College of Arts & Sciences | USF Sarasota-Manatee

Honors Seminar (IDH 4000)

IDH 4000 (4 credits) is a team-taught and interdisciplinary seminar, offered every spring, with a thematic focus that links two disciplines at USFSM. The seminar scheduled for Spring 2012 is “Working: Psychological and Social Correlates of Worker Well-Being,” taught by Dr. Jennifer Gillespie and Dr. Melissa Sloan. Please click here for a description of this seminar.
This course is also approved for credit in both of the major disciplines shaping the seminar.
The course exposes students to the ways in which specialists in two different disciplines approach a specific field of inquiry. The end product of the course--a brief analysis of a focused topic, accompanied by an annotated bibliography, related to exploration of its issues-- serves as preparation for the honors project course and the honors thesis, which are pursued during subsequent terms.
In a seminar format, students are encouraged to share their responses to readings and their deepening understanding of the topic’s issues. A goal of this seminar is to develop highly-motivated and self-disciplined undergraduate students to approach academic inquiry and discourse with the sophistication expected of graduate students.
Each student leaves the seminar course with plans to explore the topic further in the next course of the honors sequence, by focusing on one of the two disciplines of the seminar.