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Teach the Best and the Brightest

Ogden Honors College courses offer LSU faculty the opportunities to teach within their areas of research specialization, engage with the university's top undergraduate students in a seminar setting, and set the stage for numerous additional mentoring, teaching, and service opportunities.

Our Honors Students Are

Intellectually curious. Interested and engaged in learning, they are aware that the world's most pressing issues are complex and interrelated, requiring rigor to dissect.
Ethically Motivated. They seek to understand the ethical consequences of their decisions, actions, and beliefs. They are able to articulate values against which they evaluate new ideas or experiences and make informed and principled decisions.
Tolerant. They are able to handle ambiguity and embrace uncertainty to find innovative solutions, and are willing to suspend judgement while investigating a topic from multiple perspectives.

View Honors Course Guidelines

Propose a New HNRS Course

Schedule Your Approved HNRS Course

View the Syllabus Checklist

HNRS Courses of Study

Teaching in the French House

A photo of a seminar being held in a classroom inside the French House Professors are welcome to teach in the French House, historic landmark and home of the Roger Hadfield Ogden Honors College. Modeled after a Norman chateau in the Calvados region of France, and built for a French and Italian immersion program in the time of Huey Long, the building now houses Ogden Honors College classrooms, meeting and study spaces, and staff offices. Special class events, such as films, guest speakers, or performances, can be held in the French House's elegant Hans and Donna Sternberg Salon located on the ground level of the building.

The French House had a $5 million renovation that transformed its interior spaces and upgraded classrooms with improved multimedia capabilities and configuration ideal for honors seminar teaching.

Faculty Opportunities

LSU faculty have a variety of options to teach within the Ogden Honors College. Click through the tabs to learn more about the opportunities you have to teach the best and brightest LSU students.

HNRS Courses

An HNRS course should be a class that challenges students to think critically and creatively. In these small seminars, students hold lively discussions while being actively engaged in learning. They should finish the course with more developed critical thinking and effective communication skills.

The research that begins in an HNRS class may lead to an Honors Capstone under the direction of a faculty member.

Departmental Honors Courses

Departmental honors courses are honors versions of existing courses; these courses are developed and coordinated by the home department (for example, MATH 1553 is an honors version of MATH 1552, and is scheduled and staffed by the Department of Mathematics).

Honors Option

The Honors option is an enhancement of an existing upper-level (3000/4000-level), non-honors course based on an agreement between student and professor for additional, independent honors-level work. You will work with a student to design this independent component, and the Honors College allows a wide degree of flexibility.

An Honors Option Agreement is established in the OH!Portal by the student and instructor to outline the conditions to receive Honors credit. Upon agreement between the student and instructor, the Honors College Dean (or designee) will review for approval to establish the Agreement.

You will then verify whether the student has fulfilled the outlined conditions by the grade posting deadline for the semester of the course.

Honors Capstone

An emphasis on undergraduate research enables students to develop experience in evaluating evidence from a variety of sources. Fourth-year students will demonstrate mastery in their field of study by completing and defending a long-term project under the supervision of an expert faculty member.

Supervising a student's Capstone project also makes you the chair of the student's Capstone defense committee. Students will then choose two more faculty members for their defense committee, then schedule and defend their Capstone project prior to graduating.

Course Proposals and Guidelines

Any LSU professor from any department is welcome to propose a course. To teach a new HNRS course, a professor first submits a course proposal as described in the honors course guidelines through the new HNRS course proposal form. The proposals, which include a proposed syllabus, are evaluated by the OHC Faculty Advisory Board with respect to their rigor, relevance, and originality. Upon approval, a course should be ready to be offered in a subsequent semester.

Faculty who would like to teach an HNRS course they’ve taught in previous semesters should schedule their approved course.

Questions?

Faculty members with questions about teaching in the Ogden Honors College should contact:

Drew Lamonica Arms
Associate Dean

329 French House
(225) 578-3005

dlamoni@lsu.edu