Students may pursue any major available in the University and at the same time complete the Honors curriculum. In most cases, participation in the College does not increase the number of credits required for graduation. Each term through the third year, students enroll in one Honors seminar that is designed to stimulate thoughtful discussion and creativity and to develop communication skills. Honors seminars are limited to a student/faculty ratio of 20:1 and are taught by some of the best teachers in the University. In the senior year, students may choose from several options including additional seminars, independent research, and foreign study.

All classes are interdisciplinary and most are team-taught. Years I and II are structured similarly: students and faculty at each level meet in a large group session one day each week for activities such as lectures, panel discussions, case studies, and student presentations; the other class meeting each week is spent in small group preceptorials. Professors meet with the same small group throughout the year. Senior seminars meet as independent classes with an emphasis on synthesizing the students' experiences during the previous three years and introducing them to graduate level research activities.

The curriculum emphasizes the following activities:

- Critical, integrative, and creative thinking;
- Group and independent research;
- Oral presentation;
- Close contact between students and faculty;
- Integration of class work with the broader community.

The College brings together professors of different disciplines not so much to present a catalog of competing worldviews as to offer faculty and students the opportunity to answer the big questions all humans face. Year I asks: "Where did we come from?'; year II, "Who are we?"; year III, "What is worthwhile?"; year four, "Where are we going?". The paths followed are transdisciplinary going beyond the traditional divisions of intellectual activity to encompass the different facets of human thought and human creativity. Unity in diversity is the model for our students, faculty, and academic program.

Year One
IDH 1001, IDH 1002 (6 credits): The Origin of Ideas and the Idea of Origins
The course is designed to encourage students to become self-conscious learners, exploring not only the what, but also the how and why of knowing. The course focuses on the nature of truth and reality and our role in the world each of us has constructed.

Year Two
IDH 2003, IDH 2004 (6 credits): Inhabiting Other Lives
Exposes students to issues of human commonality and diversity, and invites them to investigate and to understand the interconnectedness of various cultures, times and life experiences.

Year Three
IDH 3005, IDH 3006 (6 credits): Aesthetics, Values, and Authority
Building on the investigations of the first two years, the third course examines the aesthetic underpinnings of culture and foundations of what commonly are held to be "western values." Discussions focus not only on these paradigms, but on the authority and power relationships that surround them.