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Honors Program Classes and Core Substitutions

Honors seminars often count as core or enriched core courses for students who are part of the Honors program. A seminar may have enriched core designation, writing intensive (WI) designation, or it may substitute for the designated departmental core course of the teaching faculty member. For example, if a professor from the English department teaches an Honors seminar, and if the student needs a core literature course, the Honors seminar fulfills the second literature English core requirement. The substitutions are advertised by the co-Directors prior to registration each semester. If a student takes a seminar and has already met the requirement that corresponds to it, the course is credited as an elective. The Honors Project, HP 405, does not count as a core or an enriched core course, but counts toward your general electives.

When registering, Honors should remind their departmental advisors that they are Honors students, and that Honors seminars often meet core and enriched core requirements. After the drop period, if a seminar offers more than one substitution, the student must select one substitution and complete and submit a form to the CARES office.

Honors Program Seminars and Core Substitutions

(please note this list is not comprehensive and students should check the offerings each semester).

  • HP 300 Introduction to Contemporary South Asian Literature and Film (EN Core 2 or Global Awareness and Cultural Understanding)
  • HP 312 Exploring Diversity: Privilege and Oppression (Core Social Science or Global Awareness and Cultural Understanding)
  • HP 315 Creativity and Society (EN Core 2 or AH 122)
  • HP 316 Exploring Women’s Studies (EN Core 2 or- WS 316, WI)
  • HP 320 Capitalism and Socialism (BY 101 or PO 125)
  • HP 323 GAIA: A Theory of Ecology (BI 106)
  • HP 324 Violence and Political Change (PO 125)
  • HP 329 Inner Voices, Outer Choices (PS 100)
  • HP 330 Ideal Self and Reality (PS 150)
  • HP 331 Psychology and Film (PS 150)
  • HP 332 The Family in U.S. Literature (EN Core 2)
  • HP 338 Art and Identity (AH 122)
  • HP 340 Utopian Societies (EN Core 2 or PS 100)
  • HP 342 South Africa: From Apartheid to the Rainbow Nation (HI 102)
  • HP 345 Music and Technology (MU 122)
  • HP 347 Science: Visions and Reality (CH 105)
  • HP 348 Language, Self and Society (LA Core 2 or AN 225)
  • HP 353 Values and Visual Culture (AH 122)
  • HP 354 Music and Postmodernism (MU 122)
  • HP 357 Comparative Genocide (HI 102 or PO 125)
  • HP 360 Globalization (BU 101)
  • HP 361 Literature and Science (EN Core 2)
  • HP 362 Ecology and Society (BI 106)
  • HP 363 U.S. Ethnic Literature (EN Core 2)
  • HP 364 Medieval Studies (EN Core 2)
  • HP 365 Controversial Legal Issues (BU 101 or PO 125)
  • HP 366 Film: Politics and Propaganda (CO 215)
  • HP 367 Suffering in U.S. Literature (EN Core 2)
  • HP 368 French Autobiography (LA Core2)
  • HP 369 Ethical Issues (PH 210)
  • HP 370 Interpreting Modern Art (AH 122)
  • HP 371 Renaissance Studies (AH 122 or EN Core 2)
  • HP 372 Decolonization (PO 125)
  • HP 373 French Popular Culture (LA Core 2)