This article was originally published by Beaver’s Digest.
By Audrey Saiz, Senior Reporter
From banging on glass bottles, to studying board game economics, Oregon State University Honors Colloquia offers OSU students a range of topics and focuses to explore outside their majors.
Honors colloquia are small one to two-credit classes that create a space for both professors and students to try out subjects in a passion area rather than their field of study. Honors students must take six credits of colloquia as part of their undergraduate honors degree. This year, there are new courses being offered for spring term.
According to Susan Rodgers, associate dean of the Honors College, two of these colloquia will be centered around the new Patricia Valian Reser Center for the Creative Arts. “Sleepless in Slumberland: the Psychology of Insomnia” will focus on sleep topics, but students will also experience a virtual reality experience at PRAx.
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