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CURRICULUM STRUCTURE
To build community among the participants and make connections with faculty, students complete the program as a cohort, taking the required courses together and in sequence.
FRESHMAN YEAR
Fall Semester
WWU101 Honors Connections: 1 credit
Students cover topics on university issues, research methodology, leadership, and civic engagement to help prepare them for their academic career.
HUM107 Critical Thinking: 3 credits
The course is an examination of the distinction between correct and incorrect reasoning, and receive instruction and practice in strategies for presenting, analyzing, and evaluating argumentation and reasoning. The course fulfills the Common Studies requirement for critical thinking.
Spring Semester
Interdisciplinary Studies: 6 credits (3 credits in two different disciplines)
Interdisciplinary Studies provides an in-depth focus on a subject by two different academic areas. The subject will vary from year to year.
SOPHOMORE YEAR
Fall Semester
HUM240 Toward a Life of Service: 3 credits
Students explore the interactions between philosophy and practice in the realm of community service.
Spring Semester
PHL116 Biomedical Ethics: 3 credits
An introduction to the moral issues arising from recent developments in medicine and the biological sciences. Topics to include abortion, care of defective newborns, genetic counseling and screening, experimentation on human subjects, allocation of scarce medical resources, euthanasia, population control, and feeding the world's hungry. Emphasis on training students to analyze, evaluate, articulate, and defend logical positions on issues. This course fulfills the Common Studies requirement for ethics.
JUNIOR YEAR
Semester is determined by major programs
Enhanced Course in the Major: 3 - 4 credits
Each major has an enhanced course for honors credit. Typically, students are provided additional opportunities to develop analysis, creativity, and critical thinking.
SENIOR YEAR
Fall Semester
WWU401 Honors Senior Seminar: 1 credit
Senior seminar provides students an opportunity to focus on their final projects, share their research, reflect on their leadership activities, and prepare for graduate school and employment.
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