Advanced Electives

Each fall and spring, Honors offers five to six Advanced Elective seminars, making it possible for students to choose courses from a wide array of topics and disciplinary approaches. To complete Honors, students must take a total of three seminars after completing the Freshman Sequence. Transfer students who have completed the core curriculum, typically take a total of four seminars. The seminars are limited to 16 students and run only once. Each semester, an entirely new set of topics is announced. Below is a sample of seminars offered recently:

• Toward Dystopia
• Studies in Material Culture
• Classics in Performance
• International War on Drugs
• From Boob Tube to YouTube: The Rise and Fall of Network Television
• A Coney Island of the Mind: Coney Island in Cultural History, Literature, and Film
• An Introduction to Holocaust Studies
• Music Acculturation in the United States
• South African Literature, Film, and Music: Apartheid and Post-Apartheid Years
• Eureka! Moments in Bioscience
• Nice Work If You Can Get It: Western Attitudes Toward Work
• The Decline and Fall of the American Republic
• Graphic Literature
• The Fats of Life
• The Struggle for Historical Memory in Latin America
• Gossip: An Interdisciplinary Study

 
Earn Distinction in Honors:  Any final project for an Honors advanced elective may be expanded, under the guidance of a faculty mentor, into a substantial paper. Review of the paper by the faculty mentor and presentation at a year-end Honors symposium are required to achieve Distinction in Honors at graduation. Interested students should contact their Honors advisor.