Why Honors? We are blessed to live in a beautifully and sometimes frustratingly complex world—the natural world, certainly, but our human world as well. Looking closely at the world from a single perspective can reveal some of its beauty and many of its problems, but the picture will never be complete. In the honors program we have the unique opportunity to bring perspectives together in illuminating ways. (Read more...) It reminds me of the old red and blue 3D glasses. You could look at a 3D image through one lens or the other, but all you’d see was a slightly clearer version of the same flat picture already visible without the glasses. It was only when you looked through both lenses simultaneously that the image took on depth. Looked at simultaneously through humanistic and scientific lenses, the complexities of our world take on a new depth and otherwise invisible details emerge—perhaps even solutions to some of the frustrating complexities.
HONRS 220: new course under development