UHL Course Catalog

Students who are accepted into the University Honors and Leadership Program (UHL) have the opportunity to learn from some of the best professors on campus. The curriculum includes both required courses and electives.

UHL courses are interdisciplinary and designed to encourage students to develop a broad-based intellectual approach to the subject matter. Students meet with a UHL advisor each semester, before they register for classes. Your advisor helps you to select courses that meet your needs, while taking into consideration your academic requirements, interests, and schedule. We strive to keep class offerings current and engaging, and are constantly updating curriculum and developing new courses.

As you review our course catalog, you’ll discover a diverse selection of interesting and challenging classes. You may even be surprised by what you find there. Our wide range of class topics include food justice, athlete activism, ethics and technology, and English composition with a focus on humor.

Sampling of UHL Core and Elective Courses

University faculty, community leaders, and representatives of for-profit and not-for-profit organizations will address the UHL seminar on a wide variety of topics. The seminar exposes UHL students to many different issues, attitudes, problems, careers, and activities. First year UHL students must enroll in both the fall and spring semesters.

Credit Hours: 1
Course Type: UHL Core

"Sins and Virtues" This course focuses on the elements of research-based academic argumentation. Students will construct analytical and persuasive arguments to explore current topics of their choosing (politics, culture, music, etc.), while considering how the seven deadly sins and the seven virtues pervade those current topics. Students will also strengthen their critical thinking, reading and writing skills while working with a variety of academic primary and secondary source material.

Credit Hours: 3

This course integrates leadership theory and practice within a principled negotiation philosophy. Students will develop lifelong negotiation skills that reflect a principled negotiation framework for conflict management and strategic bargaining. We utilize scenarios from the Project on Negotiation at Harvard and focus on real-life cases that provide insights and skills training across multiple contexts, such as: healthcare settings, environmental disputes, organizational conflicts, personal challenges, and consumer dilemmas. Students will be involved in at least 12 negotiation simulations over the course of the semester.

Credit Hours: 3
Course Type: Leadership Studies Track
Core Areas: Humanities, Behavioral Science, Social Science, Natural Science, Cultural Diversity, International Perspectives

The purpose of this course is to familiarize students with cutting-edge knowledge in major scientific and technological fields, against the background of cultural and artistic creativity, and to establish habits of life-long, self-guided learning. To enhance this process, relevant faculty will be invited to speak about innovation in their field, both in class and during the planned panel discussions.

Credit Hours: 3
Course Type: Leadership Studies Track
Core Areas: Arts, Natural and Physical Sciences, Humanities, Social Science, Behavioral Science, International Perspectives

This course introduces students to classical Greek literature, focusing on love and death in Homeric epic, lyric poetry, tragic drama, the history and social science of Thucydides, the comedies of Aristophanes, and Plato's philosophical dialogues.

Course Type: Academic Honors Tracks
Core Areas: Arts, Humanities, Social Science, International Perspectives

Food justice addresses systemic inequities in access to fresh and healthy food as illustrated by neighborhoods termed "food deserts." Questions examined include how sustainable/ethical relationships can be established between the activity of growing food and creating community, developing consciousness of place, and affirming cultural food/agricultural traditions. The history of community/school gardens, land and food desert inventories, food security assessments, and policies governing urban agriculture and food producing animals are also addressed.

Credit Hours: 3
Course Type: Academic Honors Track
Core Areas: Natural and Physical Sciences, Social Science, Humanities, Cultural Diversity

"Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food"- Hippocrates 421 BC.

This course will introduce students to the science of food and how it relates to health, the human body, and the manifestation of chronic disease (cancer, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease). We will also consider cultural, economic, and environmental consequences of industrial versus local, sustainable organic farming and how this has shaped our sense of family and community, and our connection with the Earth.

Credit Hours: 3
Course Type: Hybrid (counts for either track)
Core Areas: Natural Science, Behavioral Science, Social Science, Cultural Diversity, International Perspectives

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Sampling of UHL Core and Elective Courses

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Sampling of UHL Core and Elective Courses

UNHL 2755 UHL Seminar

ENGL 2030-U01 Core Composition II — Sins & Virtues

UNHL 3150 Elective — Negotiation, Bargaining, and Leadership

UNHL 3310 Elective — Innovation, Cutting-Edge Knowledge, and Self-Guided Learning

UNHL 3501 Elective — Love and Death in the Greek Classics

UNHL 3625 Elective — Food Justice: Urban Agriculture, Place, and Culture

UNHL 4815 Elective — The Science of Food: Understanding the Link between Diet, Culture, and Disease

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