Academic Catalog 2024-2025

Slippery Rock University

Honors College

Director:  Dr. Jennifer Willford 724-738-2696

Associate Director: Dr. Nitin Sukhija 724-738-2143

Secretary: Rachelle Drake 724-738-4417

Department Location/Phone: 190 Watson Hall 724-738-4003

For information about the Honors College at SRU, please visit the Honors College Website.

Courses

HONR 190 -  Experimental  

A unique and specifically focused course within the general purview of a department which intends to offer it on a "one time only" basis and not as a permanent part of the department's curriculum.

Credits: 1-3

Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered as Needed

HONR 195 -  Workshop  

A workshop is a program which is usually of short duration, narrow in scope, often non-traditional in content and format, and on a timely topic.

Credits: 1-6

Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered as Needed

HONR 198 -  Selected Topics  

A Selected Topics course is a normal, departmental offering which is directly related to the discipline, but because of its specialized nature, may not be able to be offered on a yearly basis by the department.

Credits: 1-3

Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered as Needed

HONR 290 -  Experimental  

A unique and specifically focused course within the general purview of a department which intends to offer it on a "one time only" basis and not as a permanent part of the department's curriculum.

Credits: 1-3

Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered as Needed

HONR 295 -  Workshop  

A workshop is a program which is usually of short duration, narrow in scope, often non-traditional in content and format, and on a timely topic.

Credits: 1-6

Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered as Needed

HONR 298 -  Selected Topics  

A Selected Topics course is a normal, departmental offering which is directly related to the discipline, but because of its specialized nature, may not be able to be offered on a yearly basis by the department.

Credits: 1-3

Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered as Needed

HONR 300 -  Seminar in Global Learning  

Honors Global Learning Seminar is an interdisciplinary course that explores some of the world's most pressing, interesting, and enduring global issues. This course makes use o f experiential learning to allow for personal and professional development of skills and knowledge to become informed, self-aware, and responsible global citizens with increased attentiveness to diversity and the interdependence of the world's people and/or environmental systems.

Credits: 3

Enrollment limited to students with a semester level of Junior 1, Junior 2, Senior 1, Senior 2 or Sophomore 2.
Enrollment limited to students with the HONORS PRGM - STUDENT attribute.

HONR 385 -  The Great Books  

Seminars on selected topics from the classic works of human thought.

Credits: 3

Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered as Needed

HONR 386 -  The Great Books  

Seminars on selected topics from the classic works of human thought.

Credits: 3

Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered as Needed

HONR 387 -  The Great Books  

Seminars on selected topics from the classic works of human thought.

Credits: 3

Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered as Needed

HONR 388 -  The Great Books  

Seminars on selected topics from the classic works of human thought.

Credits: 3

Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered as Needed

HONR 390 -  Experimental  

A unique and specifically focused course within the general purview of a department which intends to offer it on a "one time only" basis and not as a permanent part of the department's curriculum.

Credits: 1-3

Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered as Needed

HONR 395 -  Workshop  

A workshop is a program which is usually of short duration, narrow in scope, often non-traditional in content and format, and on a timely topic.

Credits: 1-6

Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered as Needed

HONR 398 -  Selected Topics  

A Selected Topics course is a normal, departmental offering which is directly related to the discipline, but because of its specialized nature, may not be able to be offered on a yearly basis by the department.

Credits: 1-3

Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered as Needed

HONR 492 -  Innovation for Positive Change  

This course deals with the background knowledge, skills, and dispositions needed to innovate. This includes the ability to develop new ideas, recognize opportunities, analyze risks, create teams of motivated helpers, foster positive communication within the team, lead the team effectively to bring about change, assess progress from an idea to a change, and to pivot along the way. This course serves as the capstone course for the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Rock Studies Thread.

Credits: 3

Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered Fall Terms

Thematic Thread(s): Transfer Thread Completion Course

Enrollment limited to students with a semester level of Junior 1, Junior 2, Senior 1 or Senior 2.

HONR 495 -  Workshop  

A workshop is a program which is usually of short duration, narrow in scope, often non-traditional in content and format, and on a timely topic.

Credits: 1-6

Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered as Needed

HONR 498 -  Selected Topics  

A Selected Topics course is a normal, departmental offering which is directly related to the discipline, but because of its specialized nature, may not be able to be offered on a yearly basis by the department.

Credits: 1-3

Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered as Needed