Honors College Curriculum

Lower Division

All lower-division honors courses can be counted toward general education requirements. 

1. An honors-level course in English composition
2. The Honors First Year Seminar, HONORS 101 - Honors First-year Seminar , an exploration of how knowledge is constructed and communicated with emphases on the uses of language and technology
3. Four 200-level HONORS  courses
4. The completion, through course work, placement test, or other evidence of:

• pre-calculus or statistics and intermediate proficiency in a foreign language
  or
• calculus and elementary proficiency in a foreign language.

Upper Division

1. The Honors College Junior Colloquium, HONORS 380 - Honors Colloquium , ideally taken in the second semester of the junior year. Through a multidisciplinary engagement with a specific topic and through the presentations of guest speakers, the colloquium builds the skills necessary to the research process; it prepares the students for the tasks they will encounter in their senior year as they write their thesis.
2. The senior project, normally undertaken in the student’s major department, which earns the student honors in the major while also satisfying Honors College requirements: The college encourages the presentation of such projects at national and statewide conferences on undergraduate research. The senior thesis guide, which includes requirements for the senior thesis and alternatives to the senior thesis, is available here.