Honors Collegium Courses

Honors Collegium courses, which are developed and offered specifically for honors students through the Honors Programs unit, are a central and longstanding feature of our undergraduate program. Collegium seminars emphasize interdisciplinary learning and offer rigorous educational experiences that are designed to hone your abilities to think critically and creatively, engage you in applying knowledge, and enhance your communication skills. Most of these seminar-style courses enroll no more than 15-20 students, which allows you to get to know your peers and your professors.

Spring Quarter 2025

HC 50 – Create Your Roadmap

Mary Samuelson/Tara Prescott-Johnson

HC 65W – BodyMind Literacy

Lauri Mattenson

HC 128 – Humor as Means of Social Control

HC 132 – New Women and Activism from America to Asia

Jennifer Jung-Kim

HC 136 – Art, Entertainment and Social Change

HC 138 – Empire, Bordercrossing and Multiethnic Storytelling

HC 144 – International Development: Using Your Major for Doing Well and Doing Good

Octavio Pescador

HC M145 – Politics of Crisis: Migration, Identity, and Religion

HC 154 -Hollywood and Divided America

HC 177 – Biotechnology and Art

Courses for Academic Year 2024-2025

Fall 2024

Honors Collegium 138 – Empire, Border Crossing and Multiethnic Storytelling

Honors Collegium M145 – Politics of Crisis: Migration, Identity, and Religion

Honors Collegium 149 – Art and Trauma

Honors Collegium 158 – Justice and Moral Responsibility in Literature

Winter 2025

Honors Collegium 50 – Creating Your Roadmap

Honors Collegium 78 – Science and Religion

Honors Collegium 86 – Psychology of Fear

Honors Collegium 87W – Words of Neil Gaiman: Graphic Novels, Social Media, and Fantasy Fiction

Honors Collegium 105 – Disparities in Healthcare

Honors Collegium 109 – Living Consciously: Philosophy in Everyday Life

Honors Collegium 119 – Hollywood and Cultural Diversity in America

Honors Collegium M123XP – Philanthropy as Civic Engagement

Honors Collegium 146 – Imagining Global Climate Change

Honors Collegium 159 – Feminism, Art, and Metaphors of Trauma

Honors Collegium 161- Data as Processes of Reification: Promises and Perils

Honors Collegium M179 – Critical Vision: History of Art as Social and Political Commentary

Spring 2025

Honors Collegium 50 – Creating Your Roadmap

Honors Collegium 65W – Body-Mind Literacy

Honors Collegium 128 – Humor as a Means of Social Control

Honors Collegium 132 – New Women and Activism from America to Asia

Honors Collegium 136 – Art, Entertainment, and Social Change

Honors Collegium 138 – Empire, Bordercrossing and Multiethnic Storytelling

Honors Collegium 144 – International Development: Using Your Major for Doing Well and Doing Good

Honors Collegium M145 – Politics of Crisis: Migration, Identity, and Religion

Honors Collegium 177 – Biotechnology and Art

Summer 2025

Honors Collegium M143 – Latinx Immigration Policy and Politics

HONORS STUDENT
PORTAL

Through perspectives offered by Collegium faculty and students along with associated information gathering efforts, we have created a portal to help you — as Honors Collegium students — facilitate online learning and otherwise help students thrive during these unprecedented times. We view this site — along with a similar site tailored for Collegium faculty — as perpetual “works-in-progress” that will evolve as new resource material is available and in response to your expressed interests, needs, and recommendations.

HONORS COLLEGIUM FACULTY

Collegium courses are taught by some of UCLA’s most talented teachers. The passion they have for their subject matter coupled with their enthusiasm for working with undergraduates and their capacities to create learning environments that are simultaneously challenging and supportive make these courses among UCLA’s most highly rated. See student feedback below!

HONORS COLLEGIUM COURSE PROPOSALS

For UCLA faculty who are interested in proposing an Honors Collegium course, please see the Course Proposal Guide and connect with Kara Brown, the Honors Curricular Coordinator.

Kara Brown

Meet the Honors Collegium Coordinator

The Honors Collegium Coordinator is responsible for the daily administration of the Honors Collegium. For questions regarding Honors Collegium student enrollment or faculty interest in applying to teach an Honors Collegium course, please contact Kara Brown at honorscollegium@college.ucla.edu.

Student Feedback

Student feedback on Honors Collegium courses

By far, the best course I’ve ever taken at UCLA. I learned so much and, most of all, I gained so many tidbits of life wisdome from our instructors and guest speakers. The impact this course has made on me cannot be quantified.

This class was amazing. So many things I loved about it. The fact that the students were all different years and majors. You end up with GREAT conversations and discussion and new ideas because everyone is looking at the same problem in a billion different ways. Collaboration and idea boarding at its finest. The professor is so passionate about the subject and so knowledgeable; she taught us so much…not only in terms of knowledge, but she inspired and excited us about (the topic) too. Fascinating subject. Very thought-provoking and eye-opening and perspective-changing. This may be the most impactful, habit-changing class I’ve taken at UCLA. Wow.

This has got to be my favorite class so far at UCLA. This professor is absolutely amazing. I could go on and on. She really cares about her students and has spread her passion for the course to us. We grew so much as a class and learned so much practical information for life. It was so hands-on and creative, and I always felt valued. My opinions mattered, and my classmates and I came up with great ideas.