Curriculum Requirements
The
Embry-Riddle Honors Program curriculum consists of at least 18 credit
hours of Honors. These requirements are embedded
in (not added to) the existing curriculum:
 12 credit hours applicable to general education requirements- at least 9 credit hours within the student’s major
General Education
The Honors curriculum emphasizes an interdisciplinary approach to education by requiring students to enroll in three 3 credit hour seminars (a total of 9 credit hours) that encourage a global perspective and place disciplines in dialogue.
The seminars are capped at 20 students (all members of the Honors
program), are discussion based, and focus on developing students’ communicative,
critical, research, and leadership skills, and require text and Web-based
original research, written essays, and oral presentations.
Honors Seminars
The Honors Seminars are unique courses, created specifically for the Honors Program. Students may experience courses such as these:
- Colonialism and Globalization
- Nationalism in the Middle East and Africa
- The Culture of Computing
- The Nature of Creativity
- Chaos and Design
- Vietnam in World History
- The Arts of Persuasion
- From Humanism to Transhumanism
- American War Drums and Persistent Echoes
- Ancient and Modern Conceptions of the Hero
- The Cold War
- The Control of Nature/The Nature of Control
- Experiences of the “Other” in American Culture
- U.S. Diplomacy in a Troubled World
- Structure and Expression of American Government: Current Issues
- Politics and the Fear of Science
- Globalization and Fundamentalism
- Climate Change
- Good Government
In lieu of the third Honors seminar, students may select an independent
study or travel abroad option, the specifics of which are subject to
approval by the Honors director.
 Honors Within the Major
Individual degree programs establish, in coordination with Honors Program administration, the appropriate honors experience in the major. A degree program may designate sections of particular upper-level (i.e., 300-400 level) courses within the majors as “Honors” when there is a sufficient number of Honors students within the major to support them. Programs that enroll only a small number of Honors students identify specific courses or individual projects undertaken with a faculty mentor in order to satisfy the Honors experience. The Honors experience within the major may involve completion of an Honors senior thesis, senior project, or senior portfolio.
Individualized Honors Contracting
Honors Program students often arrange individualized projects with faculty in order to add depth to or to go somewhat outside the required curriculum. A few examples of some actual Honors contract experiences:
- Nicole Kufa, with Dr. Richard Snow: WX 299, WX 399
Research about lightning patterns as indicators of potential tornado
development within thunderstorm cells. Research led to co-presentation
of “Lightning: Meteorology’s New Tool” at American Meteorological
Society meeting.
- Christopher Noth, with Dr. Notis Pagiavlis: BA 399
Research into New Service Development applied to Small Aircraft
Transportation System. Co-authored “New-to-the-World Service
Development in Business Markets,” submitted to the Journal of Market
- Judy Chui, with Dr. Yi Zhao: AE 404
Finite element analysis of trusses and frames using various computer
programming languages: idealized beams using C programming, and simulated and analyzed trusses using Matlab.
- Jeremy Sotzen, Greg Lewis, Amy Sauer, Ben Schreib, David Agee, Jonathan Ruel, with Dr. Tony Hagar: ES 204, Dynamics
Designed a trebuchet (medieval catapult), achieving a complicated “floating arm” design, using advanced tools such as Catia software.
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