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How SUNY New Paltz’s Evolutionary Studies Program has set graduates up for success

How SUNY New Paltz’s Evolutionary Studies Program has set graduates up for success 
Once a niche field at SUNY New Paltz, the Evolutionary Studies Program (EvoS) is attracting more and more students each year who are excited by innovative research connecting Darwin’s theories to today’s challenges.

The Power of Art Museums

The power of art museums 
Students, staff and alumni work to change the perception of the art world

Spies are Forever

“Spies are Forever” opens Feb. 14 at SUNY New Paltz
The Department of Theatre Arts will present a staged reading of “Spies Are Forever,” a musical about a secret agent working to thwart a Cold War-era revival of the Nazi regime, as the third installment of the 2024-25 Mainstage Production series.

‘The genre for me’: Alumna's passion for traditional Irish folk music led her to Ireland following graduation

‘The genre for me’: Alumna's passion for traditional Irish folk music led her to Ireland following graduation
When Saskia Kamerling ’23 (Music—Classical Performance) picks up her fiddle and plays a traditional Irish folk tune, she is in her element.

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FAQ: Seminars

Most Honors courses fulfill GE requirements. Students starting the program late are not required to take The Individual and Society and may be allowed to skip one or more courses at the discretion of the Director. The Honors Program requirement that Honors students take four honors seminars may be modified in individual cases by a waiver of a maximum of two seminars. The waiver is designed to accommodate students who transfer in as second semester sophomores or juniors, those who are in accelerated programs, and those who have majors with unusually heavy course requirements. Three seminars are sufficient for students entering the Honors Program as second semester sophomores (have completed 45 credits), two for those who enter as juniors (have completed 60 credits).

The seminars are all cross-disciplinary, and on a variety of topics. In the past, we have offered the following seminars:

  • American Girls' Culture
  • Cherokee History, Culture, and Politics: Past and Present
  • Cigarettes and Nylons - Postwar Realities in Occupied Germany after World War II
  • Debates in U.S. History
  • Deep History
  • Doing Race and Gender
  • Education Across Borders
  • Education and Poverty
  • Ethical Fashion: Understanding Consumerism, Globalization, Justice, and Sustainability Through Textiles
  • Evolution and the Human Condition
  • Free Speech
  • Gender and Journalism: Representation & Practice
  • How Administrative Agencies Became the Fourth Branch of Government, Tension, and Dynamism
  • Human Ecology
  • Humanitarian Psychology
  • Humans at Play
  • Indigenous Ways of Knowing
  • Inequality and Human Health
  • Innovation and Intelligence
  • Introduction to Sustainability
  • Jamaica: History, Culture, and Its People
  • Love and Heartbreak
  • Metropolis to Megalopolis: New York City Culture 1870-1930
  • Place Matters
  • Seeing the Light: Physics, Vision, and Art
  • Television and Social Issues
  • The Individual and Society
  • The Literature of Witness
  • The Materials of History, Thought and Art
  • The Psychology of Story
  • U.S. Drug Education and Policy
  • U.S. Women Win the Vote
  • Visualizing Myth in Ancient Greece and Rome
  • What Causes Cancer?
  • What is Mental Illness?
  • Work

Honors students also have the option to take Honors-designated courses in the major.