Advanced Honors Seminars

After successfully completing Honors Mindset Seminar, Honors students may choose to take an Advanced Honors Seminar as an Honors Learning Experience. Each Honors Seminar is 1 credit hour, results in a letter grade, and counts as an Honors Learning Experience. In order to encourage student engagement and discussion, each Advanced Honors Seminar is limited to no more than 25 Honors students. 

Each seminar may be repeated for up to two credit hours (as long as the topic is different).

• Fall 2026

• HON 205: Interdisciplinary Investigations

  In this seminar, instructors draw from their research and/or passions to explore a topic or theme, which will be studied across disciplines to highlight the importance of understanding issues from a variety of perspectives.

  Previous Topics:

  • Civic Engagement for Life
  • Family Dynamics: Divorce as a Phenomenon?
  • Insects as Food and Feed
  • Marks of Civilization: Cultures of Tattooing
  • Studentification of Normal
  • Surveillance and Society

• HON 206: Innovation and Inquiry

  This seminar challenges students to study and explore inquiry from several perspectives. Critical inquiry as an academic pursuit, inquiry involved in traditional and novel research methods, problem solving, and innovative questioning will be explored. Students apply these perspectives by exploring real-life problems and developing solutions.

• HON 207: Leadership in Action

  The goal of this seminar is to encourage students to identify and analyze effective qualities of successful leaders as well as to participate in an applied leadership experience.

• HON 208: Culture, Context, and Identity

  The goal of this seminar is to understand how culture and context influence people's worldviews, experiences, and identity.