2024-2025 Catalog

 

Honors Humanities Minor

The Honors Humanities minor is an interdisciplinary engagement of the fundamental questions of human existence for the purpose of contextualizing and enriching one’s studies in a particular academic discipline.

Admission to the Honors Humanities minor is limited to students who have enrolled in the Mary C. Dodd Honors program. Mary C. Dodd Honors students must complete all of the CAS general education requirements for graduation with a bachelor’s degree. Many of the courses in the Honors Humanities minor may be applied toward certain CAS general education requirements. Successful completion of the Honors Humanities minor is a requirement for graduation from IWU as a Mary C. Dodd Honors Student. Students must maintain a 3.5 cumulative GPA and a 3.0 GPA in their coursework in the Honors Humanities minor.

 

Honors Humanities Minor (21-23 credits)

Christian Liberal Learning and Life Calling (9 credits)

HNR-170LLLC Seminar I: What Is Truth?

3

HNR-475LLLC Capstone: How Then Shall We Live?

3

Choose at least one of the following courses:

HNR-270LLLC Seminar III: What Is Humanity?

3

HNR-277LLLC Seminar IV: What Is Beauty?

3

HNR-375LLLC Seminar V: Who is our Neighbor?

3

Interdisciplinary Humanities (8 credits)

HNR-180Foundations of Christian Tradition

3

Choose at least five credits from the following courses:

HNR-185Rhetoric and the Sacramental Imagination

3

HNR-280Wisdom, Culture, and Justice Through the Ages I

3

HNR-310Honors Colloquia

1 to 3

HNR-380Wisdom, Culture, and Justice Through the Ages II

3

HNR-385Great Texts in Context

3

Honors Practica in Christian Calling (0-1 credits)

HNR-130Honors Practicum in Christian Calling I: Practices of the Faithful - Called to Love

0 to 1

Honors Scholarship Research Requirement

In addition to taking HNR-499, students must choose between:

Option 1

Take 4-5 credits from the following courses:
HNR-350Honors Seminar in Faith and Scholarship

1 to 3

HNR-497Honors Scholarship Project I

1 to 3

HNR-498Honors Scholarship Project II

1 to 3

MAT-490Math Senior Seminar

2

MUS-490Senior Seminar

2

NUR-336Nursing Research and Evidence-Based Practice

3

REL-490Practical Theology Capstone

1

SOC-482Social Research

3

Option 2

Take 4 credits from the following courses:
HNR-350 

One or two of the following:

ART-491Capstone: Business Practices

3

ATR-231Advanced Athletic Training

2

ATR-495Athletic Training Practicum IV

1

BIO-495Research in Biology

0 to 4

CHE-495Research in Chemistry

1 to 4

CIS-492Senior Project II

2

COM-480Communications Senior Seminar II

3

DES-405Capstone: Studio

3

ECO-498Economics Seminar - Research

2

ECO-499Economics Seminar - Presentation

1

ENG-481English Capstone

3

EXS-485Senior Research Seminar I

2

EXS-486Senior Research Seminar II

1

HST-450History Research Seminar

3

MKG-424Strategic Marketing

3

PHY-495Research in Physics

1 to 4

POL-471Political Science/International Relations Capstone

3

PSY-355Research Methods for the Behavioral Sciences

3

SPA-470Spanish Capstone

3

TSL-471Research Seminar

2

WRI-481Writing Capstone

3

The Honors Scholarship Project (Research, Service Learning, Creative) is completed over the course of two semesters. Students decide with their faculty mentors how the 3-credit requirement will be distributed across the two semesters. Students may petition to pursue an HSP of more than 3 credits (up to 6 credits). If a student’s disciplinary major includes a research capstone experience, the HSP will overlap with this project. If not, the HSP will still apply as an upper-divisional elective within a student’s disciplinary major.

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