Director's Blog

Read Dr. Ernest Smith's Director's Blog.

Dr. Smith will be blogging here a few times each week to keep everyone up to date on what's going on in our Honors Program.

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Welcome!

The Honors Program provides a minor for highly qualified students, with seminars that emphasize discussion, the discovery of ideas and project-oriented learning. We are known for our courses that are anything but ordinary, our travels all over the world and our great faculty.

If you're ready to challenge yourself and pursue excellence, apply now!

Scripps Howard Center for Civic Engagement’s Honors Scholars

This is a program designed to underwrite and encourage undergraduate research that meets a community need. The program’s inaugural academic year will be the Fall 2010/Spring 2011 semesters. Up to seven fellows will be selected. Read more!

Fall 2010 Courses Announced

Take a look a the upper-level courses we're offering this Fall:

HNR 301-001: Environmental Journalism: From the Printing Press to Cyberspace
HNR 301-002: Neuroethics
HNR 302-002: Confronting the Holocaust
HNR 302-003: Drug Policy
HNR 306-001: The Pre Columbians
HNR 307-001: Road Films and Literature
HNR 308-001: Arts for Social Change
HNR 394-001: Jazz, Blues, and Poetry

Ashley's Blog

Honors student Ashley Pyles is a junior working toward a degree in Middle Grades Education. Read her blog on the NKU Admissions website.