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Curriculum

The Honors curriculum is envisioned as the essential core of the Honors experience.  It is designed to meet the needs and expectations of Honors students in all fields of study; to offer enriched courses that are broad and interdisciplinary in nature as well as courses which enable students to delve deeply into the intellectual traditions of their major fields; and to provide students with both small, seminar-style Honors courses with limited enrollment, and exciting, Ivy League-style Honors lecture courses. 

UHP students have exclusive access to all Departmental Honors Courses and Honors Seminars offered by the diverse colleges of the University, subject only to the fulfillment of prerequisites, where applicable. The University Honors Program will be constantly expanding its curriculum of special Honors courses in the various disciplines, open only to UHP students, featuring smaller enrollments and taught by expert faculty.  In addition, new interdisciplinary course offerings accessible without specific prerequisites will bring together faculty from science and engineering, the social sciences and the law, the humanities and the fine arts, to provide broad cross-disciplinary overviews of the great challenges of the twenty-first century.

Departmental Honors Courses: UHP will offer that a wealth of Honors courses by departments and colleges across the campus. 

For the 2008-09 year, it is expected that departmental Honors courses will include

  • Small, introductory Honors courses (example: Engl 1701H, Modern Fiction)

  • Honors lab or discussion sections of popular non-Honors lecture courses (example: Ast 1011H: Exploring the Universe)

  • Rigorous, Ivy League-style Honors lecture courses, in some cases with additional prerequisites (example: Phys 1401V: Physics I)

  • Honors courses and sections at the 2xxx and 3xxx level designed for students in a particular major, minor, or college (examples: Biol 2002H: Foundations of Biology for Biological Sciences Majors, Jour 3004V: Info for Mass Comm; Arch 3711V: Environmental Design in Socio-Cultural Context; BA 3033V: Business Communication)

  • Honors Directed Studies in which students receive credit and faculty guidance when researching and writing Honors theses or capstone projects.