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Hutton Honors College

 —  GHN Requirements for Students Who Entered the HHC Fall 2005 and After

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:

  1. Each student must complete a curriculum consisting of a minimum of 21 graded credit hours of honors courses.

  2. These 21 hours must include at least two 3-credit "H" courses offered by the Hutton Honors College itself - HON-H 211, HON-H 212, HON-H 203, HON-H 204, HON-H 205, HON-H 303, HON-H 304, HON-H 305 - or another Hutton Honors College "H" course at the 200-level or above. 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.

    Note: The Hutton Honors College HON-H 299 Tutorial will count as approved notation credit only with the prior approval of the Dean of the Hutton Honors College. The 1-credit Hutton Honors College discussion sections paired with a 3-credit departmental course (examples include HON-H 299/CLAS-C 206, HON-H 300/GNDR-G 310) will result in a total of 3 credit hours toward the notation. These discussion sections do not fulfill the "H" course requirement.


  3. 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.


  4. 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.


  5. Students must maintain a minimum grade point average of 3.40 in their notation courses and a minimum overall grade point average of 3.40 at graduation.
  6. 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.