The request to revise HONR 1100 and University Honors Program requirements

Date: October 17, 2013
To: Honors College
From: Office of Academic Affairs
Approved On: September 26, 2013
Approved by: Undergraduate Course and Curriculum Committee
Implementation Date: Spring 2014

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HONR 1100. Freshman Honors Seminar Freshman Honors Colloquium. (1) Prerequisite: Freshman standing in the University Honors Program, and permission of the University Honors Program. Introduces university honors students to scholarship, service, and leadership opportunities in the honors program, the university, and larger community. Class activities include guest speakers, projects, and workshops. Students create a final portfolio. (Fall)

The University Honors Program in the Honors College

Open to talented and highly motivated students of all majors, the University Honors Program (UHP) in the Honors College is designed to challenge and broaden the intellectual growth of UNC Charlotte’s most academically gifted students. Through a series of interdisciplinary courses, cultural enrichment opportunities, a commitment to citizenship and service, and an individually designed senior project, honors students have a unique opportunity to customize their honors curriculum to meet their own specific goals. The interdisciplinary courses fit the theme, “Issues for Human Survival in the 21st Century,” and are designed to confront political, religious, economic, ecological, gender, race, justice, and human rights related issues and their impact on the global community and the human condition. To stimulate discussion and faculty-student interaction, all University Honors Program courses are restricted to a small class size with program permission required for enrollment.

Requirements

To graduate with University Honors Distinction, students must satisfy the following requirements:

  1. Complete with passing grade HONR 1100 (if entering program as first-year student in fall semester).
  2. Complete two courses (6 hours) from designated honors sections of the General Education Curriculum of LBST 2000-level courses.
  3. Complete two (6 hours) UHP Topics courses at the 3000-level.
  4. Satisfy the UHP Community Service requirement by completing either LBST 2215 (Citizenship) or HONR 2750 (Community Service Practicum).
  5. Satisfy the UHP Enrichment Requirement by completing either a designated honors section of an LBST 1000-level course or HONR 2701 Enrichment Seminar.
  6. Complete HONR 3790 (Honors Senior Project), or an approved discipline-based honors thesis/project, with a grade of A which has been approved by the Honors Program Director and Honors Council.
  7. Maintain a minimum overall grade point average of 3.0 and a 3.2 grade point average in University Honors Program designated courses. Maintain “good standing” status through participation in the UHP Student Association.