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Honors Program
The Honors Program is an innovative and intellectually rigorous course
of study, offering an advanced core curriculum that emphasizes in-depth
investigation rather than broad surveys, as well as the opportunity to
do independent research. Class sizes are small and personalized, so there
is more opportunity to interact with faculty within a community of learners
from a variety of disciplines. In short, the Honors Program at New Jersey
City University is a real learning community.
Acceptance into the Honors
Program is based on a combination of standing in the high school class, high
school GPA, combined scores on the SAT, placement scores in writing and math,
and the application essay. If
you meet one or more of the following criteria, you may be eligible for
the Honors Program: 1) high school standing in the top 25% of
your class, 2) high school GPA of 3.5 or higher, or 3) combined SAT of
1100. Current NJCU and transfer students with a GPA of higher
than 3.0 may also be eligible for admission to the Honors Program.
Students
in the Honors Program meet their General Studies requirements by taking
courses that have been designed by the Honors Program faculty specifically
for the program. Based on a seminar format, the courses in the first
two years are interdisciplinary and emphasize critical and creative approaches
to understanding in the humanities, science, the arts, and the social
sciences. The program culminates with the
junior and senior honors seminars where students engage in individualized
advanced- level research/creative projects.
New Jersey City University is a member of the Northeast Regional and
National Collegiate Honors Council.
If you are interested in the Honors
Program, please complete an Honors Program Interest
Form. You will be
contacted in the coming weeks. The form can be left with the Honors Program
Director or mailed to:
Dr. Kenneth B. Sanders, Assistant Dean
Interim Director of the Honors
Program
William J. Maxwell College of Arts and Sciences
Hepburn Hall, Room 306
New Jersey City University
2039 Kennedy Boulevard
Jersey City, NJ 07305
HONORS PROGRAM CURRICULUM
| First Year |
Course |
Title |
Credits |
Total |
| Fall |
|
| |
HON 101 |
Culture, Ideas, and Values I |
3 |
|
| |
HON 111 |
Critical Analysis I |
3 |
|
| |
HON 112 or higher math |
Honors Math |
3 |
|
| |
FYE 11xx |
First Year Experience |
3 |
|
| |
Major, Minor, or Elective Course(s) |
4 |
|
| |
16 |
| Spring |
|
| |
HON 102 |
Culture, Ideas, and Values II |
3 |
|
| |
HON 113 |
Critical Analysis II |
3 |
|
| |
Major, Minor, or Elective Course(s) |
10 |
|
| |
|
|
|
16 |
| Second Year |
|
|
|
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| Fall |
|
| |
HON 201 |
Culture, Ideas, and Values III |
3 |
|
| |
HON 203 |
Paradigms of Nature I |
4 |
|
| |
HON 320 |
Modern US Perspectives |
3 |
|
| |
Major, Minor, or Elective Course(s) |
6 |
|
| |
16 |
| Spring |
|
|
|
|
| |
HON 202 |
Culture, Ideas, and Values IV |
3 |
|
| |
HON 204 |
Paradigms of Nature II |
4 |
|
| |
Major, Minor, or Elective Course(s) |
9 |
|
| |
16 |
| Third Year |
|
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| Fall |
|
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|
| |
HON 340 |
Upper Level Seminar I - The Arts |
3 |
|
| |
Major, Minor, or Elective Course(s) |
13 |
|
| |
16 |
| Spring |
|
|
|
|
| |
HON 360 |
Upper Level Seminar II - Problem-Solving |
3 |
|
| |
Major, Minor, or Elective Course(s) |
13 |
|
| |
16 |
| Fourth Year |
|
| Fall |
|
| |
HON 440 |
Upper Level Seminar III - Politics/Economics |
3 |
|
| |
HON 403 |
Senior Honors Project I |
2 |
|
| |
Major, Minor, or Elective Course(s) |
11 |
|
| |
16 |
| Spring |
|
| |
HON 460 |
Upper Level Seminar IV - World Issues |
3 |
|
| |
HON 404 |
Senior Honors Project II |
2 |
|
| |
Major, Minor, or Elective Course(s) |
11 |
|
| |
16 |
Total Honors Program Requirements 51
Total
Major, Minor and Elective credits 77
Total
Credits for Graduation* 128*
*128 credits is the minimum required for graduation. Certain
Majors may require more course credits. Consult the NJCU Catalog
or the academic department of interest.
HONORS PROGRAM COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
HON 101 Culture, Ideas and Values I
This course is a study of the great ideas and issues of human civilizations
seen through the theme of humanism. Readings are grouped thematically
across disciplines, ages, and cultures so as to highlight important
ideas and issues and their interrelationships.
HON 102 Culture, Ideas and Values II
This course is a study of the great ideas and issues of human civilizations
seen through the theme of faith. Readings are grouped thematically
across disciplines, ages, and cultures so as to highlight important
ideas and issues and their interrelationships.
Prerequisite HON 101
Culture, Ideas and Values I.
HON 111 Critical Analysis I - Poetry and the Critical Imagination
This course provides students with the opportunity to examine the
role of literature in our lives, acquire the technical skills necessary
to effectively read poetry (skills that will aid students in all
their reading), develop a profound appreciation for this genre by
applying the analytical skills necessary to appreciate both the technical
accomplishment and emotional appeal of poems.
HON 112 Honors Math
This course is a technologically
enriched course in college algebra which will engage the student
in concrete modeling. The course
will promote conceptual understanding through exploration of real-world
problems. This course is intended for the student preparing
for higher level mathematics courses and for the student taking the
course to satisfy the all University math requirement. The
course is intended to develop the quantitative literacy and savvy
that graduates need to function effectively in society and the workplace.
Prerequisite:
MATH 098 or equivalent.
HON 201 Culture, Ideas and Values III
This
course is a study of the great ideas and issues of human civilizations
seen through the theme of scientific inquiry. Readings are
grouped thematically across disciplines, ages, and cultures so as
to highlight important ideas and issues and their interrelationships.
Prerequisite
HON 101 Culture, Ideas and Values I II.
HON 202 Culture, Ideas and Values IV
This course is a study of the great ideas and issues of human civilizations
seen through the theme of liberation. Readings are grouped
thematically across disciplines, ages, and cultures so as to highlight
important ideas and issues and their interrelationships.
Prerequisite
HON 101 Culture, Ideas and Values I, II, and III.
HON 203 Paradigms of Nature I
This course stresses the goals and natures of scientific investigations
and the evolution and interconnectedness of scientific knowledge.
The course accomplishes this by using an investigative, interdisciplinary
approach to topics in the Earth and Physical Sciences. Topics
include motion, forces, energy and energy transformations, wave energy,
the universe, the solar system, oceans, planetary circulation, earthquakes,
volcanism, and plate tectonics.
Co-requisites: MATH 112 Algebra for
College (or equivalent) and INTD 120 Computer as a Tool (or equivalent).
HON 204 Paradigms of Nature II
This course will focus on the biological and chemical aspects of
living organisms. It will follow the origin of life through
evolution to the present state of humans. Evolution, genetics,
and the development of modern medicine will be emphasized.
Prerequisite:
HON 203 Paradigms of Nature I.
HON 320 Modern U.S. Perspectives I
This course is a seminar that will focus on readings relevant to
the development of distinctly American political, social and cultural
experiences. The course directs particular attention to the emergence
and development of and American identity and its alteration over
time. This seminar considers developments from 1780 to the World
War I era.
HON 340 Upper-Level Seminar I - The Arts: Looking, Thinking,
Talking, Doing
This seminar will expose participants to a wide range of creative
work and provide a basis for understanding that work. Through
direct experience, reproductions, critical reading, and discussion,
members of the class that will interact with contemporary and historical
works of art. This seminar will attempt to discuss broadly
the context in which art is made and received, and to aid in and
encourage its enlightened evaluation. The role of creator
will also be experienced and analyzed. Field trips to various
cultural venues will be a required part of the course.
N.B. No prior training or experience in the arts
is required for this class.
HON 360 Upper-Level Seminar II - Problem-Solving: Reason,
Imagination and the Unfathomable
This course will reconstruct some classic responses to basic human
problems. What is the riddle of one's life? What is the role
of art in facing the tragedy of existence? What is true? What are
the sources of violence and how to control it? How can the goodness
of God be compatible with the existence of evil in the world? We
will take an interdisciplinary approach to these questions, weaving
the perspectives of literature, aesthetics, epistemology, politics
and ethics.
HON 403 Senior Honors Project I
The purpose of the Senior Honors Project is to help students in
their final year of the Honors Program to prepare for graduate-level
work by conducting independent research on a topic related to their
field of study. Part one of a two-semester sequence, this
course will focus on understanding the steps of the research-writing
process, exploring the various methods of inquiry used in research,
and producing a variety of writings that will support the final research
project.
HON 404 Senior Honors Project II
The purpose of the Senior Honors Project is to help students in
their final year of the Honors Program to prepare for graduate-level
work by conducting independent research on a topic related to their
field of study. Part two of a two-semester sequence, this
course will carry forward work begun in part one: Students will produce
a draft of the final research project and revise it through a process
of peer review, continued reading, and group discussions. Students
will make an oral presentation of their work prior to the submission
of the final written version of the project.
HON 440 Upper-Level Seminar III - Politics/Economics: Political
Economy
This course explores basic economic concepts and
applies them to contemporary political and social issues. The
tools of economics are used to analyze how these issues impact
the public and non-profit sectors.
HON 460 Upper-Level Seminar IV - World Issues: Sex, Gender
and Globalization
This course examines sex and gender as dynamic of globalization,
focusing on the sexual politics of colonialism and nationalism, the
economics of mothering and domestic work, the militarization of women's
lives, global responses to AIDS, trafficking in women, and the international
politics of adoption and surrogacy.
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