Honors Courses
Honors Contracts
Students can earn honors credit for almost any course by working with faculty to complete an Honors Contract. The student and instructor agree on an out-of-class project and then work together to create a contract outlining what the student will do, in addition to the regular course work, to complete the project and receive honors credit. Students should contact the professor during the first 3 weeks of the semester to learn more about the course, discuss project options and to prepare the contract.
Ideally, an Honors Contract should create a partnership of mutual benefit to the student and faculty member. For the honors student, the contract should involve a project or activity that takes him/her deeper into the course subject and results in an experience highly relevant to his/her preparation as a professional. For the faculty member, the contract work should be an opportunity to try innovative or professionally interesting projects or activities that would be difficult to do for an entire class. In all cases Honors Contract work should strive for achievement in at least one of these three areas: scholarship, leadership, or service. The contract may be achieved in many ways as long as the work is relevant to the subject of the course. Above all, the Honors Contract should strive to be creative, original and/or interesting and never feel like “busy work” for either the student or the faculty member involved
Honors Contract Form
