Humane Letters, B.A.

Tulsa Curriculum and First Year Experience (49 hours)

Core Courses (15 credit hours)

• HON 4503 Honors Seminar
• HON 2123 Three Ancient Cities: Athens, Rome, Jerusalem
• HON 2143 The Long Middle Ages
• HON 2223 The Birth of Modernity
• HON 2243 The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

• Note: With permission of the Dean’s Office, seminars in elective disciplines (e.g Phil or Hist) can substitute for HON 4503 .

Honors Elective Courses (15 credit hours)

Students must complete 15 elective hours of coursework at the 3000-level or higher, with a least one course represented from the following, broadly construed disciplines: History (including Art History and Music History), Philosophy (including Religion and Political Science), and Literature (including English, Comparative Lit, and Foreign Languages). Provided the topic is different, HON 4503  may be repeated for additional credit toward any of these disciplines. All other courses can be taken in any combination.  

**Other courses may be approved at the discretion of the Dean’s Office.

Honors Senior Thesis (3 hours)

The Honors Senior Thesis requirement is satisfied by taking HON 4111 Senior Thesis Proposal , HON 4121 Senior Thesis I , and HON 4131 Senior Thesis II . Exceptions may be granted at the discretion of the Dean’s Office.

General Elective Courses (38 hours)

• General Elective (38 hours)

Service Requirement

Honors students must complete a minimum of 80 hours of community service prior to the end of the fall semester before graduation. All activity undertaken in completion of the Honors service requirement must:

• Be undertaken with approved community partners on the Honors Service Learning Hub or approved through the University’s Office of Civic Engagement.

• Be logged on the Honors subgroup on Engage TU.

• Include direct, face-to-face engagement.

• Be begun no later than the fall of the student’s second year and be completed no later than the fall of the student’s graduating year.

Students who complete service hours as part of another program at TU may count those service hours toward completion of the Honors service requirement, provided that they meet the requirements listed above.

Exceptions to the above may be granted at the discretion of the Dean’s Office.

Total Hours: 120

Application

To join either program in the Honors College, students must submit a separate application. Please visit the Honors College webpage for more information.