Honors STEM courses vary in topic by professor and are announced prior to course registration. These courses engage students in the scientific process within a given STEM topic, emphasizing scientific methods and fundamental scientific principles within a societal context and employing interdisciplinary approaches. These courses feature elements of Honors pedagogy such as classroom discussion, engagement with peer- reviewed literature, and active participation in the research process (including data collection and analysis, and/or extensive literature review and synthesis). May be repeated up to six credits under a different subtitle. This course fulfills UK Core requirement for Intellectual Inquiry in the Natural/Physical/Mathematical Sciences.