Years 1 and 2: Honors Courses
Registering for Honors Courses
UHP courses are restricted to Honors students only and will not be visible on Schedule Builder. Students can only register using the Permission to Add (PTA) number or Course Registration Number (CRN) distributed to them.
Please contact the UHP staff with any questions or concerns about registering for an Honors course.
For their first two years at UC Davis, UHP students take small, interactive classes with superb faculty that may fulfill University General Education (GE) and/or Major requirements.
UHP students are required to take six Honors courses in the first six quarters, one course per quarter. These courses allow students to build connections with professors and study in a group setting with like-minded students while completing university requirements for graduation.
One of the primary benefits of these courses is their small size: Honors GE courses are capped at 25 students, and Major required courses like Math and Biology have between 40 and 60 students.
While past syllabi of certain courses have been provided to help with students' decision making, please note that these are past syllabi and there is no guarantee that this syllabi will match the upcoming course's syllabi. In addition, not all syllabi have been uploaded, as the professor may not have sent a copy to UHP. We apologize for any inconveniences.
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2025-2026 Honors Courses
- Fall 2025 Honors Courses
- CDM 189: Topics in CDM: American Neorealism (Andrew Smith)
CHI 10: Introduction to Chicana/o Studies (Lorena Marquez)
CHN 009: Introduction to Chinese Language and Culture (Yutian Tan)
ECH 1: Design of Coffee (Tonya Kuhl & Bill Ristenpart)
EDU 120: Philosophical & Social Foundations of Education (Kevin Gee)
EDU 142: Introduction to Environmental Education (Heidi Ballard)
ENL 149: Topics in Creative Writing (Cindy Ok)
HNR 194: Transfer Seminar (Eleftheria Arapoglou)
HUM 10/10D: How to be a Critic: Fashion (Claire Goldstein)
IST 8A: Hormones and Cancer (Maria Mudryj)
IST 8A: Unlocking the Secrets of Veterinary Research: From PICO Questions to Publishing in Veterinary Evidence (Cecilia Giulivi & Erik Fausak)
IST 8B: Exploring Indian Spices: Cuisine, Culture, and Culinary Traditions (Shagufta Fatema)
JPN 10H: Masterpieces of Japanese Literature (Joseph Sorensen)
Reading Circle: The Leaders of Star Trek (Kate Stephensen)
SPA 169: Migracion y la Ley (Robert McKee Irwin)