2023-2024 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
University Honors Program
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Carmichael C. Peters, Ph.D., Director
The Chapman University Honors program is a broad interdisciplinary course of study based on great books and events from cultures around the world. Students and faculty concentrate on mutually critical exchanges between the classics of human cultures and the contemporary world. The goal of these dialogical exchanges is collaborative and intentional learning in which students and faculty together connect enduring and emerging ideas, drawing on shared texts, lectures, seminar discussions and cultural experiences.
Students in this university-wide program are required to complete a minimum of 24 credits. They select from a variety of courses in three main categories (human sciences, natural sciences and social sciences). During their first year in the program, honors students are required to enroll in the three-credit course, Honors Forum and complete the Honors program with the three-credit course, Honors Capstone.
Completion of the program satisfies the GE Inter/Multidisciplinary Cluster; select courses may also satisfy major and minor requirements or electives as well as GE requirements.
Applications are available online on the Chapman University Application Portal and University Honors Program homepage.
Admission to the Program
A successful candidate for the University Honors program will exhibit a strong motivation for interdisciplinary studies and an enthusiastic commitment to learning. The purpose of the Honors program is less to recognize past academic accomplishments than to encourage continued intellectual development, to nurture a lifelong love of learning and to prepare each student for a personally fulfilling and socially responsible life during their college years at Chapman and beyond.
Applicants typically have a first-rate GPA and highly competitive SAT and ACT scores. Other criteria may include outstanding leadership and/or creative achievement, community involvement and a range of interests and experiences. The program best serves students who approach their education in a mature and responsible manner.
Acceptance to the program is limited. Students must submit a separate application for admission to the Honors program, in addition to applying for admission to the University. Students already at Chapman may also apply for admission, prior to accumulating 60 credits.
Once accepted, students are expected to be active participants in Honors activities and are required to attend the annual University Honors Conference on the first Saturday each May. All students who wish to complete the University Honors program, which culminates with a capstone seminar, must fulfill the requirements listed in the degree.
DegreesMinorCoursesHonors- HON 202 - On Being Ethical in the World
- HON 206 - In Search of Reality: Media, Self and Society
- HON 207 - Darwin’s Evolutionary Theory: The Science and the Controversy
- HON 209 - Death, Self and Society
- HON 210 - Monsters and Monstrosities
- HON 216 - Twilight of the Gods
- HON 218 - Social Movement in the Sixties
- HON 222 - Honors Composition: Rhetorical Agency Across Genres
- HON 224 - Shakespeare, Race, Ethnicity
- HON 238 - The Power of Storytelling: Narrative Theory and Practice
- HON 240 - Anime and War
- HON 242 - Beyoncé, Madonna, Nina Simone
- HON 245 - Writing for Life
- HON 254 - Symmetry
- HON 255 - Serving to Learn: Learning to Serve
- HON 266 - Sound and Spirit
- HON 275 - Thinking and Risk Taking from Outside the Box
- HON 277 - Game of Thrones: Beyond the Wall
- HON 280 - Honors Forum
- HON 282 - Evolution, Morality, and Ethics
- HON 286 - Origins
- HON 288 - Close Reading
- HON 292 - The Art of Revenge
- HON 302 - Witnessing the World: The Art of Travel Writing
- HON 305 - Antigone and I
- HON 307 - Topics in the Great Operas of the Western Tradition
- HON 308 - Consciousness and Cognition
- HON 310 - Experiencing Forms and Colors: Goethe’s Approach to Science
- HON 311 - Ethnicity, Race and Nationalism
- HON 313 - Golden Opportunities: Immigration and the Arts in Southern California, 1900-1950
- HON 314 - Narrating the Afterworld: Dante’s Spiritual Journey
- HON 315 - Power and Imagination in the Italian Renaissance
- HON 317 - Visual Literacy in a Generation of Visible Surplus: Its Theory, Practice and Applications
- HON 319 - Dinosaurs: In Science and Media
- HON 326 - Writing Food Culture
- HON 328 - Elder Law and Juvenile Law
- HON 329 - Experimental Course
- HON 330 - Bodies Under Construction
- HON 335 - The Enigma of Being Awake: Zen Buddhism
- HON 338 - ThanaTourism: Traveling the “Dark Side”
- HON 344 - Illustrating History/the World: Graphic Memoirs, Novels, and Reportage
- HON 345 - Immigration and Refugee Law and Policy
- HON 347 - Listening to Time: Area Studies in Ethnomusicology
- HON 354 - Origin and Evolution of the Universe and Life
- HON 359 - Fundamentals of Deductive and Inductive Logic
- HON 360 - Performing Americas: Celebrating American Identities
- HON 361 - How Art Can Help Us Save the Planet
- HON 362 - Philosophical Themes in the Films of Ingmar Bergman
- HON 363 - The Castaway Narrative in World Literature
- HON 364 - Biology in Media and Reality
- HON 365 - Copyright/Copywrong
- HON 367 - Pythagoras Revisited: A Quest for Interior Precision
- HON 369 - Select Contemporary Problems: Religion and Politics
- HON 371 - Tales of a Creative Mind: Fellini, the Dream-Director
- HON 373 - Pinocchio & Co: The Puppet Across Media
- HON 374 - Philosophy of Science: Interdisciplinary Applications
- HON 376 - Sustainability in an Unsustainably Structured World
- HON 377 - Critical Animal Studies
- HON 381 - Think for Yourself: From Socrates to Adorno
- HON 382 - The Fabric of the Universe: Space, Time, and Reality
- HON 383 - Controversial Topics in Biology
- HON 385 - Is Big Data Enough? A Conceptual Exploration of Data Science
- HON 389 - The Science Blender
- HON 392 - Adventures in Cosmologies
- HON 393 - Tricksters and Cosmopolitans
- HON 395 - Topics in Honors
- HON 395H - Newton and the Scientific Revolution
- HON 396 - The Politics of Waste
- HON 398 - Honors Tutorial
- HON 398A - HONORS Tutorial, The Posthuman Condition
- HON 399 - Individual Study
- HON 404 - Early Modern Sexualities: The Body, Gender, and Sex before Western Modernization
- HON 406 - Brain, Mind, and Film
- HON 409 - Hermes Unbound: Divining Hermeneutics
- HON 410 - Antigone and I
- HON 412 - “Seas of Stories”: Postcolonial Literature and Theory
- HON 416 - Sex, Self, Society
- HON 418 - Critical Pedagogy: Teaching to Transgress
- HON 419 - The Search for an American Voice: Huck Finn to Harlem
- HON 424 - Magic, the Occult and Art in the Early Modern Period
- HON 432 - Queer Theory
- HON 435 - Race Matters
- HON 448 - The Beauty of Ideas: An Experience of Florence
- HON 455 - Interpreting the Past: an Experience of Rome
- HON 465 - Porn Studies
- HON 490 - Independent Internship
- HON 498 - Honors Capstone Seminar
- HON 499 - Individual Study
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