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The Honors College is looking for instructors to teach HON 200 (Spring 2026) and the Social Analysis & Impact Capstone (2025-26). If interested, contact Dr. Catherine Sherman (catherine.sherman@stonybrook.edu).
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HON 200: Multiple Disciplinary Approaches
This course showcases for students multiple disciplinary approaches to a contemporary societal challenge through invited lectures from faculty across Stony Brook departments and colleges. The course prepares students to develop transdisciplinary skills in future courses by first introducing them to how individual researchers’ fields of study articulate with, approach, or seek to address contemporary societal challenges or themes.
1 credit
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HON 490: Social Analysis Capstone
The Social Analysis Capstone is the first in a series of two courses that serve as a culminating academic requirement in the Honors College. Students will identify and analyze a contemporary societal challenge or theme through research and consultation and will synthesize findings with earlier coursework and transdisciplinary thinking to arrive at a nuanced understanding of the presenting challenge or theme. Students engage with community partners and organizations as part of the course.
3 credits
SBC: ESI
- HON 491: Social Impact Capstone
The Social Impact Capstone is the second in a series of two courses that serve as a culminating academic requirement in the Honors College Program. Students will employ transdisciplinary thinking and problem-solving to articulate ideas and solution(s) to the researched societal challenge or theme examined in the Social Analysis Capstone. Students will develop a plan for addressing the presenting challenge or theme, which may include specific action items. The Capstone concludes with a public presentation of findings and/or real-world deliverables. Students may engage with community partners and organizations as part of the course.
3 credits
SBC: EXP+; SPK; WRTD
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