General Honors Curriculum

General Honors is an academic program created especially for students who have demonstrated a high level of promise and motivation.
The curriculum includes an introductory interdisciplinary course, “Self and Society,” available to incoming honors freshmen only. Four additional interdisciplinary courses are designed to serve as replacements for twelve hours of Core Curriculum requirements in the humanities and social sciences areas. The sequence begins with a course which focuses upon what it may mean to be human; it moves through courses which examine human culture and the place of "great" individuals in it, and ends with a course speculating on the shape of the human future.  

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    General Honors classes include approximately twenty invited participants, and they are conducted under the guidance of two faculty members who represent diverse academic areas. Honors courses are frequently conducted as seminars where students meet in small groups to discuss readings, exchange ideas, debate, and share results of individual study and research. The emphasis in honors is on independent and creative thinking with a great deal of student participation expected.