Honors College

aeromom
Thu, 01 May 2014 13:24:05 +0000

In your first few semesters at UA, there will be some core classes with both a regular and an honors section. Only honors college students will be in an honors-designated section/class/seminar. Honors College students do not have to take only honors classes, however! You pick and choose.

If you search this forum, I posted something a while back about the different types of honors programs at UA. Basically, there is the Honors College Honors Program (HP), with its own set of requirements (in a nut-shell, 18 credit hours required in honors classes - these can be UH-designated classes or department classes that offer honors sections, such as chem, calculus, psych, bio, physics, english, ect., but must include a combination of honors seminars as well as honors sections of classes). There is also a Departmental Honors Program within several majors on campus - research this by going to the specific school you will be attending (i.e., Arts & Science or Engineering, etc.) and then looking at your major, and there should be a tab on each Departmental Honors Programs. You can do both the UA/HC HP and your department’s HP, but in order to do your department HP, you must do the UA/Honors College program. Make sense?! Some departmental honors programs may be difficult to achieve, and require you take some ‘honors by contract’ classes within your major/dept. The workload for these courses will vary. In general, my S has not found the honors section of core classes, nor any of the UH courses/seminars, to be difficult or significantly more work than non-honors classes. Qualifying for the HC means that you can handle the work. PM me if you want more specific info.