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The Smittcamp Family Honors College
Courses are selected from among proposals submitted by members of the university’s distinguished faculty. Our goal is to always be at the cutting edge of learning, innovation and exhilarating investigation. Therefore, our courses are not only discipline-based but are also cross disciplinary, by design.
Honors G.E. courses fulfill Fresno State's General Education (G.E.) and graduation requirements, making it easier for Scholars to graduate within four years.
In order to fulfill their scholarship contract, Scholars must complete:
Shows the use of language, rational inquiry, and logic in science, distinguishing science fact from science fiction. Inductive and deductive methods, judgment, opinion, origins of knowledge, belief and actions. A critical examination of contemporary pseudoscientific issues (creation science, UFOs, astrology, etc.)
In this course, you will learn how to develop informative and persuasive messages on topics relating to science and how to present messages effectively in face-to-face and mediated contexts.
Introduction to the practice and scholarship of American theatre today. Application of critical methodology for four areas of theatrical production: (1) theatre architecture, (2) acting, (3) directing, and (4) design. Attendance at 2-3 theatre performances is required.
Beginning workshop in the writing of poetry and fiction; appropriate readings and analysis.
Beginning workshop in the writing of poetry; appropriate reading and analyses. This course will encourage students to discover creative and innovative ways to ameliorate conditions while deploying cultural diversity and vitality found in our Valley and University.
Inter-relationships among art, literature, music, and philosophy, from Antiquity through the present. This course will encourage students to discover creative and innovative ways to ameliorate conditions while deploying cultural diversity and vitality found in our Valley and University.
Prerequisite: GE Foundation 1A.
This course studies the role of the United States in the world during the long twentieth century. This course will encourage students to discover creative and innovative ways to ameliorate conditions while deploying cultural diversity and vitality found in our Valley and University.
This course explores human nature through an interdisciplinary lens, drawing primarily upon the social sciences but also garnering insights from the natural sciences and the humanities. This course will encourage students to discover creative and innovative ways to ameliorate conditions while deploying cultural diversity and vitality found in our Valley and University.
Discusses significance of chemical principles in contemporary society; benefits and hazards relative to areas such as energy, health, diet, environment and agriculture.
Processes and materials that produce the different geologic resources and hazards (earthquakes, volcanoes, floods, landslides). Plate tectonic theory (including continental drift) as the unifying model to explain geologic phenomena. Emphasizes the relationship between geology and humans. (3 lecture, 2 lab hours: required field trip(s)).
Prerequisite: G.E. Foundation 2.
Meets the United States Constitution requirement and the federal, California state, and local government requirement. Not open to students with credit in PLSI 101. Development and operation of government in the United States; study of how ideas, institutions, laws and people have constructed and maintained a political order in America.
Application of chemical and biological principles to carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, minerals, and water in human nutrition. This course is offered as a Service-learning which is an essential component for this course since it will allow students to "learn by doing" In this course "learning by doing" is accomplished through students' educational presentations, guided reflection assignments, and participation in a comprehensive diet analysis project where students will collect, analyze and compare their own intakes and some other designated sample group in different communities.
Basic theories, research, and principles of physical, cognitive, and psychological development from conception to death presented from the perspective of diverse families. This honors course emphasizes reading original theoretical and empirical works by prominent developmentalists and student conducted research project.
This course explores interrelationships among self, society, and culture through analysis of creative works in the arts, literatures, and philosophies from antiquity to the present day. Students can also fulfill this with a pre-designed and approved travel experience culminating in a research paper.
Prerequisite: completion of FOUNDATION and Area 3 courses.
This course examines fundamental issues in social sciences with a view to exploring historical and contemporary global social problems, challenges, and proposed solutions from an array of methodological and cross-cultural perspectives.
Prerequisite: completion of FOUNDATION, Area 4, and PLSI 2H.
This course explores the interactions of humans with their environments and analyzes relationships between human behaviors at the individual and collective levels, the environments they evolved in, and their relationships with the modern world.
Prerequisite: completion of FOUNDATION, Area 2, and Area 5 courses.