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Uncovering material history

Uncovering material history
When SUNY New Paltz Associate Dean and English Professor Cyrus Mulready launched his Honors Program seminar, The Materials of History, Thought, and Art, in 2013, he wasn’t just asking student scholars to study the past, he was asking them to immerse themselves in it.

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Bridging the space between: What it’s like to work as an artist at NASA
Art and science may seem to some like entirely distinct disciplines—one grounded in emotion and imagination, the other in logic and evidence. But at their core, both are driven by a shared pursuit: the desire to understand and express the truths of our world and beyond.

From capstone to byline: Senior thesis by Olivia Sippel ’24 opens doors to real-world reporting

From capstone to byline: Senior thesis by Olivia Sippel ’24 opens doors to real-world reporting
After enrolling in SUNY New Paltz as a transfer student from Brooklyn, New York, Olivia Sippel ’24 (Journalism) built an extensive portfolio in campus media, from podcasting to print news.

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FAQ: Seminars

Most Honors courses fulfill GE requirements. Students starting the program late are not required to take The Individual and Society and may be allowed to skip one or more courses at the discretion of the Director. The Honors Program requirement that Honors students take four honors seminars may be modified in individual cases by a waiver of a maximum of two seminars. The waiver is designed to accommodate students who transfer in as second semester sophomores or juniors, those who are in accelerated programs, and those who have majors with unusually heavy course requirements. Three seminars are sufficient for students entering the Honors Program as second semester sophomores (have completed 45 credits), two for those who enter as juniors (have completed 60 credits).

The seminars are all cross-disciplinary, and on a variety of topics. In the past, we have offered the following seminars:

  • Asian American Fiction
  • Cherokee History, Culture, and Politics: Past and Present
  • Culture Jamming
  • Debates in U.S. History
  • Doing Race and Gender
  • Ethical Fashion: Understanding Consumerism, Globalization, Justice, and Sustainability Through Textiles
  • Evolution and the Human Condition
  • Exploration in Composition and Sound
  • Gender and Journalism: Representation & Practice
  • Human Ecology
  • Humanitarian Psychology
  • Humans at Play
  • Inequality and Human Health
  • Innovation and Intelligence
  • Introduction to Sustainability
  • Loss Across Cultures
  • Love and Heartbreak
  • Places and Pilgrims: Traveling Past and Present
  • Racism and the Social Sciences
  • Seeing the Light: Physics, Vision, and Art
  • Textiles, Dress, and Identity in Ancient Greece and Italy
  • The Individual and Society
  • The Materials of History, Thought and Art
  • The Psychology of Story
  • Thinking Through Drawing: Creative Inquiry and Visual Communication Across Disciplines
  • Visualizing Myth in Ancient Greece and Rome
  • What is Mental Illness?
  • Who Are We? Collective Identification in the Contemporary World 

Honors students also have the option to take Honors-designated courses in the major.