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Senior Honors Experience

Honors Culminating Experience: 

The Culminating Honors Experience is designed to enrich studies in the student's primary field by providing avenues to advance knowledge and to apply their learning. While fulfilled in a variety of ways, the culminating honors experience allows students to: 1.) advance knowledge in their field(s) of study, either via synthesis of existing knowledge or discovery of new knowledge; and 2.) apply learning in ways that integrate academic and professional endeavors.

      

Application

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This application tells the Honors Program
which path you intend to pursue to fulfill your senior honors experience. 
Due March 31st of your junior year

       

MUHP Honors Project (HONR 498/499) - Option 1

A unique research project or creative arts project (2 semesters, 4-6 credits)

Department Honors Project ( ____ / 498/499) - Option 2

Some departments offer Department Honors. (2 semesters, 4-6 credits)

Department Courses - Option 3

ENGR 415, CIS 471/472,PHYS 322/494, SCIE 393 and BIOL/CHEM 422 (4-6 credits)

MUHP Honors Culminating Seminar (HONR 497) - Option 4

An interdisciplinary, capstone seminar for students in the Honors Program. The thematic focus will be defined by the professor and will include intensive reading, discussion, and a written research paper. (1 semester, 3 credits)

MUHP Honors Culminating Seminar

One seminar is offered every semester. Course is open to juniors and seniors. Course registration is HONR 497, 3 credits.

Some recent Honors Culminating Seminars have focused on:

  • The Architecture of Happiness: Tracing Virtue and Vice from Homer to Robinson
  • Christendom and its legacies: What should we think about the influence of the church on society, culture and politics?
  • The Good Life: Big Questions of Education, Faith and Meaning
  • How Then Shall We Live?
  • Sin and Salvation, Christ and Culture