Honors Program: Traditional Pathway

Program Overview

The Honors Program: Traditional Pathway offers a customized Liberal Education Program designed by students in consultation with the Honors Director. It requires 44 credits, including core courses in ethics, gender and identity, global consciousness, and human diversity, as well as a self-designed program of study. The program fosters critical thinking, interdisciplinary exploration, and a deep understanding of diverse perspectives.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

The Honors Program: Traditional Pathway is a substitute for the Minnesota Transfer Curriculum. Students, in consultation with the Honors Director and Honors Review Board, design a custom Liberal Education Program.

Outline:

The program requires a total of 44 credits, including:

• Required Courses:
• HONR 140 Introduction to Honors (3 credits)
• HONR 487 Honors Seminar (3 credits)
• Honors Core: Students take one course from each of the following four categories for a total of 12 credits.
Courses chosen must be from more than one discipline.
• Ethics:
• PHIL 303 Ethical Issues in Professional Life
• PHIL 330 History of Philosophy: Ethics
• PHIL 331 History of Philosophy: Social & Political Philosophy
• Gender and Identity:
• ART 352 Women in Art
• HIST 360 American Women's History
• LIT 340 Sexuality and Gender in Literature
• LIT 375 Women's Literature
• PHIL 310 The Philosophy of Sex and Gender
• SOCI 324 Sociology of Sexualities
• Global Consciousness:
• HIST 311 World in War & Crisis: 1895-1949
• HIST 312 World in War and Crisis: 1949-Today
• HIST 314 Modern Latin America
• HIST 326 Atlantic World to 1830
• HIST 349 World War Two
• HIST 351 Origins of Islamic Civilization
• LIT 310 Greek Mythology & Literature
• LIT 370 Contemporary World Literature
• POL 355 World Political Geography
• SPAN 3XX Any course SPAN 300 level or above
• Human Diversity:
• HIST 359 African-American History: 1500 to the Present
• LIT 335 African American Literature
• LIT 355 Native American Literature
• PSYC 360 Cross-Cultural Psychology
• SOCI 331 Racial & Ethnic Relations
• Self-Designed Liberal Education Program: ANY XXX Individual's Approved Honors Program (26 credits)