Honors Program Scholars Curriculum
22 credits required
FOR INCOMING FIRST TIME FRESHMEN ONLY
| Year | Discipline | Courses | Notes |
| First | Interdisciplinary | INDS 1102 Honors Integration of Faith & Learning | Replaces general INDS 1102 |
| First | English | ENGL 1131 Honors English Comp (3) | Replaces ENGL 1111 Requirement |
| First | English | ENGL 1132 Honors English Lit (3) | Replaces ENGL 1112 Requirement |
| Second | History | HIST 2301 Honors World Civ I (3) | Replaces HIST 1301 Requirement |
| Second | History | HIST 2302 Honors World Civ II (3) | Replaces HIST 1302 Requirement |
| Third and Fourth | HONS 3100 Honors Text Seminar (3) | Humanities credit | |
| Third and Fourth | HONS 4120 Honors Topic Seminar (3) | Humanities credit | |
| Fourth | Senior Year Elective | INDS 4161 Honors Faith and Life Seminar (2) | Seminar on Faith and Life |
(See Academic Catalog for other relevant policies.)
The Range of Honors Interdisciplinary Electives Offered as Text or Topic Seminars
- Dante’s Comedy (Literature, Philosophy, History & Theology)
- Jane Austen (Literature and History)
- Christian Cultural Engagement (Philosophy, Film and Literature)
- Origins of the Universe (Philosophy, Astronomy and Physics)
- Scientific Revolutions (History of Science, Physics and Philosophy)
- Environmental Policy & Law (Environmental Studies and Law)
- The Land Class (History, Theology and Literature)
- Existentialism (Philosophy)
- Greek Philosophy and Mythology (Philosophy, History & Literature)
- Christianity and War (History and Theology)
- Reformation Authors (Theology and History)
Partial List of Frequently Occurring Authors in the Honors Program Curriculum
- Augustine, Confessions, ca. 397; On Christian Doctrine, ca. 426
- Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy, ca. 524
- Bartolome de Las Casas, Destruction of the Indies, 1542
- Cicero, On Duty, 44 B.C.; On the Orator, 46 B.C.
- Dante, The Comedy, 1320
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment, 1956
- Euripides, Medea, ca. 700 B.C.
- Herodotus, The Histories, 440 B.C.
- Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love, 1395
- Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird, 1994
- Christine de Pisan, Book of the City of Ladies, 1405
- Plato, The Republic, ca. 51 B.C.
- Marilyn Robinson, Gilead, 2004
- William Shakespeare, Hamlet, ca. 1600; Measure for Measure, 1623
- Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian Wars, ca. 400 B.C.
- Mark Twain, King Leopold’s Soliloquy, 1905