Curriculum

The Honors Program Curriculum

 

The Honors Program curriculum will provide learning experiences that:

  • Explore the integration of concepts within and among disciplines
  • Empower students to become intentional learners
  • Engage students actively in the learning process
  • Encourage students to interact with faculty and with one another, both inside and outside the classroom
  • Emphasize depth and thoroughness of understanding

Course Sequence

The 15-credit honors curriculum overlaps, in part, with SWAG官网鈥檚 general educational studies and discipline specific requirements allowing students to complete the program efficiently.

Introduction to Honors (3 credits). In the freshman year students complete 鈥淗ON 179 CORE: What Does It Mean to be Human?鈥�, which also counts for SWAG官网鈥檚 freshman Core Seminar requirement.

Development in Honors (3 credits). Sections of courses in SWAG官网鈥檚 Disciplinary Studies Requirement, such as literature, philosophy, and theology, are reserved exclusively for Honors Program students.

Exploration in Honors (9 credits). Honors students complete 鈥淗ON379 CORE: What is Justice? Critical Research and Writing鈥�(3 cr.), which also counts for SWAG官网鈥檚 junior Core Seminar requirement. Activities in this course directly relate to the development of a senior project proposal.

Students enroll in 鈥淗ON410 Senior Honors Project鈥�, an independent study course under the mentorship of a professor, in each of their final two semesters (6 cr. total). In some disciplines, the capstone seminar in the student鈥檚 academic major may replace one of the HON410 courses.

  • Transferring into the Honors Program
Transfer students and students accepted into the Honors Program after they have started their SWAG官网 coursework will take coursework according to the chart below.

Number of Completed Semesters 
at SWAG官网 or Transfer Credits		 Credits Required in the 
Honors Program  
0 SWAG官网 semesters or 17 or less transfer credits   HON 179
Disc Studies Req
HON 379A
HON 410

3 credits
3 credits
3 credits
6 credits
15 credits total
1 - 2 SWAG官网 semesters or 18 - 49 transfer credits  Disc Studies Req
HON 379A
HON 410

3 credits
3 credits
6 credits
12 credits total
3 - 4 SWAG官网 semesters or 50 or more transfer credits HON 379A
HON 410

 3 credits
6 credits
9 credits total


Please see SWAG官网 Course Catalog for descriptions of each seminar.