NOTE: Honors course offering varies each semester. Email us to check availability.
(Note: Honors courses with "G" or "H" suffixes can be used to fulfill equivalent general education requirements.)
BIOL 251H General Microbiology Honors
4 Credits
Topics include prokaryotic cell structure, function, metabolism, genetics, phylogenetic classification, diversity, relation to plants/animals/humans and pathogenesis, ecology and evolution, environmental and applied microbiology, agents, and eukaryotic microorganisms. Emphasis is on bacterial metabolic strategies to include aerobic and anaerobic metabolism, chemolithotrophy, phototrophy, and role in biogeochemical cycles, ecological diversity, genetics and phylogeny/evolution, and human-microbe interactions and infectious disease. Three hours lecture and three hours laboratory.
ENG 101H Composition I-Honors
3 Credits
A writing intensive, Honors-level course designed to strengthen college-level composition skills, with particular attention to audience, purpose, and context for writing. Limited class size ensures workshop environment and activities including extensive work on strategies of planning, drafting and revising. In addition, research techniques for primary and secondary sources are introduced as a means by which students can extend their understanding through outside resources. Critical thinking and reading skills are developed and deepened through oral and written presentations.
ENG 102H Composition II-Honors
3 Credits
An Honors-level version of ENG 102 COMPOSITION II, with a more in-depth focus on workshop and research techniques. Class will continue to emphasize rhetorical methodology, while deepening a student’s ability to read and write analytically, think critically, and interpret effectively.
HIST 101H U.S. History I - Honors
3 Credits
An honors level survey of United States political, social, economic, diplomatic, and cultural development from colonial times to 1865. This course emphasizes interactive and independent learning through readings, discussion, and writing. Satisfies the Nevada constitution requirement. HIST 101G and 102G need not be taken in sequence; either course may be taken alone. Prerequisite: ENG 100, ENG 101, or ENG 113.
HIST 102H U.S. History II - Honors
3 Credits
An honors level survey of United States political, social, economic, diplomatic, and cultural development from 1865 to present. This course emphasizes interactive and independent learning through readings, discussion, and writing. Satisfies the Nevada constitution requirement. HIST 101G and 102G need not be taken in sequence; either course may be taken alone. Prerequisite: ENG 100, ENG 101, or ENG 113.
ENG 231H World Literature I - Honors
3 Credits
A reading intensive, Honors-level course designed to introduce students to the major figures, movements and ideas in world literature from ancient times to 1650.
ENG 232H World Literature II - Honors
3 Credits
A reading intensive, Honors-level course designed to introduce students to the major figures, movements and ideas in world literature from 1650 to the present.
WMST 113H Gender, Race and Class - Honors
3 Credits
Interdisciplinary, cross-cultural survey of the ways in which gender interacts with race, age, class, and sexuality to shape human consciousness and determine the social organization of human society. Emphasis on interactive learning, entailing an examination of the self and one's environment through the use of reflective writing and dialogue.
COM 101H Oral Communication - Honors
3 Credits
An Honors level study of theory and practice in spoken communication, including prepared and extemporaneous speaking experience. Honors emphasizes a greater body of research and focuses on a required theme.
HIST 217H Nevada History - Honors
3 Credits
An Honors level survey of Nevada from early exploration to the present. This course emphasizes interactive and independent learning through readings, discussion, and writing. Satisfies the Nevada Constitution requirement. Prerequisite: ENG 100, ENG 101 or 101G, or ENG 113.
PHIL 101H Introduction to Philosophy - Honors
3 Credits
An Honors level study of philosophy as an interpretation of human experience and an examination of concepts and assumptions fundamental in human thought. Honors emphasizes both interactive and independent learning entailing an in-depth examination of one's thinking on philosophical questions through use of the Socratic Method.
PSY 101H Introduction to Psychology - Honors
3 Credits
An in-depth study of the principles of human behavior including discussions of motivation, perception, learning and personality development. Emphasis on interactive learning entailing an examination of the self and one's environment through the use of reflective reasoning and dialogue.
