Each year, students are required to take an Honors Program Seminar. Each component of the Seminar Series builds progressively upon earlier Honors experiences as a means of nurturing over the four year span the type of intellectual acuity, creativity, and maturity that allows for integration of knowledge from a variety of disciplines.
First-year Seminar: "Explore"
The first-year seminar introduces students to the type of classroom environment and intellectual stimulation characteristic of a college-level seminar experience. In addition to the goals stated in the curricular overview, this seminar is intended to invite students to pursue in some depth a specific intellectual topic in an academic setting that is fun, safe, and that encourages exploration and risk taking.
Second-year Seminar: "Digging Deeper"
The second-year Seminar allows students to investigate a topic from a perspective that joins a specific disciplinary technique (e.g., literary analysis, philosophical inquiry, scientific empiricism) with a non-traditional academic approach in an effort to broaden the confines of intellectual inquiry.
Third-year Seminar: "Making a Difference "
This third-year seminar requirement may be satisfied in one of the following two ways: 1) the Honors Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program; or 2) Honors Program or Departmental Seminars (these courses are numbered 196 across the university).
Fourth-year Seminar: "Full Circle"
The fourth-year seminar culminates the Honors Program Seminar Series by offering an integrative multidisciplinary seminar that encourages students to transcend the increasingly specialized disciplinary perspectives that characterize the latter stages of one’s college career.
