONR 2010J Witch-Hunts!


HONR 2010K Assassin's Creed


HONR 2010N Alcohol, Drugs, and Society


HONR 2010P Law and Literature


HONR 2010R Design Thinking


HONR 2010S Introduction to Biomedical Research


HONR 2010T The Nuclear Dilemma


HONR 2010U Reel Science


HONR 2010V Latino Voices


HONR 2010W War Stories: Gender and Soldiering in Contemporary America


HONR 2020A  Autism Today: The Individual and Family

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HONR 2020B Autism Today: Field Experience

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HONR 2020C You Be the Judge


HONR 2020D Invasive Species Ecology and Management

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HONR 2020E Grant Writing for Human Subjects Research and Human Services Programming


HONR 2020F Public Health and Health Disparities


HONR 2020G Play to Win: Research Methods for Video Game Studies


HONR 2020J The Protest Song in America (New)


HONR 2020K Ancient Egyptian Religion and Magic (New)


HONR 2020L Nutrition Facts and Fiction (New)


HONR 2900 Special Topics in Honors (New)


HONR 4150 Honors Travel Study


HONR 4990 Independent Study: Honors Thesis Research


HSBS 2000H Philosophy and Politics in Film


HSBS 2010H Ideologies of the Twentieth Century

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HSBS 2020H Interpersonal Perception 


HSCI 1000H Science in the News

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HSCI 1010H The Physiology of Stress


HSCI 2010H Epidemics: Germs and Their Power over Humanity

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HSCI 2020H Backyard Ecology

H-courses are honors versions of core courses (e.g., CHEM 1300H or COMP 1500H). They cover the same material as non-honors sections but incorporate unique instructional methods, have smaller class sizes, and are open to honors students only. 

New courses are added periodically and noted with (New).


BPH 3010H Epidemiology: Distribution & Determinants of Health Honors


BPH 3990H Inside Out: Exploring Population Mental Health & Well-Being Honors


CHEM 1300H General Chemistry I/Lab Honors

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CHEM 1310H General Chemistry II/Lab Honors

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CHEM 2400H Organic Chemistry I/Lab Honors


CHEM 2410H Organic Chemistry II/Lab Honors

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COMP 1500H College Writing Honors


COMP 2000H Advanced College Writing Honors


ECN 2020H Principles of Microeconomics Honors


ECN 2025H Principles of Macroeconomics Honors


FIN 2000H Personal Finance Honors


INST 1500H Global Issues Honors


LITR 2020H American Literature I Honors


LITR 2021H American Literature II Honors


LITR 2030H World Literature I Honors


LITR 2031H World Literature II Honors

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MATH 2020H Applied Statistics Honors

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MATH 2100H Calculus I Honors


MATH 2200H Calculus II Honors


MGT 2050H Principles of Management Honors


MGT 4880H Business Strategy and Policy Honors


PHIL 3180H Biomedical Ethics Honors


PHYS 2350H General Physics I/Lab Honors


PHYS 2360H General Physics II/Lab Honors

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PSYC 1020H Introduction to Psychology Honors


PSYC 2110H Human Sexuality Honors


PSYC 2160H Social Psychology Honors

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PSYC 2350H Lifespan Human Development Honors

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SPCH 1010H Public Speaking Honors

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