Curriculum

UHP’s curriculum is the essential core of the honors education.  It is designed to meet the needs and expectations of honors students in all fields of study by offering both courses that are broad and interdisciplinary in nature, as well as courses which enable students to delve deeply into the intellectual traditions of their major fields. 

Honors courses, which are available exclusively to UHP students, feature small class sizes and are taught by some of the University’s most distinguished instructors.

Honors Seminars

Honors Seminars are unique, interdisciplinary courses not typically taught in the University's curriculum. These courses afford students from differing academic backgrounds the opportunity to share their expertise while exploring topics in a small, discussion based format. There are no prerequisites outside of being an honors student.

Spring 2010 Honors Seminars
Past Honors Seminars

Departmental Honors Courses

These courses are offered by departments and colleges from across campus and take many forms.

• Small, introductory honors courses | example: Engl 1701H, Modern Fiction
  
  
• Honors labs or discussion sections of popular non-honors lecture courses | example: Ast 1011H, Exploring the Universe
  
  
• Rigorous, Ivy League-style honors lecture courses, in some cases with additional prerequisites | example: Phys 1401V, Physics I
  
  
• Honors courses and sections at the 2xxx and 3xxx level designed for students in a particular major, minor, or college | examples: Biol 2002H: Foundations of Biology for Biological Sciences Majors, Jour 3004V: Info for Mass Comm; Arch 3711V: Environmental Design in Socio-Cultural Context; BA 3033V: Business Communication
  
  
• Honors directed study, in which students receive credit and faculty guidance when completing research and writing honors theses or capstone projects

Spring 2010 Departmental Honors Courses