Honors Courses

Upper-Division Honors Seminars and Experiential Learning Courses

Enrollment in all HON courses (except HON 200) are controlled by the Honors College as they are by permission only. Students attend Honors Advising sessions, arranged by appointment, to obtain permission to register for these courses. Those students who are nearest to graduation are generally given priority, when necessary.

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Integrative CORE Honors Seminars

Each semester there are several of these small, interdisciplinary seminars offered through the college by outstanding faculty from across the university.

Spring 2027 – Upper Division CORE Honors Courses

Spring 2027 – Lower Division CORE Honors Courses

The list includes required first- and second-year Honors Seminars (i.e., FYS 100H and HON 200).

Experiential Learning Courses

In addition to the required Honors Seminars, the college also offers by permission experiential learning courses that allow students valuable opportunities in leadership and collaborative community-based learning in an instructional course. The first of these is HON 300 Honors Peer Mentoring, which is a course that focuses on leadership training and service to the college through collaborative, project-based community engagement. Next, when available, we have HON 481 Design for Defense. Finally, there is HON 490 TEDxMarshallU Internship, which provides hands-on training to plan and hold a TEDx event on campus. Enrollment in HON 490 in the Fall semester requires that you contact the instructor and obtain permission through both Dr. Kinghorn and the Honors College.

Spring 2027 – Upper Division CORE Honors Experiential Courses

Note

All honors students must complete at least ONE section of HON 480. Descriptions of ALL Upper-Division CORE Honors courses are available HERE. Refer to our advising page for more information on requirements.

Honors College HON 300 and HON 490 – Spring 2026

COURSE	SEC	CRN	HRS	COURSE TITLE	SCHEDULE	LOCATION	INSTRUCTOR	Attributes and Notes
HON 490	201		2	TedxMarshallU Honors Interns	TBA	TBA	Kinghorn, Brian	Honors CORE; No Textbook Required; Onsite Learning Experience; Part II of II

Spring 2027 – Upper Division GENERAL Honors Experiential Courses

The Honors College also offers upper-division, experiential and collaborative learning courses that are student-led. This includes HON 484 The Honors Oracle (newsletter). Students in this course develop at least three published newsletters for the Honors College each semester while serving as either a writer or editor.

Honors College HON 483–489 – Spring 2026

COURSE	SEC	CRN	HRS	COURSE TITLE	SCHEDULE	LOCATION	INSTRUCTOR	Attributes and Notes
HON 301	201		2	Honors Engagement & Outreach	TBA	TBA	Ferda, Mary Beth	Honors GENERAL; Free Book; Onsite Learning Experience; By PERMISSION of the Director of Honors Student Engagement
HON 301	202		2	Honors Engagement & Outreach	TBA	TBA	Ferda, Mary Beth	Honors GENERAL; Free Book; Onsite Learning Experience; By PERMISSION of the Director of Honors Student Engagement
HON 484	201		1	Honors College Newsletter	TBA	TBA	Bailey, Cara	Honors GENERAL; No Textbook Required; Onsite Learning Experience
HON 484	202		2	Honors College Newsletter	TBA	TBA	Bailey, Cara	Honors GENERAL; No Textbook Required; Onsite Learning Experience
HON 485	201		1 to 4	Independent Study	TBA	TBA	Hoey, Brian	Honors GENERAL; No Textbook Required; By PERMISSION OF THE DEAN
HON 489	201		1 to 4	Honors Internship	TBA	TBA	Hoey, Brian	Honors GENERAL; No Textbook Required; Onsite Learning Experience; By PERMISSION OF THE DEAN

Special Summer Honors Opportunity! Study Abroad in Ireland – May 2027

Note

This is the only summer offering that carries honors credit.

Immediately following the Spring 2027 semester, honors students can travel to Ireland for a two-week faculty-led program based at Dundalk Institute of Technology (DkIT). The experience explores the deep cultural connections between Ireland and Appalachia through archaeology, history, and place-based learning in the Boyne Valley region, including Newgrange, the Hill of Tara, and Dublin’s EPIC Emigration Museum.

The Honors College does not typically offer courses in the summer. However, through the Ireland Program, honors students can earn 6 credit hours of honors coursework (3 CORE + 3 General) transferred to Marshall—usable also as their home college/major decides—and receive an internationally awarded Certificate in Cultural Landscapes from DkIT! All students earn 7.5 hours of upper division credit.

Dates and final program cost will be announced by the Office of Study Abroad

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Lower-Division Departmental Honors-Designated Courses

In fulfilling General Education requirements at Marshall (Core I, Core II, and Additional University Requirements as seen in Degree Works), we advise our students to take honors-sections (any course with an “H” at the end, such as ANT201H or CMM104H) as much as possible as a means to complete both the required 12-hours of “general” honors credits of the Honors Curriculum as well as their General Education requirements at the same time.

Some of these courses may have prerequisites (noted as PR) set by the department that offer them that can, in rare cases, exclude an honors student on the basis of that PR. An example of this condition can be seen in ENG 201H. We recommend that honors students take ENG 200H instead, given the range of General Education attributes that can be obtained in this course.

Honors College lower-division and honors-designated course offerings – Spring 2027

COURSE	SEC	CRN	HRS	COURSE TITLE	SCHEDULE	LOCATION	INSTRUCTOR	Attributes and Notes
ART 112H	201	2101	3	Intro to Visual Art Honors	ONLINE ASYNC	ONLINE ASYNC	Danford, Rachel	Honors GENERAL; Asynchronous Online; Core II Fine Arts
CHM 390H	201	2584	1 to 4	Honors in Chemistry	TBA	HTN TBA	McCunn-Jordan, Laura	Honors GENERAL; Natural Sciences
CMM 104H	201	2892	3	Honors in Speech Comm	TR, 09:30a – 10:45a	SH 261	Taylor, Dennis	Honors GENERAL; Affordable Education Materials; Core II Communication Studies
ENG 200H	201	3263	3	Texting the World (CT)	ONLINE ASYNC	ONLINE ASYNC	Dennison, Cat	Honors GENERAL; Core II Humanities; Asynchronous Online; Composition Core II; Writing Intensive; Literature; Critical Thinking
ENG 201H	201	5958	3	English Comp Honors	MWF, 09:00a – 09:50a	CH 306	Burbery, Tim	Honors GENERAL; Composition Core II; PR: ACT Verbal 28, or SAT Verbal Before March 16 640, or SAT EVIDENCE-BASED READ/WRIT 640
ENT 300H	201	3458	3	Smith Incubator Honors II	TBA	HTN TBA	Eng, Ben	Honors GENERAL; PR: ENT 200H Minimum Grade C; PERMISSION OF iCENTER
MUS 142H	201	4343	3	Music in Society Honors	MWF, 09:00a – 09:50a	SM 143	Dobbs, Wendell	Honors GENERAL; Affordable Education Materials; Multicultural; Core II Fine Arts
SCLA 102H	201	5971	3	Transformative Texts ENG	TR, 11:00a – 12:15p	TBA	Dennison, Cat	Honors GENERAL; Composition Core II; Writing Intensive

Note

These courses are currently designed, staffed, and scheduled without close consultation with the Honors College–though we do seek partnership to assure that those courses open exclusively to honors students (i.e., are in the catalog to serve the Honors College) are of the highest possible quality and that they contribute most effectively to fulfilling the college’s student learning outcomes and mission. They are honors sections of courses offered in their home departments. Refer to our advising page for more information on requirements.