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Students who wish to complete the University Honors Program, which culminates with a capstone senior seminar, must fulfill the requirements listed below.

Students take eight or more courses, including the Honors Capstone, for a minimum of 24 credits. Selections must include at least one course from each of the four main categories (Arts and Letters; Mathematics, Science and Technology; Religious and Philosophical Studies; Social and Historical Studies). Transfer students with 60 units or more prior to matriculation take five Honors courses, including the Honors Capstone. One course must be taken in each of the four areas; three of the five courses must be at the 300 level or above. In addition, incoming and transfer students must take the 1-credit Honors Forum their first year at Chapman.

To remain in the program, Honors students are expected to hold a 3.3 GPA by the end of their sophomore year and maintain it through their senior year. If a student's GPA drops below 3.3, the student is on probation, with the expectation that the GPA will return to the required level by the end of next semester. The student should also consult with the director during this period.

Course links below take you to the Chapman catalog. For syllabi, click on Honors Syllabi link (left navagation panel).
Courses under multiple main categories can only be assigned to one category.

ARTS AND LETTERS
HON 210	Monsters and Monstrosities	3
HON 309	American Storytellers	3
HON 310	Imaging Gender in Classical Art	3
HON 317	Visual Literacy in a Generation of Information Overload	3
HON 322	Political Literary Theory and the Modern Novel	3
HON 333	Creativity and the Human Condition	3
HON 336	New Voices in U.S. Literature	3
HON 338	ThanaTourism: Traveling the "Dark Side"	3
HON 341	Storytelling	3
HON 342	The Digital Archive: Memory, Media, Image	3
HON 344	Illustrating History/the World: Graphic Memoirs, Novels, and Reportage	3
HON 395a	Kotkin Presidential Fellow Seminar: History of Cities: From Origins to the Ephemeral City	3
HON 395b	Kotkin Presidential Fellow Seminar: New Media: A Practical Seminar	3
HON 395d	Rethinking Renaissance Visual Culture: 15th and 16th Century Florence, Rome and Venice	3
HON 395e	Kotkin Presidential Fellow Seminar: A History of the Future	3
HON 412	"Seas of Stories": Postcolonial Literature and Theory	3
HON 413	The Resurfacing of Individuality in Renaissance Culture: Questioning Meaning and Receptivity	3

MATHEMATICS, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
HON 207	Darwin's Evolutionary Theory: The Science and the Controversy	3
HON 208	Universal Geometry	3
HON 321	New Math of the Italian Renaissance	3
HON 329	Paradoxes in Early 20th Century, and the Birth of Set Theory	3
HON 331	The Ecology of Sustainable Food	3
HON 332	The Birth of Calculus: History of an Idea	3

RELIGIOUS AND PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES
HON 202	On Being Ethical in the World	3
HON 207	Carwin's Evolutionary Theory: The Science and the Controversy	3
HON 209	Death, Self and Society	3
HON 220	Disney: Gender, Race and Religion	3
HON 313	The God Question	3
HON 334	Rhetorics of Western Consciousness	3
HON 335	The Enigma of Being Awake: Zen Buddhism	3
HON 340	Social Justice: Mirage or Oasis?	3
HON 366	Deities and Demons: Ancient and Modern	3
HON 407	Themes in Political Theory	3
HON 409	Hermes Unbound: Divining Hermeneutics	3
HON 414	The Politics of Law	3

SOCIAL AND HISTORICAL STUDIES
HON 206	Media, Self and Society	3
HON 209	Death, Self and Society	3
HON 210	Monsters and Monstrosities	3
HON 215	Art and Anthropology	3
HON 220	Disney: Gender, Race and Religion	3
HON 311	Ethnicity, Race and Nationalism	3
HON 337	Credit, Growth and Economic Cycles	3
HON 338	Thana Tourism: Traveling the "Dark Side"	3
HON 339	Body Flesh Subject	3
HON 340	Social Justice: Mirage or Oasis?	3
HON 342	The Digital Archive: Memory, Media, Image	3
HON 344	Illustrating History/the World: Graphic Memoirs, Novels, Reportage	3
HON 357	Foundations of Economic Exchange	3
HON 366	Deities and Demons: Ancient and Modern	3
HON 395g	Gold Diggers: Economic Development and the California Gold Rush	3
HON 408	Alternative Approaches to Political Understanding	3
HON 412	"Seas of Stories": Postcolonial Literature and Theory	3
HON 414	The Politics of Law	3
HON 415	Globalization: Currents of Change and Challenge	3

OTHER CATEGORIES
HON 329	Experimental courses, preceptorials	3
HON 230	Honors Forum	1
HON 395	Topics in Honors	3
HON 399/499	Independent Internship	1 - 3
HON 490	Individual Study	1/2 - 6
Study Abroad	Studying abroad for a semester can count as one Honors elective course.
Honors Preceptorials	A preceptorial is a student-designed and student-directed course that can be offered during interterm sessions.

SENIOR SEMINAR (required)
HON 498	Honors Capstone	3

TOTAL CREDITS: minimum of 24

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