AU Honors – Curriculum Review
CURRICULUM
FIRST-YEAR
FALL
NUMBER
COURSE TITLE
CREDITS
HNRS-200
Honors Inquiry I | Climate
Change: Science, Politics, and
Policy
4
INSTRUCTORS
Professor Todd
Eisenstadt and
Professor Stephen
MacAvoy
NOTES
This four credit section includes a
course and lab session
SPRING
HNRS-210
Honors Inquiry II | Burden of
Proof: Forensic Science and
Criminal Justice **
4
Professor Richard
Bennett, Professor
James Girard,
Professor Elizabeth
Malloy
This four credit section includes a
course and lab session
SECOND-YEAR
FALL
NUMBER
COURSE TITLE
CREDITS
HNRS-220
Honors Inquiry III | Thinking
Emotion: From Physiology to
Ethics
4
INSTRUCTORS
Professor Michele
Carter, Professor
Richard Sha, and
Professor April
Shelford
NOTES
This four credit section includes a
course and lab session
SPRING
HNRS-230
Honors Inquiry IV | Creativity
and Innovation: Film, Media, and
Perception
NUMBER
COURSE TITLE
HNRS-097/397
Honors Research Module
4
Professor Andrew
Holtin, Professor
Arthur Shapiro,
Professor Maggie
Burnette Stogner
This four credit section includes a
course and lab session
THIRD AND/OR FOURTH YEAR
HNRS-398
HNRS-498
Honors Challenge Course
Honors Capstone Course
CREDITS
INSTRUCTORS
NOTES
0-1
Honors Program Staff
in coordination with
University Librarian
Learn research methods and prepare for
the Challenge course by creating teams
and developing a research question.
Faculty Mentor of
Your Choice
Develop your skills in team projects,
and put into practice your skills in
interdisciplinary thinking,
collaboration, research, communication
and innovation.
Faculty Mentor of
Your Choice
Alone or with partners, create a
capstone in your major. Examples:
Traditional scholarly thesis, creative
work, case study, business plan, media
project, etc.
3
3-6
** Prerequisite required.
Please contact AU Honors at honors@american.edu or 202-885-6194 at if you have any questions or concerns.
Revised .5/18/2016