Welcome to the page hosting my Honors work at University of Redlands.

The Proudian Interdisciplinary Honors Program at Redlands is a three year program that emphasizes interdisciplinary studies. The way the program works is you apply the fall semester of your sophomore year, and begin classes in the spring. The application process includes a “timed” essay, a critique of a paper you’ve written in college, an interview with two faculty members you have never taken a class with, and a day of “workshops” that are student designed (fellow Honors students in the older grades).

The first class everyone takes is the IDS 365 – Mimesis and Making. It is a 300 level honors literature course that the director of the Honors program teaches. Involved in this class is the study of literature from fiction literature, natural sciences and social sciences, which is the three areas that the program devotes studies to (I will shortly post my work from the Spring 2014 class).

The second class everyone takes is the IDS 366 – ??? class. This class is not set in stone. Every other year it is either a natural science or social science course. We ended up on the track starting with a natural science course, and we took Rebecca Lyons’ Mile-High Chemistry course, which you can read in detail on the sub-page May Term 2014, and in the May Term Log 1 – 11 blog posts.

The third class everyone takes is the final Interdisciplinary class IDS 465 – ???, which for us will be an Anthropology based course, taught by Sharon Lang. What the class will be about, we don’t quite know yet. The exciting thing is we get to work with the professor to discuss what we’re interested in learning, and how we get to learn about it. Information to come.