Honors

Honors Requirements - Total: 50-57

All Honors College students must take the following nine classes:

• Honors Orientation - Credits: 1

• HON 105 - Honors Orientation Seminar (must be taken during the first year)

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• English Composition and Literature - Credits: 9

• HON 100 - Honors Rhetoric (must be taken during the first year)
• HON 110 - World Thought and Experience I
• HON 115 - World Thought and Experience II

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• Honors Persuasive Speaking - Credits: 3

• HON 101 - Honors Public Speaking

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• 400 level classes, four separate classes - Credits: 12

   

  In addition, all UNLV students must satisfy the following, which may be satisfied within their major:

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• Mathematics - Credits: 3 or 4

  an appropriate math course (MATH 124 or higher), or

• HON 124 - Honors College Algebra
• HON 127 - Honors College Precalculus II
• HON 181 - Honors Calculus I
• HON 182 - Honors Calculus II

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• Life and Physical Sciences - Credits: 7 minimum

  (one must be a lab science course)

   

• HON 230 - Scientific World View I
• HON 231 - Scientific World View II
• HON 280 - The Development of Science

• or approved Life and Physical Science courses as defined in the General Education section of this catalog.

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• Constitution Requirement - Credits: 3

• HON 111 - Themes in American Civilization
• HON 112 - Exploring American Politics

• or approved Constitution courses as defined in the General Education section of this catalog.

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• Social Science - Credits: 3

• HON 201 - Honors General Psychology
• HON 202 - Honors Microeconomics
• HON 203 - Honors Macroeconomics
• HON 204 - Individual, Society, and Freedom
• HON 205 - Honors Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

• or approved Social Science courses as defined in the General Education section of this catalog.

   

  Courses used to satisfy the Constitutions requirement may not be used to meet the Social Science requirement

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• Foreign Languages - Credits: 0-12

  (see note 2)

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• Fine Arts - Credits: 3

• HON 210H - Introduction to Performance

• or any HON 420  seminar

• or approved Fine Arts courses as defined in the General Education section of this catalog.

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• Multicultural - Credits: 3

• HON 440 - Special Topics Seminars-Multicultural (or any approved multicultural course)

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• Analytical Thinking - Credits: 0 - 3

  (see note 1)

• HON 102 - Honors Critical Thinking

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• PHIL 102 - Critical Thinking and Reasoning

Total Credits: 50-57

 Certain approved classes can replace an HON 400 level seminar.  Please see Honors College for more information.

     Research and Creative Honors

Students in the Research and Creative Honors program take four 400 level seminars and complete a six-credit honors thesis/project during their senior year (HON 498  and HON 499 ). Many of the seminars can be used to satisfy general education core fine arts, international and multicultural requirements. The thesis/project may satisfy elective credits in the student’s department.

Notes:

1. Depending on the student’s major, they may be required to take
   HON 102
     or PHIL 102  - 3 credits.
2. Honors students have several options to complete the foreign language requirement.  Students may take one language through intermediate level II, or two different languages through elementary level II.  Students who test into 213 may take just 213 and 214 (6 credits); students that test into 214 may take just 214 (3 credits); students that test higher than 214 have satisfied Foreign Language (0 credits). However, students who place out of the foreign language requirement entirely must still fulfill the International requirement. If a student takes Latin to satisfy this requirement, they must complete a 3 credit class that satisfies the International requirement.