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- HON-H 200 Interdepartmental Colloquia (1–3 cr.) P: Consent of Hutton Honors College. Honors seminar. Topics will vary. May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- HON-H 211 Ideas and Experience I (3 cr.) P: Completion of the English composition requirement and consent of Hutton Honors College. Honors seminar focused on the intellectual heritage of the West. Acquaints students with great works from different historical periods, cultural settings, and disciplines. Selected works by writers such as Homer, Plato, Virgil, Augustine, Dante, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Descartes, Voltaire, and Galileo will be read.
- HON-H 212 Ideas and Experience II (3 cr.) P: Completion of the English composition requirement and consent of Hutton Honors College. Honors seminar focused on the sources of modern thinking in the works of authors such as Rousseau, Kant, Goethe, Wordsworth, Stendhal, Darwin, Marx, Dickens, Dostoyevsky, Nietzsche, Freud, Weber, Veblen, Einstein, Kafka, Sartre, and Camus.
- HON-H 213 Madness and Melancholy (3 cr.) Includes some contemporary discussions of how depression and other mental disorders are treated and defined; the majority of the reading consists of literary, medical, and philosophical accounts of madness and melancholy written from the classical period to the early seventeenth century.
- HON-H 226 Interdepartmental Colloquia (3 cr.) P: Consent of Hutton Honors College. Honors seminar focusing on topics in the arts and humanities. May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- HON-H 228 Interdepartmental Colloquia (3 cr.) P: Consent of Hutton Honors College. Honors seminar focusing on topics in social and historical studies. May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- HON-H 230 Interdepartmental Colloquia (3 cr.) P: Consent of Hutton Honors College. Honors seminar focusing on topics in natural and mathematical sciences. Does not fulfill the CASE Critical Approaches to the Arts and Sciences requirement.
- HON-H 232 Meaningful Writing (3 cr.) To become skillful at writing, students need to read and appreciate definitively good works of prose (whether fiction or nonfiction) and/or of poetry. Classic works of prose and poetry are analyzed to improve students' own writing skills. May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- HON-H 233 Great Authors, Composers, and Artists (3 cr.) It has been suggested that a broad, liberal education begins with exposure to classic works of literature, music, and art. This course examines classic works of literature, particularly from the English and/or American literary canon, and/or classic works of music and art. May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- HON-H 234 Literature of Time and Place (3 cr.) Focuses on works of fiction and/or nonfiction that are distinctive of a particular time period, memorable event or occurrence, or location. Relevant monographs capture the essence of a specific era, happening, or the perspectives of people in a particular place. May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.