University Honors Courses
University Honors students can complete their UH course enrollment one of two ways:
- Complete one UH course per year.
- Complete two UH courses in either the first or second (sophomore) years. If a student chooses this option, they can combine the remaining two UH courses in any way that works; however, it is not an option to complete two courses a second time.
In summary, students must take at least one class their first and second year. Below is an outline that displays five UH course completion options:
| Year in School | Option 1 | Option 2 | Option 3 | Option 4 | Option 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
First | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Second | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Third | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Fourth | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Spring 2026
**NEW UH Course ADDED**
HON 1003: Sec. 550: From Beethoven to the Beatles (3 credits)
Class #67645
MWF, 9 - 9:50 am
Fine Arts
Beethoven to the Beatles develops basic musicianship, enhances artistic expressive awareness, provides historical and cross-cultural contexts, and encourages creative and analytical thinking through written expression. World-music perspectives are presented with live piano performances. Music can only be really alive when there are listeners who are really aware. Learning how to listen to and what to listen for in music is vital to artistic growth. Aaron Copland, the Dean of American Composers, said: “To listen intently, to listen consciously, to listen with one’s whole intelligence is the least we can do in furtherance of an art that is one of the glories of mankind.
FA 1102, Sect. 550: Creating Art, Sec. 550 (3 credits)
Class #67453
Dr. Justin Rubin | MWF 12-12:50 pm, Weber 206
Fine Arts
No textbooks, only hands-on interactive learning. What do we do? We make films when you've never made one before, create an illuminated manuscript, study paintings of recluses and hold lively discussions on how and why people never stop making interesting things from every era and perspective.
HON 3597, Sec. 550: Exploring Duluth: Placemaking & histories of urban planning (3 credits)
Class #66385
Dr. Jennifer Webb | T, 3:30-6pm, UH Classroom KAML 119
Humanities and Cultural Diversity in the US
This course uses Duluth as a case study for the larger histories of urban planning in the United States. Students will be introduced not only to physical features and theoretical ideas behind urban design across time but will also understand the way that the urban fabric has institutionalized advantage and disadvantage. Students will be required to travel through the City of Duluth in order to better understand various design examples through personal experience and observation.
HON 3305, Sec. 550: French Cuisine Exploring French Culture Through Food (4 credits)
Class #67439
Dr. Dana Lindaman | M & W: 4-6pm, UH Classroom KAML 119
Humanities and Global Perspectives
This course is taught in English and will use food as an entry point into a deeper exploration of French identity, including analysis of important contemporary issues related to gender, class, and sustainability. Students will study the ways in which French society has sought to establish order and symmetry around the table, a focal point of French society, and the many points of creative resistance to that order.
HON 3895, Sec. 550: The Ethics of Call Out Culture, Sec. 550 (3 credits)
#67474
Dr. Jeanine Weekes Schroer | 9- 10:45am on T & Th, location KAML 115 (next to the UH Classrom)
Cultural Diversity in the US
Public shaming is not new, but social media has upped the stakes. People have lost jobs, careers, and even their lives in the aftermath of something as simple as a scolding on Twitter. This also makes Twitter one of the main destinations for some of the most important discourses of our time: Genuinely diverse communities come together to communicate within and across boundaries about racism, sexism, homophobia, and ableism. By reading ethicists, feminists, critical race theorists, and black feminist theorists, and their thinking on the purpose of blame, the importance of public blame, the challenges of shame, the epistemic challenges of structural oppression, the challenges of social media, this course will map an Ethics for the age of the Call-out.
WRIT 3180, Sec 550: UH Advanced Writing (3 credits)
Class# 46383
Rebecca Boyle, MFA | T & Th 9:30 - 10:45, UH Classroom KAML 119
Advance Writing Requirement
**Senior and Junior UH students will have priority access, then sophomores and first-year students who are interested if they have completed 60 credits and seats remain.
Develops research, critical thinking, and collaborative writing strategies as well as rhetorical skills to draft documents in multiple genres for multiple audiences. This includes professional correspondence and reports, research proposals, literature reviews, oral presentations, and related documents for the honors project as well as the production and publication of Aisthesis, UH's own interdisciplinary honors journal. If you want to take this course, email Joelle McGovern ([email protected]) to process your request.
Fall 2025
AMIN 3640, Sect. 550: 21st Century Native Literature: American Indian Writing Published in the New Millennium (3 credits)
Class #29999
Cultural Diversity in the US | Humanities
T &Th 2 - 3:15pm, UH Classroom KAML 119
Dr. Carter Meland
Exploring novels, poetry, memoir, short fiction, essays, and other forms of literary writing composed since the year 2000, this class examines these works for the ways they engage with and extend critical themes of American Indian cultural and political resurgence in the 21st century.
Note: AMIN 3640 currently has a prerequisite of 30 credits. If you are under 30 credits you can still take the course. You just have to email Professor Meland ([email protected]) and ask to be added to the roster.
DN 1151, Sect. 550: Modern Dance Technique I (2 credits - Fine Arts)
Class# 30015
Fine Arts
Monday, Wednesday, Friday 3-4:10pm
MPAC 1
Brianna Hall-Nelson
Previous dance training or experience is welcomed but not required for this class, just a desire to move and a willingness to try! Modern Dance Technique I is designed to introduce Modern Dance as both a historical form and contemporary practice and intended to develop Modern Dance skills with emphasis on placement, coordination, balance, and musicality. Concurring with Liberal Education objectives, the course will provide opportunities for creative expression through active participation and presentation of dancing via class exercises and projects. In addition, students will develop an appreciation for the diverse cultural influences on, and stylistic variety in, Modern Dance as a performance dance form. The majority of course work is the actual dancing; it will be supported by video viewings, selected readings, and some written reflection work
ENGL 1582, section 550: Introduction to World Literatures
Class #29829
Global Perspectives and Humanities
MW 9-10:50am - Classroom to be determined
Dr. John Schwetman
Introduction to World Literature provides students with an introduction to novels, poetry, and drama from outside of the Anglo-American literary tradition. Focusing on literature translated into English and literature in English from non-Western authors, this class enables students to consider America’s place in the world and the complex legacy of colonization that has shaped it. Literature provides insights into how people in other cultures regard themselves and reminds us of the difficulties of translation as a bridge across varying and sometimes incommensurable cultural divides.
HON 3495 Section 550, Community Immersion and Entrepreneurship (3 credits)
Class# 10529
WF 9:15-10:45 am - UH Classroom KAML 119
Social Science
Dr. Aparna Katre
This is a seminar course and it involves once a week (Wednesday) off-campus meetings in downtown Duluth and engagement in situ with community partners. The course is designed to facilitate long-term collaborations between the University and the Twin Ports community to respond entrepreneurially to community issues. It provides a framework for thoughtful, sustained engagement where responses to community issues are developed organically, collaboratively, and with grassroots participation. Supported by theories for social change, such as systems thinking, intersectionality and entrepreneurship, students immerse themselves in projects to strengthen the community. The emphasis is on building a sound grasp of the topics by connecting them to community issues and entrepreneurial activities.
PHIL 2021, Sec. 550: Science and Pseudoscience: Thinking about weird things (3 credits)
Class #32827
MWF, Noon - 12:50 pm, UH Classroom
Dr. Robert Schroer
Humanities
A critical introduction to the nature of knowledge and belief by focusing on contemporary issues, such as UFOs, ESP, mysticism, creationism and evolution, and near-death experiences, which explains the differences between rational beliefs and articles of faith and between science and pseudo-science.