HON Courses

GE Designates a course that fulfills all or part of a Core Curriculum requirement; see the Core Curriculum Program section of the catalog for more information.

HON 1010 Honors Congress First Year Seminar (2 sh)

The first of two first-year Honors courses, designed to stimulate critical and creative thinking on a key virtue of the human person (e.g. imagination, beauty, wisdom, etc.) In its interdisciplinary and multicultural character, the course helps prepare advanced students for an intentional and creative approach to their studies and future vocation.

HON 1020 Honors Congress First Year Seminar (2 sh)

The second of two first-year Honors courses, designed to stimulate critical and creative thinking on a key virtue of the human person (e.g. imagination, beauty, wisdom, etc.) In its interdisciplinary and multicultural character, the course helps prepare advanced students for an intentional and creative approach to their studies and future vocation. Prerequisite: HON 1010.

HON 2010 The Imagined City (2 sh)

This is an honors course designed for sophomore students who are joining the honors program in their second year. This interdisciplinary course intends to focus on all three distinctives of North Park University-Christian, Urban, Intercultural-as it analyzes the complex and complicated roles cities in our cultural and personal imagination. This course will explore multiple ways in which the city, and in particular the city of Chicago, is both imagined by its citizens and stirs the citizen’s imagination of the good life. The course will engage artistic, philosophical, psychological and environmental (biological) disciplines to help students more deeply engage their place in urban life.

HON 2020 The Curious Citizen (1 sh)

This course is for 2nd year students in the Honors Program and serves as a companion course alongside their Honors Designated Core Curriculum course. This course cultivates the skills necessary to design and plan inquiry-based projects (re- search, creative, or pedagogical) outside of one’s own expertise. The course teaches students on how to practice intellectual community and communicate new ideas to a general audience. Lastly, the course is guided by the value of the curious citizen of the world that seeks to build bridges across intellectual divides.

HON 4000 Honors Portfolio (0 sh)

Reviews academic progress and evidence of program outcomes in the Honors Congress through personal reflection. Student will submit an organized sample of course work and reflections for review. Independent study.