University Catalog 2024-2025

Colloquia (COLQ)

COLQ 1010  Freshmen Colloquium Seminar  (1-3)  

First-year Seminar Colloquium course.

COLQ 1020  Freshman Colloquium  (1-3)  

First-year seminar course; topics vary by instructor.

COLQ 1025  Freshmen Colloquia Lab  (0)  

COLQ 1030  Quest for Answers  (1.5)  

COLQ 1290  Semester Abroad  (1-20)  

Course may be repeated up to unlimited credit hours.


Maximum Hours: 99

COLQ 1890  Service Learning  (0-1)  

Students complete a service activity in the community in conjunction with the content of a three-credit co-requisite course. Course may be repeated up to unlimited credit hours.

Course Limit: 99

COLQ 1940  Transfer Coursework  (0-20)  

Transfer Coursework at the 1000 level. Departmental approval may be required.


Maximum Hours: 99

COLQ 2010  Honors Soph Colloquium  (1.5-3)  

COLQ 2030  Sophomore Colloquium  (1-3)  

COLQ 2050  Grant Writing for Non-Profit Organizations  (3)  

Students in this course learn elements of successful grant writing for non-profit organizations in a series of seminars/workshops. Topics include the elements of a proposal, persuasive writing, researching funding sources, and building relationships with community partners and prospective funding sources. Students identify and collaborate with community partner non-profit organizations to assess program needs and goals and research potential funding sources. Teams of students prepare and submit a funding proposal to support a partner organization. The course consists of 3 hours of seminar per week and fulfills the Newcomb-Tulane college intensive writing requirement. Enrollment in co-requisite Tier 1 service learning is required. Enrollment is limited to sophomores.

Corequisite(s): COLQ 2890.

COLQ 2390  Semester Abroad  (1-20)  

Course may be repeated up to unlimited credit hours.


Maximum Hours: 99

COLQ 2890  Service Learning  (1)  

Service Learning course to be taken with a 2000-level COLQ course that offers a service component.

Corequisite(s): COLQ 2050.


Maximum Hours: 99

COLQ 2940  Transfer Coursework  (0-20)  

Transfer Coursework at the 2000 level. Department approval may be required.


Maximum Hours: 99

COLQ 3010  Science & Human Values  (3)  

Prerequisite(s): PSYC 1000 or 1010.

Prerequisite(s): PSYC 1000 or 1010.

COLQ 3020  God(S) and Science  (3)  

COLQ 3030  Science and Religion  (3)  

COLQ 3040  Honors Junior Colloquium  (3)  

Course may be repeated up to unlimited credit hours.


Maximum Hours: 99

COLQ 3041  Honors Junior Coloquim  (1-3)  

COLQ 3050  Junior Colloquium  (1-3)  

Course may be repeated up to unlimited credit hours.


Maximum Hours: 99

COLQ 3601  Adverse Childhood Experiences: Intersections of violence, neuroscience, law, and public health  (3)  

This course takes a unique 360 perspective on early adversity, violence, and child maltreatment. Through integrating hands on experiences, small group discussions, internationally renowned guest speakers, community engagement and writing and social media assignments students are expected to increase their ability to think across disciplines, specifically neuroscience, public health, law, public policy and psychology.

COLQ 3602  Professional and System Responses to Adverse Childhood Experiences  (3)  

This course is designed to provide the student with both a unique and an integrated perspective of the individual professions (e.g., psychology, pediatrics, social work, education, forensic interviewing, legal, law enforcement, etc.) and professional and system responses related to a child’s exposure to, the prevention of, and the identification and treatment of early adversity, violence, and child maltreatment. Through integrating hands-on experiences, internationally renowned guest speakers, community engagement, writing and social media assignments utilizing a rhetorical appeals approach to effective communication, students are expected to increase their ability to critically evaluate this issue across disciplines while building their skills in effective scientific translation and communication simultaneously to multi-disciplines. This course expands the students’ understanding of the different professional and system responses to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs).

Prerequisite(s): PSYC 1000, SPHU 1010 or EDLA 2000.

COLQ 3890  Service Learning  (0-1)  

Students complete a service activity in the community in conjunction with the content of a three-credit co-requisite course. Course may be repeated up to unlimited credit hours.


Maximum Hours: 99

COLQ 4010  Honors Humanities Colloq  (3)  

Course may be repeated up to unlimited credit hours.


Maximum Hours: 99

COLQ 4011  Honors Humanities Colloq  (1-3)  

COLQ 4012  Honors Humanities Colloq  (1-3)  

COLQ 4013  Honors Thesis Workshop  (1-3)  

COLQ 4020  Honors Humanities Colloq  (1-3)  

Course may be repeated up to unlimited credit hours.


Maximum Hours: 99

COLQ 4120  The Grand Canyon  (3,4)  

This course covers central aspects of the geology, biology, anthropology and history of the US Southwest, concentrating on the areas contiguous with the path of the Colorado River through what is today Northern Arizona. After a semester of classroom work, familiarizing the students with geography, geology, flora, fauna, peoples, cultures and histories of the region, the class will travel to Lee's Ferry and the float for seven days on Hatch River Expeditions rafts through a natural laboratory. Those students taking this course as a capstone in Environmental Studies will pay special attention to landforms and waterways, water law, the environmental and biological consequences of damming, and endangered species. Students taking this course for elective credit in Anthropology or Geology must write their term papers on a topic in their discipline.

COLQ 4140  Nat History Arch Mesoame  (3)  

Geologic history of Mesoamerica, archaeology of Mesoamerica, history of the conquest and colonial period, flora and economic botany of the region.

COLQ 4200  Honors Senior Colloquium  (3)  

Prerequisite(s): PSYC 1000.

Prerequisite(s): PSYC 1000.

COLQ 4210  Senior Colloquium  (3)  

COLQ 4570  Public Service Internshp  (1-3)  

Course may be repeated up to unlimited credit hours.


Maximum Hours: 99

COLQ 5000  Honors Thesis  (4)  

Honors Thesis

COLQ 5190  Semester Abroad  (1-20)  

Course may be repeated up to unlimited credit hours.


Maximum Hours: 99

COLQ 5380  Junior Year Abroad  (1-20)  

Course may be repeated up to unlimited credit hours.


Maximum Hours: 99

COLQ 5390  Junior Year Abroad  (1-20)  

Course may be repeated up to unlimited credit hours.


Maximum Hours: 99

COLQ 5940  Transfer Coursework  (0-20)  

Transfer coursework at the 5000 level. Departmental approval required.


Maximum Hours: 99

COLQ 6010  Mellon Professorship-Hum  (3)  

An interdisciplinary course offered by a scholar of notable achievements both in teaching and research in humanistic learning. This course is not assigned to any particular discipline but spans the broad area of the humanities: classical, English, foreign languages and literatures, history, history of fine arts, and philosophy.

COLQ 6020  Mellon Professorship-Hum  (3)  

An interdisciplinary course offered by a scholar of notable achievements both in teaching and research in humanistic learning. This course is not assigned to any particular discipline but spans the broad area of the humanities: classical, English, foreign languages and literatures, history, history of fine arts, and philosophy.