The da Vinci Honors Program (DVP) in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) provides a community for academically motivated undergraduate students. Inspired by the artist, humanist, and scientific genius Leonardo da Vinci, this honors program aims to enhance the opportunities for incoming freshman and sophomore students to explore the interdisciplinary connections among the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. This program offers opportunities for intellectual engagement through an innovative curriculum, academic events, and creative work. This is a great program for students who want to enrich their experience at the University of Miami.
The da Vinci Program encourages students to rethink the map of human knowledge. It emphasizes connections between humanistic and scientific inquiry and their modes of understanding: objectivity, critical analysis, self-reflexivity, the nature of proof, authority, and the logic and rhetoric of written expression. It also helps define the distinctive elements that humanities classes can offer to STEM-minded students: a chance to reflect on questions of human values, ethics, and aesthetics. At the same time, it introduces humanities students to conceptually new means of investigating the traditional fields.
See how the da Vinci Program served as a catalyst for A&S student Mateus Lima...
First Year - Fall Semester |
Leonardo da Vinci Course |
First Year – Spring Semester |
History and Philosophy of Science Course |
Sophomore Year – Fall Semester |
Science and Society or Art Science Course |
Sophomore Year – Spring Semester |
Research Seminar Course
● A research/class project involving either a photo lab/visual media project or research in digital humanities. |
Junior Year – Fall Semester |
DVP Program co-listed sections of regular course offerings, with an emphasis on interdisciplinary classes. Examples: History of Science; Medicine and Literature.Topic-Based Seminar #1 Course |
Junior Year – Spring Semester |
DVP Program co-listed sections of regular course offerings, with an emphasis on interdisciplinary classes. Examples: History of Science; Medicine and Literature.Topic-Based Seminar #2 Course |
Senior Year – Fall Semester |
DVP Symposium |
Senior Year – Spring Semester |
DVP Symposium |
Q: How can I participate in the da Vinci Program? |
A: It is by invitation only to high-performing students. |
Q: How many students usually enroll in this program? |
A: The University Admissions Office extends invitations to a select group of high-achieving admitted students, of which only the first 40 to accept the invitation become each year's cohort. |
Q: Do I have to be a student in the College of Arts & Sciences to participate? |
A: Yes. You don’t need to have declared a particular major to be invited to the program. |
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