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The Honors College

The Honors College, one of the university's most selective undergraduate programs, offers a unique community for exceptional students to engage in a rigorous four-year curriculum. Designed to foster intellectual curiosity, critical thinking, and self-direction, the program provides a humanistic, multidisciplinary foundation with a focus on addressing contemporary societal challenges. Launching with the theme “The Future of the Planet,” the curriculum features innovative components such as Ideas Labs, a Social Analysis & Impact Capstone, interdisciplinary faculty lectures, and credit for special topics, department courses, and experiential learning opportunities.

Our Course Offerings

HON 101: Intro  to Honors College 
& Stony Brook
HON 105: Exploration of Human 
Knowledge
HON 106: Exploration of Human 
Experience
HON 110 to HON 120: Honors Topics
HON 200: Multiple Disciplinary 
Approaches
HON 201: The Arts and Society
HON 205: Ideas Lab I
HON 275: University Honors Fellows
Seminar
HON 276: University Honors
Fellows Practicum
HON 300: Honors Special Topics
HON 301: Science, Engineering, 
Medicine, and Society
HON 305: Ideas Lab II
HON 310: Honors Experiences
HON 401: Global Issues
HON 475: Honors College 
Teaching Practicum
HON 490: Social Analysis Capstone
 
HON 491: Social Impact Capstone
HON 495: Honors College 
Senior Project/Thesis I
 
HON 496: Honors College 
Senior Project/Thesis II