Honors Courses

• For a complete list of honors courses, conduct a search in Schedule Builder through CUNY First. Select “Baruch College” and then go to the “Advanced Search”. Next , select “Undergraduate” under Academic Career, and choose “Campus Honors” for Course Attribute, and then select “Search”. See the screenshot below which also outlines the selected search criteria:

• Non-Honors students with a 3.5 cumulative GPA may automatically register for an honors course in CUNY first if space is available.
• Most 1000 – 2000 level honors courses only require a 3.3 GPA, and students can enroll with permission from the Honors Program.
• Our 3000-4000 level honors courses require a 3.5 GPA overall in order to enroll, however students with a 3.4 GPA can petition to enter an open upper-level Honors course by sending an email to [email protected].
• See ALSO, joining Honors as a Provost’s Scholar.
• Feit Seminars in the Humanities (IDC 4050H) and the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence seminars require an application with the program to get permission.

• BPL 5100H
• Macaulay New York City seminars (IDC 1001H, 3001H, 3002H, and 4001H).
• See special Honors courses for information on how to apply and receive permission

Fall 2025

ENG 3640/3640H: Poetry and Crisis with Oksana Maksymchuk

Day/Time: Wednesdays 2:30PM-5:25PM

*Scholars should request permission to enroll into the honors section so it can be applied towards their requirements.

The Fall 2025 Harman Writer-In-Residence will be poet Oksana Maksymchuk. Maksymchuk is a Ukrainian American poet, scholar, and literary translator. Her debut English-language collection, Still City: Poems (2024), was named as one of the Financial Times’s Best Summer Poetry Books of 2024. In it, she writes with harrowing lucidity and breadth about the full-scale invasion of her homeland and its aftermath. Her Ukrainian collections Xenia and Lovy were awarded the Ihor-Bohdan Antonych and Smoloskyp prizes, Ukraine’s top awards for young poets. Her poetry has appeared in numerous journals, including Blackbird, Cincinnati Review, Prairie Schooner, Salamander, and Sugar House Review. Oksana secured first place in the Richmond Lattimore and Joseph Brodsky-Stephen Spender translation competitions. Additionally, she has been honored with the National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship, Scaglione Prize for Literary Translation from the Modern Language Association of America, Peterson Translated Book Award, and American Association for Ukrainian Studies Translation Prize. She is the co-translator of The Voices of Babyn Yar by Marianna Kiyanovska and Apricots of Donbas by Lyuba Yakimchuk. She now lives in Budapest, Hungary, with her husband and son.

To register for this course, students must submit an application. Honors scholars should request to enroll into the honors section specifically. *See the Fall 2025 course flyer here.

Questions?  Contact the Harman Director Prof. Esther Allen.

Pre-requisites:

Spring 2025

Days & Times: Tuesday, 2:30PM-5:25PM

Room: B – Vert 3-190 (In person)

Instructor: Dan Li (Philosophy) and Ana Gonzalez-Nayeck (Natural Sciences)

1) For the capstone requirement for the minor in Environmental Sustainability, student must have completed two 3000-level courses in the minor.

2) Pre/Corequisite: One of the following courses: ENV 3001, BIO 3001, BIO/ENV 3009, BIO/ENV 3030, BIO/ENV 3020, ENV 3002, ENV 3008, ENV 3015, BIO/ENV 3016, BIO/ENV 3050; or department permission

The Earth is warming at an unprecedented speed. Scientists know this because they can reconstruct historical climate and compare it with current climate using tools from the field of paleoclimatology. What methods do paleoclimatologists use? More importantly, how do we know how reliable these methods are? In this course, students will be introduced to paleoclimatology and understand the uncertainty and rigor of the scientific methods used by paleoclimatologists. Students will cement their understanding of these scientific methods by generating their own tree-ring paleoclimate dataset, including 2-3 half-day fieldtrips to collect samples from nearby forests. Learn more.

Prerequisite: ENG 2150, junior or senior standing, 6 credits in the humanities (preferably a base course in each of the disciplines of the course), a minimum 3.4 grade point average, and permission of the director of the Feit Seminar Program. To request permission, email Prof. Andrew Sloin ([email protected]), Director, Feit Interdisciplinary Seminar Program.

CLICK HERE  for a list of upcoming Feit seminars for Fall 2025.

Macaulay Honors College Course list

• Click the link above to learn more about upper-level honors courses offered through Macaulay.
• Students must submit both a Macaulay Pre-registration Form and a Baruch e-permit request for each Macaulay course they wish to take. Students will be enrolled directly into the class if approved.
• Non-Macaulay Students can pre-register for Macaulay Honors courses after November 18th. Some courses are exclusively available to Macaulay Scholars (Seminar 2, Seminar 4, Springboard, Justice Equity Synthesis Seminars)
• See the equivalencies list for the corresponding Baruch course to input into your request. Note that this list includes current & prior equivalencies; students must review CUNYfirst and the Macaulay website to confirm which courses will actually be offered in an upcoming semester.
• Contact your Advisor for assistance with submitting the Macaulay e-permit requests as incorrect/incomplete permits will be denied.

No. We are unable to overtally students into Macaulay Seminars, except for academic reasons, i.e., your course requirements prevent you from taking an open section. You may need to rearrange your schedule. Exceptions are not considered for schedule preferences or work schedules. Speak to your Honors advisor if you are unable to take a required course due to your Macaulay seminar section time. Your Honors advisor can assist you in choosing options that work for you.

See eligibility requirements and process to request to Contract Honors for a non-Honors course (by special exception, for liberal arts and public affairs students only.)