Category: Honors Class Features

Lizzie, Darcy, and Dalton: The Jane Austen Colloquium Experience

August 9, 2023 by Grace Carman

From TikTok fangirling over Movie Darcy’s hand flex to modern movies like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Jane Austen’s works are still extremely relevant to modern pop culture. In the far distant United Kingdom, in a very different time, Jane Austen wrote uniquely about the lives and struggles of women from a woman’s perspective. To […]

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Babes in the Wood and Its Influence on Robin Hood

November 15, 2022 by Kristy Dishman

Dr. Alexander Kaufman Christmastime Texts Dr. Alexander Kaufman, Reed D. Voran Distinguished Professor of Honors Humanities and Professor of English held his lecture on November 8th, 2022. As a part of the In this lecture, he shared his passion for Robinhood, whom he’d been studying for 20 years. Interested by a passionate professor; Dr. Kaufman […]

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CREDOS Book Club Reading Guides

August 11, 2022 by Kristy Dishman

Honors College Colloquium Spring 2022 For more information about Honors College Colloquand to view the entire guide visit CREDOS Book Club Reading Guides Stories can foster readers’ empathy for people from other cultural and religious communities. The CREDOS Book Club Reading Guides aims to support community book clubs in reading and discussing religiously diverse fiction […]

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Get Your African American Studies Minor and Honors College Degree!

July 28, 2022 by Kristy Dishman

New Honors College Pathway to African American Studies Minor by JB Bilbrey Honors College students now have the option to pursue an African American Studies minor as part of their Honors requirements. This synergy between the Honors College and Ball State’s African American Studies program will strengthen diversity within the Honors curriculum as well as […]

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Find Support and Structure For Your Thesis Process in the HONR 499 Class

September 10, 2019 by Isabel Parham

The Honors College is offering the Honors 499 class in order to aid students with the development and production of their theses. The class is participation-heavy and work-intensive, meant for students who feel they would benefit from a more structured classroom environment while developing and producing their Honors theses. The Honors College is offering two […]

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Dr. Yonder Gillihan: Humanities, History, and Prospects for a Human Future

April 20, 2019 by bcsapet

By Ben Sapet Join us on Monday, April 22, at 4:00 pm in BB 100 for a discussion with Ball State Honors College alumnus and Associate Professor of Second Temple Judaism and Christian Orgins at Boston College, Dr. Yonder Gillihan, about“Humanities, History, and Prospects for a Human Future” An Interdisciplinary History for a Better […]

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Performing and Preserving the Music of the Holocaust

April 5, 2019 by honors

On Thursday, April 11th, students in Dr. Galit Gertsenzon’s Honors 390 class “Forbidden Sounds, Music of the Holocaust” will hold a concert to preserve and share the music that holds the stories of the Holocaust. In the concert, Honors students from a variety of majors and backgrounds will come together to share and revive the […]

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Anna Hawk: Uncovering the History of Honors

March 22, 2019 by honors

Anna Hawk and her classmates in Dr. Doyle’s Honors 390 class are working to create an oral history of the Honors College at Ball State. Over spring break, they travelled to Swarthmore, Pennsylvania to learn about the Honors Program at Swarthmore College. Update: The Ball State University Honors College Oral History Project will be presenting […]

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Barthes and Time Traveling with Photography

March 12, 2019 by honors

In this, the first of many Idea Exchange posts, we’ll share an interesting idea that someone is teaching or learning recently in an Honors College class. Here’s our first from Dr. Timothy Berg, Associate Teaching Professor of Honors Humanities. By Professor Tim Berg In my Honors 390 colloquium on photography, we explore the idea of […]

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