Engineering with honors college

SEA_tide
Sat, 01 Feb 2014 22:32:49 +0000

Elaborating on my previous post, students who enter UA with a lot of college credits often find that that they already have credit for many of the 100/200-level honors courses. In order to satisfy the requirements for UHP, they need to take 18 honors credits, 6 of which are from specific UH/IHP courses. The key here is to take UH versions, if available, of the core curriculum requirements one still needs to complete, one of which is often the fine/performing arts requirement. The literature requirement is also one that many incoming students with large amounts of college credit have not yet fulfilled. The English department offers several honors literature courses. Note that one can take American Literature 2 without taking American Literature 1, take American literature without taking English literature, etc.

With the above two suggestions, one already has 6 honors credits, 3 of which are UH credits. I highly suggest students take IHP 105 or IHP 155, the latter being the freshman-only version of the former. IHP 105/155 count towards UH requirements and provide an excellent look at how to work in other countries and with people from other cultures. Right there one has all 6 UH credits completed and 9 of the 18 required honors credits completed.

In the above example, a student would have 9 more honors credits to complete. 6 of these credits could be satisfied via honors by contract. A student could also take the honors versions of two calculus courses (4 credits each) and a 1-credit UH course which counts towards UHP requirements. Students in a combined bachelor’s/masters degree program or a departmental honors program will take graduate level courses which also count as honors courses. If none of the above apply, they can always take the 500-level versions of selected 400-level classes.