The Program in a Nutshell
Level 1: Three Honors Sections of Required Dragon Core classes
Honors Dragon Core classes provide the same fundamental education as non-Honors Core courses, but supplement them with smaller class sizes of all Honors students.
Critical and Multicultural Thinking (H)
English Composition II (H)
Speech Communication (H)
Level 2: Honors Colloquium
This introductory Honors course prepares students for the expectations and challenges of the Honors Program in a reading-intensive discussion course. Discussion topics focus on contemporary social issues, relying on high student interaction.
Level 3: Three Honors seminars
These stimulating, interdisciplinary courses serve to enhance students' liberal arts education while developing critical writing and reasoning skills. All Honors seminars apply to Dragon Core requirements, assuring timely completion of the Honors Program.
Course examples include:
The History of Science
Masterworks of Literature
Issues of the Nuclear Age
Transformations of the Roman World
Space, Time, and Change: Revolutions in Self-Perception
Level 4: Honors Capstone
The Honors Capstone utilizes the combined skills developed over the course of the student's academic career to create an interdisciplinary Honors component as part of the student's senior project in his or her major.
