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Sample Honors Course Syllabi

Freshman Courses

Orientation Courses:
Honors Freshman Seminar
Freshmen Experience
World Food Problems — An Honors Orientation Summer Seminar

Rhetoric and Composition:
Composition and Language: Honors

Arts and Humanities:
East Meets West: Honors 101
Monsters and Marvels Through the Ages
On the Sublime

Social and Behavioral Sciences:
Social Systems and Issues: Food and Culture

Science and Math:
Alternate Edens
Great Questions: Questions that have Changed the World

Interdisciplinary:
English 1302/History 1302: Honors Program Interdisciplinary Course
Foundation of Western Values – Antiquity to Early Medieval
The Ancient World: Film and Reality
The Seven Deadly Sins: Honors Introductory Seminar
Theory and Practice of Cultural Studies

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Sophomore Courses

Rhetoric and Composition:
Writing and American Rhetoric

Arts and Humanities:
Literature and Human Values: Labor, Power, Class
Cultural Studies of Rock Music
Sex, Freud and Morality: The History and Culture of 1900 Vienna
Seminar in the Humanities: Modernity and Postmodernism

Social and Behavioral Sciences:
The Legacy of Ancient Technology

Science and Math:
SETI: The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

Interdisciplinary:
Science and Writing
Disability: Past and Present

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Junior/Senior Courses

Rhetoric and Composition:
The Rhetoric of Survival

Arts and Humanities:
Classical Mythology
Culture and the Holocaust
Gaming (2012)
The Literature and Cinema of Revenge
Philosophy of Art
The Printed Page: Victorian to Virtual

Social and Behavioral Sciences:
Public Space: Monuments & Memory

Science and Math:
Methods of Applied Mathematics
Medicinal Chemistry
Future Dilemmas: Energy, Food, and Water
Human Heredity and Birth Defects

Education:
Urban Education: College Studies

Interdisciplinary:
Contemporary Islam
Looking to the Future: The Everglades: from Beginning to End?? (linguistics and biology)
Math, Music, and Art (2012)
Science and the Imagination (English and mathematics)
Studies in Cyberspace

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The National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC) is the professional association of undergraduate honors programs and colleges; honors directors and deans; and honors faculty, staff and students.

NCHC provides support for institutions and individuals developing, implementing, and expanding honors education through curriculum development, program assessment, teaching innovation, national and international study opportunities, internships, service and leadership development and mentored research.

More generally, NCHC carries out this mission by serving honors professionals and by advocating support for and excellence in higher education for all students.