Honors Program
Courses
HNRS 200 Introduction to Honors Program 0-1 Credits
Offers intensive discussion of a subject of significant intellectual interest. Subjects vary from section to section and are meant to engage entering Honors students with one another under the guidance of Drexel's best faculty. Different sections may be taken for credit.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if classification is Freshman.
HNRS 201 Colloquium I 3.0 Credits
Explores some of the tensions between individualism and community. Recently offered topic: Exploring the State of Humanity: Assessing Contradictory Evidence, Weighing Intriguing Options.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
Restrictions: Cannot enroll if classification is Freshman
HNRS 210 Mentorship I 1.0 Credit
Students will receive an overview of what it means to be a leader and how to support the first year student experience including: preparing for Honors Student Orientation, mentor programming and best practices.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Cannot enroll if classification is Freshman
HNRS 220 Mentorship II 1.0 Credit
Students will survey leadership models and explore topics including group dynamics, maintaining successful interpersonal relationships and conflict resolution.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Cannot enroll if classification is Freshman
HNRS 301 Colloquium II 3.0 Credits
Explores the relationship of representation to reality in literature, film, other arts, philosophy, the media, science, or some combination of these. Recently offered topics: Creative Writing Workshop; Game Theory; Representations of the Holocaust.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
Restrictions: Cannot enroll if classification is Freshman
HNRS 302 Honors Colloquium 0.0-3.0 Credits
Provides comparative explorations of the intellectual and expressive products of diverse cultures. Focuses on one or more of the following cultural productions: literature, the arts, religion, philosophy, architecture, and politics.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
Restrictions: Cannot enroll if classification is Freshman
HNRS 303 Honors Colloquium 3.0 Credits
An interdisciplinary honors colloquium drawing upon literature, literary theory, and other cultural studies including the writings of scientists and engineers. Students will explore relations among science, technology and literature from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries by reading primary critical texts produced during this period.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Cannot enroll if classification is Freshman
HNRS 304 Honors Colloquium 3.0 Credits
This course is organized around the idea that, in order for a human society or a social system to exist, certain features of the environment or environ-mental system must be maintained. The preservation and maintenance of these features requires us to regulate or restrict some of our social uses of these systems.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Cannot enroll if classification is Freshman
HNRS 305 Honors Colloquium 3.0 Credits
Students will participate in an archaeology dig in the Philadelphia area. Details will depend on digs active at the time, but the course may include historical documentation, survey, excavation techniques and process, preservation of artifacts, cleaning, cataloging, recording, record-keeping documentation, reporting interpretation, restoration and reconstruction, as appropriate to the work on the site.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
Restrictions: Cannot enroll if classification is Freshman
HNRS 306 Honors Colloquium 3.0 Credits
Students will engage in an intensive study of the literary and artistic manifestations of the "Gothic". To that end, the class will read some of the major texts associated with the form from the second half of the eighteenth century to its appearance in the twentieth century literature and film. In support of the major texts critical secondary essays will also be read.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Cannot enroll if classification is Freshman
HNRS 307 Honors Colloquium 3.0 Credits
Students will examine the context and meaning of "popular" as a product of the mass society and its technologies. They will examine and develop the ideas of the post-structural society and the socioeconomic impact of music, the organizing and communicative power of music in everyday life, and the role music plays in socio emotional development.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Cannot enroll if classification is Freshman
HNRS 410 Mentorship Practicum I 1.0 Credit
Students will participate in the Honors Mentor Program and complete mentorship programming requirements that will support first year students through academic and social initiatives.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
Restrictions: Cannot enroll if classification is Freshman
Prerequisites: HNRS 210 [Min Grade: B]
HNRS 420 Mentorship Practicum II 1.0 Credit
Students will participate in the Honors Super Mentor Program and complete mentorship programming requirements that will support first year students through academic and social initiatives as well as initiatives to oversee other upperclassmen mentors.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
Restrictions: Cannot enroll if classification is Freshman
Prerequisites: HNRS 220 [Min Grade: B]
HNRS 430 Community Engagement 1.0-3.0 Credit
Students will explore community based initiatives and will unpack what community means to them in the context of Drexel, Philadelphia and the world around them.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
Restrictions: Cannot enroll if classification is Freshman
HNRS 499 Honors Senior Thesis 0.5-12.0 Credits
Available to students whose major does not include a senior research project.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
Restrictions: Cannot enroll if classification is Freshman
HNRS I199 Independent Study in HNRS 0.0-12.0 Credits
Self-directed within the area of study requiring intermittent consultation with a designated instructor.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
HNRS I299 Independent Study in HNRS 0.0-12.0 Credits
Self-directed within the area of study requiring intermittent consultation with a designated instructor.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
HNRS I399 Independent Study in HNRS 0.0-12.0 Credits
Self-directed within the area of study requiring intermittent consultation with a designated instructor.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
HNRS I499 Independent Study in HNRS 0.0-12.0 Credits
Self-directed within the area of study requiring intermittent consultation with a designated instructor.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
HNRS T180 Special Topics in HNRS 1.0-12.0 Credit
Topics decided upon by faculty will vary within the area of study.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
HNRS T280 Special Topics in HNRS 1.0-12.0 Credit
Topics decided upon by faculty will vary within the area of study.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
HNRS T380 Special Topics in HNRS 1.0-12.0 Credit
Topics decided upon by faculty will vary within the area of study.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
HNRS T480 Special Topics in HNRS 0.5-12.0 Credits
Topics decided upon by faculty will vary within the area of study.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated 20 times for 60 credits
