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Current Courses

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Each year, Clarkson professors propose exciting new course topics for the Honors Program curriculum. Below are the current courses for the 2012-13 academic year. Click on each course title to download the syllabus.

First-Year Courses

Fall

  • HP100/102: The Social and Ethical Implications of Research with Professor Gary Kelly
  • HP100 LAB: Honors Matlab Module with TAs Devon Jedamski and Joe Quinzi
Spring
  • HP101/103: Investigating Social Problems with Professor Gary Kelly
  • HP101 LAB: MatLab with TAs Devon Jedamski and Joe Quinzi
Sophomore-Year Courses

Fall
  • HP200: Honors Sophomore Course with Professors Brenda Kozsan, Bill Olsen, Bang Geul Han, Thomas Langen and Stephen Casper
  • HP201Honors Sophomore Course with Professors Brenda Kozsan, Bill Olsen, Bang Geul Han, Thomas Langen and Stephen Casper

  • The challenge of the Sophomore Problem in 2012-2013 was to design interactive web-based exhibits for the Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake.  The goal was to incorporate Geographical Information Systems and visualization technologies to appeal a diverse audience and to educate them on the history of human and environmental relationships in the Adirondack Park.

You can see some of the websites here: http://web2.clarkson.edu/projects/hp200_adk/index.html

And here is a link to video shot at the presentation to the staff of the ADK Museum: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTf9BgAC-cw&feature=youtu.be

Junior-Year Courses

Fall

Spring
  • HP390: Honors Undergraduate Thesis with Professor Jon Goss

Senior-Year Courses

Fall

Spring

  • HP400:  Honors Senior Course on Modernity with Professor Karen Buckle 

Honors Course Group

Honors introduced me to situations and questions completely out of my field - chaos theory, particle science, Internet politics, and policy-making to name a few.

- Michelle Gauger '01, Ph.D. student in Biochemistry at the University of North Carolina

 

Honors gave me the opportunity to think, discuss and be creative in an environment where these things were not only welcome, but expected

- Scott Levasseur '01, Engineer, ExxonMobil