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Dec 10, 2024
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2024-2025 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog
Honors Sciences and the Humanities, B.A.: Politics, Philosophy, Economics, & Law Concentration
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About the Honors Sciences and the Humanities, B.A. Program
The Bachelor of Arts degree (B.A.) in Honors Sciences and the Humanities (HSH) with a concentration in Politics, Philosophy, Economics, & Law is designed for capable, curious students who are interested in pursuing a broad and challenging course of study that will prepare them for a variety of careers and a lifetime of active citizenship. The degree is designed to offer students the opportunity to gain a solid sense of the human-constructed world, where it came from, and where it may be going. The degree explores the world’s greatest intellectual and cultural achievements, as well as the struggles and tensions that are always part of politics, power, and privilege. Honors students will hone their skills in writing, multimodal communication, scholarly research, and critical analysis, better preparing them for graduate school and/or a broad range of careers in law, business, communication, education, and advocacy. Many university graduates change careers several times during their lives. Therefore, this degree also emphasizes marketable skills that are portable, such as critical thinking, writing, and problem solving, that ready students for a broad range of career options.
Contact: Dr. Robert Peaslee, 105A McClellan Hall, 806.742.1828, robert.peaslee@ttu.edu
Recommended Sample Curriculum
Fall
- Concentration Course 3 Semester Credit Hours
- Concentration Course 3 Semester Credit Hours
- Art History Course 3 Semester Credit Hours
- PHIL 2300 - Beginning Philosophy 3 Semester Credit Hours (or approved upper-level substitution)
- Foreign Language (2301) 3 Semester Credit Hours †
Spring
- Concentration Course 3 Semester Credit Hours
- Concentration Course 3 Semester Credit Hours
- Honors Law Seminar 3-4 Semester Credit Hours †
- History Course 3 Semester Credit Hours †
- Foreign Language (2302) 3 Semester Credit Hours †
Fall
- HONS 3300 - Individual Honors Research 3 Semester Credit Hours (Thesis Course I)
- Concentration Course 3 Semester Credit Hours
- Concentration Course 3 Semester Credit Hours
- History Course 3 Semester Credit Hours †
- Rhetoric Course 3 Semester Credit Hours †
Total Hours: 127-130
* Applies toward university core curriculum credit.
† Course offered regularly in an Honors section.
Notes:
A minimum of 40 credit hours of upper-level (3000/4000) is required for graduation.
Placement and Credit by Exam can be options regarding Foreign Language requirements; ask the HSH advisor for details.
Discuss Social and Behavioral Science credit options with advisor for details.
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