Honors students have access to three distinct types of curriculum offerings: (1) honors-designated general education course sections, (2) honors-only colloquia, and (3) the honors project. Our current course offerings can be found below. Please do not hesitate to reach out to us with any questions.

Check out our 2025-2026 Honors Courses!

 

Honors Foundations (HONR 1400)

Building a Scholarly Community (HONR 1400) is a 1 credit hour course designed to help first-year Honors College students familiarize themselves with the program, meet other Honors College students, and identify resources that will help them succeed at UCM and beyond. More specifically, the class will challenge students to think of themselves as part of a scholarly community. This course can substitute for the University Foundations (UNIV 1400) course. Please see video below for more information.

 

Fall '24 - Building a Scholarly Community

 

Honors-College Designated General Education Course Sections

Honors-designated general education course sections are smaller and  more “hands-on." Faculty apply to teach these classes and are selected based on the course's experiential learning components, ability to challenge high achieving students, and appeal to a wide variety of majors. Although contingent on the semester, offerings for 2024-2025 include History of the Modern World, Elementary German I, Introduction to Geology, Oral Interpretation, and Human Prehistory. Current section descriptions can be found here. Please see video below for more information.

 

Summer '24 - Honors History of the Modern World	Fall '24 - Honors Elementary German I	Fall '24 - Honors Introduction to Geology
Spring '25 - Honors Oral Interpretation	Spring '25 - Honors Human Prehistory

 

Honors College-Only Colloquiua (HONR 3000)

Honors-only colloquium are taught by our Faculty Fellows, who apply to teach classes that are both interdisciplinary and represent the highest level of engaged learning. Our fellows also are active in their scholarship or creative work, bringing this advanced level of expertise to their classes. Past topics have included Psychology of Time, Women and Crime, Middle Eastern: Culture and Geopolitics, Forensic Psychology of Witness ID, Shakespeare and Nature, Famous/Infamous Missourians, The Holocaust in the Media, and Harry Truman: His Life & Times.

Current sections can be found here. 

 

The Honors Project (HONR 4000)

The Honors Project exemplifies engaged learning through the process of working one-on-one with a faculty mentor in all phases of the process, from topic creation to the final product, and is an undertaking that forever impacts a student’s collegiate experience. In fact, research finds this type of engagement significantly increases desirable student outcomes, such as higher GPAs (Sell, Naginey, & Alexander, 2018) and graduation rates (Nerio et al., 2019), particularly for underrepresented students (Carpi et al., 2017; Hernandez et al., 2018). Participation in undergraduate research and/or creative endeavors also prepares students for life after college, another pillar of UCM’s mission, including graduate school and employment opportunities (Miller, Roconi, and Dumford, 2018).

Honors projects come in all formats and represent all disciplines, but universally exemplify the cumulation of your studies at UCM. We are here to support you as you advance through the process and as such, have created several resources to help with your project development.

1. Utilize the links below for access to review our FAQs, peruse exemplary honors projects, and view a list of active faculty-student projects.
2. Attend an Honors College professional development event, where students will be able to view past projects and hear directly from Dr. Goldstein, the Assistant Director of the Honors College, on the process.
3. Set up an appointment with Dr. Goldstein at any time during the process for individualized help. Dr. Goldstein is also available virtually via Google Meet, which is part of your UCM Gsuite. We are here to help!

 

Review the Honors Project Student FAQ   Review the Honors Project Mentor FAQ

Access our Archive of Exemplary Projects   View Active Faculty-Student Projects