The Honors College at UMass Lowell

PHYS 3160.201 is your chance to explore how tech & innovation are changing the game in under-resourced communities around the world!
No prereqs. No experience needed. Just bring curiosity and an open mind.
Plus... this course is your first step toward studying abroad in Ghana in 2027 with the Honors College!

T/Th 11:00–12:15 PM | North Campus, taught by Dr. Robert H. Giles.

Consider registering for FAHS 4600: Graduate School Preparation Seminar, a one-credit Honors Ready course taught by Dr. Alison McConwell.

Fall 2026, Thursdays 11:00 a.m. – 11:50 a.m.

Thinking of next steps after your undergraduate degree?

This one-credit seminar helps students in FAHSS prepare to apply to graduate school. Students will learn how to put together graduate school applications along with effective strategies to support successful outcomes. If you need a permission number, please email [email protected]

This course is a Career Connected Experience for the CCE Requirement & satisfies an honors requirement as an Honors Ready course.

Consider registering for the honors ready course: WLSP 3120: Cultural Representations of the Spanish Civil War!

This course will examine the Spanish Civil war as the foundational trauma on which Spain's modernity and its cultural production are based. We will study the events through the lens of different ideological representations of the war in conjunction with a variety of aesthetic perspectives, completing the study of literature with the representation of this event through film and photography produced during and after the civil war.

Taught by Oscar Ruiz Hernandez.

Pre-req: WLSP.2120 Spanish 4 and Culture Conducted in Spanish

Communicating professionally is a superpower, one you can learn this fall!

Introducing HONR 3200.301: Communicating Professionally, a 3-credit Honors Seminar built to level up how you write and speak in every part of your life. You'll craft standout papers, résumés, and cover letters, sharpen your oral presentation skills, learn how to ace an interview, and build the everyday communication confidence that sets you apart.

Satisfies an Honors requirement. Taught by John Feudo.

Wednesdays, 3:30–6:20 PM

Seats are limited. Be sure to register now.

Register today for the upper-level honors seminar Contemporary African American Literature. Every major is welcome in this discussion-driven seminar on the Black writers redefining American letters: Colson Whitehead, Percival Everett, Edwidge Danticat, Toni Morrison, and more.

Satisfies your Honors requirement and an Arts & Humanities. Seats are limited. Register for this fall course today!

Register today for Game Gambit (HONR 3300.309) taught by Karen Roehr. All majors are welcome! Satisfies an honors and Arts & Humanities requirement!

Learn about the history of games, elements, and principles of what makes an engaging game as one learns to create their own games. Games engage our brains, hands, and hearts. Games encourage and support learning, growth, imagination, and healthy brain development. The games in this course will be real, 3D tangible tabletop games. Join us to create n’ play.

Monopoly, Chess, Jenga, Scrabble, Sneaky-Snacky-Squirrel, Uno, D&D, Yatzee are 3D games requiring concentration, skill, and connection with others. Games engage our brains, hands and hearts. Games encourage and support learning, growth, imagination and healthy brain development. In this course, students will learn about the history of games, elements, and principles of what makes an engaging game as they learn to create their own games (both individually and in teams). The pandemic showed many the need for, and power of, games to both distract us from pain and engage us in connection with others. The games in this Honors seminar, will be real, 3D tangible games, (this course will not work with computer nor video games).

Permission numbers for non-honors from [email protected]

Register today for HONK 3500.301 Special Topic in Honors/STEM: Energy and the Developing World, taught by Dr. Robert Giles!

Tuesday/Thursday 12:30-1:45 pm on North Campus

Investigating the science of energy requires a thorough approach covering a broad range of topics such as fossil fuels, biomass, nuclear energy, and renewable energies such as solar, wind, and hydropower. This seminar course will address the fundamentals of energy with discussions involving the forms of energy, energy conversion and scalability of energy production with a global perspective. Invited speakers will include individuals with field specific expertise and international experience in each type of energy to detail the technological challenges of efficiently harvesting energy resources and establishing distribution and storage networks at home and abroad.

There are no prerequisites for this course, however, students should come prepared to pursue and evaluate topics in the science of energy through the skills of inquiry, research, critical thinking, and problem solving.

"As time passes and we continue our lives making more meaningful experiences, when we reflect on this trip it will not be the monuments alone that we think of, but the people we met, the moments we shared, and the feeling that, for a little while, we had truly become part of the city."

And thus concludes our adventures studying abroad in Paris, France: https://blogs.uml.edu/paris-summer-2026/

Link also in our Linktree in bio.

They did it! The Riverhawks have finished their Creative Writing program at Queens University in Belfast, concluding their journey abroad! Congratulations to all!

Follow along with our adventures studying abroad in Belfast, Northern Ireland: https://blogs.uml.edu/belfast-summer-2026/

Link also in our Linktree in bio.

"One thing was certain about Paris: inspiration could be found everywhere and we as students were truly inspired."

Follow along with our adventures studying abroad in Paris, France: https://blogs.uml.edu/paris-summer-2026/

Link also in our Linktree in bio.