Honors College Courses
Courses that qualify for the IUPUI Honors College are currently under review. The following listing contains courses that are approved for the IUPUI Honors College. More courses will appear on this listing once the review has been completed.
- AMST-A 303 Topics in American Studies (1-3 cr.) Interdisciplinary consideration of various American studies topics.
- BUS-A 204 Introduction to Financial Accounting: Honors (3 cr.) P: A100; sophomore standing. The course covers the concepts and issues associated with corporate financial reporting. Particular emphasis is placed on understanding the role of financial accounting in the economy and how different accounting methods affect the financial statement.
- BUS-F 304 Honors Financial Management (3 cr.) P: Students must meet the Option II admission criteria to take the Integrative Core courses, including course, GPA, and grade requirements. R: Business student of junior or senior standing. Section authorization is required. The course provides a conceptual framework of a firm’s investment, financing, and dividend decisions; includes working capital management, capital budgeting, and capital structure strategies.
- BUS-J 402 Administrative Policy: Honors (3 cr.) P: I-Core; senior standing. Administration of business organizations: policy formulation, organizations, methods, and executive control.
- BUS-K 204 The Computer in Business: Honors (3 cr.) Introduction to the role of computers in business, with emphasis on microcomputer applications. Experimental exercises include learning about Windows-based spreadsheets, database applications, electronic mail, and Internet navigation tools. The lectures focus on the use and application of technology (hardware, software, networks, databases) and integrates current management topics (business applications, systems development, data management, computer ethics).
- BUS-L 204 Commercial Law I: Honors (3 cr.) P: sophomore standing. Includes the nature of law, torts, contracts, the sale of goods, and the legal regulations of business competition.
- BUS-M 304 Honors Marketing Management (3 cr.) P: Students must meet the Option II admission criteria to take the Integrative Core courses, including course, GPA, and grade requirements. R: Section authorization required. Marketing planning and decision making examined from the firm’s and the consumer’s points of view; marketing concept and its company-wide implications; integration of marketing with other functions. Market structure and behavior and their relationship to marketing strategy and implementation.
- BUS-P 304 Honors Operations Management (3 cr.) P: Students must meet the Option II admission criteria to take the Integrative Core courses, including course, GPA, and grade requirements. R: Business student of junior or senior standing. Section authorization required. A survey course concerned with the production and distribution of goods and services. Part of the Integrative Core, along with F304 and M304. Examines how a firm produces and delivers its goods and services, with consistent and acceptable levels of quality, in a cost-effective manner. The discussion covers a wide range of interrelated issues including quality and process improvement, forecasting, planning, resource management, customer service, scheduling, and layout and process design. A semester-long, team project is the primary activity used to integrate the three core courses.
- BUS-X 105 Business Administration Introduction: Honors (3 cr.) Business administration from the standpoint of the manager of a business firm operating in the contemporary economic, political, and social environment. No credit for Kelley School of Business students when taken concurrently with or after the Integrative Core.
- BUS-X 496 Honors Seminar in Business (1-5 cr.) P: senior standing. For students in Kelley School of Business Honors Program.
- BUS-X 496 Supervised Independent Honors Research in Business (1-5 cr.) P: senior standing. For students in Kelley School of Business Honors Program.
- BUS-Z 304 Managing and Behavior in Organizations: Honors (3 cr.) P: junior standing. Integration of behavior and organizational theories. Application of concepts and theories toward improving individual, group, and organizational performance. Builds from a behavioral foundation toward an understanding of managerial processes.
- BUS-Z 494 Herman B Wells Seminar in Leadership (3 cr.) P: I-Core; senior standing and consent of instructor. Open to Kelley School of Business seniors and selected seniors from other schools with high scholastic ability and promise of developing leadership qualities exemplified by Herman B Wells.
- CHEM-C 105 Principles of Chemistry I (3 cr.) P: two years of high school algebra and one year of high school chemistry. Fall, day, night; Spring, day; Summer I, day. Usually taken concurrently with C125. A placement examination may be required for admission to this course. See "Chemistry Placement Examination" above. Principles of inorganic and physical chemistry emphasizing physical and chemical properties, atomic and molecular structure, chemical bonding, and states of matter.
- CHEM-S 125 Experimental Chemistry I (2 cr.) P or C: C105 or equivalent. Fall, day, night; Spring, day; Summer I, day. Laboratory work illustrating topics covered in C105.
- CHEM-S 126 Experimental Chemistry II (2 cr.) lecture, laboratory P: C105 and C125; P or C: C106 or equivalent. Fall, day; Spring, day, night; Summer II, day. Continuation of C125. Laboratory work illustrating topics covered in C105 and C106.
- COMM-R 110 Fundamentals of Speech Communication (3 cr.) P: reading placement score of at least 80. Theory and practice of public speaking; training in thought processes necessary to organize speech content for informative and persuasive situations; application of language and delivery skills to specific audiences. A minimum of six speaking situations.
- ECON-S 201 Introduction to Microeconomics: Honors (3 cr.) Designed for students of superior ability. Covers the same core materials as E201.
- ENG-W 140 Elementary Composition/Honors (3 cr.) Offers an introductory writing course for advanced freshman writers. Requirements, including number and type of assignments, are parallel to W131. W140 offers greater intensity of discussion and response to writing. Evaluation is based on portfolios of the students’ work.
- ENG-W 150 Elementary Composition II/Honors (3 cr.) P: W140 (with a grade of C or higher) or W131 and permission of the instructor. Allows an honors student to explore the investigative methods used within a chosen discipline as an introduction to academic writing. Individual projects using these various methods combine primary and secondary skills. Evaluation is based on portfolios of the student’s work. Replacing W132 or W231 for honors students, this course follows W140.
- HIST-H 105 American History I (3 cr.) I. Colonial period, Revolution, Confederation and Constitution, national period to 1865. II. 1865 to present. Political history forms framework, with economic, social, cultural, and intellectual history interwoven. Introduction to historical literature, source material, and criticism.
- HIST-H 113 History of Western Civilization I (3 cr.) I. Rise and fall of ancient civilizations; barbarian invasions; rise, flowering, and disruption of medieval church; feudalism, national monarchies. II. Rise of middle class; parliamentary institutions, liberalism, political democracy; industrial revolution, capitalism, and socialist movements; nationalism, imperialism, international rivalries, world wars.
- HON-H 310 Creation of Modernity in West (3 cr.) A new junior-level integrator course for honors students only. Course examines rise of modernity in the West as an integrated social economic, scientific, and artistic phenomenon.
- JOUR-J 499 Honors Research in Journalism (1-3 cr.) Opportunity for independent reading, research, and experimentation on relevant issues in mass communications. Work with faculty member on individual basis. I Sem., II Sem., SS.
- MATH 26100 Multivariate Calculus (4 cr.) P: 164. Equiv. IU MATH M311. Fall, spring, summer. Spatial analytic geometry, vectors, curvilinear motion, curvature, partial differentiation, multiple integration, line integrals, and Green's theorem. An honors option for this course is available. Note: Effective Fall 2009, this course is offered under an updated course description, as below.
- MATH-S 165 Honors Analytic Geometry and Calculus I (4 cr.) Precalculus or trigonometry and consent of instructor. This course covers the same topics as MATH 165. However, it is intended for students having a strong interest in mathematics who wish to study the concepts of calculus in more depth and who are seeking mathematical challenge.
- MATH-S 166 Honors Analytic Geometry and Calculus II (4 cr.) P: S165 (minimum grade of B-) or 165 (minimum grade of A-), and consent of instructor. This course covers the same topics as MATH 166. However, it is intended for students having a strong interest in mathematics who wish to study the concepts of calculus in more depth and who are seeking mathematical challenge.
- MHHS-M 492 Topics in Medical Humanities and Health Studies (1-3 cr.) Intensive study and analysis of selected issues and problems in Medical Humanities and Health Studies. Topics will ordinarily cut across fields and disciplines. May be repeated once for credit on a different topic. Fall 2010: Culture of Mental Illness.
- NURS-H 498 Nursing Honors Colloquium (1 cr.) Specifically for students accepted to nursing honors study option. This course will cover various research topics in each semester of the nursing major, helping prepare students to complete a senior thesis. Students will receive a grade of R until senior thesis is complete.
- NURS-Z 480 B.S.N. Portfolio Review for Course Substitution (1-6 cr.) P: Permission of instructor. The portfolio review process is available to all undergraduate students who believe that they can meet the learning objectives/competencies required of a specific nursing course within their program of study. The portfolio is a mechanism used to validate the acquisition of knowledge and skills congruent with course expectations and student learning outcomes. The portfolio provides objective evidence that students have acquired necessary content and skills through prior learning and/or practice experiences.
- OLS 25200 Human Behavior in Organizations (3 cr.) Class 3. Study of individual and group behavior in organizations. Special emphasis on typical supervisory relationships.
- PHIL-S 110 Introduction to Philosophy—Honors (3 cr.) This course is an introduction to key philosophical concepts and issues as well as major thinkers and historical periods.
- PHIL-S 120 Ethics—Honors (3 cr.) A study of ethical values in relation to such problems as personal and societal decision making, selection and justification of lifestyle, goal orientation, conflict resolution, freedom and creativity, commitment and responsibility.
- PHIL-S 314 Philosophy and Modern Times—Honors (3 cr.) A study of one or more philosophical concepts, themes, or developments characteristic of the modern period.
- POLS-Y 498 Readings for Honors (1-6 cr.) Open only to senior majors in the department who have at least a 3.3 grade point average within the major; approval of department is required. Course involves an intensive individual program of reading and/or research.
- PSY-B 104 Psychology as a Social Science (3 cr.) B104 Psychology as a Social Science (3 cr.) Equiv. to IU PSY P102 and PU PSY 120. Fall, Spring, Summer. Introduction to scientific method, individual differences, personality, developmental, abnormal, social, and industrial psychology.
- PSY-B 499 Capstone Honors Research (ARR. cr.) B499 Capstone Honors Research (cr. arr.) P: consent of instructor. Equiv. to IU PSY P499. Fall, Spring, Summer. Independent readings and research resulting in a research paper.
- REL-R 111 The Bible (3 cr.) A critical introduction to the major periods, persons, events, and literatures that constitute the Bible; designed to provide general humanities-level instruction on this important text.
- SCI-I 120 Windows on Science (1 cr.) Fall, spring. Designed for new and prospective science majors, the course covers an integrative overview of science, examining science and society, the scientific method and community of scientists, undergraduate research, professional ethics, an exploration of science-based careers, and strategies for success as a science major.
- SPEA-V 391 Honors Readings in Public and Environmental Affairs (1-3 cr.) P: approval of instructor and SPEA honors advisor. Restricted to students in SPEA Honors Program. May be repeated for credit.
- SPEA-V 490 Directed Research in Public and Environmental Affairs (0-3 cr.) To be arranged with the individual instructor and approved by the chairperson of the undergraduate program. May be repeated for credit.
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English
The School of Liberal Arts requires English W131 or W140, and W132, W150, or W231 for graduation for both the A.A. and the B.A. degrees. Contact the Writing Program at (317) 274-3824 or see the Web site (writing.iupui.edu) for questions about placement.