Program requirements

REQUIREMENTS FOR STUDENTS IN THE HONORS PROGRAM (entering CNU in Fall 2009 and after)

1) HONR 100 3 credit hours

2) Liberal Learning Curriculum Requirements:

• Second Language Literacy, 3 credit hours
• Mathematical Literacy, 6-8 credit hours
• One INW course and accompanying lab, 4-5 credit hours
• [all other Liberal Learning Curriculum requirements waived]

3) Any three of the following: 9 credit hours

• HONR 300 Natural World
• HONR 310 Identity & Culture
• HONR 320 Western Traditions
• HONR 340 Creative Expressions
• HONR 350 Formal & Informal Reasoning

Description

Students in these interdisciplinary seminars will explore issues focused by means of one of the following Liberal Learning Areas of Inquiry: Creative Expressions; Formal and Informal Reasoning; Identity, Institutions and Society; Investigating the Natural World; or Western Traditions. A major cultural text will frame inquiry and provide historical depth. In discussions of central questions as well as in the development of projects, students will utilize the intellectual approaches and perspectives of various academic disciplines, including their majors. Assignments include a variety of writing assignments (e. g. summaries of research findings) and must include a staged writing project (framing the question, review of sources, multiple drafts) of at least five pages in finished form as well as practice in at least one major skill set (e. g. quantitative analysis, critical analysis, computer skills, argumentative writing, geography, scientific reasoning and hypothesizing).

4) At least two Honors Inquiry classes, which may be the same course number or differing numbers:

• HONR 381 Major-Related Study and Research, 0-3 credit hours
  • May be repeated twice.
  • Inquiry Contract (PDF)
• HONR 382 Civic Engagement, 1-3 credit hours
  • May be repeated twice.
  • Inquiry Contract (PDF)
• HONR 383 Study Abroad, 0 credit hours
  • May be repeated with Director’s permission.
  • Inquiry Contract (PDF)

5) HONR 490W Problems in Modern World, 3 credit hours

6) Activity Classes (one / semester)

• HONR 010 (taken twice) 0 credit hours
• HONR 020 (taken twice) 0 credit hours
• HONR 030 (taken twice) 0 credit hours
• HONR 040 (taken twice) 0 credit hours

7) HONR 484 Portfolio, 1 credit hour

8) An additional W I course, 1-3 credit hour(s)

9) A completed major

10) A total of at least 120 credits