The Honors College is an inclusive scholarly community that challenges students to
think ethically, creatively and collaboratively.
As an honors major, you will take a series of core classes and 15 credit hours of
electives from one of our concentrations listed below.
Core Courses:
- First Year Colloquium 1 (3 credits)
- First Year Colloquium 2 (3 credits)
- Producing Knowledge: Analysis, Creativity, & Expression (ACE) (1 credit)
- Producing Knowledge: Interviews, Surveys, & Experiments (ICE) (1 credit)
- Honors Global Perspective Courses (6 credits)
- Producing Knowledge: Capstone Seminar Course (3 credits)
- Internship (1-3 credits)
Environment, Ethics and Humankind Concentration Electives:*
- Environmental Art
- Inuit Environmental Dilemmas
- Eastern Thought and American Culture
- Outbreaks and Pandemics
- Climate Change and Colonialism
- Hydro Narratives: Water and Culture in the American West
- Petrocultures: Energy, Climate and Culture
- The Empire Writes Back
- Futurism 001
- Moby Dick
- Engineering, Ethics, and Energy
- Global Public Health Structures on the Brink
- History of Money
- Indian Short Story
- Wildlife, Ranching, Resource Extraction
- Wyoming Walkabout
- Global Cities
- Sisters
- Quitting: What, Why and How?
Health, Policy and the Body Concentration Electives:*
- Picturing Mental Illness
- Medical Humanities
- Medicine and Art
- Inuit Environmental Dilemmas
- Climate Change and Colonialism
- Hydro Narratives: Water and Culture in the American West
- History of Diseases
- Outbreaks and Pandemics
- History, Philosophy, Methodology and Application of Traditional Asian Martial
- Arts
- Chinese Medicine and Models of Healthcare
- Literature and Medicine
- Neuroscience and Law
- Explorations in Medicine, Science and Art in Florence, Italy
- The Body: Conceptualizing our Corporeality
- Anger
Technology, Society and the Future Concentration Electives:*
- Data Science Deep Dive
- Futurism 001
- Climate Change and Colonialism
- Business Application of Blockchain and Fintech
- Ideation, Innovation and Invention
- Engineering, Ethics, and Energy
- Mass Media and Collective Consciousness
- Nanotechnology
- Neuroscience and Law
- Outbreaks and Pandemics
- Wildlife, Ranching, Resource Extraction
- Global Cities
- Secular Stock Cycles
Creativity, Justice and Our World Concentration Electives:*
- Picturing Mental Illness
- Film and Social Construction of Race
- Environmental Art
- Saffron Silk, and Broadswords
- Inuit Environmental Dilemmas
- Eastern Thought and American Culture
- Climate Change and Colonialism
- The Empire Writes Back
- Futurism 001
- Ideation, Innovation and Invention
- Disney Discourse
- Mass Media and Collective Consciousness
- Race and Marketing
- Wyoming Walkabout
- History of U.S. Military Theory and Operations
- Race and Racism
- Shakespeare in England and Italy
- Documentary Photography and Film
- Modern Japanese Society and Culture
- Race in a Consumer Culture
- Creativity and Making Change
- Free Speech and Censorship
- Music and Identity
*These are a list of featured courses. Certain electives may not be offered each year
and new courses are added to the concentrations annually.
View the full honors interdisciplinary inquiry concurrent major curriculum.
SOAR Badges
SOAR, a vital part of an honors student's journey, enhances experiential learning
and fosters connections. In your first year, you'll aim to complete the First-Year Badge and then tackle the Advanced Badge over the next three years! Students will use the Suitable application to complete these two badges.
