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Honors Curriculum
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The Honors curriculum includes individual courses, sequence courses and seminar/workshops. No Honors course exceeds an enrollment of 30 students, and the average student/faculty ratio is 17 to one. Class instructors are selected on the basis of their demonstrated teaching excellence from the regular faculty, highly selected adjunct professors and lecturers. Most of these scholars actively publish research in their field, and courses are frequently designed by the professors to coincide with their current research activity. Occasionally, individuals from the community who have distinguished themselves in their profession, and who are proven good teachers, are invited to teach in the Honors Program. Teaching assistants and teaching fellows never teach Honors courses, although they may be used to assist in the community aspect of service-learning courses.
General Honors Courses
Honors 2101, 2102, and 2103 (3) Honors Core in Intellectual Traditions (Part I, Part II, and Part III satisfy a Humanities foundation)
Honors 2101 (Part 1) (3) The World of Antiquity;
Honors 2102 (Part II) (3) Medieval Christianity and Renaissance Humanism
Honors 2103 (Part III) (3) Emergence of Modern Times
The purpose of the IT courses is to see the development and continuity of the ideological attitudes that have helped to shape Western culture. Two semesters of IT courses are required of all students seeking an Honors Degree, i.e. 2101, 2102 or 2103.
Honors 2201 (4) Calculus for Non-Technical Majors Part I (satisfies the QR requirement and an applied science requirement)
Honors 2211 (3) Writing in Honors (satisfies the lower division writing requirement.)
Honors 2212 (3) American Institutions (satisfies the General Education American Institutions requirement.)
Honors 3100 (3) Diversity Seminar (Topics will vary; satisfies the Diversity requirement)
Honors 3200 (3) Writing in a Research University (Satisfies the Upper Division/Communication Writing requirement)
Honors 3214 (3) African American History (Satisfies the Diversity requirement and a Social Science requirement)
Honors 3214 (3) African American Experiences (Satisfies the Diversity requirement and a Social Science requirement)
Honors 3500 (3) Honors Internship
Honors 3600 (3) Tutorial
Honors 3700 (3) Honors Think Tank
Honors 3800 (3) Construction of Knowledge
Honors 4800 (3) What Matters Most (Satisfies a Social Science requirement)Honors Tutorial
Honors 3600
The Honors Tutorial is designed to enrich students' work in their major or academic interest through unique activities and mentor relationships. It is based on collaboration between Honors students and faculty and on the belief that collaboration will result in better research, learning and teaching, and will ultimately result in the production of the Honors thesis/project.
A faculty member will supervise the Tutorial. Before signing up for the Tutorial, students submit a proposal to the Director of the Honors Program describing what they plan to accomplish during the Tutorial experience. Whatever work students propose, they must complete during the given semester. Upon approval, students sign up for the Tutorial under the Honors 3600 course number (3 credits). The faculty member with whom the student works will assign the student a grade at the end of the semester.
Honors Think TankHonors 3700
This is a two-semester experiential program that gives a group of Honors students from various majors an opportunity to work collaboratively on a contemporary societal challenge under the guidance of faculty. Students receive a $1,000 stipend for the two-semester program and sign up for Honors 3700 each semester. The themes for the Think Tank will change from year to year. Previous themes include the revitalization of downtown Salt Lake City, environmental issues in Utah, bioethics, and bridging the religious divide. Applications are available at the end of each spring semester.
Honors Core in Fine Arts. (Topics will vary from year to year)
Honors 4473 (3) Seminar/Workshop in Fine Arts
Fine arts courses help students from all backgrounds gain an understanding of the artistic processes from both theoretical and practical points of view. Students are introduced to ways of experiencing and understanding a variety of artistic concepts, structures, or forms. The courses may involve performance or studio activity to help students recognize the value of participation in the creative processes as alternate forms of intellectual discourse.
Honors Core in Humanities. (Except for the IT sequence, topics will vary from year to year)
Honors 2101, 2102, 2103 (3,3,3) Honors Core in Intellectual Traditions, Part I, Part II and Part III
Honors 4472 (3) Seminar/Workshop in Humanities
Courses in the humanities help students from all backgrounds develop a critical understanding of human thought, cultures and civilizations. Analytic, interpretive, creative and communication skills are taught to expand students' knowledge and ability to communicate their understanding of subject matter confidently and coherently.
Honors Core in Physical and Life Science. (Except for Calculus, topics will vary from year to year)
Honors 2201 (4) Calculus for Non-Technical Majors Part I
Honors 3215 (3) Foundations in Science
Honors 4300 (3) Natural Disasters
Honors 4471 (3) Seminar/Workshop in Science
Courses in the physical and life sciences introduce students from all backgrounds to the ways in which scientists gain knowledge and understanding of the natural world by surveying the conceptual and technical foundations and major findings of a particular field of science. Students are shown how a problem was first recognized, how approaches to its solution were conceived and executed, and how the findings were interpreted to answer or to restructure the original question. Students are exposed to episodes during which a field of science changed substantially in response to new discoveries, techniques and ideas.
Honors Core in Social Science. (Topics will vary from year to year)
Honors 3377 (3) Honors Core in Social Science
Honors 3214 (3) Foundations in Social Science
Honors 3354 (3) Civic Engagement Seminar
Honors 3374 (3) Preparation for Legal Study
Honors 4474 (3) Seminar/Workshop in Social Science
Courses in the social sciences help students from all backgrounds think critically about human behavior and society. Courses examine the historical development of human institutions, behavior and culture by reviewing major research findings. Students explore modern analytical approaches to the social sciences, including problem clarification and hypothesis testing by means of scientific observation and/or other methodologies.