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Majors & Degrees

Honors Program Requirements

Qualifications

Students in the General Beadle Honors Program usually have:

  • ACT composite scores of 26 or higher
  • High school GPAs of 3.7 and up
  • Graduate in the top 20% of their class

Students interested in the honors program with scores or GPAs not quite matching those above are still encouraged to apply. All applications that demonstrate the promise of achievement will be considered.

Program requirements

All students must complete the requirements for their academic major and graduate with a 3.2 GPA or higher and fulfill the following requirements:

Curricular

All students must complete at least 28 credit hours* from the following requirements & electives:

Required (9 hours)

  • HON 102 Freshman Honors Seminar: Introduction to Popular Culture (1 hour)

  • HON 202 Intermediate Honors Seminar: Research Presentation (1 hour)

  • HON 390 Honors Seminar: The Ramification of Artificial Intelligence (3 hours)

  • HON 392 Topics: Thesis Discovery (1 hour)

  • XXX 498 Research: Senior Thesis (course prefix is for each student’s major)

Electives (18 hours)

Students must complete at least six (6) Honors-specific general education courses, which vary from semester to semester and year to year. Students who bring in existing general education credits are eligible to take a reduced number of Honors courses based on a sliding scale. Contact the Honors Director to determine the specific number of honors elective credits you must complete based on your individualized transcript.

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