Students accepted into the competitive Kaplan Humanities Scholars Program (KHSP) participate in an innovative exploration of the humanities via two intensive courses in fall of their first year. Designed especially for program participants, the Humanities in the World lecture course (HUM 210-0,  HUM 211-0, HUM 212-0, or HUM 213-0) and the small coordinated College Seminar (HUM 101-6) are team-taught by award-winning professors drawn from different departments, and the pair of courses count toward the Weinberg College College Seminar requirement and a Weinberg College foundational discipline requirement. Through these linked courses, students take up a broad humanistic theme that traverses the boundaries of academic disciplines—as well as those of geography, culture, and historical periods—and integrate a variety of intellectual methods to refine their critical reading, writing and analysis skills; confront the works of great authors and artists; attend special performances and field trips; and examine how ordinary citizens, artists, authors, and thinkers alike have contributed to the central role played by the humanities in our world. Incoming first-year students apply for admission to the program based on materials already in their original Northwestern application file. No matter what a student's intended major or field of study, the Kaplan Scholars Program is an exciting and intensive preparation for the broadest possible range of programs and pursuits at Northwestern. The program offers students the chance to build their intellectual and social community from their very first days at Northwestern. For more information, see the webpage for the Kaplan Humanities Scholars Program.

Weinberg College policy allows a KHSP course to be applied towards any major or minor, or general bachelor's degree requirement, for which it is eligible.