Honors

Students in ÖйúÌå²ÊÍø¡¯s first-year Austin E. Knowlton Honors Program enjoy animated discussions, good questions, interesting problems and the drive to make a difference.

Students in the program should complete the following three courses:

1. HONR 101: Words that Changed the World. This course encourages students to look to important texts and to their own communication as factors in changing the world. 

2. HONR 102: What Changes Minds? This course will ask students to examine important social issues and to explore how and why people change their minds about such issues. It will include a final project where students will be asked to change people¡¯s minds about a topic of their choice. It will give students their PH learning perspective.

3. HONR 202: Reason. This course will grapple with questions of religious inclusion and exclusion. Conversations will be about the nature and function of ideas (e.g. ¡°religion,¡± ¡°faith,¡± or ¡°democracy¡±) grounded in a close analysis of current events, discussions with participants in religious movements, and trips to observe and participate in their work. Provides students with their REF requirement.