About the Program
The Honors Program offers an enriched academic experience for those students who have demonstrated intellectual potential and personal commitment. As a result, successful Honors students are better prepared to continue their studies and bring their academic talents and abilities to the attention of prospective employers.
Although Honors courses meet General Education requirements for transfer to the California State University and University of California systems, this program is not designed only for purposes of transfer, but also to deepen participants' educational experience and aid and inspire students in their other coursework at Butte College. Classes require students to analyze primary original works in the area discipline, writing a minimum of 5,000 words in analytical papers and reading responses, and participating in seminar-type discussions. Additionally, classes emphasize critical and independent thinking, and original responses to the course material.
Program Requirements
For current program requirements -> 2024-2025
Program Goal: Local
GE Pattern(s): None
Program Code: 31238.00CA
Program Learning Outcome(s):
Upon successful completion of this program, the student will be able to:
Analyze and synthesize significant global ideas and primary original works.
Demonstrate critical thinking skills in seminar-type discussions.
Demonstrate advanced writing skills and critical, creative thinking in composing a minimum of 5,000 words in analytical papers and reading responses.
Generate creative, original responses to course material.
Unit(s): 3.00
Recommended Prep: Reading Level IV; English Level IV; Math Level III
Transfer Status: CSU/UC
Contact Hours:
51.00 hours Lecture
Total Course Hours: 51.00
This course is an honors level survey of the foundations of human evolution and variation as viewed through the lens of physical anthropology. Emphasis is placed on reading primary and secondary source literature and critical analysis of data presented through the literature. The theory of evolution as related to questions of human evolution and variation, including the development of human physical, social, and mental characteristics is the primary focus.
Unit(s): 3.00
Recommended Prep: Reading Level IV; English Level IV
Transfer Status: CSU/UC
Contact Hours:
51.00 hours Lecture
Total Course Hours: 51.00
This is an Honors level introductory cultural anthropology course. Emphasis is placed on the importance of recognizing and understanding culture as a dynamic and adaptive force underlying a significant degree of human behavior and thinking. As an Honors course primary ethnographic sources (descriptions of distinctive human communities) and classic works summarizing culture theory will be used. Major thematic units of study include definitional and theoretical issues pertaining to culture, ethnographic method, linguistic anthropology, culture/personality, subsistence systems, social organization, political organization, economics, beliefs, culture contact, and applied anthropology. This course emphasizes culture process and cross-cultural comparisons as seen through the lens of cultural anthropology.
Unit(s): 3.00
Recommended Prep: Reading Level IV; English Level IV
Transfer Status: CSU/UC
Contact Hours:
51.00 hours Lecture
Total Course Hours: 51.00
This is an Honors level Survey of the major visual arts of the Ancient World through the Middle Ages. Through a process of thorough analysis, critical thinking, extended discussions, and original oral and written responses, students will examine the arts of painting, sculpture, and architecture within their historical and cultural contexts. (C-ID ARTH 110).
Unit(s): 3.00
Recommended Prep: Reading Level IV; English Level IV
Transfer Status: CSU/UC
Contact Hours:
51.00 hours Lecture
Total Course Hours: 51.00
This is an Honors level survey of the major visual arts of the Renaissance and the Modern World. Through a process of thorough analysis, critical thinking, extended discussions, and original oral and written responses, students will examine the arts of painting, sculpture, and architecture within their historical and cultural contexts. (C-ID ARTH 120).
Unit(s): 3.00
Recommended Prep: Reading Level IV; English Level IV; Math Level IV
Transfer Status: CSU/UC
Contact Hours:
51.00 hours Lecture
Total Course Hours: 51.00
This is an Honors level Current Issues in Biology course. This course utilizes a process of thorough analysis, critical thinking, extended discussions, and original oral and written responses, to introduce basic biological principles and how each of these principles affects daily human life. Biological principles include the scientific method, biological macromolecules, cell structure and function, cell division, genetics, DNA structure and function, metabolism, evolution, and ecology. Issues covered include nutrition, stem cell research, cancer, genetic diseases, cloning, genetic engineering, gene therapy, ecological diversity, invasive species, sustainability, and the impact of humans on the environment.
Unit(s): 3.00
Recommended Prep: Reading Level IV; English Level IV
Transfer Status: CSU/UC
Contact Hours:
51.00 hours Lecture
Total Course Hours: 51.00
This is an Honors level introductory Public Speaking course. Through a process of thorough analysis, critical thinking, extended discussions, and original oral and written responses, students will study the fundamentals of extemporaneous public speaking. Emphasis is placed on the organization of ideas, the use of research techniques, and the development of critical analysis for problem solving. (C-ID COMM 110).
Unit(s): 3.00
Recommended Prep: Reading Level IV; English Level IV; Math Level II
Transfer Status: CSU/UC
Contact Hours:
51.00 hours Lecture
Total Course Hours: 51.00
This is an Honors level introductory course examining American economic history. The focus of the course is to examine traditional economic development theory in the context of the growth of the American economy. As an honors course, stress is placed upon the understanding of the basic economic models that seek to describe individual and collective economic behavior. Through a process of critical thinking, primary document analysis, and discussions, students will study the origin and development of the American economy from colonial times to the present.
Unit(s): 3.00
Recommended Prep: Reading Level IV
Transfer Status: CSU/UC
Contact Hours:
51.00 hours Lecture
Total Course Hours: 51.00
This course is an Honors level introduction to some of the world's great novels, poetry, drama, and essays, including some of the oldest texts of our past. The primary focus will be on analyzing complete works from a variety of genres, eras, and countries. We will place the texts into context, ascertain what they say to the reader, and identify the tools the authors use to convey their message. Brief works of literary criticism will provide the basis for a wide range of critical approaches such as social, historical, mythological, gender, psychological, cultural, etc.
Unit(s): 3.00
Recommended Prep: Reading Level IV
Transfer Status: CSU/UC
Contact Hours:
51.00 hours Lecture
Total Course Hours: 51.00
This course is an honors level survey of important 20th- and 21st-century works of literature by a diverse selection of authors representing different cultures. Short works of theory will provide the foundations for a postcolonial approach to contemporary world literature, but our primary focus will be on reading and analyzing complete novels from as many different contemporary cultures as possible to expose some of the ways that identity, power, law, ethics, economics, and familial structures have been constructed and reconstructed through conflicts within and between these cultures.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2 and, admission to Honors Program and completion of 18 Honors units or completion of 15 Honors units and concurrent enrollment in 3 Honors units in addition to Honors 11
Unit(s): 1.00
Transfer Status: CSU
Contact Hours:
17.00 hours Lecture
Total Course Hours: 17.00
This course provides Honors students who have already completed a minimum of 18 units in Honors classes (or have completed 15 units in Honors classes and are concurrently enrolled in 3 Honors units in addition to Honors Capstone), the opportunity to carry out a supervised individual research or creative project in Honors to synthesize, apply, and further develop the skills and knowledge they have acquired in the Honors Program. Students interested in registering for Honors 11 must get pre-approval from an Honors instructor prior to the semester they intend to register for.
Unit(s): 4.00
Recommended Prep: Reading Level IV; English Level IV; Math Level IV
Transfer Status: CSU/UC
Contact Hours:
51.00 hours Lecture
/ 51.00 hours Lab
Total Course Hours: 102.00
This is an Honors level course in the study of our dynamic universe. Through a process of thorough analysis, critical thinking, extended discussions, and original oral and written responses, students will establish connections between the principle-based methods of the hard sciences and our understanding of the fundamental questions of the cosmos and our place in it. Issues covered include the history of astronomy, the science of observation and discovery, stellar birth, maturation and death, planetary formation, a description of our solar system galaxies, quasars, and cosmology.
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Contacts
Deborah McCabe, Chair
(530) 895-2287
Department Office: LRC 320
(530) 895-2581
Counseling and Advising:
(530) 895-2378
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