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HONR 110 is designed to introduce first year students to the honors program and honors work. In this course students will have an opportunity to 1) meet and work with other gifted and motivated students, and 2) sharpen analytical and research skills by investigating a variety of topics that have teased the human mind for centuries. Currently, the topic of HONR 110 is History’s Mysteries. We will examine a range of unexplained phenomena like the Bermuda Triangle, Stonehenge, the lost city of Atlantis, and Crop Circles; questionable existences like UFO’s, the Loch Ness Monster, and Big Foot; legends with basis in historical fact like King Arthur and the Trojan War; conspiracy theories like Area 51 and the Apollo Moon Landing; and debated identities like Jack the Ripper and the authorship of Shakespeare’s plays. (Offered fall semester annually)
HONR 310 is a group seminar course taken by all junior Honors students. The course initiates students to the process of generating, developing, and refining an Honors-level project idea, and will serve as a workshop for students to discuss their ideas. During the semester, students will select an Honors Advisor and Committee, and with them, will select readings to be blended into the HONR 310 syllabus. By the end of the semester, each student will have identified their Honors thesis project topic and will have submitted a thesis proposal to both the Honors Program Director and their Honors Committee. (Offered fall semester annually)
Course Requirements Include:
1) Junior or senior status
2) A final project (usually a paper) completed under the direction of the Honors
Advisor and submitted for evaluation to the Honors Advisor and Committee
3) oral examination by Honors Advisor and Committee
HONR 320 is the first semester of focused effort on the Honors thesis or project. By the end of the semester, the student should have achieved significant progress towards the final Honors thesis or project. This progress may be a rough draft of the entire thesis, polished drafts of significant portions of the thesis, several pieces of art that will contribute to the Honors project, etc. Students may elect to take the course for either 2 or 3 credits. A 3-credit designation requires a significant increase in the time and effort put forward by the student.
Course Requirements Include:
1) Junior or senior status
2) Significant progress (as judged by the Honors Advisor and Committee) towards
completing a thesis or project completed under the direction of the Honors Advisor
and Honors Committee
HONR 420 is meant to reflect the service nature of Queens. Honors students will be asked to “give back” to one of their communities (e.g., campus, community, or academic discipline) in ways that include (but are not limited to) the following:
1) Tutoring K-12 students
2) Presenting their thesis work at a conference
3) Publishing their thesis work
4) Organizing / hosting a campus-wide Honors event (e.g., seminar, community
forum, guest speaker, etc.)
5) Mentoring Freshman and Sophomore Honors students
6) Presenting thesis work during an Honors 110 seminar
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