Honors students have access to three distinct types of curriculum offerings: (1) honors-designated general education course sections, (2) Honors College colloquia, and (3) the honors project. All courses are led by our Faculty Fellows, who apply to teach for The Honors College, and whose courses are selected based on their proposed experiential learning components, ability to challenge high achieving students, and interdisciplinary appeal. Our fellows are also active in their scholarship or creative work, bringing this advanced level of expertise to their classes. All Honors College courses are capped at 15 students.

Check out our 2025-2026 Honors Courses!

 

Honors Foundations (HONR 1400)

Building a Scholarly Community (HONR 1400) is a 1 credit hour course designed to help first-year Honors College students familiarize themselves with the program, meet other Honors College students, and identify resources that will help them succeed at UCM and beyond. More specifically, the class will challenge students to think of themselves as part of a scholarly community. This course can substitute for the University Foundations (UNIV 1400) course.

 

Honors College Designated General Education Course Sections

Honors-designated general education course sections are smaller and more “hands-on," but not inherently more difficult than traditional offerings. Although contingent on the semester, offerings for 2025-26 include History of the Modern World, Modern Sign Language, Our Digital Earth, and Educational Psychology.

Current section descriptions can be found here.

 

Honors College Colloquia (HONR 3000)

Honors College-only colloquia cover a range of topical areas based on the Faculty Fellow’s area of expertise and are attractive to a wide range of majors. Colloquia for the 2025-26 academic year include Introduction to Quantum Computing, Legislating Change, The Center of the World: The Idea of Rome, and The Course about Nothing: Life in Seinfeld’s America. The latter two courses will involve a study tour component to Rome, Italy and New York City, NY respectively.

Current sections can be found here. 

 

The Honors Project (HONR 4000)

The Honors Project exemplifies engaged learning through the process of working one-on-one with a faculty mentor in all phases of the process, from topic creation to the final product, and is an undertaking that forever impacts a student’s collegiate experience. In fact, research finds this type of engagement significantly increases desirable student outcomes, such as higher GPAs (Sell, Naginey, & Alexander, 2018) and graduation rates (Nerio et al., 2019), particularly for underrepresented students (Carpi et al., 2017; Hernandez et al., 2018). Participation in undergraduate research and/or creative endeavors also prepares students for life after college, another pillar of UCM’s mission, including graduate school and employment opportunities (Miller, Roconi, and Dumford, 2018).

Honors projects come in all formats and represent all disciplines, but universally exemplify the cumulation of your studies at UCM. We are here to support you as you advance through the process and as such, have created several resources to help with your project development.

1. Utilize the links below to review our FAQs, peruse exemplary honors projects, and view a list of active faculty-student projects.
2. Attend an Honors College professional development event, where students will be able to view past projects and hear directly from Dr. Goldstein, the Assistant Director of the Honors College, on the process.
3. Set up an appointment with Dr. Goldstein at any time during the process for individualized help. Dr. Goldstein is also available virtually via Google Meet, which is part of your UCM Gsuite. We are here to help!

 

Review the Honors Project Student FAQ   Review the Honors Project Mentor FAQ

Access our Archive of Exemplary Projects   View Active Faculty-Student Projects