Course Catalog - Honors Program
HNRS 299 - On Human Nature
Spring
Required seminar for sophomore honors students. Three faculty members representing the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities together engage the newly-selected honors students from majors across the curriculum in a multidisciplinary approach to the metaphysical, cultural, spiritual, and material questions that make difficult a position of certainty about human nature. More generally, this course hopes to model integrative thinking and study. In spring 2005, the course focused on Human Nature and the intersection between art, mathematics, and literature. Co-taught by faculty from mathematics, English, and the Visual Arts, the course analyzed the quest for perfection in the human form, in works of art, the built environment, and the natural landscape. One unit.
HNRS 295, 296 - Third and Fourth Year Honors Colloquium
Fall, spring
Informal evening gatherings on select topics. Pass/Fail
HNRS 395 - Honors Seminars
(topics change annually)
HNRS 494, 495 - Honors Thesis
Fall, spring
Honors Seniors take one unit's worth of thesis credit each semester, which is graded at the end of the second semester by the student's advisor, with input from readers. The thesis is a substantial independent project either in or out of a student's major, which means that it may count for major credit or not. Two units.
* The courses and descriptions listed above are taken directly from the official College Catalog.