University Honors Program - Fall 2017 Courses

In Honors Courses at MSU Billings, Students

Build communication skills through discussion as well as writing and/or presentations
Build research/inquiry skills through projects or reports
Consider the immediate and long-term consequences of ideas
Expand coursework into a broader social context

The Honors Program features three types of courses, HONR interdisciplinary seminars and research/inquiry courses, discipline-based courses designed to include honors objectives, and modules/contracts that include extra projects or assignments to earn honors credit. Honors students typically do not need to enroll in many extra courses. To complete an honors minor, we suggest enrolling in 4 general education courses, your discipline-based capstone, and picking up 2 more upper-division courses or contracts.

General Education Honors Courses

Honors Students should pick four of the following courses as part of their required general-education curriculum:

Communication and Information Literacy
Course Code	Course Name/Description
HONR 205	Honors Inquiry & Research

Fine Arts Credits
Course Code	Course Name/Description
ARTZ 105	Visual Language Drawing
CRWR 240	Introduction to Creative Writing with selected English department

History
Course Code	Course Name/Description
HSTA 200	Historian as Detective

Humanities Credits
Course Code	Course Name/Description
HONR 111/311	Perspectives and Understanding (required for the Honors Minor).

Cultural Diversity Credits
Course Code	Course Name/Description
MUSI 207	World Music
COMX 212	Intro to Intercultural Communication
HTH 270	Global Health Issues

Physical Sciences
Course Code	Course Name/Description
CHMY 141	College Chemistry I
CHMY 145	Chemistry Recitation

Upper Division Honors Courses

Course Code	Course Name/Description
PHL 326	Death, Dying, and Medical Ethics
BMKT 342-800	Marketing Research
BGEN 440-800	Business and the Environment

Elective Honors Courses

Honors elective courses are usually offered each year, but may not be offered each semester, contact us at honors@msubillings.edu or visit us in COE 297 to discuss your upcoming course schedule!

Course Code	Course Name/Description
COMX 341	Public Advocacy Explores theoretical, rhetorical, and argument concepts central to the study of persuasion. Provides students the opportunity to create public advocacy campaigns.
EDU 397	A Methods: K-8 Language Arts Provides strategies for integration of reading, writing, listening, viewing and visually representing, and speaking across the curriculum. Provides hands-on experiences with the writing process and forms of writing (including spelling and handwriting), evaluation of student writing, grammar teaching, and intervention for development of expressive effectiveness.
EDU 433	Reflective Practice Teaching Reading Introduces students to visual cueing systems in print and the reading and writing processes. Discusses approaches to teaching reading and writing, including the gradual release of responsibility model and the workshop model.
EDU 435	Reading Theories Acquaints the student with a variety of theories of reading and writing instruction. Designed to extend the theoretical understanding of literacy development.
HONR 494	History of Punk Rock Provides an opportunity for experimental study in an area of history.
HSTR 473	Gender, War, and Film, Europe 1648-1945 Focuses on gender, culture, and social change related to warfare and the memory of war in film, beginning with the religious wars through the upheavals of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars to the First and Second World Wars.
HSTR 487	Monsters in Modern Euro History Introduces some of the major themes related to the historical construction and significance of monsters in European history from the sixteenth century to the present. The main focus will be on understanding the specific nature of a particular monster, the historical context in which it was created and its relation to larger social, political, and cultural questions.
HSTR 494 SM	National Parks American Context Examines the forces shaping and debates about democracy and how they relate to the national park ideal's history.
HSTR 494	Food, Power and Identity in Modern US History Provides an opportunity for experimental study in an area of History

Internships, Independent Study, & Course Contracts

Course Code	Course Name/Description
HONR 290/490	Internships (1-6 credits) Provides an opportunity for students to engage in field experience not offered in other courses. Contains a research component to be developed in conjunction with supervising faculty member.
HONR 298/498	Independent Study (1-3 credits) Provides an opportunity to receive credit for individualized or special experimental learning opportunities (including a senior thesis) at an upper-division level (3 independent study credits can be used towards the Honors Minor and designation)
Course Contracts	(1-3 credits) Most classes can be converted to honors credit by meeting the honors objectives with a special project. Course contracts require permission from the instructor and honors program director. Completed projects are uploaded onto the assignments page of the Honors Hub in D2L at the end of each term.