2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

HNRS 401 Honors Capstone I

Students will explore interdisciplinary work, including papers, speeches, academic blogs, TED talks, and other media formats. Drawing upon prior coursework, students will develop a topic of study that incorporates ideas from at least two academic disciplines and plan a project focused on that interdisciplinary topic.

Credits

1

Prerequisite

HNRS 110; two honors seminars; junior or senior standing

Offered

Fall

Student Learning Outcomes

  1. To help students continue to develop their understanding of interdisciplinarity introduced in previous honors coursed and be able to describe the value of an interdisciplinary approach to solving problems.
  2. To challenge students to think critically and creatively about the relationship between at least two disciplines and develop an interdisciplinary project that will be completed during Honors 402: Honor Capstone 2.
  3. To create a community of scholars where students have the opportunity to converse about their projects with each other and with faculty and thus engage in a year-long interdisciplinary conversation.