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Curriculum UAlbany students in the Science Library

Honors College Courses

Honors courses for the current academic year: 2009-2010

Courses for next academic year: 2010-2011

Honors courses from previous years.
2008-2009
2007-2008
2006-2007

  • Rather than having a small number of professors teach an honors curriculum, as is done at some other universities, our curriculum is designed so that professors from across the UAlbany campus teach honors courses. Consequently, we offer a wide range of courses from many disciplines. For example, during the 2008/09 academic years, 35 professors will offer a course in The Honors College. This strategy introduces honors students to top professors from many disciplines, provides them with the opportunity for learning in areas that are unfamiliar to them, and allows honors students to begin to form relationships with professors from across campus.

    Our curriculum has two primary characteristics:

    • It is guided by a developmental model that provides a broad outline of a pathway for the development of a scholar during her or his four years at college.
    • It combines the educational benefits associated with many small, liberal-arts colleges and the educational benefits of attending a large, research university.

    During their first two years, honors students explore a wide range of disciplines through six or more honors courses. In addition to increasing their knowledge in a discipline, these courses introduce students to ways in which new knowledge is created in the discipline and encourage students to think more deeply about the principal issues in the discipline. The nature of these courses is similar to what one would expect to find in a small, prestigious liberal-arts college.

    • Only honors students can enroll in honors courses, so each of them includes only bright, serious students.
    • All honors courses are limited to 25 students, and many are smaller than this. This allows discussion, debate, and other forms of active learning to occur throughout the course.
    • Only professors who have a record of excellence in undergraduate education teach honors courses.

    During their second two years, students move into the honors program in their major. Through the honors program in their major, each student identifies one professor as a mentor and then completes a senior research thesis or creative project with that professor as an advisor. This allows students to learn the craft of creating knowledge in their discipline by participating in that process with a current scholar. 

     

    New York State Military Museum and Veterans Research Center - Unit History Project - Welcome

    The students in Professor Robert's course The Mass Media and War in U.S. History  worked with researchers at the New York State Military Museum, and their papers are part of the museum's permanent collection.  The papers can be viewed on the museum's website.          

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