Courses of Instruction

Courses of Instruction

A full listing of undergraduate courses offered by the Honors program is found at http://honors.catholic.edu/curriculum.

Consult Cardinal Students for additional information about courses and to determine course offerings by semester.

The honors Program offers five integrated four-course sequences ("tracks"), listed below, as well as a flexible option known as the Liberal Studies track.

The Cristian Tradition

Faculty members from Early Christian Studies, English, Greek and Latin, History, Modern Languages and Literatures, Semitics, and Theology and Religious Studies teach in this interdisciplinary four-semester sequence. The sequence presents major topics and themes in the history of Christian culture from its origins in late antiquity to the present.

Course Number	Course Title	Credits
HSHU 101	Jesus to Muhammad: The Early Christians in the Mediterranean World	3
HSHU 102	Charlemagne to Chaucer: Christian Life in the Middle Ages	3
HSHU 203	The Age of Discovery	3
HSHU 204	Christian Culture/Secular Age	3

An Aristotelian Studium

Faculty members in the school of Philosophy present this four-semester sequence. The Studium focuses on the original Aristotelian texts, which offer a coherent system of knowledge and provide tools for inquiry still useful in the present day.

The readings in Aristotle are supplemented with works by philosophers responding to his "great questions".

Course Number	Course Title	Credits
HSPH 101	The Desire to Know	3
HSPH 102	Human Action and Government	3
HSPH 203	Nature & Human Nature	3
HSPH 204	Ultimate Questions	3

Critical Exploration of Social Reality

Faculty members in Business, Economics, Mathematics, Psychology, and Sociology present this cross-disciplinary sequence, which explores crucial social topics and provides an introduction to theories and methods from the social sciences.

Course Number	Course Title	Credits
HSSS 101	The Concept of the Person in the Social Sciences	3
HSSS 102	Economic Reasoning and Social Issues	3
HSSS 203	Social Data Analysis and the Study of Uncertainty	3
HSSS 204	Families, Markets, Cities: Social and Scientific Perspectives	3

The Environment, Energy, and Policy

In this four-course sequence, faculty members from Chemistry, Economics, Engineering, Politics, and Theology and Religious Studies bring the expertise from their fields to bear on one of the most troubling policy issues facing modern society: the challenge of meeting the world's need for energy while protecting the environment.

Course Number	Course Title	Credits
HSEV 101	Environmental Science and Sustainability	3
HSEV 102	Religion, Ethics and Ecology	3
HSEV 203	The Economics of Energy and The Environment	3
HSEV 204	Environmental Politics and Policy	3

Tradition and Renewal in Contemporary Catholicism

Faculty members from the School of Theology and Religious Studies teach in this four-semester sequence grounded in the documents of the second Vatican Council. HSTR 101 fulfills the University TRS 201 requirement. The University TRS 202 requirement may be fulfilled by taking HSTR 102, HSTR 203, or HSTR 204.

Course Number	Course Title	Credits
HSTR 101	God's Word in Human Words	3
HSTR 102	Liturgy and the Christian Life	3
HSTR 203	The Church: Community and Institution	3
HSTR 204	The Church in Dialogue with Contemporary Culture	3

Honor in Liberal Studies

Open to students in the professional schools and to students majoring in the natural sciences (BS degrees) and Education. This option provides students in the professional schools with multiple perspectives on human nature, community, ethics, public policy, and other areas of academic inquiry broadly relevant to the practice of their professions. The exact combination of courses is flexible, in order to accommodate student's schedules and interests, but students must take courses in at least three different tracks. One learning Community Philosophy course or Theology course can be counted toward the track.

Honor in Senior Capstone Seminar

HSCP 490 from the vast quarry of the western tradition, this seminar excavates and examines fundamental concepts that have informed generations of peoples. The topics are multidisciplinary and allow students to integrate and connect the knowledge acquired in their various disciplines to the traditions of thought that inform Western history.

Other Honors Courses

In addition too the five Honors sequences, the Honors program also offers other classes that fulfill various university requirements. All of these courses can be counted towards the Liberal Studies track. These classes include interdisciplinary courses such as a series of seminars on world capitals (offered each fall in association with a trip during spring break), Honors sections of popular required courses, and special Honors contracts offered in non-Honors courses. In the past, these courses have included:

The Birth of the Public (UH)
The Mortal and Divine in Art and Music
The Classical Mind (UH)
The Modern Mind (UH)
Constitutional Democracy in Theory and Practice
Mathematical Topics in the Social Sciences I & II (UH)
Principles of Economics I & II (UH)
Dangerous Beauty: Venice and Its Treasures (UH)

All Honors courses require registration permission which may be obtained by contacting the Honors Program Office. Equivalencies with requirements in student's area of concentration are established on an individual basis.