The Honors College would like to acknowledge all Honors students who participated and received awards in recent conferences: At the Alpha Chi Convention in Washington, D.C.: Hailey Hendricks Amanda Stephens Tina Johnson Angela Fogle Andrew Brown Julia Taylor Jeffrey Wooliscroft received a...

Don’t Take Oxford For Granted One of the major draws to study abroad is the amount of travel you get to do. And it is by all means worth it. Just on my semester we had people go to Ireland, Greece, Scotland, Italy, Sweden, Austria, France, and the Czech Republic, not to mention our...

The JAM experience was unlike anything that I have ever experienced in my whole life. It was hard to truly call this experience completely integrated because we were only in each destination for two weeks, but it was the best attempt at integration in such a short amount of time. During these...

            Truth, goodness, and beauty. Those are certainly worthwhile things to seek in this life. So much of what I learned from Justice along the Meridian (JAM) came from being exposed to incredible people who’s ways of life are chock full of truth, goodness, and beauty. There’s a quote...

I studied abroad in England and Germany for three weeks during Maymester. The study abroad trip was through the JMC department and the trip was led by Dr. Kenneth Pybus. The class was Communication Law. Our communication law class primarily focussed on the 1st Amendment and its application to...

            Before this trip I loved getting to know people from other countries and trying new things, but being in another country changed my perspective on America. This trip abroad provided the perfect capstone to my time in Dallas with the Justice and Urban Studies Team by exploring ways...

JAM has provided me with the ability to speak about other worldviews in a more nuanced way. Before this trip, I had very little understanding of both Catholicismand Islam. I believed that this was a detriment to myself and to my understanding of other people groups and cultures. How is a...

This summer, I spent all of June in Leipzig Germany. It was truly a life changing experience. I instantly fell in love with the city, the culture, the food, and the people. Since I have been back, so many people have asked me what my favorite part was. I could tell them about some of my...

  Justice Along the Meridian has been an incredible, eye-opening experience that has without a doubt changed everyone who was able to go on the trip. I know for myself that my conceptualization of religion, faith, and what it means to participate in the world has vastly shifted. Above...

  I studied Social Psychology and The Psychology of Ideology abroad this summer in Leipzig, Germany for a month. Using the money from the Honors travel grant, I also visited Barcelona (Spain), Brussels (Belgium), and Amsterdam (The Netherlands) during the free travel week. The month went...

Each semester, we offer a variety of 1- or 0-hour short-format Honors courses called colloquia. These classes, taught by professors in every discipline cover fun and engaging topics. Honors colloquia are typically very interactive, and are often discussion-based experiences. All Honors...