The Honors Program at Coastal Carolina University aims to foster intellectual curiosity and creativity among highly-motivated and academically-gifted students. This goal is advanced through a challenging and well-structured Honors curriculum that incorporates disciplinary, cross-disciplinary, and interdisciplinary perspectives, and that encourages collaboration among members of the university community to support the academic, professional, and personal growth of Honors students.

The syllabus for the CCU's 2005 first-year Honors Seminar (Honors 101) was selected by the National Collegiate Honors Council as one of six most outstanding interdisciplinary courses for an Honors Program in the US. The criteria for inclusion included originality, interest of the topic, clarity of presentation, and usefulness to other Honors Programs. A 4-page version of the Honors 101 syllabus entitled "East meets West" has been published in the National Collegiate Honors Councils journal, Honors in Practice v. 2 (2006): 118-121. A version of the syllabus is available online at http://www.nchchonors.org/coursefresh.doc.

The 2007 Honors 101 syllabus entitled "The Seven Deadly Sins" offered a writing intensive, humanities-based, team-taught, interdisciplinary course designed to investigate the territory between moral philosophy and developmental psychology. The Seminar explored the theme of “The Seven Deadly Sins” through different genres and in different cultural contexts in order to investigate how past concerns inform present society.