Honors Jan Term and Spring 2025 Course Offerings
See what Honors Courses are being offered in Jan Term and Spring Semester 2025.
November 1, 2024
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See what Honors Courses are being offered in Jan Term and Spring Semester 2025.
As technology evolves at a rapid pace, so must education. The Whitworth University Computer Science department is excited to announce new degrees for the 2024 academic year, reflecting years of thoughtful dialogues between faculty and students, feedback, and a commitment to inclusivity and interdisciplinary learning.
This Monday, at 7 in the HUB MPR, STEM students will share their summer research. The poster session will begin at 7:30 and showcase students’ work.
Community Building Day: Honors First Years Register Students to Vote On Community Building Day, Whitworth’s Honors Learning Community set up in and around the HUB to register students to vote. We wanted to raise awareness on campus, as many students we came across were not registered, including the upperclassmen. We
Honors Floor Past and Present At Whitworth, first-year Honors students have the unique opportunity to join the Honors Floor learning community. From 2021-2023, the Honors
Honors Lunch Network, Fall 2024: Democracy and Discourse We live in an age of polarizing opinion and shrinking common ground. The theme for this
Next spring, SC-126: Infinite and the Void will become an Honors class, allowing it to count towards Honors credit for Honors students.
This course examines concepts of math through an interdisciplinary lens. Charlie Rodriguez, a senior math major who TA’d for the class, said that people often think that mathematics has no meaningful connection to life. He says this “couldn’t be further from the truth.”
Jade Truong, a senior who is majoring in health sciences, is using Honors to connect with the community by hosting an teaching event about personal nutrition and exercise.
Earlier this month, Michael St. Marie, a Whitworth student studying Theology with minors in biblical languages and English, presented a paper at the Exploring Early
Whitworth Students Dylan Richardson and Libby Bunch, as well as Whitworth professor Aaron Hitefield, had the opportunity to attend the Conference of the Parties (COP)
During the week of November 13th, Whitworth’s Eric Johnson Science Building hosted the “Beauty in the Chaos” art gallery. The hallway walls were decorated with
This upcoming week from November 12-21, the Eric Johnson Science Center will be hosting “Beauty in the Chaos”, a collaborative art exhibit inspired by Nonlinear
While freshmen were exploring Italy, they had the opportunity to visit the city of Assisi. Read this story, written by two of the students, detailing that experience and the lessons learned.
Over Jan Term, freshmen honors students took a trip to learn in Italy. Read about the adventures of two of the freshmen and how they learned to venture into a new culture on their own, appreciate the art of the Borghese Gallery, and make new acquaintances.
During the freshman Jan Term trip to Italy, some of the students had the unique experience of attending the funeral of Pope Benedict XVI. Read about the insights and awe this experience inspired.
2023 saw freshmen honors students travel to Italy for a Jan Term study away trip. Read the first of the series of transformational moments these students experienced.
For junior Eleanor Jeffers, her undergrad degree has provided an opportunity to explore life questions many of us never even think about.
Read more to learn about what these experiences mean to her!
Kyle Marquez developed a proposal during HN 300 that combines interdisciplinary endeavors and is a foundation for his future work. Read about how the class helped him narrow his goal and develop this project proposal.
Sigma Xi Five new Honors students inducted This semester, five honors students were inducted into the Sigma Xi branch at Whitworth. Sigma Xi is a well-respected National Research Honors Society that supports quantitative research aimed at positively advancing society, according to Dr. Aaron Putzke. The five students added this semester include Eleanor Jeffers, Casey Moddrell, Kendall Sandhop, Corrine Vasiloff, and Ethan Worth. While this organization has traditionally focused on STEM fields, Whitworth has made a goal to include other disciplines with quantitative research. This allows Whitworth’s chapter to be more inclusive with students that are both in
As an English Writing major, I am constantly asked the question, “what are you going to do with your degree?” The answer, as I have discovered during my time in Whitworth’s honors program, is that the possibilities are far more wide-reaching than even I would have guessed as I declared my major in 2019. Eighteen-year-old literature-loving me would not have anticipated using my writing skills to interpret and communicate water law— but that’s exactly what I did throughout the fall of 2021. HN300, or the community-based research honors seminar, is a class that divides honors students into