Honors College

lkf725
Tue, 27 Jun 2006 13:11:47 +0000

I can offer that my son is in the honors college and took several honors courses during his first year. They were worth taking, had excellent profs and some “different” work than the regular level classes. But during the second engineering year, the students move to their major department and I’m not sure if there are some/any honors level courses then. The situation may be different in CAS though. I believe that you can take honors level classes even if you are not officially in the honors college.

There is honors housing if you want it, honors advisors and honors college activities that seem to be well attended. Research and scholarship opportunities may be easier to come by in the honors college, but we will still have to see about that! I know that students can opt for the honors college degree called BPhil and this involves writing a senior thesis.

In spite of the goodies mentioned above, I am a little disappointed in the honors college. Nothing was wrong with it, but I guess I just expected “more”.