When the core courses being offered in the Schedler Honors Program do not satisfy the requirements that an individual student needs, the student has the option to set up a contract course with a faculty member in a different academic area. Examples of projects undertaken in contract courses include the following:
- Using the WHO COVID-19 database to design a student lab activity for General Ecology.
- Teaching a class meeting of an upper division Exercise Science class
- A research project into the impact of Young Adult fiction on incarcerated youth
- An evaluation of the UCA library’s children’s selection of social studies related holdings; researching and compiling a list of suggested book purchases to enhance the library’s current collection.
- Writing a review article related to the U.S. Supreme Court case, Digital Realty Trust, Inc. v. Somers.
- A research paper on how the online environment is affecting Asian religions, particularly Buddhism.
- An engineering and ethical analysis of Miami pedestrian bridge collapse in 2018.
- A computer science project on the design and implementation of a hardware accelerator for feature extraction. This project led to a paper submission.
- A research project investigating how communication styles affect intimacy and communication in relationships.
- Creation of a business plan.
- Development of an interdisciplinary course in psychology.
- Development of a fluorescence microscopy lab for cell biology.
- An investigation into the prevalence of disease pathologies in relation to different ethnic groups.
- Organization of an Interfaith Dialogue open to the campus community featuring religious leaders from 4 major world religions.
