HONORS (HONS)

HONS 100.  Multi-modal Communications.  (3 Credits)  
Fall, annually.

Enrollment limited to students with the Honors Program Participant attribute.

HONS 104.  Science Inquiry.  (2,3 Credits)  
This lecture and laboratory course content will be determined by the instructor to meet the learning objectives of the Scientific Inquiry requirement of the University Core. Fall and Spring.
Corequisites: HONS 104L  

Enrollment limited to students with the Honors Program Participant attribute.

HONS 104L.  Science Inquiry Lab.  (1 Credit)  
Taken concurrently with HONS 104.
Corequisites: HONS 104  
Course Fee: 140  

Enrollment limited to students with the Honors Program Participant attribute.

HONS 107.  Honors Science.  (3 Credits)  
HONS 157.  Calculus-Analytic Geometry I.  (4 Credits)  
An introduction to calculus for engineering, science and mathematics students, with an emphasis on conceptual understanding, problem solving, and modeling. Topics covered include: limits, continuity, derivatives of algebraic, trigonometric, and transcendental functions, applications of the derivative including optimization problems and linear approximations, antiderivatives, introduction to the definite integral, and the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus. Fall and Spring. Prerequisite: MATH 147, minimum grade: C
Prerequisites: Prerequisites exist. Refer to Zagweb.  
Equivalent: MATH 157  

Enrollment limited to students with the Honors Program Participant attribute.

HONS 180.  Honors Introduction to Literature.  (3 Credits)  

Enrollment limited to students with the Honors Program Participant attribute.

HONS 193.  FYS:.  (3 Credits)  
The First-Year Seminar (FYS) introduces new Gonzaga students to the University, the Core Curriculum, and Gonzaga’s Jesuit mission and heritage. While the seminars will be taught by faculty with expertise in particular disciplines, topics will be addressed in a way that illustrates approaches and methods of different academic disciplines. The seminar format of the course highlights the participatory character of university life, emphasizing that learning is an active, collegial process.
Course Fee: 55  

Enrollment limited to students with the Honors Program Participant attribute.

HONS 201.  Honors Human Nature.  (3-4 Credits)  
Philosophical study of human nature, the human condition, the meaning and value of human life, and the human relationship to ultimate reality, with attention to such issues as the nature and possible existence of the soul, the relation between body and mind, belief and knowledge, freedom vs. determinism, and the possibility of human immortality. Fall. For Honors students.

Enrollment limited to students with the Honors Program Participant attribute.

HONS 207.  Honors Topics in Science.  (3-5 Credits)  
May be repeated for credit.  
Corequisites: BIOL 207L  
HONS 207L.  Honors Topics Science Lab.  (0-1 Credits)  
Corequisites: HONS 207  
HONS 217.  Honors Special Topics: Mathematics.  (1-4 Credits)  
See course description for cross listed course.

Enrollment limited to students with the Honors Program Participant attribute.

HONS 219.  Special Topics: Engineering and Applied Sciences.  (1-4 Credits)  
HONS 220.  Honors Christian Catholic Traditions.  (1-3 Credits)  
May be repeated for credit.  
See course description for cross listed course.

Enrollment limited to students with the Honors Program Participant attribute.

HONS 221.  Honor World or Global Religion.  (3 Credits)  
May be repeated for credit.  

Enrollment limited to students with the Honors Program Participant attribute.

HONS 222.  African Religious Traditions.  (3 Credits)  
Introduction to various forms of religiosity in sub-Saharan Africa. Through the study of religion, this class prompts students to better understand various aspects of African cultures by dismantling stereotypes and assumptions that have long characterized the study of religions in Africa. Offered every semester.
Equivalent: RELI 256  
HONS 223.  Culture Ethics.  (1-3 Credits)  

Enrollment limited to students with the Honors Program Participant attribute.

HONS 227.  Hebrew Bible: Ancient Near East.  (3 Credits)  
A comparative approach to human-human, human-divine, and divine-divine relationships in the Hebrew Bible and the ancient Near East, focusing on the human relational context and commitments towards social justice among warring cultures. Building intercultural competence, this course carries a global studies emphasis. Offered every year.
Equivalent: RELI 206  
HONS 237.  Topics in Sociology.  (1-4 Credits)  
May be repeated for credit.  

Enrollment limited to students with the Honors Program Participant attribute.

HONS 238.  Topics in Political Science.  (1-4 Credits)  
May be repeated for credit.  

Enrollment limited to students with the Honors Program Participant attribute.

HONS 241.  Foundations of the West.  (3 Credits)  
A survey of the origins of western civilization in the Near East; classical Greek and Roman civilizations; and developments in Europe to 1648.
Equivalent: HIST 101  

Enrollment limited to students with the Honors Program Participant attribute.

HONS 242.  The West and the World.  (3 Credits)  
Equivalent: HIST 102  
HONS 243.  Asian&PacificIslanderAmerHist.  (3 Credits)  
May be repeated for credit.  

Enrollment limited to students with the Honors Program Participant attribute.

HONS 244.  Honors US History.  (3 Credits)  
May be repeated for credit.  

Enrollment limited to students with the Honors Program Participant attribute.

HONS 247.  Honors Special Topics in History.  (1-4 Credits)  
May be repeated for credit.  
Topic to be determined by instructor.

Enrollment limited to students with the Honors Program Participant attribute.

HONS 258.  Calculus-Analytic Geometry II.  (4 Credits)  
Prerequisites: Prerequisites exist. Refer to Zagweb.  
Equivalent: MATH 258  
Course Fee: 5  
HONS 260.  Principles of Accounting I.  (3 Credits)  
Equivalent: ACCT 260  

Students with a semester level of First Year (0-25.99 credits) may not enroll.

HONS 261.  Principles of Accounting II.  (3 Credits)  
Prerequisites: HONS 260 with a minimum grade of D or ACCT 260 with a minimum grade of D  

Enrollment limited to students with the Honors Program Participant attribute.

HONS 267.  Honors Special Topics in Art.  (1-4 Credits)  
May be repeated for credit.  
Course Fee: 110  

Enrollment limited to students with the Honors Program Participant attribute.

HONS 276.  Honors Advanced Math.  (1-4 Credits)  
HONS 283.  Analyzing Practices and Habits.  (3 Credits)  
This course provides a foundation in attending to, analyzing, and reporting meaningful information about the social world through humanistic communication research methods. The course introduces ethnographic and qualitative research methods, ethics, selection of research topics and questions, ethnographic data collection methods (e.g. participant observation; un-, semi- and structured interviewing; structured observation), managing and coding field notes, and qualitative analysis. In this course, students will create field notes, analyses, and more. Fall and Spring.
Prerequisites: COMM 100 with a minimum grade of D or HONS 100 with a minimum grade of D  
Equivalent: COMM 285  

Enrollment limited to students with the Honors Program Participant attribute.

HONS 287.  Honors Special Topics in Literature.  (1-3 Credits)  
May be repeated for credit.  
Topics will be approved by the Department Chair.

Enrollment limited to students with the Honors Program Participant attribute.

HONS 290.  Honors Colloquium.  (3 Credits)  
May be repeated for credit.  
For Honors Students
Prerequisites: HONS 193 with a minimum grade of D  
HONS 291.  Special Topics in Writing.  (3 Credits)  
May be repeated for credit.  
Topics Determined by instructor
Prerequisites: Prerequisites exist. Refer to Zagweb.  
HONS 301.  Honors Ethics.  (3 Credits)  
A general theory of the goals of human life and the norms of moral behavior; the theory will be applied to several specific moral problems. Fall and Spring.
Prerequisites: Prerequisites exist. Refer to Zagweb.  

Enrollment limited to students with the Honors Program Participant attribute.

HONS 309.  Topics in Social Science.  (1-4 Credits)  
May be repeated for credit.  
Topics in Social Science

Enrollment limited to students with the Honors Program Participant attribute.

HONS 310.  Honors Topics Nursing.  (2-4 Credits)  
HONS 311.  Fundamentals of Mathematics.  (3 Credits)  
Prerequisites: MATH 259 with a minimum grade of D  
Equivalent: MATH 301  

Enrollment limited to students with the Honors Program Participant attribute.

HONS 320.  Honors Topics Psycholgy.  (3 Credits)  
HONS 325.  Bible and Film.  (3 Credits)  
Explore different ways in which religion (and theology) and film can be placed into mutually critical conversation. Specific attention given to constructing mutually enriching dialogues between recent films (1999-present) and specific biblical texts. How can biblical texts provide new lenses for the viewing of films? In what ways can films enrich the understanding and interpretation of biblical texts? Offered every semester.
Equivalent: FILM 370  
HONS 330.  Topics in Education.  (3 Credits)  
May be repeated for credit.  
HONS 364.  Asian Religions in Film.  (3 Credits)  
Equivalent: FILM 371  

Enrollment limited to students with the Honors Program Participant attribute.

HONS 377.  International Management.  (0-4 Credits)  
This course examines the information and skills needed to manage an organization in an international setting. Topics include international cultures, cross-cultural communication, cross-cultural negotiation, leadership, ethics, international human resource management and motivation of a multicultural workforce.
Prerequisites: MGMT 350 with a minimum grade of D  
Equivalent: MGMT 355  
HONS 380.  Special Topics in Writing.  (1-4 Credits)  
May be repeated for credit.  

Enrollment limited to students with the Honors Program Participant attribute.

HONS 381.  Special Topics In Literature.  (3 Credits)  
HONS 385.  Honors: Modern Language.  (3-4 Credits)  
May be repeated for credit.  
Topic determined by cross listed course.

Enrollment limited to students with the Honors Program Participant attribute.

HONS 387.  Honors Special Topic.  (1-4 Credits)  
May be repeated for credit.  

Enrollment limited to students with the Honors Program Participant attribute.

HONS 390.  Honors Colloquium.  (3 Credits)  
May be repeated for credit.  
For Honors Students
Prerequisites: HONS 193 (may be taken concurrently) with a minimum grade of D  
HONS 402.  Ethic and Moral Leadership.  (3 Credits)  
The value we create as entrepreneurs is more than economic. In this course, students will explore how to create ventures that provide lasting value to society and serve as examples of Jesuit and humanistic leadership. Major topics will include: ethical and moral development, Magis, the responsibility of leaders, and building an ethical organization.
Prerequisites: ENTR 201 with a minimum grade of D and ENTR 202 with a minimum grade of D and ENTR 301 with a minimum grade of D  

Enrollment limited to students with the Honors Program Participant attribute.

HONS 404.  Research and Information Management.  (3 Credits)  
Provides an introduction to quantitative and qualitative research principles and methodologies, including evaluation of research studies and application to practice. Critical analysis of nursing and health care research is emphasized. Stresses research design, sampling, data collection strategies and ethical considerations in research.
Prerequisites: Prerequisites exist. Refer to Zagweb.  

Enrollment limited to students with the Honors Program Participant attribute.

HONS 407.  Honors Advanced Genetics:.  (3 Credits)  
May be repeated for credit.  
An advanced study of genetics within the context of a selected topic in biology. Past topics have included an examination of human race and racism and the study of genomes. This course may be repeated once as long as the content is different than the first occurrence of enrollment. Spring, even years. Pre-requisite: BIOL 106, minimum grade: C- and BIOL 207, minimum grade: C-.
Prerequisites: Prerequisites exist. Refer to Zagweb.  
Equivalent: BIOL 355  

Enrollment is limited to students with a program in Biology, Biology, App Math - Biology or Biology.

HONS 417.  Topics in Mathematics .  (1-4 Credits)  
May be repeated for credit.  

Students with the Honors Program Participant attribute may not enroll.

HONS 432.  CIS.  (3 Credits)  
The Core Integration Seminar (CIS) engages the Year Four Question: “Imagining the possible: What is our role in the world?” by offering students a culminating seminar experience in which students integrate the principles of Jesuit education, prior components of the Core, and their disciplinary expertise. Each section of the course will focus on a problem or issue raised by the contemporary world that encourages integration, collaboration, and problem solving. The topic for each section of the course will be proposed and developed by each faculty member in a way that clearly connects to the Jesuit Mission, to multiple disciplinary perspectives, and to our students’ future role in the world.

Enrollment limited to students with the Honors Program Participant attribute.

HONS 437.  Abstract Algebra I.  (3 Credits)  
A detailed examination of topics chosen from groups, rings, integral domains, Euclidean domains, unique factorization, fields, Galois theory, and solvability by radicals. Spring and Fall, odd years. Pre-requisite: MATH 301
Prerequisites: Prerequisites exist. Refer to Zagweb.  

Enrollment limited to students with the Honors Program Participant attribute.

HONS 455.  Health Care Ethics Honors.  (3 Credits)  
Ethical concepts and issues in the medical field: personhood, relationship between health care professional and patient, experimentation, rights to health care, and allocation of health care resources.
Prerequisites: Prerequisites exist. Refer to Zagweb.  

Enrollment limited to students with a semester level of Fourth Year (96+ credits), Second Year (26-59.99 credits) or Third Year (60-95.99 credits).

Enrollment is limited to students with a program in Nursing or Philosophy.

Enrollment limited to students with the Honors Program Participant attribute.

HONS 457.  Topics in Eningeering.  (1-4 Credits)  
May be repeated for credit.  

Enrollment limited to students with the Honors Program Participant attribute.

HONS 481.  Strategic Management.  (3 Credits)  
A capstone course that introduces strategic management concepts and practices and integrates functional areas in a broad systems-perspective approach to organizational challenges. The primary instructional tool is case analysis. Consideration is given to the international context of strategic management and to the ethical dimensions of decision-making crucial to effective strategy formulation and implementation. Fall and Spring.
Prerequisites: Prerequisites exist. Refer to Zagweb.  

Enrollment limited to students with a semester level of Fourth Year (96+ credits).

HONS 491.  Independent Study.  (1-6 Credits)  
May be repeated for credit.  
Topic to be determined by faculty.

Enrollment limited to students with the Honors Program Participant attribute.

HONS 497.  Honors Leadership Internship.  (1-3 Credits)  
May be repeated for credit.  
Internship requires completion of a form, and Dept. permission and cannot be registered for via ZAGWEB. For Honors Students.
Prerequisites: HONS 190 with a minimum grade of D  
HONS 499.  Honors Senior Project.  (0-3 Credits)  
Fall, annually.
Prerequisites: HONS 432 with a minimum grade of C  
Course Fee: 50  

Enrollment limited to students with the Honors Program Participant attribute.