Honors: Courses

The Honors Program provides a variety of regular courses, research, and independent study options as well as experiential learning possibilities designed to supplement, enrich, and provide greater depth to students' degree programs.

Honors-Designated and Honors-Approved Courses, such as courses with an “S” prefix, are regularly offered as traditional-style courses with limited enrollment designed specifically for honors students. Course enrollment is generally limited to no more than 15 students to facilitate more substantive interaction between students and the course faculty member.

Fall Honors Course Listings
Spring Honors Course Listings

H-Option Courses allow students to design an honors experience in select courses with individual faculty. Students enroll in regularly offered IUPUI courses and work closely with the instructor to design a project, research paper, or other in-depth, independent study option that builds on, yet goes beyond, material regularly covered in the course.

Using this option, honors students have developed research proposals and projects in such areas as:

• Combinatorial Solid-Phase Synthesis of Amino Acid Derivatives
• Friedrich Nietzsche's Der Antichrist
• Effective Methodologies of Teaching Spanish as a Second Language in Secondary School
• A Historiography of the Literature of the War of 1812
• Ethics in Clinical Nursing Settings
• Prosocial Behavior and Racial Discrimination
• Use of Bibliotherapy for Psychiatric and Behavioral Patients
• Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease and the Involvement of Prions
• Implementation of Signal and System Operations in Matlab
• The Portrayal of Socrates in Aristophanes' The Clouds

An application for H-Option study is required.

Honors Credit for 300- and 400-Level Departmental Research and/or Capstone Courses provides students with the opportunity to pursue honors-level study within their disciplines. An application for honors credit for departmental research and capstone courses is required.

Honors Senior Thesis provides students with an opportunity to work closely with faculty members to complete a scholarly or creative project that may serve as a capstone for their undergraduate program. An application for honors senior thesis study is required.

Research Course Work provides students with valuable research experience as well as excellent preparation for graduate or professional study. Available through both honors course offerings (HON-H399, Honors Independent Research) as well as upper-level research courses offered in some departments. An application for honors independent research is required.

Graduate Course Work enables students to become familiar with graduate education while delving further into their major field. An application for applying graduate course work to the General Honors Notation is required. 

International Experiences and Cultural Studies develop informed, empathic, and globally experienced leaders. Through Honors Program-approved study abroad programs and regular area-studies course offerings, honors students are provided with an additional option for obtaining credit toward the General Honors Notation.