2012-13 CATALOG or later
Honors courses – GE credits; major/minor credits (with approval)*
Here’s what Honors credits can do for you: *
Students take 9 courses, including Honors Forum and Honors Capstone, to complete the Honors Program.
Transfer students, with 60 credits prior to matriculation, take 6 courses, including Honors Forum and Honors Capstone.
1. Completion of the Honors Program automatically fulfills the I/M GE cluster.
2. Honors courses carrying a GE can be assigned to fulfill one GE category each, with stipulations for courses also receiving major or minor credit (See #3.)
3. If a student wants to assign an Honors course to fulfill a GE category AND a major or minor credit:
a. Up to 3 Honors courses can be assigned to fulfill both GE and major requirements.
b. Up to 2 Honors courses can be assigned to fulfill both GE and minor requirements.
4. Courses under multiple main Honors categories can only be assigned to one category.
5. A semester-long study abroad course can count as an Honors elective course.
* Be advised that information below is deemed reliable BUT is subject to change by CU Academic Council. (Revised 12/7/17)
COURSE / GE CREDIT / Possible major/minor credit / ProfessorHUMAN SCIENCES
HON 202: On Being Ethical in the World
(originally HON 314, Fall ’09) / 7SI; 7VI; 7GC / Religious Studies:
Major or minor – Counts as a REL course in the Religion, Ethics, Society category
Philosophy:
Major or minor: counts toward ethics distribution requirement
*Note: At most, only 2 Honors courses can count toward a Philosophy major or minor.
Business:
Major or minor - Same as BUS 216
LEAD minor: satisfies the "Leading with Integrity" elective / Peters
HON 207: Darwin’s Evolutionary Theory: The
Science and the Controversy
(also Natural Sciences) / 7NI, 7VI / BS in Environmental Science:
Major elective – area of study: polity
Minor elective: upper-division elective
BS in Biological Sciences:
Elective (24-credit category) / Caporaso
HON 209: Death, Self and Society
(also Social Sciences);
(originally HON 315, Fall ’09) / 7SI; 7VI / Sociology:
SOC elective, similar to SOC 320 / McGrane
HON 210: Monsters and Monstrosities
(also Social Sciences) / 7SI / ENG Major: Diversity elective
Lit. after 1850 elective
Additional elective
ENG Minor: Lower-division elective
Creative Writing major: Elective literature course / Van Meter
HON 215: Art and Anthropology
(also Social Sciences) / 7AI, 7GC, 7SI / SOC, ANTH elective / Takaragawa
HON 216: Twilight of the Gods / 7VI, 7SI / Religious Studies:
Major or minor – Counts as a REL course in the Religion, Ethics, Society category
Philosophy:
Major* or minor: elective
*Major: Can count HON 216 or HON 409 toward metaphysics or epistemology requirement.
*Note: At most, only 2 Honors courses can count toward a Philosophy major or minor. / Peters
HON 218: Social Movement of the Sixties / 7SI, 7VI, 7GC / Sociology: Major elective
Peace Studies: PS Minor elective / McGrane
HON 220: Disney: Gender, Race and Religion
(also Social Sciences) / 7SI / Religious Studies
Major or minor – Counts as a REL course in the Religion, Ethics, Society category / Bidmead
HON 222: Honors Composition: Rhetorical
Agency Across Genres / 7WI / ENG major: elective (literature emphasis)
ENG minor: elective
Rhetoric/Writing minor: elective / D. Sweet
HON 240: Anime and War
(also Social Sciences) / 7AI, 7SI, 7VI / Japanese:
An elective credit toward a Japanese major/minor
English: Cancount as post-1850 electives or as additional electives toward the BA (Literature and Rhetoric Area). / Wood
HON 242: Beyoncé, Madonna and Nina Simone / 7AI, 7SI / Sociology: Major elective
English: Can count toward the English minor. For the BA and BFA, it counts as a literature/rhetoric elective for all catalog years. Students can also choose to count it as a "diversity" elective for the BA and BFA
Women’s Studies Minor: / Barnard
HON 266: Sound and Spirit
(was HON-329) / AI / Music: fulfills an upper-division requirement for the general music minor / Key
HON 277: Game of Thrones: Beyond the Wall
(was HON-329) / AI, SI / History: fulfills a requirement for History majors or minors
English: counts as an elective for all students in the BA (Literature and Rhetoric) and as a course for all English minors / Van Meter
HON 282: Evolution, Morality, and Ethics / 7SI, 7VI / NONE / Shermer/Lee
HON 288: Close Reading
(Was HON 391) / 7AI / English: minor credit, or an additional elective for the BA (Literature and Rhetoric Area), and as a literature elective for the BFA. / Lehnhof
HON 292: The Art of Revenge / 7AI / English TBD / Lehnhof
HON 313: Golden Opportunities: Immigration and the Arts in Southern California,
1900-1950 / 7GC; 7SI / COPA: General Music Minor can substitute it for one of the upper-division music courses required for the minor.
Sociology: Elective for both majors and minors / Key
HON 317: Visual Literacy in a Generation
of Visual Overload / 7SI; 7AI, 7VI / BA Art History: elective(1 of 6 category)
Minor Art History: elective (possibly- get approval from Chair)
BA in Art: elective (1 of 7 category)
COMM: elective (5 of the following category) / Jaenichen
HON 324: Modern Political Argument
(also Social Sciences) / 7AI, 7SI / Political Science:
The course can count as an upper level American politics elective only / O’Leary
HON 327: Revolution and Philosophy
(also Social Sciences) / 7SI, 7VI, 7GC / Political Science:
Counts towards a major/minor in Political Science to fulfill an upper level requirement for Comparative politics with approval from the Chair / O’Leary
SOC 326: Ancient Wisdom, Modern Madness: Mind, "Self", and Society in Tibetan Buddhism / 7SI, 7VI, 7GC / Honors elective / McGrane
HON 329: Aristotle’s Physics / 7SI / Panza
HON 329: Food Law and Policy / 7SI, 7VI / Political Science: One time approval - elective or a course towards our public administration-public policy sub-field / Barnett-Rose
HON 329: Is a Corporation a Person?
(also Social Sciences)
(Spring 2015) / 7SI, 7VI, and 7CC / None / Steiner
HON 329: Quest for Immortality
(also Social Sciences)
(Fall 2014) / 7SI, 7NI, 7QI / None / Struppa
HON 329: Mathematics in Culture: The Inextricable Link (Fall 2015) / 7QI / Math:
Math310: History of Mathematics. Students can take one or the other of these, but not both, for upper division elective credit. / Struppa
HON 333: Creativity and the Human Condition / 7AI, 7GC / None / Heim
HON 334: Rhetorics of Western
Consciousness / 7SI, 7VI / ENG major: Additional elective
ENG minor: upper-division elective
COMM elective (5 of the following category) / Sweet
HON 335: The Enigma of Being Awake:
Zen Buddhism / 7VI, 7GC / Religious Studies:
Major or minor: Counts as a REL course in the Scripture and Traditions category / Peters
HON 338: Thana Tourism: Traveling the “Dark Side”
(also Social Sciences) / 7AI, 7SI / ENG Major: Diversity elective
Lit. after 1850 elective
Additional elective
ENG Minor: Upper-division elective
Creative Writing major: Elective literature course Also: equivalent to ENG 346 and ENG 462 / Van Meter
HON 340: Social Justice: Mirage or Oasis Mirage
(also Social Sciences) / 7SI, 7VI / BSBA or BA in Economics: elective / B. Wilson
HON 342: Memory, Media, Image
(also Social Sciences) / 7AI, 7SI / COMM elective (5 of the following category) / Kelli Fuery
HON 344: Illustrating History/the World:
Graphic Memoirs, Novels, and Reportage
(also Social Sciences) / 7AI / ENG Major: Diversity elective
Lit. after 1850 elective
Additional elective
ENG Minor: Upper-division elective
Creative Writing major: Elective literature course Also: equivalent to ENG 346 and ENG 462 / Van Meter
HON 347: Listening to Time: Area Studies in Ethnomusicology / 7AI, 7GC / Heim
HON 359: Fundamentals of Deductive and
Inductive Logic
/ 7QI / Philosophy major or minor:
Can count for the logic requirement for the philosophy major, or as an elective / M. Pace
HON 360: Performing America(s); Creating,
Celebrating, Contesting Neighborhood in
U.S. Theater and Popular Entertainment
(also Social Sciences) / 7AI, 7SI
/ Theatre/Theatre Performance:
Upper division elective in either of the
BA.T degrees or BFA.TP degree / Buckner
HON 362: Philosophical Themes in the Films of Ingmar Bergman / 7AI, 7SI, 7VI / Philosophy: Counts as an elective for the major or minor
*Note: At most, only 2 Honors courses can count toward a Philosophy major or minor. / Webel
(Litch)
HON 363: The Castaway Narrative in World Literature / AI, SI, GC / Japanese:
An elective credit toward a Japanese major/minor
English:
Counts as an additional elective toward the BA (Literature and Rhetoric Area) or as a literature elective for the BFA / Wood
HON 366: Deities and Demons: Ancient and
Modern
(also Social Sciences) / 7SI / Religious Studies:
Major or minor: Counts as a REL course in the Western Traditions portion of the Scriptures and Tradition Requirement / J. Bidmead
HON 367: Pythagoras Revisited: A Quest for
Interior Precision
(also Natural Sciences) / 7QI, 7VI / Math: Elective
Philosophy: Major or minor: counts as an elective
*Note: At most, only 2 Honors courses can count toward a Philosophy major or minor. / Napoletani
HON 368: Community and Identity in
Musical Theater
/ 7Ai, 7SI / Music:
Minor: Counts as one course from upper-division theory/history requirements -- from section that says “two courses from the following (6 credits). / Sternfeld
HON 371: The World of Fellini’s Cinema / 7AI / Italian studies:
Counts toward cluster as well as minor in Italian Studies (section II) / Pacchioni
HON 372: MOOCs as Phenomenon
(*Selected MOOC must be cleared for category) / 7CC / None
HON 373: The Puppet Metaphor Across Media / 7AI / Italian studies:
Counts toward cluster as well as minor in Italian Studies (section II) / Pacchioni
HON 376: Sustainability in Unstus Struct / 7NI, 7SI / Environmental Sci majors: Policy track and Environmental Science Minors elective / Mester
HON 377: Critical Animal Studies / 7VI, 7WI / English major: additional elective
English minor: elective / Barnard
HON 379: Philosophy through Film / 7VI / Film Production: elective
Philosophy major: metaphysics/ epistemology
Philosophy minor: elective / Litch
HON 381: Think for Yourself: From Socrates to Adorno / 7VI / German Studies: minor / Tschacher
HON 385: Is big data enough? To be human among machines / 7QI, 7NI / TBD / Napoletani
HON 387: Food and Philosophy / 7CC, 7SI, 7VI / Pilchman
HON 396: The Politics of Waste / 7VI, 7GC, 7CC / History: major/minor elective
English: TBD / Bay
HON 409: Hermes Unbound: Divining
Hermeneutics
(originally HON 320, Fall ’09) / 7VI, 7SI / Religious Studies:
Major or minor: Counts as a REL course in the Philosophy of Religion and Theology category
Philosophy:
Major* or minor: elective
*Major: Can count HON 216 or HON 409 toward metaphysics or epistemology requirement.
Note: At most, only 2 Honors courses can count toward a Philosophy major or minor.
COMM major/minor: elective (5 of the following category) / Peters
HON 412: “Seas of Stories”: Postcolonial Literature and Theory
(also Social Sciences) / 7AI, 7SI / ENG Major: Diversity elective
Lit. after 1850 elective
Additional elective
ENG Minor: Upper-division elective
Creative Writing major: Elective literature course / Van Meter
HON 414: Politics of Law
(also Social Sciences) / 7SI
/ Political Science major: elective (12 credit category) with approval from the Chair
Political Science minor: can count as one of 4 courses from 300-level POSC courses with approval from the Chair / Steiner
HON 416: Sex, Self, Society / 7SI / Sociology: Same as SOC 281 / McGrane
HON 418: Critical Pedagogy: Teaching to Transgress / SI, VI, CC / CES - Substituting for a major requirement it is a case-by-case basis and needs Roxanne Miller’s approval. If used for a minor requirement, it can be in place of any 300 or 400 level class EXCEPT 301. 301 contains a program assessment for the minor, and can't be substituted.
English BA (Literature Area of Study) - "diversity elective" or an "additional elective" / McLaren
HON 419: The Search for an American Voice: Huck Finn to Harlem / 7SI, 7AI / COPA- Fulfills one of the upper division requirements for the General Music Minor
English: Cancount as post-1850 electives or as additional electives toward the BA (Literature and Rhetoric Area). Can also count as a literature elective for the BFA / Key
HON 424: Magic, the Occult and Art in the Early Modern Period / 7SI / Art History – Early Modern art History / Leopardi
HON 427: Topics in the Great Operas of the Western Tradition
(was 329 2178) / AI / Music: fulfills an upper-division requirement for the general music minor / Boitano/
Thomas
HON 432: Queer Theory / 7AI, 7VI / LGBTQ Studies: Can substitute for almost any class for the LGBTQ minor that's 200 through 400 level on a case-by-case basis with approval from Kevin O’Brien. The only two classes that this cannot substitute for are HUM 205 and PSY344
Sociology: Can count as an upper division elective ofor sociology major and minor / Barnard