Program Overview

General Education Honors Program

The General Education Honors Program is designed to provide students with an interdisciplinary and integrative approach to learning. The program offers a range of courses that challenge students to consider immediate applications of the material to real-world contexts.

Course Offerings

• GEH 111HON: Places and Spaces (3) This lower division course is designed to transition students from traditional instruction that focuses on individual subject areas to a more interdisciplinary, integrative approach toward learning. The course adopts a place-based perspective, which will bring students into the field where they will be challenged to consider immediate applications of the material to real-world contexts.
• GEH 222HAA-HZZ: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Contemporary Issues (3-3-3-3-3-3) Prerequisite: Restricted to GE Honors students. This selected topics course explores the most pressing, contemporary issues of the day through both multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary lenses. As a selected topics course, this class focuses on a different theme/issue/problem each semester and invites experts across the university and beyond to speak to this central topic.
• GEH 333HON: Interdisciplinary Inquiries: Ways of Knowing (3) Prerequisite: Completion of the lower division writing requirement. This course aims to provide a common experience to all GE Honors students and lay a critical foundation for integrative, critical and reflective thinking. The team-taught course adopts an interdisciplinary perspective and asks students to carefully evaluate the means by which knowledge is gained across different disciplines.

Program Details

The General Education Honors Program is designed to provide students with a comprehensive and interdisciplinary education. The program requires students to complete a range of courses, including lower division and upper division courses, and to participate in interdisciplinary and integrative learning experiences. The program is designed to challenge students to think critically and reflectively, and to apply their knowledge and skills to real-world contexts.