HON-200 Interdisciplinary Honors Seminar

A course developed around major themes that will be approached from the perspective of various academic disciplines. This course is designed to facilitate in depth study of the topics selected each semester. The Honors Seminar will alternate between problem topics such as "Challenges of the Technological Society" and such philosophical considerations as "Justice: Absolute and Transitional Aspects." Open to all students interested in a particular seminar topic as well as Honors students. See Honors Director for details.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

ENG-101

Lecture Contact Hours

3

Lab Contact Hours

0

Other Contact Hours

0

Department

• Humanities

Grading Scheme

• Letter

SUNY Gen Ed Credit

• No

Semesters Course Will Be Offered

• Fall
• Spring

Course Learning Outcomes

1. reflect meaningfully on learning experiences and use strategies for more deeply assimilating them, relating them to other aspects of experience, and usefully adapting them
2. consider the relative usefulness of certain habits, strategies, and learning environments to ongoing success
3. commit intellectually to critically examine any belief, claim, or subject in light of the strength of the evidence that supports it and the further conclusions to which it tends.
4. participate inside of particular academic disciplines by grasping the fundamental questions with which a particular discipline grapples; what matters and what is at stake for its scholars and practitioners; and the methods and vocabulary it uses to investigate, collaborate, create, and communicate
5. integrate learning experiences over time, across courses, and between academic, personal, and civic aspects of life

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HON 200: Interdisciplinary Honors Seminar

Department

Humanities

Course Description

A course developed around major themes that will be approached from the perspective of various academic disciplines. This course is designed to facilitate in depth study of the topics selected each semester. The Honors Seminar will alternate between problem topics such as "Challenges of the Technological Society" and such philosophical considerations as "Justice: Absolute and Transitional Aspects." Open to all students interested in a particular seminar topic as well as Honors students. See Honors Director for details.

Credit Hours

3

Contact Hours

Lecture	3
Lab	0
Other	0

Grading Scheme

Letter

Semester(s) Course Will Be Offered

Fall, Spring

Prerequisites

ENG-101

Course Learning Outcomes

1. reflect meaningfully on learning experiences and use strategies for more deeply assimilating them, relating them to other aspects of experience, and usefully adapting them
2. consider the relative usefulness of certain habits, strategies, and learning environments to ongoing success
3. commit intellectually to critically examine any belief, claim, or subject in light of the strength of the evidence that supports it and the further conclusions to which it tends.
4. participate inside of particular academic disciplines by grasping the fundamental questions with which a particular discipline grapples; what matters and what is at stake for its scholars and practitioners; and the methods and vocabulary it uses to investigate, collaborate, create, and communicate
5. integrate learning experiences over time, across courses, and between academic, personal, and civic aspects of life

Topic Outline

1. Studying individual primary and secondary texts related to the semester's focus.
2. Formal inquiry strategies.
3. Formal reflection strategies.
4. Finding, reading, discussing, evaluating, and incorporating crirital analyses into discussion and formal writing projects.