Please find below a list of available Honors Courses by Contract. These non-Honors courses can be completed to satisfy the Honors curricular requirement (as long as the contract is successfully completed).
Honors Students are responsible for working directly with the Honors Faculty Member. Honors Students will initiate the request and ensure that the Honors Faculty Member has the capacity to provide this opportunity at that given semester.
Note: all Honors Courses by Contract must be submitted to the Honors Executive Committee by the Add/Drop Period (typically the third week of the beginning of the semester) in order to be completed/fulfilled for that semester.
For process and application, please visit the Create an Honors Course by Contract page.
Suggested Courses by Contract Listed by Department
Note: if you do not see the course you are interested in pursuing, please contact the professor currently teaching the course.
- Anthropology and Heritage Studies (ANTH & HS)
- Biological Sciences (BIO)
- Bioengineering (BIOE)
- Chemistry and Biochemistry (CHEM)
- Chicano Chicana Studies (CCST)
- Cognitive and Information Sciences (COGS)
- Comunity Research and Service (CRS)
- Computer Science and Engineering (CSE)
- Economics (ECON)
- Electrical Engineering (EE)
- Engineering (ENGR)
- English (ENG)
- Environmental Engineering (ENVE)
- Environmental Humanities (EH)
- Geography (GEOG)
- Global Arts Studies Program (GASP)
- History & Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (HIST & CRES)
- Life and Environmental Sciences (LES)
- Management of Innovation, Sustainability, and Technology (MIST)
- Materials Science and Engineering (MSE)
- Mechanical Engineering (ME)
- Philosophy (PHIL)
- Physics (PHYS)
- Political Science (POLI)
- Psychological Sciences (PSY)
- Public Health (PH)
- Writing (WRI)
Anthropology and Heritage Studies
| Course Prefix & Number | Course Title | Honors Faculty Member |
| ANTH 033 | Peoples, Plagues, and Disease in the Past | Beth Scaffidi |
| ANTH 110 | Migration, Diaspora, and Transnational Belonging | Robin Delugan |
| ANTH 111 | The Anthropology of Globalization | Daniel Thompson |
| ANTH 112 | Political Anthropology | Daniel Thompson, Robin Delugan |
| ANTH 113 | Urban Anthropology | Daniel Thompson |
| ANTH 114 | Social Memory | Robin Delugan |
| ANTH 115 | Economic Anthropology | Daniel Thompson |
| ANTH 116 | Indigenous Activism in the Americas | Robin Delugan |
| ANTH 130 | Material Culture | Manuel Duenas-Garcia |
| ANTH 140 | Cultural Heritage Policy and Practice | Manuel Duenas-Garcia |
| ANTH 142 | Archaeology of Colonialism | Manuel Duenas-Garcia |
| ANTH 152 | Dying, Death, and Dead Persons | Christina Torres |
| ANTH 153 | Spatial Patterns in Disease | Beth Scaffidi |
| ANTH 170 | Ethnographic Methods | Daniel Thompson, Robin Delugan |
| ANTH 171 | Human Population Studies: Data and Mapping | Daniel Thompson |
| ANTH 176 | Archaeological Field Methods | Manuel Duenas-Garcia |
| ANTH 177 | Forensic Anthropology | Beth Scaffidi |
| ANTH 179 | Bioarchaeology | Beth Scaffidi, Christina Torres |
| ANTH 195 | Upper Division Undergraduate Research | Robin Delugan |
| ANTH 198 | Upper Division Directed Group Study | Robin Delugan |
| ANTH 199 | Upper Division Individual Study | Robin Delugan |
| HS 150 | Geographic Information Systems for Cultural and Environmental Heritage | Karl Ryavec, Manuel Duenas-Garcia |
| HS 152 | Karl Ryavec | |
| HS/GEOG 161 | Earth from Space: Introduction to Remote Sensing and Global Positioning | Manuel Duenas-Garcia |
Biological Sciences
| Course Prefix & Number | Course Title | Honors Faculty Member |
| BIO/ESS 034 | Introduction to Marine Science | Michael Dawson |
| BIO/ESS 113 | Sustainability in the Anthropocene | Michael Dawson |
| BIO 125 | Microbial Genetics | Michele Nishiguchi |
| BIO 127 | General Virology | Ruben Ceballos |
| BIO/ESS 130 | Plant Biology | Emily Moran |
| BIO 139 | Research Lab of Cell Biology | Xuecai Ge |
| BIO 161 | Human Physiology | Frederick Wolf |
| BIO 177 | Genes, Brains, and Behavior | Frederick Wolf |
| BIO 197 | Biological Sciences Culminating Experience | Kara McCloskey |
Bioengineering
| Course Prefix & Number | Course Title | Honors Faculty Member |
| BIOE 135 | Biochemistry for Engineers | Eva de Alba Bastarrechea |
| BIOE 145 | Bioprocess Engineering | Eva de Alba Bastarrechea |
Chemistry and Biochemistry
| Course Prefix & Number | Course Title | Honors Faculty Member |
| CHEM 195 | Upper Division Undergraduate Research | Hrant Hratchian |
| CHEM 225 | Molecular Electronic Structure | Hrant Hratchian |
Cognitive and Information Sciences
| Course Prefix & Number | Course Title | Honors Faculty Member |
| COGS 103 | Introduction to Neural Networks in Cognitive Science | Jeffrey Yoshimi |
| COGS 105 | Research Methods for Cognitive Scientists | Tyler Marghetis |
| COGS/PHIL 110 | Philosophy of Cognitive Science | Jeffrey Yoshimi |
| COGS 122 | Modeling Social Behavior | Paul Smaldino |
| COGS 123 | Computational Cognitive Neuroscience | David Noelle |
| COGS 128 | Cognitive Engineering | Spencer Castro |
| COGS 140 | Perception and Action | Ramesh Balasubramaniam |
| COGS 149 | Music, Language, and Cognition | Ramesh Balasubramaniam |
| COGS 176 | Culture and Cognition | Tyler Marghetis |
Community Research and Service
| Course Prefix & Number | Course Title | Honors Faculty Member |
| CRS 010 | Introduction to Community Engaged Research | Mary Soltis |
| CRS 100 | Doing Community Engaged Research | Mary Soltis |
Computer Science and Engineering
| Course Prefix & Number | Course Title | Honors Faculty Member |
| CSE 155 | Introduction to Human-Computer Interaction | Ahmed Arif |
| CSE 168 | Distributed Software Systems | Xiaoyi Lu |
| CSE 177 | Database Systems Implementation | Florin Rusu |
Economics
| Course Prefix & Number | Course Title | Honors Faculty Member |
| ECON 101 | Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory | Jason Lee |
| ECON 121 | The Economics of Money, Banking, and Financial Institutions | Jason Lee |
| ECON 126 | Economics of Innovation and Entrepreneurship | Justin Hicks |
| ECON 140 | Labor Economics | Rowena Gray |
| ECON 143 | Economics of Crime and Policing | Rowena Gray |
| ECON 149 | Economics of Sports | Jason Lee |
| ECON 153 | Judgement and Decision Making | Jeffrey Butler |
| ECON 163 | Economics of Investments, Futures, and Options | Jason Lee |
| ECON 172 | Experimental Economics | Jeffrey Butler |
Electrical Engineering
| Course Prefix & Number | Course Title | Honors Faculty Member |
| EE 105 | Semiconductor Devices | Sarah Kurtz |
Engineering
| Course Prefix & Number | Course Title | Honors Faculty Member |
| ENGR 065 | Circuit Theory | Ricardo Pinto de Castro |
| ENGR 151 | Strengths of Materials | Sachin Goyal |
| ENGR 152 | Remote Sensing of the Environment | Erin Hestir |
| ENGR 170 | Introduction to Electron Microscopy | Valerie Leppert |
| ENGR 180 | Spatial Analysis and Modeling | Erin Hestir |
| ENGR 193 | Engineering Capstone Design I | Alejandro Gutierrez Sanchez |
| ENGR 194 | Engineering Capstone Design II | Alejandro Gutierrez Sanchez |
English
|
Course Prefix & Number |
Course Title | Honors Faculty Member |
| ENG 020 | Introduction to Shakespeare | Katherine Brokaw |
| ENG 030 | Children's Literature | Katherine Brokaw |
| ENG 111/CRES 153 | Mesoamerican Literature and Culture | Felicia Lopez |
| ENG/CCST 120 | Chicanx, Latinx, & Indigenous Representation | Felicia Lopez |
| ENG/EH 125 | Ecology and Indigenous Religious Traditions | Felicia Lopez |
| ENG 151 | Plays of Shakespeare | Katherine Brokaw |
| ENG 168 | Shakespeare and Ecology | Katherine Brokaw |
| ENG 187 | Shakespeare and Social Justice | Katherine Brokaw |
Environmental Engineering
| Course Prefix & Number | Course Title | Honors Faculty Member |
| ENVE/MIST 164 | Energy Policy | Catherine Keske |
Geography
| Course Prefix & Number | Course Title | Honors Faculty Member |
| GEOG/HS 161 | Earth from Space: Introduction to Remote Sensing and Global Positioning | Manuel Duenas-Garcia |
Global Arts Studies Program
| Course Prefix & Number | Course Title | Honors Faculty Member |
| GASP 157 | Critical Photography | Shipu Wang |
| GASP 158A | Race and Visual Representations in Art and Media | Shipu Wang |
| GASP 158B | Women, Gender, and Art in Islamic Cultures | Aditi Chandra |
History & Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
| Course Prefix & Number | Course Title | Honors Faculty Member |
| CRES 110 | Interdisciplinary Methods in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies | Christina Baker |
| CRES 142 | Black Feminist Theories | Christina Baker |
| CRES 143 | Black Feminism and Film | Christina Baker |
| CRES 153/ENG 111 | Mesoamerican Literature and Culture | Felicia Lopez |
| CRES 190 | Senior Capstone | Christina Baker |
| HIST 164 | Urban East Asia | Tommy Tran |
| HIST 165A | China in the Ancient World | Tommy Tran |
| HIST 165B | From Tang to Song: China in the Medieval World | Tommy Tran |
| HIST 165C | Late Imperial China | Tommy Tran |
| HIST 165D | Tommy Tran | |
| HIST 166A | History of Korea | Tommy Tran |
| HIST 166B | Topics in Korean History and Cultures | Tommy Tran |
| HIST 167A | History of Japan | Tommy Tran |
| HIST 167B | Topics in Japanese History and Cultures | Tommy Tran |
| HIST 180 | The Silk Road | Tommy Tran |
Life and Environmental Sciences
| Course Prefix & Number | Course Title | Honors Faculty Member |
| ESS/BIO 034 | Introduction to Marine Science | Michael Dawson |
| ESS/BIO 113 | Sustainability in the Anthropocene | Michael Dawson |
| ESS/BIO 130 | Plant Biology | Emily Moran |
| ESS 110 | Hydrology and Climate | Teamrat Ghezzehei |
| ESS 170 | Fundamentals of Soil Science | Asmeret Asefaw Berhe |
Management of Innovation, Sustainability, and Technology
| Course Prefix & Number | Course Title | Honors Faculty Member |
| MIST 130 | Statistical Data Analysis and Optimization in R for Decision Support | Spencer Castro |
| MIST/ENVE 164 | Energy Policy | Catherine Keske |
Materials Science and Engineering
| Course Prefix & Number | Course Title | Honors Faculty Member |
| MSE 104 | Engineering Living Systems | Kara McCloskey |
| MSE 114 | Polymeric Materials | Christopher Viney |
| MSE 151 | Materials Processing & Performance I: Materials Thermodynamics and Kinetics | Christopher Viney |
Mechanical Engineering
| Course Prefix & Number | Course Title | Honors Faculty Member |
| ME 144 | Introduction to Multi-body Dynamics | Sachin Goyal |
Philosophy
| Course Prefix & Number | Course Title | Honors Faculty Member |
| PHIL/COGS 110 | Philosophy of Cognitive Science | Jeffrey Yoshimi |
| PHIL 150 | Topics in Phenomenology | Jeffrey Yoshimi |
Physics
| Course Prefix & Number | Course Title | Honors Faculty Member |
| PHYS 009 | Introductory Physics II for Physical Sciences | Brian Utter |
| PHYS 115 | Electrodynamics Core II Waves and Dynamic Electromagnetic Fields | Jing Xu |
| PHYS 126 | Special Relativity Minicourse | Kevin Mitchell |
| PHYS 138 | Quantim Mechanics II Core | Kevin Mitchell |
| PHYS 160 | Modern Physics Lab | Jing Xu |
| PHYS 180 | Nonlinear Dynamics | Kevin Mitchell |
| PHYS 195 | Upper Division Undergraduate Research | Jing Xu |
| PHYS 196 | Undergraduate Thesis | Jing Xu |
Political Science
| Course Prefix & Number | Course Title | Honors Faculty Member |
| POLI 109 | Legislative Simulation | Nathan Monroe |
| POLI 131 | Everyday Politics in Latin America | Tesalia Rizzo |
| POLI 135 | Political Behavior Around the World | Anil Ramachandran Menon |
| POLI 145 | Political Violence | Courtenay Monroe |
| POLI 158 | Politics of Human Rights | Courtenay Monroe |
| POLI 165 | International Organizations & Regimes | Courtenay Monroe |
Psychological Sciences
| Course Prefix & Number | Course Title | Honors Faculty Member |
| PSY 120 | Health Psychology | Bobby Hutchison, Daniel Mello, Deborah Wiebe |
| PSY 124 | Health Disparities | Daniel Mello |
| PSY 143 | Developmental Psychopathology | Jason Emory |
| PSY 145 | Bobby Hutchison | |
| PSY 146 | Bobby Hutchison | |
| PSY 151 | The Psychology of Stereotyping and Prejudice | Daniel Mello |
| PSY 152 | Psychological Perspectives on Cultural, Racial, and Ethnic Diversity | Daniel Mello |
| PSY 154 | Social Cognition | Jason Emory |
| PSY 156 | Social Psychology | Jennifer Howell |
| PSY 182 | Evolutionary Psychology | Bobby Hutchison |
| PSY 184 | Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience | Heather Bortfeld |
| PSY 191 | Psychology Culminating Experience | Jennifer Howell |
Public Health
| Course Prefix & Number | Course Title | Honors Faculty Member |
| PH 102 | Health Promotion | Lindsay Crawford |
| PH 103 | Health Communication | Lindsay Crawford |
| PH 104 | Health and the Media | Susana Ramirez |
| PH 106 | Health Policy | Susana Ramirez |
| PH 110 | Environmental Health | Andrea Joyce, Asa Bradman |
| PH 137 | Insects and Public Health | Andrea Joyce |
| PH 190 | Does the Dose Make the Poison | Asa Bradman |
Writing
| Course Prefix & Number | Course Title | Honors Faculty Member |
| WRI 025 | Introduction to Creative Writing | Christa Fraser |
| WRI 030 | Introduction to Professional Writing | Christa Fraser |
| WRI 090 | Intersections of Creative and Professional Writing | Christa Fraser |
| WRI 100 | Advanced Writing | Alexander Block, Angela Winek, Christa Fraser Iris Ruiz, Matthew Snyder, Yiran Xu |
| WRI 101 | Writing in the Discipline: Psychology | Alexander Block, Christa Fraser |
| WRI 103 | Research Design and Methods in Writing Studies | Yiran Xu |
| WRI 105 | Grammar and Style | Heather Devrick |
| WRI 110 | Tutor Training | Heather Devrick |
| WRI 112 | Writing in the Arts | Alexander Block |
| WRI 116 | Science Writing in Natural Sciences | Christa Fraser, Heather Devrick |
| WRI 117 | Writing for the Social Sciences and Humanities | Alexander Block, Angela Winek, Pamelyn Gingold |
| WRI 119 | Writing for Engineering | John Bultena |
| WRI 122 | Special Topics in Rhetoric | Eileen Camfield |
| WRI 125 | Topics in Creative Writing | Christa Fraser |
| WRI 130 | Topics in Professional Writing | Christa Fraser |
