Interdisciplinary Studies

This first-year seminar will teach students how to use alternative thinking skills to affect change in their community. While doing community service with a local non-profit organization, students will identify a viable solution to a problem affecting their organization. Throughout the course, students will also engage in a variety of learning experience modules designed to foster success in College Life in areas such as time management, research, academic integrity, decision-making, professionalism, etc. All incoming honors program students must enroll in the course during their first semester on campus.

This course is designed to help students correlate study strategies with processing deficits. It will also help students to organize and carry out daily and weekly plans. Students will meet individually one hour per week with the instructor on an assigned basis. As students progress through the years, reaching specific benchmarks, student responsibilities increase.

There are 4 levels for this course ID111, ID211, ID311, ID411.

This course is designed to help students correlate study strategies with processing deficits. It will also help students to organize and carry out daily and weekly plans. Students will meet individually one hour per week with the instructor on an assigned basis. As students progress through the years, reaching specific benchmarks, student responsibilities increase. There are 4 levels for this course ID111, ID211, ID311, ID411.

Students will participate in the honors colloquium experience each year they are in the honors program. This colloquium is designed to create a space for students in the honors program to discuss and learn together. The experience will be organized around a common read voted on by the honors students and feature book discussions, interdisciplinary lectures, collaborative learning, and independent scholarship. (Taken every fall semester.)

This course provides an introduction to collegiate transitions focused on cultivating student success in the first year experience at Limestone University. Students will develop an understanding of personal, professional, academic, and social transitional experiences and navigational supports in articulating these experiences. Students will create, develop, and apply critical thinking strategies in areas of time management, study skills, career planning, resource utilization, and media literacy. Students will be equipped with skills to enable their self-awareness, self-motivation, social and civic engagement, and personal agency.

This course will introduce you to Limestone University, its mission, and your role within the college. It will introduce you to the internet-based courses, the library, and other services available to you at the University. All students in the Online & Evening must take this course in their first semester. In addition, it is required for all Day transfer students who transfer in 30 credit hours or more. This course is designed to make your transition to Limestone easier. you will learn about services available to you as a Limestone student.

These courses will be individually titled and offered on an ad-hoc basis to Honors students. The courses' purpose is to explore a limited or special area which does not easily lend itself to a normal course format. The objective is to aid the student in developing the ability to investigate issues, to understand the issues’ significance in a broader context, and to effectively present results of research both orally and in writing. Seminars may be offered by any professor with the approval of the academic division involved and the Honors Committee. Honors students may repeat this course with different topics up to three times for credit.

This course helps students develop and refine their higher-order thinking skills. Students will analyze the thinking evident in a variety of texts and media for clarity, accuracy, precision, relevance, depth, breadth, logic, significance, fairness, and ethics. Students will also write frequently, applying the same standards to their own thinking and writing. The Measurement of Academic Proficiency and Progress, the test adopted by Limestone to measure each student's general education competency levels, will be included as one of the assessment methods for the course.

This course will provide knowledge of advanced research strategies and methods, including selecting a research topic, choosing sources from research databases, learning how to search for and evaluate information, and understanding the scholarly communication process. The course will culminate with an annotated bibliography and literature review.

This course seeks to develop and strengthen the necessary skills that will enable students to successfully navigate and achieve their career and post-graduation goals. Topics covered include various methods of career readiness such as: career assessment, resumes, interviews, networking, and professionalism.