The °µÍø½âÃÜ Honors Program is one of °µÍø½âÃÜ’s many paths to excellence. It incorporates the University’s Institutional Learning Outcomes to offer a distinctive plan of study for students who are dedicated to achieving exceptional academic and personal standards.
The close-knit Honors learning community is rooted in the °µÍø½âÃÜ pillars of study, reflection, community, and service while upholding the values of the University as shaped by its history and Californian identity.
There are many benefits to participation in the Honors Program:
- Students assume leadership roles as representatives on the Honors Board or Student Honors Board to directly shape Honors programming.
- Students may register during the first day of priority registration along with senior-year students.
- Juniors and seniors may take graduate courses (with instructor permission).
- Students have exclusive access to the Honors Room in the Alemany Library, providing additional quiet space to work on projects or study.
Curriculum
Honors courses are taught as experiential learning seminars where students have considerable control regarding the issues they address and the ways to address them, providing an alternative to the University-wide core-curriculum requirements.
Courses are designed to be both curricular and co-curricular, offering students authentic, hands-on opportunities to fine tune their skills, put their ideas into practice, and gain the skills and knowledge to become engaged global citizens.
With an emphasis on civic learning and community engagement, the Honors curriculum creates an environment where the student can be an active and thoughtful learner. The Honors co-curriculum requirements focus on global learning and leadership opportunities such as faculty-led Honors trips and place-based projects that aim to foster intercultural knowledge, cultural humility, social responsibility, and global interconnectivity.