Curriculum

Our Theme for 2024-2027: Listening

Listening comes in many forms. It can be done across humans of all abilities, plants, animals, and even machines. Listening serves many purposes, from fostering understanding and empathy, or internal and self-introspection, to organizing and asserting change, and sometimes to domination or control. The art, science, and practice(s) of listening are important reminders of our interconnectedness to one another, nature, history/future, and spirituality. Over the next three years, we will explore the dimensions of listening through a variety of avenues – from classroom discussions and events to community engagement and global connections. We invite all members of our Honors College community to embrace this theme and incorporate it into their courses, and to attend all Honors College events we hold throughout the year.

We try to show our students that they’re not just here to check boxes for your major or your core requirement [...] We show they can and do go together. They can be integrated so students have a holistic approach to real-world subjects, problems, and issues.”

Monica Doblado Program Director, Honors College

Our Curriculum

All students accepted into the Honors College at the University of San Francisco are enrolled in the Honors College Curriculum This is an interdisciplinary 24-unit curriculum designed to complement any undergraduate major at USF and be completed over the course of a student’s four years at the university.

The Honors College Curriculum includes the follow:

• A required 2-unit Honors College Gateway course that is taken in either the fall or spring semester of a student’s first year.
• One 4-unit course from each of the following categories: Liberal Arts Foundations, Global Perspectives, and Experiential Engagement.
• 8-units of Honors College Foundations courses, which include our signature 2-unit Forum classes, our Global JumpStart immersions, and specially designed 4-unit experiential courses.
• A 2-unit Honors College Senior Seminar course.