UW or SPU

triseradad
Fri, 05 Apr 2013 15:09:10 +0000

The UW honors math and science courses have been around far longer than the Interdisciplinary Honors program, and these courses are available to all students, i.e. you don’t have to be in the honors program to take honors math or science, but these courses do fulfill part of the Interdisciplinary Honors core requirement. The UW math and science honors courses are more rigorous (in the case of chem 145/155/165 and math 134/135/136 much more rigorous) versions of the regular UW intro math and science courses.

There is also Departmental Honors, which is available to qualifying students in many departments once you are in a major. Departmental Honors generally involves research and/or a more involved senior paper than what is normally required for a degree. You don’t have to be accepted into or participate in Interdisciplinary Honors in order to participate in Departmental Honors.

So at UW, you would have the opportunity for more rigorous study than at SPU, particularly if you chose the honors math/science and/or Departmental Honors options.