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Many IU schools and departments offer honors programs of their own for
their undergraduate majors, and many Hutton Honors College students
choose to pursue these programs. Our students may also, if they
choose, earn a General Honors
Notation from the Hutton Honors College. This notation signifies outstanding
performance in a broad, liberal arts curriculum and will appear on the
official transcript and on the diploma.
To earn this notation, students must successfully complete the
following general honors program:
- Each student must complete a curriculum consisting of a minimum of 21
graded credit hours of honors courses.
- These 21 hours must include at least two, 3-credit HON-H courses offered by the Hutton Honors College itself - examples of these courses include HON-H 211,
HON-H 212, HON-H 233, HON-H 241, and HON-H 303. Only 3 credits
of HON-H 211 and only 3 credits of HON-H 212 may count toward the General Honors Notation; students may not count multiple offerings of HON-H 211 or of HON-H 212
toward the General Honors Notation.
An important note regarding variable-credit HON-H 299 tutorials, 1-credit HON-H discussion sections, and the GHN:
There are two kinds of HON-H 299 credit-bearing entities: the HON-H 299 tutorial and the HON-H 299 discussion section. The HON-H 299 tutorial, which is an independent-study,
variable-credit course arranged between a student and an instructor, will count for the GHN only with approval from the Dean of the Hutton Honors College. This approval must
be obtained by the student prior to the semester in which the tutorial will be undertaken. Please note that if a tutorial is approved to count for the GHN, it will NOT count
as one of the two required, 3-credit HON-H courses. The 1-credit HON-H discussion sections, including HON-H 299, that are paired with
3-credit departmental courses will result in a total of 3 credit hours toward the notation. However, because these discussion
sections are only one credit hour, they do *NOT* count as one of the two required, 3-credit HON-H courses for the GHN. Examples of these pairings include HON-H 299/POLS-Y 200
and HON-H 300/GNDR-G 310.
- No more than 3 credit hours per honors course may be counted.
Three-credit-hour honors courses that consist of a lecture and lab may count toward the General Honors Notation. For
students taking honors readings/research courses and honors thesis
courses, only 3 credit hours total may count toward the notation.
Students may not count more than two courses from any one department
toward the notation. (EXCEPTIONS: Students who complete a departmental
honors thesis course -- i.e., a course that has an honors thesis as a
degree or departmental honors requirement -- may count this course
toward their notation AND
count a maximum of two additional departmental honors courses from the
thesis granting department; however, the two additional departmental
honors courses may not include readings/research courses. ALSO, THERE IS NO UPPER LIMIT ON
HON-H courses (honors courses offered by the Hutton Honors College
itself) THAT MAY BE COUNTED TOWARD THE NOTATION.
Effective immediately: the practice of treating
schools other than the College of Arts & Sciences (COLL) as one
department will be modified. Instead, each department within each
school will be considered as a separate department. For example,
students in the Kelley School of Business (BUS) or the School of
Public & Environmental Affairs (SPEA) may take up to 15 hours of
approved honors courses in BUS or SPEA, as long as there are NO
MORE THAN 6 credit hours in any one department. Students are
strongly encouraged to take a breadth of Honors courses, across a
number of departments, to fulfill the General Honors Notation.
- Students may receive notation credit for foreign study: 6
credits for one academic year abroad, 3 credits for one
semester, and 1 credit for summer study (4-week minimum).
When a course taken abroad is officially listed as an honors course
by the host institution, the HHC will consider the course for honors
credit by petition.
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Students must maintain a minimum grade point average of 3.40 in their notation courses,
with no course grade lower than a C. Courses taken satisfactory/fail (S/F) cannot be counted
toward the notation. Students must also have a minimum overall grade point average
of 3.40 at graduation.
Prior to your graduation date, please submit an application to the Hutton Honors College, attesting to the completion
of the notation requirements. Please *click
here* to download the
application as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file.
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