On-campus enrichment (HONS 3000)

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Each student must participate in four on-campus enrichment activities (HONS 3000). Examples of enrichment courses from past semesters include necrogeography, basics of cooking, yoga, American Sign Language, self-defense, macramé, crocheting, basic car repair, gardening, world religions, varieties of Protestantism, origami, genealogy, bridge, international films, and history and arts venues. Freshmen and sophomores can enroll in HONS 3000 even though it is numbered 3000. Honors students often take more than the required four HONS 3000 courses because the courses are fun and are graded S/U(satisfactory/unsatisfactory).

Off-campus enrichment (HONS 4000)

Each student will engage in an off-campus enrichment activity such as a service program, a service learning program or study abroad. In the term in which a student does study abroad or performs service, the student also must sign up for HONS 4000 (a zero credit course) so that “off-campus enrichment” appears on the transcript. While most students have elected to study abroad, a few students have elected service. Examples of service are volunteering for 30 hours at an approved community agency, spending four weekends working on a Habit for Humanity house, tutoring adults for GED testing or giving tennis lessons to a deaf child for four months. HONS 4000 also requires that the student keep a journal of activities and thoughts. The journal is given to the director for validation at the end of the activity and then returned to the student.