Trajectory
ABOUT HONORS TRAJECTORY COURSES/HNRS 3501H
These courses help you make the most of your honors experience as you both envision
and prepare for life after you complete your degree. We bring in top faculty and experts
to guide you both in thinking about innovative career areas and in taking concrete
steps toward your chosen goal. These courses look at innovation, the creative process
and industry and also give expert guidance on professional schools and competing for
nationally competitive awards. Each course is one credit hour, which makes it easy
to fit into a busy honors schedule. Please consult individual course pages for more
information.
We share some upcoming Honors College Forums below. For a full listing and descriptions of past Honors College courses, visit our course archive.
Catapult
Honors College Catapult is designed to place ambitious, high-achieving students on
a trajectory toward nationally competitive awards and/or graduate and professional
programs of study. Students in the course will prepare their academic resume, construct
a personal statement, and answer essay prompts, all of which will be consistent with
graduate or professional school admission. Additional topics include studying for
advanced tests such as the Graduate Record Exam (GRE), building a graduate or professional
school timeline, and preparing for interviews.
This course is taught by Suzanne McCray.
Visit the course page to learn more.
Inspired
Everyone is creative! From the generation of an idea to its realization, creativity
is a part of everyday life. This discussion-based seminar provides an excellent opportunity
for you to recognize your special brand of creativity and how you can best make it
sing. Through a variety of engagements with some of the University's top-notch creatives
and exercises that help you discover or evolve your unique creative process, you will
leave the class with a new and/or improved version of your best creative self. After
an initial session where we define creativity together, each of the next six sessions
will bring together shining examples of creativity living within the University from
whom we will learn about how their creative process feeds their work and life. Additionally,
you will explore on your own the creative process of someone whose creativity you
admire. Throughout the class and culminating in the final session, you will be sharing
your growing understanding of what ignites your creative soul.
This course is taught by Sandy Edwards.
Visit the course page to learn more.
Law School
This course is designed to provide honors students with an overview of the legal profession
and to prepare for the law school admissions process. Students will consider different
careers in law including private practice, public sector, and corporate law. They
will consider whether law school is the path for them and which schools meet their
needs. They will also prepare a complete draft of admission materials.
This course is taught by Andrew Dowdle and Louise Hancox.
Visit the course page to learn more.
Medical School
The "doctor as healer" and the “genius doctor” are two common personae in the American psyche based upon popularized depictions of physicians and surgeons
in media. And these prolific dramatizations often feed cultural and personal myths
about what the life of a doctor can and will be. This Honors College Forum requires
students to think critically about such popular depictions, as a way to enter conversations
that help parse out fantasy from reality. Such critical analysis will become the starting
point for students to engage in self-reflection as they begin composing authentic
responses to the BIG THREE QUESTIONS med school admission committees want to know:
- Why do you want to be a doctor?
- What qualifications do you have to demonstrate your fitness for becoming a doctor?
- What medically-related experiences have you had since deciding to become a doctor?
This course is taught by Mack Ivey and Jonathan Langley.
Visit the course page to learn more.