Robert Donald Clark Honors College

http://honors.uoregon.edu

Carol Stabile, Acting Dean
108 Chapman Hall
1293 University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon 97403-1293
honors@uoregon.edu

The Clark Honors College provides curious and motivated students with a broad-based liberal arts education that combines challenging academic coursework with hands-on learning experiences, internships, research, and other opportunities that allow them to develop skills that will support their individual career goals. Our award-winning faculty and staff empower students and help them develop into critical thinkers, excellent communicators, and future leaders so they can help find solutions to some of the world’s most urgent issues.

Clark Honors College is a community rich with diverse perspectives and opinions, reflected in the make-up of faculty, staff, and students, and the content of curriculum and programming. We offer small classes capped at 19 students. Our students learn from a curriculum taught primarily by core faculty who are dedicated to teaching excellence, pedagogical innovation, and student success. Our interdisciplinary curriculum emphasizes critical thinking, strong written and oral communication skills, collaboration, and problem-solving through coursework and special degree and course opportunities, and support for the research-informed pedagogy that teaches these skills.

Faculty

Dare Baldwin, Professor, Psychology

Corinne Bayerl, Senior Instructor I, Comparative Literature, German/Scandinavian

Anita Chari, Associate Professor, Political Science

Nicole Dudukovic, Senior Instructor I, Neurosciences Major Director, Psychology  

Daphne Gallagher, Senior Instructor I, Clark Honors College

Alison Gash, Associate Professor, Political Science    

Lindsay Hinkle, Instructor, Clark Honors College          

Trond Jacobsen, Instructor, Director of Forensics, Clark Honors College

Ian McNeely, Professor, History, European Studies, German & Scandinavian

Brian McWhorter, Professor, School of Music and Dance     

Michael Moffitt, Professor, School of Law

Kate Mondloch, Professor, History of Art & Architecture

Barbara Mossberg, Professor of Practice in Literature, Clark Honors College

Lisa Munger, Instructor, Clark Honors College

Carol Paty, Professor, Earth Sciences, Physics

Elizabeth Raisanen, Officer of Admin, Clark Honors College

Angela Rovak, Office of Admin, Clark Honors College           

Casey Shoop, Senior Instructor I, Clark Honors College         

Carol Stabile, Professor, Women & Gender Studies

Lisa Wolverton, Professor, History

Emeritus Faculty

Henry M. Alley, Professor emeritus. 

Louise M. Bishop, Associate Professor emerita. 

Joseph G. Fracchia, Professor emeritus.

David Frank, Professor emeritus.

Roxann Prazniak, Professor emerita.

Program Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this program, students will be able to:

• Critical Reasoning: Apply and demonstrate critical reasoning through the use of appropriate evidence and methods
• Communication Skills: Use effective communication skills, both written and oral, by constructing coherent, logical, and persuasive arguments
• Research Competence: Develop research competence through inquiry, project-based and active learning based on students’ own questions
• Intellectual Engagement: Show initiative, independence and intellectual engagement in the classroom and in assessments
• Disciplinary Methods: Identify and appropriately apply disciplinary methods in the humanities, social sciences and the natural sciences
• Interdisciplinary Inquiry: Engage in interdisciplinary inquiry by integrating insights from more than one research approach and by synthesizing diverse perspectives and modes of thinking
• Intercultural Competence: Demonstrate intercultural competence through linguistic diversity and awareness of and appreciation for diverse cultural backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.

Academic Requirements

Requirements in the honors college satisfy the core-education requirements that other University of Oregon students meet for graduation. Honors college faculty and professional advisors advise honors college students concerning these requirements and mentor them concerning their academic choices. Students retain full responsibility for understanding and shaping their study programs.

Depending on test scores, students may use advanced placement or international baccalaureate credits as well as transfer credits from other higher education institutions toward honors college outside course requirements, second-language requirements, applicable major requirements, cultural literacy requirements, or university electives. To earn a BS degree, students must complete one year of college-level mathematics or the equivalent. Advanced placement, international baccalaureate, and transfer credits may help fulfill either such a math requirement or the language requirement.

University and Major Requirements

Honors college requirements, which replace university core-education requirements, represent roughly one-third of a student’s total four-year schedule. Before graduating, Clark Honors College students must also meet the requirements, listed elsewhere in this catalog, of their major department or professional school. They must maintain a 3.00 or better cumulative grade point average (GPA).

Clark Honors College students who have completed the CHC core education requirements (HC 101H, 221H, 231H, 241H, and 301H; Area of Inquiry approved courses outside the CHC in Arts and Letters, Social Science, and Science (one course in each area); an approved quantitative reasoning course; and the CHC Colloquium and Electives requirements) have fulfilled the university’s Area of Inquiry requirements. Should a student leave the CHC after successful completion of all of these requirements, the student will retain their clearance of the university’s Area of Inquiry requirements.

Honors College Degree Requirements

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Designated honors college colloquia carry a supplemental course number if they satisfy one of the below categories—, Honors College Global Perspectives Colloquium: [Topic] (HC 434H), HC US: Difference, Inequality, Agency Colloquium: [Topic] (HC 444H)—or any approved UO courses may be used to satisfy the multicultural/cultural literacy requirement.

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Independent research credits may be taken P/NP, including when taken with an HC subject code

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Course taken at least one term before intended graduation to formalize the thesis project.

Writing

The honors college is committed to excellence in writing. The core curriculum integrates instruction and practice in fundamental rhetorical skills—writing, reading, speaking, and listening—with the subject matter of the courses. If they choose to leave the honors college, students who pass HC 101H with the minimum grade of C- or P have completed the university's Writing 121 requirement. Students who pass HC 221H with the minimum grade of C- or P have completed the university's Writing 122/23 requirement. 

Four-Year Degree Plan

The degree plan shown is only an example of how students may complete their degrees in four years. There are alternative ways to navigate the CHC curriculum. Students should consult their advisor to determine the best path for them.The Robert D. Clark Honors College is not a major. Students who follow the honors college curriculum fulfill all of the University of Oregon’s core education requirements. Honors college requirements must be taken for a letter grade, unless pass/no pass is the only option. In addition, only courses passed with grades of C– or better will fulfill honors college requirements.

Bachelor of Arts