Departmental Honors

The College is currently designing a Departmental Honors Program for which it has adopted the following framework. This framework is preliminary because the College must successfully design ways to facilitate and support substantial student research in light of the various circumstances confronted by faculty in departments with very different patterns of enrollment.

To earn “Departmental Honors,” a student will:

earn an “Honors Program Certificate;”
earn a minimum GPA in the major of 3.25;
complete a significant research project earning a grade of B+ or better in the student’s major;
fulfill other such requirements as specified by the department (with the approval of the usual processes of academic governance).