HON 1300 - Honors Inquiry-Based Seminar

Credits: 3

The seminar is designed to introduce freshmen to the tools and skills needed to understand the research process, to understand how academic scholars investigate and acquire new knowledge, and to conduct independent research. A variety of strategies will be used to help students develop critical thinking, critical reading, and effective communication skills and to introduce students to research tools and research methods so that individual student research opportunities will result in a final research product. Prerequisite(s): Open to freshman honors scholars and non-honors students who have a verbal SAT of at least 500 or who have placed into only regular college-level courses. Grade: Pass/Fail