In Honors Courses at MSU Billings, Students

  • Build communication skills through discussion as well as writing and/or presentations
  • Build research/inquiry skills through projects or reports
  • Consider the immediate and long-term consequences of ideas
  • Expand coursework into a broader social context

The Honors Program features three types of courses, HONR interdisciplinary seminars and research/inquiry courses, discipline-based courses designed to include honors objectives, and modules/contracts that include extra projects or assignments to earn honors credit. Honors students typically do not need to enroll in many extra courses. To complete an honors minor, we suggest enrolling in 4 general education courses, your discipline-based capstone, and picking up 2 more upper-division courses or contracts. 

General Education Honors Courses

Honors Students should pick four of the following courses as part of their required general-education curriculum:

Communication and Information Literacy
Course Code Course Name/Description
HONR 205                      Required for Honors Minor                                      
Fine Arts Credits
Course Code Course Name/Description
ARTZ 105                                     
CRWR 240 with selected English department
History
Course Code Course Name/Description
HSTA 200                                                                                                    
Humanities Credits
Course Code Course Name/Description
HONR 111/311                                                           (required for the Honors Minor)                                       
Cultural Diversity Credits
Course Code Course Name/Description
MUSI 207                                                                                                              
COMX 212
HTH 270
Physical Sciences
Course Code Course Name/Description
CHMY 141                                                                                                              
CHMY 145

 

Upper Division Honors Courses

Course Code Course Name/Description
PHL 326                                                                                                                           
BMKT 342-800   
BGEN 440-800

Elective Honors Courses

Honors elective courses are usually offered each year, but may not be offered each semester, contact us at honors@msubillings.edu or visit us in COE 297 to discuss your upcoming course schedule!

Course Code Course Name/Description
COMX 341                                                                                                                                                                
EDU 397                  
EDU 433

EDU 435
HSTA 327
HSTR 473 , Europe 1648-1945 
HSTR 487  
HSTA 494 SM  
HSTR 494

Internships, Independent Study, & Course Contracts

Course Code Course Name/Description
HONR 290/490                                                                                         (1-6 credits)                                              
HONR 298/498 (1-3 credits) 
Course Contracts (1-3 credits) Most classes can be converted to honors credit by meeting the honors objectives with a special project. Course contracts require permission from the instructor and honors program director. Completed projects are uploaded onto the assignments page of the Honors Hub in D2L at the end of each term.

 

Previous Honors Course Schedules

Fall 2024

Spring 2024

Summer and Fall 2023

Summer and Fall 2022