The University Honors Scholars Program offers a distinctive curriculum. Scholars participate in four exclusive, interdisciplinary, semester-long seminars designed to meet most of their general education requirements.

Other Honors courses, such as a designated section for calculus and U.S. history, are highly interactive and taught by outstanding faculty known for their quality instruction and research in their respective fields.

As a University Honors Scholar, you complete these curriculums with your class, which gives you greater opportunities for in-depth investigation, discussion, and development of your personal abilities and goals.

Honors Scholars complete a Senior Honors Thesis in their major area of study, a product of a yearlong research project with a faculty mentor.

Interdisciplinary Honors Seminars

Honors Quest for Meanings & Values is a freshman seminar designed to help the honors Scholar find his/her "voice."  In the union of English and Philosophy, scholars envision alternative values from a global outlook, examine their own perspectives, and analyze how their perspectives might be viewed by those not sharing them.

Honors Great Ideas in Science is a sophomore seminar that exposes scholars to the interrelationships among the sciences and between science and culture. With a foundation in Biological Sciences, Philosophy and Physics, scholars investigate major scientific concepts and the ethical responsibilities associated with scientific advances in order to understand what is and is not science

Honors Artistic Experience a second sophomore seminar, combines Philosophy, Studio and Performing Arts in an investigation of the uniquely human expression of the search for beauty. Here, scholars develop an understanding of the importance of aesthetics to all elements of human culture.

Honors Constructing and Reconstructing Nations, a year-long junior seminar...

Honors Cultural Anthropology, a year-long junior seminar...