Students must work at least ten hours per week on the job, meet periodically with a supervising faculty member, research literature related to the field of the internship, and prepare a substantive report on their internship experience and the studies involved. This course is limited to juniors and seniors and requires the approval of a supervising faculty member and the department chair. Honors courses provide the opportunity for exceptional achievement. Instructors use methods and introduce concepts that will challenge the highly motivated student. Often interdisciplinary in approach and sometimes team taught, honors courses typically offer students occasions to extend their learning beyond the classroom.
Special emphasis is placed on the interaction between Western and non-Western societies.
In this advanced course students trace the history of Great Britain from the Glorious Revolution of 1688 to the present, concentrating on cultural history and utilizing a sociopolitical perspective. Themes include the development of capitalism, constitutionalism, industrializm and imperialism, and the impact of the British expressions of these forces on modern globalization. This course presents a history of the modern natural sciences from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, treating the development of modern physics, chemistry, geology, and biology. Students need no special background in science. The course focuses on conceptual problems and the culture of science rather than on the content of science.