The Honors Program

The Honors Program reflects and reinforces the educational values and course requirements of the Tulsa Curriculum.  All Honors Program students complete a core curriculum of six integrated courses taken in sequence.  One course is taken each semester and each course counts toward course requirements that all University of Tulsa students must fulfill. 

The Honors Program core curriculum is designed to generate a dialogue between students and the great minds of the past about the perennial issues of human life.  These are small classes led by experienced professors and they encourage students to think hard about difficult ideas, to ask unsettling questions, to defend what they say with good reasons, and to write with clarity, confidence, and grace.  They are classes that cultivate the habits of mind and attention that distinguish a well-rounded, well-educated human being.  Examples of the Honors Program Curriculum are listed below:

First Year  

• Fall:      Greek History, Philosophy and Drama
• Spring:   Medieval History, Philosophy, Religion and Literature
                 (or) Self-Fashioning in the Renaissance.

 Second Year

• Fall:        Enlightenment and Its Critics
• Spring :   History and Philosophy of Science

Third Year

• Fall:          Modernization and Its Discontents
• Spring:      Contemporary and Emerging Issues

What Honors Program Students say….

“The Honors Program provided one of the real highlights to my TU undergraduate education.  I especially enjoyed the small classes, which offer an excellent atmosphere for open conversation with other motivated students and collaborative work some of the most intriguing professors on campus.  The program’s intensive focus on writing and communication skills opened doors for me that I could not have considered without the Honors Program.  My senior project on the impact of electricity deregulation on rural cooperatives brought together my academic and policy interests.  It advanced my studies far beyond a typical undergraduate program and put me in place to contribute significantly to my field.” 

Matthew Lindsey, BA in Political Science/Economics
Harry S. Truman Scholar