Unique Coursework

McAllaster Scholars earn honors credits by taking classes in an alternative general education sequence. All incoming McAllaster Scholars take a six-credit course entitled "McAllaster Scholars Foundations Seminar." This Freshman course is inter-disciplinary and team-taught. In addition to preparing students for the McAllaster Scholars program, the course introduces McAllaster Scholars to the liberal arts tradition, focusing on the skills of interpretation, discussion, research and exposition. A number of intensive writing assignments are part of the course, and students receive frequent one-on-one tutorial sessions with professors throughout the semester. 

McAllaster Scholars earn their remaining honors credits by taking additional honors courses in the general education sequence, or by taking elective one-credit honors seminars.

2012-2013 honors courses include:

Fall 2012

SOC101H: Principles of Sociology
COM101H: Speech Communication
PHL250H: History of Philosophy I

Interterm 2013:

BIO170H: Midwestern Birds
COR302H: Science & Christianity

Spring 2012

COR102H: Intro to Christian Life & Thought
COM101H: Speech Communication
HST101H: Western Civilization
ENG243H: Global Literature
PHL251H: History of Philosophy II

*In cases where a student's schedule makes it difficult to complete honors credits in the traditional way (perhaps due to Study Abroad or a double major), students may also contract with a professor within their major to turn an upper-division course into an "honors option" course.