<p>The requirements for the honors program are that you take six honors courses. One of these will be a one credit “Enhancing Honors” course freshman year that is a joke. Another has to be an interdisciplinary seminar. Four or five of these are offered each semester in varying topics. The remaining four classes are electives that you can choose from any of the offered honors courses.</p>
<p>If you’re lucky, your major has honors sections of courses you need to take anyway (such as calculus or differential equations). However, if you already have credit for calculus courses through AP credits, you can’t fill as many honors courses that way. Upper level courses generally don’t have honors sections. Even for lower level classes, there might only be one honors section, and it might be at a time that doesn’t fit your schedule.</p>
<p>If you can’t find four honors courses in your major, you generally start trying to find honors courses to fulfill your gen ed requirements. This is fine unless you had pretty specific electives you wanted to take. There simply aren’t enough honors students to offer an honors section of everything. So, for example, if you were set on taking History of Rock Music or something for your arts and humanities requirement, you won’t be able to find an honors section.</p>