The Honors Program is designed to recognize academically talented students and to provide them with a variety of challenging opportunities such as:

  • Studying a subject in more depth than a regular class allows
  • Exploring the interrelationship of knowledge
  • Developing their talents and creativity
  • Interacting with other talented students
  • Both students and faculty benefit from the increased intellectual stimulation provided by the program

Program options

Students have the option of enrolling in designated honors courses that have an additional two-credit component. Students meet weekly with the faculty member and up to ten other honors students to explore a topic in the subject area in depth. As a second option, after the student has completed at least one honors course, he or she may work with a faculty member on a special project that would demonstrate an advanced level of knowledge about a particular subject area. 

Privileges

Honors students, provided they meet program requirements, will graduate with Honors in the Honors Program, which will be reflected on their transcripts. 

For more information

Obtain printed materials, application forms and seminar schedules in Cascade Hall , outside room 145, or call 360.383.3567

OR

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You can easily obtain an unofficial transcript through your ctcLink account.

 

Winter 2025 Seminars

SKILLS DISTRIBUTION
Communication Studies 295C
Instructor: Colleen McGoff
Time: 12:00 p.m. - 12:50 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays

Collaborative and Creative Leadership Communication: Students will study and practice leadership from a collaborative and creative communication perspective. In this highly interactive course, students will examine and apply communication concepts and theories in a variety of leadership contexts through classroom discussions, individual and team projects, and written materials.


HUMANITIES DISTRIBUTION
Drama 295
Instructor: Gerry Large
Time: Online

Lights! Camera! Action!: The History of the American Musical on Stage and Screen: This course will examine the history, important contributors, and thematic content of the "Broadway" musical, from its origins on Tin Pan Alley, to standards of the 1960s, the groundbreaking shows such as West Side Story, the inclusion of rock music in shows such as Rocky Horror and Hair, and new movements in the form such as the sung-and-rap-through musical Hamilton - and more. The class is inclusive of the geniuses, the iconoclasts, the slapstick and the drama, issues of race and gender, the hits, the failures - we cover it all.


SOCIAL/BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE DISTRIBUTION
History 295
Instructor: Ulli Schraml
Time: 2:00 p.m. – 3:50 p.m. Thursdays

Hitler’s Nemesis: The Red Empire Strikes Back: We as Americans generally think it was the British and American bombing campaign combined with the Normandy invasion that brought Hitler’s evil regime to its knees. At a closer look, it was the Soviet Red Army that destroyed Nazi Germany’s armies in a four-year struggle to victory on the Eastern Front that came at great cost. A key element of the Soviet triumph were the supplies sent by Britain and the United States even before America officially entered World War II. That fact, of course, has been duly omitted in official Soviet documents. In this seminar we will cover the operations that led the Germans to the gates of Moscow and the Russians into Berlin. In the process, we will trace the vital impact the western Allies had on the survival and eventual victory of the Red Army.