Programs of Study
The Honors Tutorial College offers more than 30 challenging programs of study that include a one-on-one or small-group tutorial each semester. Using a student-centered approach, the programs emphasize independent research and creative activity.
Current Programs of Study
Anthropology
Anthropology studies the human species as a whole and requires an interdisciplinary emphasis.
Art History
Art History examines material objects and visual culture from a historical perspective.
Biological Sciences
Biological Sciences studies life and its component parts, from molecules to cells to ecosystems.
Business Administration
Business Administration combines a rigorous foundation in key business skills with an emphasis on innovation to prepare students for the complex, global economy.
Chemistry
Chemistry examines matter, energy, and their interaction. Biochemistry focuses on the chemistry of living organisms.
Classics and Religious Studies
Classics provides the linguistic and archaeological training for expert study of Greek and Roman antiquity.
Communication Studies
Communication Studies draws from the liberal arts tradition and a variety of pre-professional contexts to explore human communication in messages, relationships, and culture.
Dance
Dance combines daily technique classes with broad study in dance composition, pedagogy, history, cultural studies, movement analysis, production, performance, and scholarship.
Economics
Economics studies decision-making and trade-offs responding to incentives and scarcity with applications in every sector of society including household consumption, firm production and structure, health care provision, energy use, environmental protection, finance, altruism, creativity and innovation, worker productivity, economic development, and the macroeconomy.
Engineering/Physics
Engineering Physics combines a deep understanding of fundamentals with an orientation toward applications.
English
English encompasses literary periods and genres, rhetoric and composition, creative writing, and methodology.
Environmental & Plant Biology
Environmental and Plant Biology covers environmental, plant, and cell/molecular biology, as well as field ecology.
Environmental Studies
Environmental Studies is the interdisciplinary study of the biophysical environment and the complex interactions among humans, other organisms, and the environment.
Film
Film combines a broad background in the liberal arts with professional study in film, including production and criticism.
Geography
Geography studies the interrelationships between humans and their environment, including the physical environment, the built environment, and socially constructed spaces.
Geological Sciences
Geological Sciences deals with the earth's physical structure and substance.
Hearing, Speech and Language Sciences
Hearing, Speech and Language Sciences offers individualized training in the hearing, speech and language sciences for a clinical or research career.
History
History examines the people, ideas, conflicts, and traditions that shape past and present societies.
Journalism
Journalism focuses on the creation and theoretical understanding of news, information, and strategic communication.
Mathematics
Mathematics involves abstract quantitative thinking.
Media Arts & Studies
Media Arts and Studies focuses on musical, video and videogame development and production, as well as on media and social change.
Music
Music focuses on education, performance, composition, theory and history.
Philosophy
Philosophy examines the nature, causes, or principles of reality, knowledge, or values, based on logical reasoning rather than empirical methods.
Physics
Physics begins with classical and modern fundamentals that leads to deeper study in quantum mechanics, thermodynamics, nuclear and elementary particle physics, or condensed matter physics.
Political Science
Political Science covers political systems and actors in a variety of interdisciplinary contexts.
Social Work
Social Work explores evidence-based clinical practices and social welfare issues and policies within an interdisciplinary framework.
Sociology
Sociology combines theory and research to evaluate trends and social issues occurring in society.
Studio Art
Studio Art balances a commitment to breadth and rigor with an opportunity to explore fundamental and cutting-edge issues creatively.
Theater
Theater provides a solid liberal arts education combined with a strong professionally oriented training in theater.
Translational Health
Translational Health offers tracks in exercise physiology and nutrition.
Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies explores the phenomenon of gender and its intersection with race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, and other elements of diversity.