Complete Course Listing with Student Outcomes Course Subject/Number: HNRS A191
Course Title: Freshman Honors Tutorial Student Outcomes: Students who successfully complete this course will have demonstrated the following types of knowledge and skills:
- Read, explain, and interpret texts.
- Recognize distinctions in arguments and style in the course texts and explain their use in expository papers.
- Use English prose capably for writing about the course material.
- Explain and defend opinions in class discussion.
- Listen and respond in conversation with other students.
- Record knowledge gained from participation in selected enrichment activities such as concerts, civic organization meetings, colloquia, and lectures (for students enrolled in the Forty-Ninth State Fellows Program).
- Demonstrate an appreciation for the role of leadership and take advantage of leadership opportunities in public and private sector organizations and institutions.
Course Subject/Number: HNRS A192
Course Title: Enduring Books
Student Outcomes: Students who successfully complete this course will have demonstrated the following types of knowledge and skills:
- Read closely and demonstrate comprehension of the readings.
- Analyze what they are reading and place it in a larger historical and cultural context.
- Write expository papers making good use of evidence from the texts and using a suitable academic format.
- Articulate central problems and questions that the text presents, and provide reasoned assessments of their significance.
- Demonstrate a capacity for interactive discussion.
Course Subject/Number: HNRS A209
Course Title: Participatory Action Research
Student Outcomes: Upon completion of this course students will be able to:
- Discuss the history and evolution of PAR in relation to other research traditions.
- Describe the key components, principles and roles in the PAR process.
- Analyze the influence of race, gender, class, organizational position, and power in the PAR process.
- Develop teamwork skills of collaboration, empathy, shared leadership, etc.
- Analyze issues of race, gender, class, organizational position and power in PAR.
- Construct a PAR proposal.
- Select appropriate methods of data collection.
- Analyze and interpret data.
- Compare and contrast methods for presenting findings.
- Describe the ethical issues of PAR.
- Describe the rationale and requirements of the IRB process.
Course Subject/Number: HNRS A291
Course Title: Sophomore Honors Tutorial
Student Outcomes: Students who successfully complete this course will be expected to:
- Demonstrate the ability to carefully read and examine arguments in the course readings.
- Construct questions from reading and analyze them in expository papers.
- Apply English prose for writing about the course material.
- Examine arguments and grasp questions in class discussion and communicate their understanding to the class.
- Listen and respond in conversation with other students.
- Record knowledge gained from participation in selected enrichment activities such as concerts, civic organization meetings, colloquia, and lectures (for students enrolled in the Forty-Ninth State Fellows Program).
Course Subject/Number: HNRS A292
Course Title: Honors Seminar in Social Science
Student Outcomes: Students who successfully complete this course will be able to:
- Demonstrate knowledge of the social science discipline under study.
- Formulate research ideas and hypotheses, examine a social science research question, and gain experience carrying out research by applying research methods learned in the course.
- Distinguish between empirical and non-empirical data, and understand how ideas about social phenomena may be tested and verified or rejected.
- Employ appropriate research methodologies and applications to design a research project, including conducting a review of relevant literature, and collecting and analyzing empirical data, and summarizing key findings.
Course Subject/Number: HNRS A309
Course Title: Interdisciplinary Team-Based Research
Student Outcomes: Students who successfully complete this course will be able to:
- Demonstrate the ability to search the scientific literature for prior work related to a research problem.
- Effectively communicate with collaborators in other disciplines.
- Apply the scientific method to an interdisciplinary research problem, including analysis and discussion, in a team environment.
- Present the results of a research study in an oral and/or written manner similar to the standards for publication in the field.
Course Subject/Number: HNRS A310
Course Title: Community Service: Theory and Practice
Student Outcomes: Students will learn to:
- Detect multiple worldviews that have shaped the development of community service opportunities.
- Analyze one’s own competencies as a leader through intellectual and interpersonal development.
- Use basic tools for citizenship to plan resolutions for community challenges.
- Consider and struggle with intuition and metaphor in constructing a vision for community service and a life worth living.
- Develop plans for community challenges using ethical guides and personal integrity.
Course Subject/Number: HNRS A390
Course Title: Community Service: Special Topics Honors Seminar
Student Outcomes: Students who successfully completing this course will:
- Demonstrate knowledge of the basic questions and current theme relevant to the seminar’s topic.
- Effectively employ the Socratic method to both arrive at conclusions and to identify questions beyond the Socratic method, as related to this seminar’s topic(s). Be able to examine, debate and test questions raised in seminar discussions.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the complex issues and trends related to the seminar’s topic(s).
- Use modern literature research tools and apply and organize research material appropriately.
Course Subject/Number: HNRS A391
Course Title: Community Service: Junior Honors Seminar
Student Outcomes: Students who successfully complete this course will have demonstrated knowledge and skills in the following areas:
- Close reading of texts, and ability to analyze theoretical approaches in them.
- Develop and argue for a thesis in expository papers.
- Capably use English prose for writing about the course material.
- Apply critical thinking in class discussion, and use it in response to other students.
- Record knowledge gained from participation in selected enrichment activities such as concerts, civic organization meetings, colloquia, and lectures (for students enrolled in the Forty-Ninth State Fellows Program).
Course Subject/Number: HNRS A392
Course Title: Community Service: Honors Thesis Seminar
Student Outcomes: Students will be able to:
- Formulate, present and defend a thesis proposal relevant to their selected discipline/major.
- Demonstrate a recognition of disciplinary differences in research problems and methods.
- Evaluate the potential for research methods commonly used by other disciplines to be applied to the student’s own discipline/major/problem area.
- Outline and follow the appropriate processes for gaining approval of a thesis proposal within the context of a particular discipline.
- Demonstrate the personal need for assistance and support in pursuing a thesis project and identify and obtain appropriate sources for that assistance and support.
Course Subject/Number: HNRS A490
Course Title: Community Service: Senior Honors Seminar
Student Outcomes: Students who successfully complete this course will:
- Integrate their understanding of the relationships between different disciplines. In particular, they will recognize the integrative nature of modern disciplines while investigating topics that are frequently presented in other courses via “silo-approach.”
- Develop an appreciation of complex issues and trends that are inherently interdisciplinary.
- Become proficient in the use of modern research tools including the use of computer technology for data collection, analysis, communication, and presentation.
- Through participation, learn the Socratic style of intellectual discourse.
- Develop and carry-out a year-long undergraduate research program following the general topic of the seminar; this program will culminate in a final report generally presented to other seminar participants during the last few weeks of this year-long seminar.
Course Subject/Number: HNRS A495
Course Title: Community Service: Honors Internship
Student Outcomes: - Demonstrate an appropriate level of professionalism and responsibility.
- Apply enhanced critical thinking, research and problem-solving skills.
- Develop work skills and apply them to real-life situation(s).
- Exhibit an increased understanding and appreciation of the complexities of multidisciplinary issues in real-life situations.
Course Subject/Number: HNRS A499
Course Title: Community Service: Honors Thesis
Student Outcomes: At the conclusion of the course, students should demonstrate one or more of the following:
- A through understanding of how to conduct research in their discipline.
- Familiarity with library holdings, relevant databases, online catalogues and major journals, detailed knowledge of scholarship on the selected topic.
- The ability to form a thesis on the basis of existing professional literature sources.
- The capacity to test that thesis with evidence available from published research results.
- The capacity to further test that thesis with data collected and analyzed for that purpose.
- The ability to summarize the entire body of work in a document that meets the standards for the discipline.
For students intending to pursue graduate studies, the honors thesis option provides a transition to graduate work.
