As an Honors College student, you get the opportunity to take at least two courses from each of five bins, or core areas, including a senior investigative seminar.  The courses within these core areas are developed to address culturally relevant issues and changing needs.

The five areas include:

1. AFRICAN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES: covers courses which address the history, culture, and social experiences of African Americans, such as “Psychology of the Black Child” or “Black Entrepreneurship: Principles of Management.” 

2. CANONICAL WORKS: covers courses which introduce students to complete major texts, paintings, or musical compositions which have achieved “classical” status, such as “African American Art History” or Literature of Social Reflection”.

3. HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES: includes courses which present the subject content in the context of relevant social historical and cultural developments, such as a course in Shakespeare which references the development of the early modern state in England, “History and Foundations of Math”, or Foreign languages. 

4. RATIONAL THINKING: includes courses that train students in a method and practice of organized thought, such as “History of Modern Philosophy” or “Number Theory”. 

5. WELLNESS: includes courses which develop self-awareness around the student’s care of her or his body, mind, spirit, and sexual being, such as “Women and Religion”, or “Biology and Ethics”