Academic Requirements

Academic Requirements

• Honors students must successfully complete 6 honors classes or 5 honors classes + study abroad/ Washington semester/ Student teaching abroad. These courses may be honors-designated General Education courses, discipline-specific honors courses, or J-term/Maymester honors courses.
• A semester of tutorials is worth 2-credits/ ½ course credit, and replaces one 4-credit honors course. Honors students may take two semesters of tutorials.
• Honors students are required to complete a major-based senior project.
• Honors students must have a 3.50 GPA at the end of their senior year in order to graduate from the Honors Program.
• Scheduling paradigm 2012-2013

Honors Common Course: HONR 101
All incoming honors students register for HONR 101. This is a one-semester course and satisfies Area 9 of the General Education Program (Writing Intensive).

Co-curricular Requirements
Honors students are required to attend Honors events as specified. Events may include the Annual Welcome Picnic, the Abbey Visit, the Ropes Course, Life Raft! and All-Honors Meeting.

Registration
Honors students receive priority registration: they are able to register before other members of their class. Students’ registration times reflect this privilege. Honors students in the same class may receive different registration times because of the different numbers of credits they have earned (AP, transfer, etc).

Study Abroad
Honors students are encouraged to study abroad. They are not required to do any extra project while abroad; the semester abroad counts as one of their 6 required honors classes.

Director’s Contact Information
The Director serves as the Honors Advisor for all Honors students. Please feel free to contact Marcie Paul at (920) 403-3222, stop by her office (Boyle Hall 322) or contact her via e-mail at marcie.paul@snc.edu.