CNM Honors Program
Interested in joining the CNM Honors student club for pizza, book clubs, lectures, and concerts? You don’t have to have taken a course to join!
Please email CNM Honors Director Chris Prentice for more information.
The CNM Honors Program aims to provide education beyond the core curriculum. Our dedicated and experienced faculty design learning experiences in small, seminar-style environments so that you are able to connect with instructors and other students who are passionate about learning.
The CNM Honors Program boasts the following features:
-
Courses fulfill core requirements for most CNM degree programs and certificates.
-
Courses transfer to the UNM Honors College.
-
Small class sizes allow students to engage with instructors and classmates.
-
Courses address current issues and provide space for students to pursue their own interests.
-
No barriers to entry! No prerequisites beyond IRW 980 and no GPA minimums or other special requirements to register. Any student is able to register for CNM Honors classes, regardless of the topic.
Upcoming Honors Course Offerings
Spring 2025
In this course, we’ll explore the relationships between humans and the natural world. Together we will consider how landscapes, animals, and resources shape our existence and cultural narratives and practices. Through a diverse selection of readings from essayists, journalists, and poets such as Camille Dungy, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Edward Abbey, Annie Dillard, and Leslie Marmon Silko, we will engage with a wide range of texts to challenge and inform our perspectives on the world we inhabit.
You will have the opportunity to design and carry out a research project that aligns with your interests, such as exploring specific environmental issues or challenges, innovative sustainability practices, or cultural beliefs surrounding our relationship with nature.
Dive into the past, present, and future of humans in relationship to the natural world on our shared planet!
Registration Information
Course Prefix: HNRS 1120
Course Section: Section 101
CRN: 87281
Location: CNM Main Campus, MS 103
Days: Tuesdays and Thursdays
Times: 10:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
In this hands-on course, you will learn publishing-related skills, including management and editing, and publish an annual edition of a student literary arts journal: CNM's Leonardo. In the first part of the course, you will survey the present and recent past of regional and national peer institution student literary arts journals to explore such questions as:
- What makes a really good (or bad) issue?
- How does a student publication represent a wide diversity of voices and perspectives equitably and as compellingly as possible?
- What has Leonardo been recently, and what do we want it to be going forward?
With answers to these questions, through journaling assignments and class discussion, you will work collaboratively to produce and promote the 2025 issue. This includes everything from reviewing submissions and communicating with student contributors to designing the issue and helping organize the spring release party. Other editorial roles you can choose to play include managing and designing the Leonardo website where Leo Long Form is published, promoting the journal on social media, and creating a handbook for future student editors. In this class, you don’t just learn about publishing, you do it.
Registration Information
Course Prefix: HNRS 1120
Course Section: Section U01
CRN: 86884
Location: Online or in-person at CNM Main Campus, MS 308
Days: Fridays
Times: Noon - 2:45 a.m.
