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Honors Courses

Spring 2026 Courses

Course #TitleCRNCredit HoursDay/TimeInstructorRoom
BIOL 3114-HHonors General Microbiology326354MWF 12:30-1:20, W 2:30-5:15MorrisTBD
DANC 3891-HHonors Dance History II: American Dance302722MW 8-8:50 AMStevensGC203
ENGL 1213-H01Honors Comp II300253MWF 8-8:50 AMSimsWC
HON 1100-H01Honors First-Year Colloquium318780TBDYoumansGSN 115
HON 1100-H01Honors First-Year Colloquium318791TBDYoumansGSN 115
HON 2201Honors Colloquium Topics: Women and Gender in Contemporary European Cinema318801F 10-10:50 AMStarostinaGSN 115
HON 3163-H01Honors Jr/Sr Seminar: Law and Literature309233TR 9:30-10:45 AMYoumansGSN 115
HON 3163-H02Honors Jr/Sr Seminar: Global Ecological Problems313803TR 6-7:15 PMDavies GSN 115
MUS 1212HHonors Theory II303082MWF 10-10:50 AMEasleyFA 311
MUS 1222HHonors Aural Skills II303102TR 10-10:50 AMEasleyFA 311
PHRH 1103HHonors Public Speaking303653TR 8-9:15 AMMeyersWC
REL 1003-SH01Honors Bible and Culture301133TR 2:30-3:45 PMLongGSN 115
SCI 1003-HHonors Methods of Scientific Inquiry323283MW 11-12:15 AMPillar-LittleLI 503

Honors Course Catalog

This hybrid class is for Honors and non-Honors students. Students enrolled in the Honors section of BIOL 3114 will, in addition to completing requirements for the General Microbiology course, participate in a laboratory research project. Students will work in groups to generate questions and to conduct research to address their questions.

This hybrid class is for Honors and non-Honors students. Students enrolled in the Honors section of DANC 3792 will, in addition to completing requirements for the Dance History I course, complete research papers and present orally/visually on a dance topic of historical significance.

The first course traces the history of primitive dance through ballet and modern dance. The second course concentrates on the development of American musical theater dance. For dance majors only. Prerequisite: ENGL 1113 & 1213.

Honors Composition I shares the goals and principles as ENGL 1113. Designed to accommodate the variety of writing abilities of honors students, ENGL 1113H functions as a community of learners who work collaboratively to become more perceptive and capable writers.

Honors Composition II builds on the concepts and experiences of Honors Composition I and shares the same goals and principles as ENGL 1213. Taking a rhetorical approach to thinking and writing, students explore writing applications beyond academics. This course may include service learning or collaborative research.

Introductory course in U.S. history emphasizing the development of American ideas to 1876. Topics include colonial development, American nation-building and exceptionalism, slavery, economic development, and the Civil War.

A required orientation course for first-year honors students. Introduces students to the academic enrichment opportunities provided by the program and the requirements for active participation and completion. Explores the liberal arts tradition of interdisciplinary thinking and problem-solving.

A discussion-based course focused on a specialized interdisciplinary question or theme. Topics vary. Can be repeated for credit.

For Spring 2026:

Women and Gender in Contemporary European Cinema

This course will analyze the history of women and the representations of women in European cinema. The topics will include the history of women's emancipation, their participation in political processes, including suffrage movement, their contribution to war efforts in the century torn by two war worlds, their experience as migrants, and their role in the evolving practices and ideas on family, love, and relationships. The course will also closely look at women as filmmakers and actresses. Such films as Cleo from 5 to 7, Indochina, Suffragette, Women on the Sixth Floor, My Piece of the Pie, and TV series as The Testament of Youth, Call my Agent! and others will be discussed in class. 

A variable-topic seminar that is the capstone course for all Honors students.

For Spring 2026:

Law and Literature H01

Explore the intersection of literary and legal studies. How does fiction help us understand legal issues with greater insight? Can the study of literature aid us in considering questions of guilt, innocence, punishment, and the social good? In what ways should the law itself be approached as a text? How do various theories of literary interpretation either illuminate or complicate the practice of interpreting the law? Analyze a variety of literary and legal texts, both ancient and modern.

 

Global Ecological Challenges H30

Course Objectives

  1. Develop a deeper understanding of the most pressing global ecological challenges.

  2. Develop ethical and practical approaches to address global ecological challenges.

Students learn the basic elements of music: scales, intervals, triads, seventh chords, Roman numeral function, and two-voice counterpoint. In addition, four-part voice leading, cadences, phrase structure and figured bass will be covered. Students will also demonstrate competence of basic harmonic patterns on the keyboard. This course contains a significant writing component. The course is to be taken concurrently with a corresponding Aural Skills course that is taught by the same instructor. Prerequisite: Music Theory Diagnostic Exam or completion of MUS 1102 with a grade of C or better.

Students learn diatonic harmony, voice-leading patterns, melodic embellishments, secondary functions, and modulation through voice-leading and analysis examples, as well as learning to harmonize melodies with appropriate keyboard accompaniments. Students will also demonstrate competence of harmonic patterns on the keyboard. All students are required to write an analysis paper as part of this course. The course is to be taken concurrently with a corresponding Aural Skills course that is taught by the same instructor. Prerequisite: Successful completion of MUS 1112.

Students continue studying diatonic harmony through melodic and harmonic dictation, and through sight singing examples. Rhythmic dictation includes simple and compound meter. The course is to be taken concurrently with a corresponding Theory course that is taught by the same instructor. Prerequisite: Successful completion of MUS 1122.

Following completion of the second unit (covering sonata form), we will meet once a week to discuss movements that contain 鈥減roblems.鈥 These examples will come from the Classical and Romantic eras, and one movement/piece will be assigned each week, excluding the Thanksgiving week. The primary objective of these meetings is to deal with the language used by Caplin in his book and to see how/where his terminology suffers. Additional objectives include discussion of how sonata form evolves/devolves during the nineteenth century, and how the complete form becomes 鈥渓oose-knit,鈥 relative to the 鈥渢ight-knit鈥 Classical era model. As the final project/paper for this class concerns sonata form in the early twentieth century, you will choose a sonata form movement from the nineteenth century to present to your fellow Honors students as the capstone to this course. The presentation will be audio-visual, and certainly enhanced with a handout, as the other students and professor will not want/need to print out up to seventy-five pages of score. These presentations will last approximately 15-20 minutes.

Focus on human communication theory with emphasis on effective public speaking.

Seminar-type class that describes, analyzes, and evaluates American government and politics including the Constitution and its philosophical origins, federal-state relations, political parties, interest groups, Congress, the presidency, and current public policy issues.

An introductory course examining fundamental psychological principles with emphasis on increased self-understanding so that students can better understand themselves, significant others, and the influence of the social environment on their psychological lives.

A phenomenologically based survey of patterns of life and thought in the world's religions, with major attention to representative indigenous religions, Hinduism, Buddhism, Chinese religions, Judaism and Islam.

An introduction to the history, thought and literature of ancient Israel before the time of Jesus; the life and teachings of Jesus; and the history, thought, and literature of early Christianity.

This course focuses on how scientific knowledge is acquired, interpreted, and disseminated. It also focuses on some selected science topics and misperceptions and on their impact on today鈥檚 society. This Honors section will require research in scientific readings. Students will also practice using the scientific method, identifying scientific controversies and possible pseudoscience for evaluation, analyzing current science 蜜聊直播s, and exploring how science is thought of in the general culture. Class time will be spent in discussion and evaluation of case studies. Students will write short papers, lead class discussion, and participate in the Undergraduate Poster Contest.

Examines points of intersection between literary and philosophical texts from different historical periods and cultures. Explores how literature and philosophy, in similar and divergent ways, analyze, interrogate, and illuminate the human condition. This course fulfills both the literature and the philosophy/ethics requirements of the general education curriculum and the cross-cultural requirement.

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