Graduating with University Honors requires completion of 28 credit hours of Honors courses, including:

• Honors 1000
• Honors 2000 (foundational seminar)
• HON 3000: Field Learning requirement 
• HON 42xx-level seminar
• HON 4998: Honors Senior Thesis

For most students, this equates to roughly 16 of 28 credits needed to complete University Honors. How to fulfill the rest of the credits is completely up to you. Honors students are encouraged to take advantage of Honors sections of general education courses as part of their 28 credits.

Honors classes are generally smaller in size and taught by full-time faculty. To graduate with University Honors, you must maintain a cumulative 3.3 GPA and complete at least 28 credits, which on average is one to two Honors classes per term. Most students take three or four classes each semester.

There are three main ways to earn Honors credit:

• Honors sections of regular courses. These special sections offered by the various departments and are reserved for Honors students. They may either be offered as in conjunction with a larger, non-Honors class or as a class with only Honors students
• Courses offered by the Honors College, such as HON 1000 or the HON 4200-level seminars
• Honors Option, where the student and a faculty member agree on an additional assignment to earn Honors credit in a non-Honors class.