Center for High Achievement & Scholarly Engagement
University Honors Program

Honors Course Listing 

A Sampling of Previous Honors Courses

Past Freshman Seminars

Illness and Human History
War
Regaining the Public's Trust: Corporate Ethics
Inquiries into the Human Condition I & II
Science, Pseudo-Science & Superstition
Revolution & Revolutions
What is Music?
The Idea of God
Love and War
Community Mediation
Individual, Society, and the Global Corporation
Lewis and Clark
Jazz: A Listener's Perspective
Shakespeare
Saving Us & the Environment
Indianapolis: The City & Its History
The Making of the Nutcracker

Other Seminars and Colloquia

Stephen Sondheim & Hal Prince Musical Theatre
Alan Turin
Jefferson & the West
Shakespeare
The Gothic Cathedral
Star Trek & the Cold War
Carmen
The Dramatic Monologue
Adam Smith, Great Thinker
The Genius of Charlie Chaplin
Hamlet
Both Sides Now: The Life, Times, and Works of Joni Mitchell
Comfortably Numb: The Music and Aesthetics of Pink Floyd
Rumi
Stravinsky's Sacre du Printemps
Approaches to Moby Dick
Women's Spiritual Autobiography
Nobel Peace Prize Winners
Marvels of the Hidden Empire: Microbes
African Cinema
Socrates
Great American Architects
Human Sexuality as Adapted Behavior
Using Conflict Creatively
Media and Culture
Law and Culture
Being in the Pictures
Of Plagues and Pains: Public Health Campaign Strategies
2001 in 2002: Fiction into Fact
Consumption, the Good Life, and Justice
Music in the Movies
Apples, Atoms, and Strings: Which Does Not Belong?
Food
Women and Rock
Hands-On Spirituality
Violence, Culture, and Society
Who Watches My Money
Dharma and the West
The Midwest in the American Civil War
The Western Gunfighter
Feminism in Global Perspective
The Physics of Star Trek
Lives Shaped Through Stories
Voices From Zimbabwe
The Development Process Revisited
Design, Ecology, & Community
Muslim Women in the Middle East
East Asian Pop Culture and History
Teachers: An International Perspective
Writing and Reading Autobiography
First Grade at IPS 84: Change and Support within a Social Institution
Product Liability
Yoga
Tao and Chemistry
Issues in Dress
Wings for Our Dreams: The First 100 Years of Powered Flight
The Ethics of War and Peace
The Mythology and Biology of Elephants
The Psychology of Sport
The Olympics and Paralympics