Grades

An honors course requires a grade of at least a C to satisfy Honors Program requirements. Honors courses with lower grades may still fulfill general education or elective requirements but not Honors Program general education requirements. An honors scholar must have a cumulative grade point average of 3.50 for all courses and of 3.25 for all Honors courses prior to enrolling for Honors Scholarship (UHNR 464) units. A student is no longer allowed Honors status when the cumulative grade point average for all courses is below 3.25, or when the cumulative grade point average for all Honors courses is below 3.00.

Requirements

Total units required: 72 - 99 quarter units

The following requirements fulfill general education requirements (as an alternative to the University Studies curriculum) for students admitted into the Honors Program. A student may elect to not complete the Original Scholarship component of the Program and still fulfill general education requirements (but not graduate with University Honors designation).

Honors Core Courses (41 units):

• UHNR 101 Beginning to Seek
• UHNR 114/114L The Scientific Process
• UHNR 214/214L The Arts
• UHNR 224 Religious Understandings
• UHNR 231 Global Cultures in Context: Theories and Perspectives
• UNHR 232 Global Cultures in Context: The Experience
• UHNR 314 Changing Communities
• UHNR 324 Science and the Future
• UHNR 404 Religious, Moral, and Social Aspects of the Academic Discipline
• UHNR 414 Religion and the Future
• UHNR 424 Seeking, Knowing, and Serving

Community Involvement (3 units):

• UHNR 354 Honors Community Involvement

Original Scholarship (7-17 units):

• UHNR 364 Honors Scholarship Colloquium
• UHNR 464 Honors Scholarship

Competencies (20-37 units):

• Modern or Ancient Language through Intermediate I level (e.g., SPAN 201)
• Mathematics through Calculus I; or College Algebra and Statistics I
• PEAC 120 Lifetime Fitness (2)
• English 111, 112 and 113 or 124
• UHNR 201

Portfolio: All students in the program will complete an Honors Portfolio, used by both the program and the student to evaluate their progress and develop their rhetorical skills.

Project: All students in the program will complete an Honors Scholarship Project, in which they develop an original research or creative project in collaboration with faculty that is presented publicly.