THE HONORS PROGRAM

Minimum Honors hours for Program = 24

Admittance to the Honors program is by invitation of the Director (see Honors Program section in Academic Information). The Honors Program offers a four-year program which requires that students complete twenty-four hours of Honors Courses. During the first two years students are required to take five three-hour courses from the General Studies Requirements. During the final two years, students must complete nine hours of Junior/Senior credits taken from their major fields of study.

A. Honors Courses within the General Studies:
Take 5 courses from:
ART 120HGS, Seminar in Art Appreciation - 3 hours
ECON 100HGS, Contemporary Economic Issues - 3 hours
ENG 101HGS, Expository Writing I - 3 hours
ENG 102HGS, Expository Writing II - 3 hours
ENG 235HGS, American Studies - 3 hours
ENG 240HGS, Literary Classics - 3 hours
GEOG 104HGS, World Regional - 3 hours
HIST/ENG 280HGS, America-1960s - 3 hours
History - The requirement may be met by successfully completing any of the following:
HIST 210H, HIST 211H, HIST 212H, HIST 215H, HIST 250H, or: 251H.
HUM 224HGS, Classical Studies in the Humanities - 3 hours
HUM 244HGS, Contemporary Studies in the Humanities - 3 hours
PHIL 100HGS, Introduction to Philosophy - 3 hours
PHIL 120HGS, Introduction to Ethics - 3 hours
PHYS 131HGS, Newton's Universe - 4 hours
PHYS 132HGS, Einstein's Universe - 4 hours
PSCI 110HGS, Introduction to American Politics - 3 hours
PSY 210HGS, Issue in Psychology - 3 hours
280HVariable Topics - 1-3 hours

B. Junior/Senior Requirements
Take 9 hours from:
Honors Option Courses Variable Topics - 6 hours
Honors Option Courses are selected major courses from the various disciplines which the student may take as honors credit. The kind of study will vary from course to course and from discipline to discipline.
Senior Study Variable Topics - 3 hours
The Senior Study, taken during the senior year, is the culmination of the student's honors work directed by a professor in the major field.
Graduate Courses - 1-3 hours
A senior in the Honors Program may take one graduate course for Honors credit.
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