Oct 18, 2024  
Undergraduate Catalog 2024-2025 
    
Undergraduate Catalog 2024-2025

Social Innovation Fellows: A Global Honors Cohort in the Innovation Labs


Return to {$returnto_text} Return to: Honors Program

The complex problems impeding human flourishing around the world demand solutions that are only possible through collaboration. Committed individuals, communities, and institutions will need to learn to work together, combining available resources in innovative ways. The Belmont Innovation Labs’ Social Innovation Fellowship equips students across the university, from any and all majors, for the work of social innovation through a cohort experience consisting in a sequence of Honors course sections, international and vocational experiences, mentoring, and research. Each student will be trained in data collection and analysis, learn from leaders in community storytelling, contribute to an ongoing project of social innovation, and develop their own research projects that pursue and measure social impact in the city of Nashville. Each cohort of 15 Global Honors students is selected in the college admissions process, and each cohort is designed to bring together a diversity of backgrounds and interests, encourage mutual support and accountability, and strengthen each other as a multidisciplinary learning community.

Honors Signature Courses: 21 Hours


Honors Signature Courses (21 Hours): higher-level, challenging interdisciplinary courses that provide the unique stamp of a Belmont Honors liberal arts education within the Honors Core:

Honors Foundation Courses: 22 Hours


Honors Signature Courses (22 Hours): a broad spectrum of courses that provide essential knowledge in a diverse array of academic fields.

Honors Foundation Social Innovation Courses:


These are HON-designated versions of regular BELL Core offerings.  Courses will be HON designation by category but can be designed around subjects seen in each category listed below:

Degree Cognates: 0-15 Hours


Degree Cognates (0-15 hours). These distinguish the various degrees from one another, indicating the extension of liberal learning that is appropriate to each distinct degree. You are only required to take the hours listed under the particular degree you are pursuing. Students should choose Degree Cognates in different subjects than the Foundation Courses (2 different prefixes).  

  • Bachelor of Arts (B.A.): 15 hours
    • 3 additional hours in Social Science
    • 3 additional hours in Humanities
    • 6 hours in Foreign Language (at the 2000 or higher level)
    • 3 additional hours in Science
  • Bachelor of Science (B.S.): 15 hours
    • 6 additional hours in Social Science
    • 3 additional hours in Humanities
    • 3 additional hours in Math
    • 3 additional hours in Science
  • Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.): 12 hours
    • ECO 2210 , Principles of Macroeconomics (3 hours)
    • ECO 2220 , Principles of Microeconomics (3 hours)
    • MTH 1150 , Elementary Statistics (3 hours)
    • 3 additional hours in Humanities
  • Bachelor of Science in Nursing (B.S.N.): 10 hours
    • MTH 1151 , Elementary Statistics for the Sciences
    • PSY 1100 , General Psychology (3 hours) OR PSY 1200 : Introduction to Psychological Science (4 hours)
    • CEM 1020 , General, Organic, and Biochemistry (4 hours)
  • Bachelor of Science in Public Health (B.S.P.H.): 13 Hours
    • BIO 1160 /BIO 1165 , Principles of Biology II (4 Hours)
    • MTH 1151 , Elementary Statistics for the Sciences (3 Hours)
    • PSC 1300 , U.S. and World Affairs (3 Hours)
    • ECO 2220 , Principles of Microeconomics (3 Hours)
  • Bachelor of Social Work (B.S.W.): 12 hours
    • 6 additional hours in Social Science
    • MTH 1150 , Elementary Statistics
    • PSY 1100 , General Psychology (3 hours) OR PSY 1200 , Introduction to Psychological Science (4 hours)
  • Bachelor of Music (B.M.): no Degree Cognates**
  • Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.): no Degree Cognates

Total Required for the Program: 43-58 Hours


Honors students are required to complete 12-16 hours of the curriculum through an International Internship experience.

** Honors program students pursuing the BM degree, the BA with a Major in Music, or the BFA in Musical Theatre must take:

MUH 1200  Introduction to Music: History, Style and Culture, as three hours of “Globalization and Modernity”

MUG 4015  Senior Capstone in Music

Return to {$returnto_text} Return to: Honors Program