Courses
GEH 111HON. Places and Spaces (3)
This lower division course is designed to transition students from traditional instruction that focuses on individual subject areas to a more interdisciplinary, integrative approach toward learning. The course adopts a place-based perspective, which will bring students into the field where they will be challenged to consider immediate applications of the material to real-world contexts. This course will include required site visits in and around the San Fernando Valley. (Available for General Education, Basic Skills A3 Critical Thinking.)
GEH 222HAA-HZZ. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Contemporary Issues (3-3-3-3-3-3)
Prerequisite: Restricted to GE Honors students. This selected topics course explores the most pressing, contemporary issues of the day through both multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary lenses. As a selected topics course, this class focuses on a different theme/issue/problem each semester and invites experts across the university and beyond to speak to this central topic. In this way, students are challenged to consider how different disciplines approach a given topic and gain awareness of the methodological tools that are used across disciplines. Students are expected to draw cross-disciplinary connections, practice critical reasoning skills, and integrate across lectures to gain a more comprehensive, complex appreciation for the questions that most impact humanity.
GEH 333HON. Interdisciplinary Inquiries: Ways of Knowing (3)
Prerequisite: Completion of the lower division writing requirement. This course aims to provide a common experience to all GE Honors students and lay a critical foundation for integrative, critical and reflective thinking. The team-taught course adopts an interdisciplinary perspective and asks students to carefully evaluate the means by which knowledge is gained across different disciplines. Students will explicitly consider how logic and evidence operate across fields of study to move us closer to answering humanity’s central questions. (Available for General Education, B5 Scientific Inquiry and Quantitative Reasoning or D1 Social Sciences.) (WI)