Honors Course Proposals

Honors Experience Lab: Honors Enhancement of Existing Course

The University Honors Program invites departments and faculty to propose an Honors Experience Lab—an Honors section attached to an existing course. The Honors and regular course sections are cross-listed, allowing Honors students to earn credit for the course and Honors points for their collaboration outside class on a faculty-designed enrichment experience. That experience should be modeled on a group Honors Mentoring Agreement.

Honors Experience Labs are designed to incentivize Honors students to enroll, heighten their visibility to one another and instructors (especially in large courses), and enrich the learning of all students. Honors students earn Honors points equal to course credits upon successful completion of the course and Honors enrichment experience. Because Honors Experience Labs, as sections of existing courses, do not change overall course enrollment or content, they fall under a faculty member’s normal teaching load. In the first term of teaching an Honors Experience Lab, faculty will receive a $500 course development grant from the University Honors Program.