2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Required Honors Curriculum

The Honors College at Ball State University provides distinctive learning experiences for students of high academic promise and achievement and does this so well that its graduates are competitive with those of any other college or university.

Required Courses

Take the following

HONR 100Freshman Seminar

0.5

HONR 189Inquiries in Global Studies

3

HONR 199Inquiries in Contemporary American Civilization

3

HONR 201Inquiries in the Earliest Cultures to ca. 500 CE

3

HONR 202Inquiries in Cultures from ca 500 CE to ca 1800 CE

3

HONR 203Inquiries in Cultures from ca. 1800 to the Present

3

HONR 390Honors Colloquium

1-3

HONR 390Honors Colloquium

1-3

HONR 499Honors Senior Project

3

Two colloquia on different topics are required for HONR 390.

3 credits from

HONR 176Inquiries in the Physical Sciences

3

HONR 177Inquiries in the Earth Sciences

3

HONR 178Inquiries in the Life Sciences

3

HONR 179Inquiries in Science and Society

3

Total Credit Hours: 23.5-27.5