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What are Honors classes like?
Honors classes at the University of La Verne are interdisciplinary and team taught. Having two instructors in the classroom 
means that you will be exposed to more than one disciplinary perspective on any given subject. The interchange between the professors is intended to be a conversation in which you, the Honors student, are invited to participate. Honors classes are called "seminars" because they are supposed to emphasize discussion, rather than lecture. The degree to which discussion actually takes place depends in part on the individual styles of the instructors, but it is also affected by the amount of energy and creativity that the students generate. Under ideal circumstances, the students will do most of the talking, and instructors will become partners in learning, rather than authority figures or ideological demagogues.
It is common to repeat successful Honors seminars three years in a row, and then "retire" them to allow new voices and new ideas to be heard. Some popular seminars offered currently or in the past include:
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French Romanticism Professors Lavatori (Modern languages) and Lamkin (Music)
Images of Jesus in Art and Film Professors Clark (Humanities) and Johnson (Physics)
Religion in the City |
