We will keep the requirements for admission into the
program the same.
Core Requirements:
HON 250: Introduction to the Rhetoric of Inquiry 1 credits
HON 350: Structure of Knowledge 3 credits
HON 450: Thesis I 2 credits
HON 451: Thesis II 2 credits
Additional Requirements:
Students must complete FIVE Honors Tutorials (“Forums”),
two of which much be taken at the 400 level. Students must complete
ONE from each of the three major themes, and then two additional tutorials
of their own choosing from any of the three themes.
HON 221/421: Innovative Thinkers 2 credits
HON 222/422: Intellectual Foundations 2 credits
HON 223/423: Multidisciplinary Perspectives 2 credits
[plus two additional tutorials} 4 credits total
TOTAL CREDITS FOR COMPLETION OF MINOR: 18 credits
DESCRIPTION OF COURSES:
HON 250: Introduction to the Rhetoric of Inquiry 1 credit
After official admittance, this is the introductory course to the John
F. Reed Honor’s Program and Minor. Students will learn about the mission
of the program, in association with a liberal arts college, and how
it will benefit them throughout their academic and professional careers.
Students will be required to participate not just in activities and
events, but will be expected to help develop the program continually
and further, as well as help with specific program functions (such as
maintaining brochures and flyers, bulletin boards, recruitment campaigns
on and off campus, etc.).
HON 350: Structure of Knowledge 3 credits
This course will be the foundation class for the thesis process. The
primary focus of this course will be for students to develop the proposal
that will become their Honors Thesis project. The proposal and topic
for the thesis must draw significantly on at least two academic disciplines.
Students will begin building an annotated bibliography of the relevant
research in their field of study and a working relationship with a faculty
mentor as well as a reader from the second discipline. Topic and format
must be approved by the Department chairperson and dean. Students will
develop further their professional skills in their chosen field, with
an emphasis on developing successful writing skills, develop scholarship
and/or grant writing skills, as well as developing an understanding
of the methodologies and ideologies of their discipline.
HON 450: Thesis I 2 credits
Students will begin writing their Honor’s Thesis project developed in
their proposal that was established in HON 350. The topic of the thesis
must draw significantly on at least two academic disciplines. At the
end of this course, the student must submit evidence of substantial
work accomplished.
HON 451: Thesis II 2 credits
Students will complete the writing process for their thesis, practice
presenting their topic to their colleagues, and finalize preparations
for the next stage of their careers. At the end of the semester, a public
presentation of all work will be required.
HON 221/421: Innovative Thinkers 2 credits
Students will read and discuss works by (and about) individuals who
impacted their own field of study but also examine how such thinkers
have impacted other disciplines (and also were impacted by other disciplines
in the development of their theories and work). Students will examine
such figures through their own particular major/discipline, but also
through interdisciplinary approaches.
HON 222/422: Intellectual Foundations 2 credits
Students will read and discuss works and/or theories that have been
extremely fundamental within the particular field of study it was developed
but also how it has impacted other disciplines. This approach may mean
a text that is a pivotal text that everyone should have read in order
to understand better, and participate strongly in, world (including
academic) environments.
HON 223/423: Multidisciplinary Perspectives 2 credits
This course will examine the role of a particular field of study [or
great book(s)] and the necessary interdisciplinary nature of such concepts.
Students will work on critical evaluation and discussion of selected
works with broad intellectual importance and accessibility to students
of varied academic interests and backgrounds and bringing together under
one rubric the ideology and methodology of the chosen multidisciplinary
perspective.
Will remain the same from the course catalogue.
