2nd Year

Second-Year Honors Sequence:  Sumer to Cyberspace

Your second year will build on what you have learned in your first Honors courses... you will keep reading and writing, and you will have plenty of opportunity for intense discussion. Two team-taught, interdisciplinary seminars, led by faculty in History, the Social Sciences and other areas will keep you engaged and studying other traditions and contemporary literature.

HON 2010  Non-Western Ideas (4)
In this course students will trace the history of non-Western thought by studying central texts of the historical, literary, philosophical, political, religious, and social thought of the non-Western world through the mid-twentieth century.  Satisfies the History General Education requirement.  Offered every fall semester. 

HON 2020  Contemporary Global Issues (4)
In this course students will study contemporary global issues—cultural, historical, political, religious, scientific, and social.  Satisfies the Social Sciences General Education requirement.  Offered every spring semester. 

In order to enroll in either HON 2010 or HON 2020, a student must first be admitted to the Honors Program. Successful completion of HON 2010 satisfies the College’s General Education requirement for History; successful completion of HON 2020 satisfies the General Education requirement for Social Sciences; successful completion of both HON 2010 and HON 2020 satisfies, in addition, the 2000-level Literature option for the B.A. degree.