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Honors Program Courses

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 Senior Capstone Seminar, for a minimum of 24 credits. Selections must include at least one course from each of the four main categories (Arts and Letters; Historical and Social Studies; Math, Science and Technology; Philosophical and Religious Studies). Transfer students with 60 units or more prior to matriculation take five courses, including the senior capstone. Three of the five courses must be at the 300 level or above.

ARTS AND LETTERS
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 395a	History of Cities: From Origins to the Ephemeral City	3
HON 395b	New Media: A Practical Seminar	3
HON 395d	Rethinking Renaissance Visual Culture: 15th and 16th Century Florence, Rome and Venice	3

HISTORICAL AND SOCIAL STUDIES
HON 307	Exploring Mythology	3
HON 311	Ethnicity, Race and Nationalism	3
HON 312	Media, Self and Society	3
HON 315	Death, Self and Society	3
HON 316	African Words, African Women	3
HON 357	Foundations of Economic Exchange	3
HON 395c	The Global and the Local	3
HON 408	Alternative Approaches to Political Understanding	3

MATH, SCIENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY
HON 208	Universal Geometry	3
HON 318	Research Topics in Computational Science	3

PHILOSOPHICAL AND RELIGIOUS STUDIES
HON 313	The God Question: Religion and Its Discontents	3
HON 314	On Being Ethical in the World	3
HON 320	Hermes Unbound: Divining Hermeneutics	3
HON 407	Themes in Political Theory	3

OTHER CATEGORIES
HON 329	Experimental Course	3
HON 395	Topics in Honors	3
HON 490	Independent Internship	1 - 3
HON 399/499	Independent Study	1/2 - 6

SENIOR SEMINAR (required)
HON 498	Capstone Senior Seminar	3

TOTAL CREDITS: minimum of 24

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