Spring 2026 General Education Franke Honors Courses

Complete your Gen Eds, discover new ways of thinking, and earn Honors units. 

The University of Arizona's General Education Program carries through the first several years of your undergraduate experience. You'll start by taking UNIV 101. (Make sure you enroll in an Honors section!) Then, you'll complete coursework based on your interests, designed so you can explore others' perspectives and make connections between your courses throughout undergrad. After completing all or the majority of your gen ed requirements, you'll take UNIV 301, a 1-unit course that will help you make the most of what you've learned through the Gen Ed curriculum. 

Gen Ed Requirements | 32 units total | Pro tip: Take for Honors credit whenever you can

UNIV 101 (1 unit)
Foundations (9 units, depends on your major and method of meeting writing and language requirements)
Exploring Perspectives (12 units, can come from Natural Sciences or Artist)
Building Connections (9 units)
UNIV 301 (1 unit)

In Building Connections (3 Courses, 9 units), students explore the unique contributions of knowledge, skills, methodologies, values and perspectives from varied disciplines, social positions, and perspectives.

 

HNRS 150C1-001: Knowledge, Power, and Nature

Instructor: Caitlyn Hall 
Fully Online

Unpack our complex relationship with the natural world and get your hands dirty designing real and just solutions for environmental challenges. 

GE Prior to 2022: Tier I Individuals and Societies

HNRS 170A1-001: Sensing Our Environment

Instructor: Joost Van Haren
Tues/Thurs | 9:30 - 10:45 AM | In-Person

How does our environment shape our relationship with the planet? See, hear, smell, feel and taste your way through Tucson as the city becomes your classroom. 

GE Prior to 2022: Tier I Individuals and Societies

HNRS 208H-001: Topics in Analytical Thinking & Writing

Instructor: Patrick Baliani
Tues/Thurs | 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM | In-Person

Do you overanalyze movies, tv shows or books way too much? Channel that energy into this class as you explore literature, film and more through a lens of critical analysis.  

GE Prior to 2022: Tier II Humanities

HNRS 218-001: Communicating Photography: From the Visual to the Verbal

Instructor: Jennie McStotts
Mon/Wed | 2:30 PM - 3:15 PM | In-Person

Turn images into narratives that speak to real audiences through learning the history, tech, and art of photography.   

GE Prior to 2022: Tier II Humanities  

In Exploring Perspectives (4 Courses, 12 units), students explore and practice the approaches and ways of reasoning of the Artist, Humanist, Natural Scientist, and Social Scientist. 

HNRS 216-001: Living Poetry / The Poet's Life & Work

Instructor: Claire McLane
Tues/Thurs | 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM | In Person

Read, write, and discuss contemporary poetry until you see the poetry landscape as a local, not a tourist.  

GE Prior to 2022: Tier II Arts

HNRS 222-001: Exploration in Creative Writing

Instructor: Claire McLane
Mon/Wed | 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM | In Person 

Why does one sentence hit and the other flops? Explore this and more through creative writing, revision and peer review.  

GE Prior to 2022: Tier II Arts

 

HNRS 210-001: Art and Anatomies

Instructor: Patrick Baliani
Tues/Thurs | 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM | In Person

How does art inform and reflect our understanding of the human body? This interdisciplinary course will explore particular historical juxtapositions of visual art and anatomy.

GE Prior to 2022: Tier II Humanities