Courses
Spring 2027
| Course | Section | Title | Description | Days & Times | Instr Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ACC 201H | 0001 | ACC201H - Honors Section of ACC201: Financial Accounting | (3 crs.) Honors Section of ACC (BUS) 201: Financial Accounting. (Lec. 3/Online) Pre: Must have a 3.40 overall GPA. Open only to students with more than 24 credits or permission of dean's office. | MWF 1-1:50pm | Newell, Roberta |
| AST 118H | 0001 | Intro Astronomy: The Solar System | (4 crs.) This course offers honors students an interactive learning environment investigating the large scale structures of the universe (stars, galaxies, galaxy clusters) with a focus on the absence of biomarkers in the universe as an opportunity for the seemingly unique sapient life on Earth to expand into cosmos, changing the universe from one mostly devoid of life to one teaming with it. (Lec. 3, Lab. 1/Online) (A1) | TTH 12:30pm-1:45pm | Gobeille, Douglas |
| CCJ 230H/ SOC230 | 0001 | CCJ230H - Honors Section of SOC/CCJ 230: Crime and Delinquency | (3 crs.) Honors Section of SOC/CCJ 230: Crime and Delinquency. Cross-listed as (SOC), CCJ 230. Survey of the extent, distribution, trends and costs of delinquency and crime in the United States; examination of selected types of crime and delinquency; policy implications. (Lec. 3/Online) (A2) | TTH 9:30-10:45 | Pifer, Natalie |
| CHM 112H | 0001 | Honors Section of CHM 112 | (3 crs.) Chemical kinetics, equilibrium, elementary thermodynamics and electrochemistry integrated with descriptive chemistry and practical applications. (Lec 3) Pre: CHM101 (grade of C- or better) or CHM101H (grade of C- or better), and a 3.4 GPA or higher | TTH 3:30pm-4:45pm | Mogawer, Hanan |
| CHM 124H | 0001 | H Section of CHM 124 | (3 crs.) Elementary principles of organic chemistry with emphasis on aliphatic compounds, especially those of physiological significance such as amino acids and proteins, carbohydrates, fats, and waxes. (Lec. 3) Pre: CHM 101 with a grade of C- or better or CHM 103 with a grade of C- or better. Must have 3.4 GPA or higher. Not open to chemistry or chemical engineering majors. | MWF 10:00am-10:40am | Pantano, Justin |
| CHM 228H | 0001 | Honors Sec-Organ CHM Lec II | (3 crs.) Honors Section of CHM 228: Organic Chemistry Lecture II. Continuation of 227 with emphasis on the aromatic series. (Lec. 3) Pre: overall 3.40 gpa or higher, and CHM227 or CHM227H with a grade of C- or better. | MWF 8:00am-8:50am | Lucht, Brett |
| CHN 112H | 0001 | Hon. Sect-Intensive Beg CHN II | (4 crs.) Honors Section of CHN 112: Intensive Beginning Chinese II. (Lec. 4) Pre: CHN 111 or equivalent and 3.40 overall gpa. (C2) (A3) | MWF 9:00am-9:50am | Zhang, Yiping |
| CHN 312H | 0001 | (216H) HonSec-Int.Conv-Comp II | (4 crs.) Honors Section of CHN 312 (216): Intensive Conversation and Composition II. Intensive course in further development of proficiency in speaking, listening, reading and writing Chinese. Advanced-low level grammatical structures. (Lec. 4) Pre: 3.40 overall gpa and CHN 311, 311H or equivalent, or permission of instructor. (C2) (A3) | MWF 11:00am-11:50am | Cai, Jiangping |
| CHN 412H | 0001 | CHN 412H: Honors Sect CHN 412 | (4 crs.) Survey of Chinese literature, Media Chinese and Classical Chinese. Part 2 of intensive course for Flagship students. (Lec. 4) Pre: CHN411 or equivalent. Overall GPA of 3.4 or higher, Honors eligible (incoming freshmen or transfer students), permission of the Honors Director | MWF 1:00pm-1:50pm | Yang, Qingyu |
| COM 100H | 0001 | Honors Section-Comm. Fund. | (3 crs.) Honors Section of COM 100: Communication Fundamentals. Not open to students with credit in COM 110. (Lec. 3/Online) Pre: Must have a 3.40 overall GPA. (B2) (C1) | MWF 4:00pm-4:50 pm | Earle, Erin |
| COM 321GH | 0001 | Honors Section of COM 321G: Social Media and Interpersonal Communication | (3 crs.) Honors Sections of COM 321G: Social Media and Interpersonal Communication. Explore theories and research on interpersonal communication and social media. Examine social media uses and impact on communication, perceptions, identity construction, relationships, and society. (Lec. 3) Pre: COM 100 and overall GPA of 3.4 or higher, or permission of instructor. (A2) (GC) | MWF 9:00am-9:50am | Proulx, Tracy |
| ECN 201H | 0001 | Honors Sec:Prin of Microecon. | (3 crs.) Honors Section of ECN 201: Principles of Economics: Microeconomics. (Lec. 3/Online) Pre: overall gpa of 3.40. (A2) | MWF 11:00am-11:50am | Devine, Theresa |
| EGR 106H | 0001 | Honors Section-Found EGR II | (2 crs.) Honors Section of EGR 106: Foundations of Engineering II. Engineering problem solving. (Lec. 2) Pre: MTH 141 or concurrent registration in MTH 141 and a 3.40 overall GPA. (A4) | M 3:30pm-5:45pm | Hunter, Christopher |
| EGR 106H | 0002 | Honors Section-Found EGR II | (2 crs.) Honors Section of EGR 106: Foundations of Engineering II. Engineering problem solving. (Lec. 2) Pre: MTH 141 or concurrent registration in MTH 141 and a 3.40 overall GPA. (A4) | TU 3:30pm-5:45pm | Hunter, Christopher |
| EGR 106H | 0003 | Honors Section-Found EGR II | (2 crs.) Honors Section of EGR 106: Foundations of Engineering II. Engineering problem solving. (Lec. 2) Pre: MTH 141 or concurrent registration in MTH 141 and a 3.40 overall GPA. (A4) | TH 3:30pm-5:45pm | Hunter, Christopher |
| GWS 150H | 0001 | Hon Sec of GWS 150: Introduction to Gender & Women's Studies | (3 crs.) Images of women, the theories and processes of socialization, historical perspectives, and implications for social change. (Lec. 3/Online) Service learning in some sections. Pre: 3.40 overall GPA. (A2) (C3) | TTH 11:00am-12:15pm | McIntyre, Katie |
| HDF 130GH | 0001 | Honors Section of HDF 130GH Individual & Family Development | (3 crs.) Students in this course will learn about contemporary issues of human development, family systems, and cultural diversity based on the television show, This is Us. (Lec. 3/Online) Pre: Freshmen or sophomore standing, or permission of instructor. Overall GPA of 3.4 or higher, Honors eligible (incoming freshmen or transfer students), permission of the Honors Director (C3) (GC) | TH 12:30 pm-1:45pm | Wolfe, Kathryn |
| HDF 352GH | 0001 | Adulting in the 21st Century | (3 crs.) Honors section of HDF352G. (Lec. 3) Pre: Junior or senior standing. Overall GPA of 3.4 or higher, Honors eligible (incoming freshmen or transfer students), permission of the Honors Director (A2) (C3) (GC) | TH 12:30-1:45pm | Branch, Katie |
| HPR 100 | 0001 | Honors Foundations: Design for Understanding | (3 crs.) Design for Understanding challenges students to make the invisible visible by mapping the hidden systems, histories, and relationships that shape campus life and sense of place. Students use cartography, field observations, and storytelling to create maps that foster shared understanding of relationships between people, infrastructures, environments, and experiences.(Lec. 3) (B2) (C1) Pre: Must be Honors Program New Admit or Honors Transfer Admit or CGPA 3.4 or above | MWF 12:00pm-12:50pm | Taylor, Cynthia |
| HPR 100 | 0002 | Honors Foundations: Design for Understanding | (3 crs.) Design for Understanding challenges students to make the invisible visible by mapping the hidden systems, histories, and relationships that shape campus life and sense of place. Students use cartography, field observations, and storytelling to create maps that foster shared understanding of relationships between people, infrastructures, environments, and experiences.(Lec. 3) (B2) (C1) Pre: Must be Honors Program New Admit or Honors Transfer Admit or CGPA 3.4 or above | MWF 1:00pm-1:50pm | Taylor, Cynthia |
| HPR 124 | 0001 | Honors: Soc Science-Civic Know Loss in the Lives of Children and Adolescents | (3 crs.) Children's experiences with loss, focusing on developmental stage, cognitive capacity, and emotional effects. Explores victimization of children from a global perspective. Service-learning linkage with Friends Way, a children's bereavement center. Pre: Must have a 3.4 overall GPA. (A2) (C1) | TTH 2:00pm-3:15pm | Hames, Carolyn |
| HPR 124 COMING SOON | 0002 | Teaching and Learning Mahjong | (3 crs.) This course introduces students to the game of mahjong as an educational and sociocultural experience. Students will learn rules of gameplay and apply strategic thinking in a collaborative, experiential setting. Pre: Must have a 3.4 overall GPA. (A2) (C1) | T 2:00-4:45pm | Correia, Amy |
| HPR 131G COMING SOON | 0001 | Physics of Life | (3 crs.) Understanding the general fundamental principals of life. | MW 5:00-6:15pm | Reshetnyak, Yana |
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| HPR 147 | 0001 | Drawn Together- Intergenerational Exchange through Poetry, Letters and Doodling | (3 crs.) Explore poetry’s power through doodling, annotation, and intergenerational exchange, and discover how creative reading builds empathy and connection. Pre: 3.40 overall or better GPA. (A3 | TTH 12:30pm-1:45pm | De Bruin, Karen |
| HPR 233 | 0001 | Honors Colloq- STEM / Info Lit: Interstellar | (3 crs.) An exploration of the mysteries of the universe as seen through the theories and observations that have challenged our understanding of reality. (A1) (B4) | MWF 9:00am-9:50am | Coyne,Robert Kahn,Leonard |
| HPR 233 COMING SOON | 0002 | Health Rhode Island: Exploring Critical Health Issues | (4 crs.) This course will focus on the state of Rhode Island, examining critical issues that impact health and exploring ways to address them. | TTH 2:00pm-4:45pm | Quashie, Nekehia |
| HPR 233 COMING SOON | 0003 | Health Rhode Island: Exploring Critical Health Issues | (4 crs.) This course will focus on the state of Rhode Island, examining critical issues that impact health and exploring ways to address them. | TTH 2:00pm-4:45pm | Levy, Jennifer |
| HPR 233 COMING SOON (this section might become 230G) | 0004 | Health Rhode Island: Exploring Critical Health Issues | (4 crs.) This course will focus on the state of Rhode Island, examining critical issues that impact health and exploring ways to address them. | TTH 2:00pm-4:45pm | Richard, Molly |
| HPR 347 | 0001 | Ghost and the Machine | (4crs.)(Seminar) Honors Seminar in Humanities and Writing. This course explores the complex, intriguing ways people have historically and persistently invoked spiritualism and the idea of haunting when trying to come to terms with new technology. (Seminar) Pre: 3.4 overall GPA. (A3) (B1) | TTH 12:30pm-1:45pm | Shepley,Genoa L. |
| HPR 347 | 0002 | The Play Impulse in American Culture | (4 crs.)(Seminar) This Honors course posits playfulness as an alternative to “seriousness” in our search for an ethical way of being in the world. In other words, this course proposes that responsible personhood and citizenship don’t necessarily depend on conventional notions of earnestness, any more than self-consciousness about one’s politics provides the sole means of leading a purposeful life. Pre: 3.4 overall GPA. (A3) (B1) | T 4:00-6:45pm | Faflik, David |
| HPR 361 | 0001 | Space Physiology | (3 crs.) Pre: Overall 3.4 gpa or higher. (B2) (B4) | MW (F+ asynchronos) 9:00am-9:50am | Harper, Alison |
| HPR 361 | 0002 | HPR 361: Sexuality: Health, Wellbeing, and Policy | (3 crs.) Study of the diverse spectrum of human sexuality with emphasis on health and well-being. Focus on biopsychosocial perspectives of wellness in sexual identity and expression and the development of information literacy skills in analyzing laws and policies related to sexuality in contemporary American culture. Pre: Overall 3.4 GPA or higher. (B2) (B4) | T 4:00pm-6:45pm | Murphy, Sara |
| HPR 392 | 0001 | HPR 392: The Pursuit of Happiness | (3 crs.) "The pursuit of happiness" appears prominently in the U.S. Declaration of Independence as one of three unalienable rights given to all humans, and which governments are created to protect. However, "happiness" is a complex concept that may be defined differently by each of us and may change significantly over the course of our lives. Importantly, the "pursuit" of happiness may be complicated by hardship, loss, and challenges. In this course, we will study the concept of happiness through historical, philosophical, psychological, and sociological lenses. Importantly, we will also trace our own, often challenging, journeys in relation to happiness and develop helpful communication strategies for attaining it in our lives and communities. (C1) (A2) | M 4:00pm-6:45pm | Murphy, Sara |
| HPR 401 | 0001 | Honors Project | (3 crs.) (Independent Study) Pre: permission of the director of the Honors Program, and overall GPA of 3.40 or better. (D1) | No Meeting Time | Gmache-Griffiths, Donna |
| HPR 401 | 0002 | Honors Project | (3 crs.) (Independent Study) Pre: permission of the director of the Honors Program, and overall GPA of 3.40 or better. (D1) | No Meeting Time | Taylor, Cynthia |
| HPR 402 | 0001 | Honors Project | (6 crs.) (Independent Study) Pre: permission of the director of the Honors Program, and overall GPA of 3.40 or better. (D1) | No Meeting Time | Gmache-Griffiths, Donna |
| HPR 412 | 0001 | Behavioral Threat Assessment | (3 crs.) (Seminar) An overview of history, theory, research, and practice of Threat Assessment and Management (TAM) as it is practiced across a variety of settings including K-12, colleges and universities, hospitals and healthcare settings, private business and corporate locations, government and military installations, and houses of worship. Pre: overall GPA 3.40 or better. | M 4:00pm-6:45pm | Graney, Daniel |
| HPR 412 | 0002 | Space: Clothes, Stuff, & Survival | (3 crs.) The Honors seminar, Space: Clothes, Stuff, and Survival, challenges students to analyze the future of design for space travel and a resource-depleted Earth through the lenses of pop-culture, anthropology, design-theory, and space-travel science. It culminates in a creative, human-centered design project. Students will explore how clothing shapes human identity and addresses fundamental needs, from our current terrestrial existence to o7-Earth habitation. Through high-impact, project-based learning, we will examine ethical dilemmas of resource allocation and sustainability in these extreme future scenarios. Students will formulate resilient and equitable design approaches that creatively prioritize human well-being.(Seminar) Pre: overall GPA 3.40 or better. | MW 2:00pm-3:15pm | Aspelund, Karl |
| HPR 412 COMING SOON | 0003 | (3 crs.) | W | McIntyre, Ric | |
| LDR 290H | 0001 | Honors Sect of LDR 290H: Leadership | (3 crs.) Honors Section of LDR290: Modern Leadership Issues. Introductory leadership class. Topics include basic leadership theories, international governance/economic systems, critical thinking, and leadership in U.S. education; community service organizations; families; diverse workplaces. Core option for the leadership studies minor. (Lec. 3/Online) Pre: Overall GPA of 3.4 or higher, Honors eligible (incoming freshmen or transfer students), permission of the Honors Director | TTH 11:00am- 012:15pm | Camba-Kelsay, Melissa |
| MCE 402H | 0001 | HonSec: MCE Capstone Design II | (3 crs.) Honors Section of MCE 402: Mechanical Engineering Capstone Design II. Application of engineering skills using a team-based approach. Design process methodology and communication of solutions to real-world engineering problems. Second of a two course sequence. (Lec. 2, Lab. 3) Pre: 3.40 overall GPA and MCE 401 or 401H. Must be taken in the semester following MCE 401. Not for graduate credit. (D1) | WF 12:00pm-3:00pm | Nassersharif, Bahram |
| PHP 405H | 0001 | Honors Sect of PHP 405 | (4 crs.) Basic principles of epidemiology as they apply to public health research and practice; emphasizing the practical application of epidemiologic knowledge to literature evaluation. (Lec. 3, Independent Study) Pre: STA 307, STA 308, STA 409, or PSY 200. Open only to juniors and seniors. Not for graduate credit. (D1) (B4) | TTH 9:30am-10:45pm | McCormick, Meghan |
| PHY 204H | 0001 | Honors Section of PHY 204: Elementary Physics II | (3 crs.) Honors Section of PHY 204: Elementary Physics II. (Lec. 3) Pre: must have a 3.40 overall GPA. PHY 203 or PHY 203H; credit or concurrent enrollment in MTH 142, and concurrent enrollment in PHY 274. Intended for science or engineering majors. Not open to students with credit in PHY 214. (A1) [Need passing credit in PHY 204 and 274 to fulfill general education requirement.] | MWF 2:00-2:50pm | Kahn ,Leonard |
| PHY 274H | 0001 | Honors Section-Elem PHY Lab II | (1 cr.) Honors Section of PHY 274: Elementary Physics Laboratory II (Lab. 3) Pre: must have a 3.40 overall GPA. Concurrent enrollment with PHY 204. (A1) [Need passing credit in PHY 204 and 274 to fulfill general education requirement.] | TH 2:00pm-3:50pm | Kahn ,Leonard |
| PHY 274H | R01 | Honors Section-Elem PHY Lab II | (1 cr.) Honors Section of PHY 274: Elementary Physics Laboratory II (Lab. 3) Pre: must have a 3.40 overall GPA. Concurrent enrollment with PHY 204. (A1) [Need passing credit in PHY 204 and 274 to fulfill general education requirement.] | T 2:00pm-2:50pm | Kahn, Leonard |
| SOC230H/ CCJ 230H | 0001 | CCJ230H - Honors Section of SOC/CCJ 230: Crime and Delinquency | (3 crs.) Honors Section of SOC/CCJ 230: Crime and Delinquency. Cross-listed as (SOC), CCJ 230. Survey of the extent, distribution, trends and costs of delinquency and crime in the United States; examination of selected types of crime and delinquency; policy implications. (Lec. 3/Online) (A2) | TTH 9:30-10:45am | Pifer, Natalie |
| SOC 400H COMING SOON | 0001 | The Information Age | MWF 11:00-11:50am | Brasher, Melanie |