Honors students complete the following colloquia, preferably in their freshman and sophomore years:   

Colloquium on Classical Civilizations 

Reading and discussion of the important philosophical, historical and literary texts of the ancient world. Click here for the current syllabus of this course.   

Faculty in 2006-7: Dr. Peter Ahr, Dr. Judith Stark, Prof. John Sweeney   

Colloquium on Medieval Civilizations

Medieval cultures, Christian, Muslim, Jewish and east Asian, share a common outlook focusing on the public importance of the transcendental, the assumption of hierarchical organization, and on a common impulse to create a universal political structure replicating the universality of their religious understandings.   Click here for the current syllabus of this course.

Faculty in 2006-7: Dr. Peter Ahr, Dr. David Bénéteau, Prof. John Sweeney, Dr. Gisela Webb

Colloquium on Early Modern Cultures

Examination of the scientific and political changes during the age of reason and of the great political revolutions of the period from the middle of the seventeenth century to the beginning of the nineteenth.  Click here for the current syllabus of the course.   

Faculty in 2006-7: Dr. Karen Gevirtz, Dr. Dermot Quinn   

Colloquium on Contemporary Civilization

Industrialization, urbanization, popular movements and world wars catapult peoples, nations, and cultures into interactions on a global scale. You will study the construction and reality of the global village.  Click here for the current syllabus of the course.

Faculty in 2006-7: Dr. Petra Chu, Dr. Judith Stark  

After these four colloquia, Honors Program students take two Honors seminars, several of which are offered each semester, and write an Honors thesis in their senior year.  The Honors thesis is written under the direction of a member of the University faculty, often in the student's own discipline.

In addition to meeting the program course requirements, students must maintain a B average at Seton Hall University both in Honors courses and overall to graduate from the Honors Program.