Peer Mentoring is provided for every first-year Honors Program student. Each student is paired with a sophomore, junior or senior student for individual guidance and advising. Honors Program students are encouraged to explore their interests through research. Each student is required to complete an original capstone project or thesis in their senior year. In addition, many Honors Program students participate in the Summer Scholars Program , engaging in faculty-mentored research, creative writing, fine and performing arts, and other scholarly endeavors during the summer months.
Graduates of the Honors Program have gone on to study in world-class graduate and doctoral programs at prestigious institutions such as Harvard, Yale and New York University.
Others have secured leadership positions in major corporations around the world. Christian and Jewish students will gain an understanding of the other religious community while also deepening their understanding of their own.
Other students will encounter the two traditions through a comparative lens. Topics to be discussed include the experience of God; the Bible; how Christians and Jews understand their relationship to God and the world; worship and prayer; and the destiny of the created universe. Although Jews and Christians share many of the same scriptural books, their respective collections are differently organized and named. Christians refer to their collection as the "Old Testament," while Jews call their texts the "Tanakh" an acronym for the Hebrew words for Teaching, Prophets, and Writings.
Despite, or because of this commonality, Christians and Jews have often battled over these scriptures' meanings. This course explores the ways that Jews and Christians have interpreted key texts, separately and together, over two millennia of learning from and disputing with each other. It also examines why the Bible has been a source of conflict between the two groups, with a focus on certain key passages, and why that is currently changing - as evidenced in recent official Catholic instructions.
Engaged scholarship can take several forms. Broadly defined, it means connecting the rich resources of the university to our most pressing social, civic, and ethical problems. One key way of sharing these resources is through research--not "on" the community, but "with" the community.
This type of research model is one in which projects are developed collaboratively by community organization staff, faculty, and students, building on the unique strengths of those involved.
In this course, students will work with a community-based organizations to design and conduct research. Throughout the semester, students will learn about research methods and ethics, and the particular urban context in which they will be working. HON Community Engaged Scholarship 3 credits In this course, students will work with a community-based organization to design and conduct research on an issue related to homelessness or affordable housing. HON Modern Mosaic I 3 credits An interdisciplinary study in Western European civilization from to , analyzing developments in history, philosophy, science, music, the arts and literature.
HON Modern Mosaic II 3 credits An interdisciplinary study in Western European civilization from to , analyzing developments in history, philosophy, science, music, the arts and literature. More importantly, students will gain experience working alongside staff of a community-based organization to solve problems or assess needs and strengths.
This is a service-learning course. An interdisciplinary study in Western European civilization from to , analyzing developments in history, philosophy, science, music, the arts and literature.
Prerequisites: ENG An interdisciplinary study in Western European civilization from to analyzing developments in history, philosophy, science, music, the arts, and literature. Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate Day Division level students. Enrollment limited to students with the Honors Program Student attribute. An interdisciplinary study of American culture from the early settlement years to the present, juxtaposing novels, films, historical documents, paintings, poems, legislation, and photographs.
A continued interdisciplinary study of American culture from the early settlement years to the present, juxtaposing novels, films, historical documents, paintings, poems, legislation, and photographs. An interdisciplinary study of the links between literature and politics leading up to and occurring during the American Civil War, with emphasis on the ways American writers used fiction, poetry, and other literary forms to react to and to comment publicly upon slavery and the sectional crisis that threatened the nation from the s to the s.
Satisfies upper-level requirement for history majors, the American literature requirement for English majors, and the elective requirement for American Studies minors. This course explores how British and American women of the late seventeenth to early twentieth centuries used writing as a means of emancipation.
Drawing on a wide variety of women's texts-narrative fictions, poetry, political polemics, conduct books, letters, autobiographies, social theories, sermons, etc. Can a sentence be both true and false at the same time? Can a theorem be true if it has no proof? Can there be different sizes of infinity?
Can a single solid ball be decomposed and reassembled to create two balls each with the same volume as the original? These questions all lie at the juncture of philosophy and the foundations of mathematics. This course examines the questions that have emerged in the 20th century about the nature of mathematical truth and the status of our mathematical knowledge. This is an interdisciplinary course that considers questions from both mathematical and philosophical perspectives.
Prerequisites: PHL The template through which this class will be offered is the Bio-Psycho-Social-Spiritual model. In so many words such a model is designed to help one arrive at an "Ecology of the Spirit" whereby one is led to respond to the question, What are the conditions through which a person is more open to be alert to the movements and workings of God's Spirit whatever one's belief?
In effect, this "Ecology of the Spirit" may serve as a useful way of conceptualizing theologically suffering, trauma and evil, that is to say, a theodicy. This particular class is designed to accentuate the philosophical, psychological and theological meanings surrounding suffering and trauma. Using the faith and reason principle of gratia perfecta natura grace perfects nature , I will suggest how God comes to a person in and through suffering, even in trauma.
Various religious understandings of suffering and trauma will be offered with special emphasis given to the Catholic tradition. Through an appropriation of these understandings, the student will learn to become even more skilled in encountering suffering, one's own and that of others, and be a source and a resource for healing and hope. This Honors team-taught course will focus on the intellectual heritage of thinking and writing about collective human life, with particular reference to governance, decision-making, mores, social codes and conventional relationships of power including both explicit power-sharing arrangements and customary divergences in status, authority, autonomy or control for various classes of persons.
Despite an avowed focus on governance and the exercise of power, the course is devoted neither to the history of governments nor to political analysis. It will, instead, deal with principles, ethical frameworks and broadly humanistic values that we will illuminate through a large and varied sample of readings from the Ancient World and from the modern West.
The intellectual content of the course will be rooted in social commentary and in literary and philosophical texts. The Honors Program offers an enriched General Education curriculum that broadens cultural interests, integrates knowledge, sharpens writing skills, and encourages student involvement in the learning process. The curriculum is composed of intellectually rigorous courses that satisfy both General Education and major requirements. Many Honors courses are interdisciplinary team-taught courses in the arts, sciences, social sciences, and business.
Successful completion of University Honors requires at least eight Honors courses.
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