Each semester the Honors Program offers Honors-specific sections of courses as well as Honors Colloquia.
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Honors Courses
Each semester the Honors Program offers a number of Honors-specific general education courses. These courses are typically smaller class sizes than those of typical general education courses, and they are taught by award-winning faculty. There are more choices in fall than in spring, as that's when so many new students join our program!
The courses thus increase discussion possibilities along with opportunities for students to interact with other students in the program while earning both Honors and general education credits.
Colloquia
Students take two Honors colloquia classes, and those interdisciplinary course offerings change every semester. Students are exposed, through a colloquium course, to many different perspectives, disciplines, and theoretical and actual possibilities; being compelled to use such multi- and interdisciplinary viewpoints thus encourages students to see their own and other angles of visions anew.
A colloquium class is broader, deeper, richer, and more learner-centered in its focus and investigation; it is central to a community of exceptional students and faculty. Colloquia classes are generally more seminar-like in their discursive and participatory structure than many college classes can be since Honors courses have lower enrollment limits. View a list of recent colloquia offerings.
Through taking a colloquium course, students have taught computer skills to inmates at a prison as a way to understand the technology and its applications, while others have researched the history of buildings in an Omahan neighborhood and thus served the local Restoration Society as they continue to work to preserve history in Omaha.
There are so many options--and these courses carry general education credits too, in the Humanities and Fine Arts (HONR 3020) and the Social Sciences (HONR 3030) or non-lab natural sciences (HONR 3040). Colloquia classes are recognizable as they have the HONR for their subject and are 3000, 3020, 3030, or 3040 in number.
