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Honors Courses and Seminars

Fall 2025 Honors Elective Courses

Course Faculty Day/Time Modality
CSC-237-01H C++ Programming Owens T/Th 11.00 - 12.40 In Person
ECO-201-01H Macroeconomics Chow M/W 1-2.15 Remote
ECO-202-200H Microeconomics Chow MW 2.30-3.45 In Person
GEO-101-WB1H
World Regional Geography
TBA   Web-based
LIT-227-01H
African American Literature
Clark W 10-11.15 Hybrid: In person
+ web
MAT-181-04H Statistics   Sarmiento T (remote)/TH (in-person) 11.30 - 12.45 Hybrid: Remote + In person
PSC-220-01H Intro to International Relations Robinson M 1-2.15 Hybrid: In Person + Web
PSY-101-WB1H Principles of Psychology Mullin - Web-based
SCI-221-01H Interpretation of Scientific Research Atkinson W 2.30 - 5.15 In Person
SOC-101-WBH Principles of Sociology Maynard - Web-based

Fall 2025 Honors Seminar Courses

Course Faculty Day/Time Modality
HON-200-01H
Honors Seminar: Artificial Intelligence
Kasili & Soro T 10-11.15 Hybrid: Remote + Web
HON-200-200H
Honors Seminar: Future World
Robinson & Miller M 6-7.15 Hybrid: Remote + Web

Fall 2025 Honors Seminar Descriptions

Future Worlds

Monday 6 - 7:15 p.m.

Prof. André Robinson and Prof. Elizabeth Miller

This seminar looks at science based Utopian/Dystopian visions of the future and focuses
on politics and technology. Topics will range from Afrofuturism to Cybernetics to Star Trek.
What does the future hold for our species? What will society look like in the next
millennium? Does our future lie beyond this galaxy?

Artificial Intelligence

Tuesdays 10 - 11:15 a.m.

Prof. Paul Kasili and Prof. Omar Soro

What are the techniques that enable computers to behave intelligently? What are some of the opportunities, challenges, and problems introduced by the emergence and growth of artificial intelligence? Artificial intelligence (AI) addresses questions at the intersection of many fields, including computer science, economics, bioinformatics, medicine, linguistics, philosophy, and psychology. It is a part of our everyday lives: googling some keywords, speaking into your phone to compose a text, using Facebook's facial recognition to tag people in a photo, playing chess against a computer, and using Google Translate to read a sign that is not in your language--these are all examples of AI in action. There are difficult ethical issues that emerge in relation to AI, such as the ways implicit biases are built into algorithms used to predict crime, the impact of robots on labor in the global economy, and the debate over whether intelligent computers deserve human rights.