Honors Program
UMM's Honors program offers a unique opportunity to enhance your college education by stimulating your curiosity, intellect, and imagination. Honors students are challenged and find rewards: intellectual growth, opportunities for individual work, and an impressive credential. We encourage you to participate.
All UMM students are eligible to participate in the Honors Program. Students apply to the program in the spring semester of their freshman year and begin coursework in their sophomore year. To graduate "with Honors," a student must maintain a UMM GPA of 3.5 in addition to the program requirements set forth below.
Honors Program Components
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All Honors students enroll in "Traditions in Human Thought," a course that explores significant works from history, literature, philosophy, and science from an interdisciplinary perspective. |
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Honors courses examine a particular topic from an interdisciplinary perspective and are often team-taught by faculty from different academic disciplines. In the past, courses have focused on the Enlightenment, networks and innovation, Classical Greece, the Medieval Mind, the Apocalypse, and the tension between notions of a Republic and an Empire. |
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Students must complete a Senior Honors project. Honors projects are substantial scholarly or creative works designed by a student working cooperatively with a project advisor. The project must be defended before a panel of faculty from different disciplines. |
In addition, Honors Program students volunteer for service learning initiatives, attend public presentations, music/theatrical performances, and many other honors-related events. They also enjoy occasional field trips and outings, and mentor those just starting in the program.
The Honors Program is a great opportunity for UMM students to enhance their college experience. |
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