Honors Program Seminars and Courses

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The Honors Program curriculum intentionally focuses the energies of students not only on introductory work in various fields, but also on the skills advanced students need to acquire in their majors. It provides honors students with multiple intensive engagements with writing, reading, and discussion, as well as with encounters focused on the methods needed in the creation of new knowledge.  The curriculum allows space in a student’s career for a practicum that may take the form of an internship, independent research, signature work, or study abroad.  Students also design a portfolio that documents and reflects their honors pathway.

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Honors seminars and honors courses are open to students admitted to the university’s honors program.  The honors curriculum includes: Building Proficiency courses,and (depending on point of entry) two honors seminars, four courses with the HN designation (labeled Big Questions and Investigations and Explorations); all students must complete one course in Theology, one course in Social Justice and Sustainability, four one-credit courses in Career and Vocation, a credit-bearing practicum in addition to maintaining a portfolio. A minimum GPA of 3.30 is required to graduate with the Honors distinction.

Any first-year honors student who, after completion of their first two semesters at Dominican, falls below 3.30 cumulative GPA or completes fewer than 28 DU credit hours is required to meet with program advising to determine best pathways to graduation, this will include an audit that considers withdrawal from the honors core and transition to the traditional core. 

Honors sophomore entry: first-year, full-time students who demonstrate a strong overall high school record, maintain a 3.50 or above cumulative DU GPA, and have completed at least 15 credits at DU are invited to apply for sophomore entry into the honors program. Students are required to submit an online application which includes an original essay. This review process occurs at the beginning of spring semester in a student’s first year.

Students in the Mazzuchelli Scholars Honors Program who successfully meet these requirements are awarded a degree of Bachelor of Arts with University Honors, Bachelor of Science with University Honors, Bachelor of Business Administration with University Honors, or Bachelor of Science in Nursing with University Honors.

Courses

• HNFY 100 - Honors First Year: Navigating University

• HNSM 142 - Faith and Freedom
• HNSM 148 - Family and Society
• HNSM 154 - Characters of Faith and Doubt
• HNSM 155 - Justice as Virtue
• HNSM 158 - Thinking?
• HNSM 161 - Beyond a Reasonable Doubt?
• HNSM 168 - Love and Faith
• HNSM 173 - Finding Our Way Through Good and Evil
• HNSM 176 - The Good, the Bad, and the Holy: Thoughts and Passions
• HNSM 180 - Family in Faith and Doubt
• HNSM 182 - Personal Identity and Moral Responsibility: Thoughts and Passions

• HNBQ 218 - Hispanic Social Mystics of the Dominican Order
• HNBQ 230 - Immigration: What’s Happening: What should we do and why?
• HNBQ 266 - Happiness

• HNEI 224 - Where Cultures Collide: The Questioning of the Other in the New World
• HNEI 246 - Shakespeare’s Women: Gender, Language, and Power in a Cultural Revolution
• HNEI 260 - To See Again the Stars: Dante and Discovery
• HNEI 363 - Science and Responsibility: Human Being and Natural Being
• HNEI 366 - Darwinian Thinking Across Disciplines
• HNEI 382 - Contemporary Issues: Science and Technology

• HNSM 452 - Love and Liberation Beyond Suffering?
• HNSM 453 - The Wisdom and Power of This World Only?
• HNSM 462 - Knowing in Our World
• HNSM 464 - Personal Transformation
• HNSM 465 - Against Our Will
• HNSM 466 - Making Sense of Suffering: Wisdom and Power
• HNSM 470 - Learning the Hard Way: Know Yourself to Know the World

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