CONTENTS

General Requirements for Honors

Special Requirements for Honors Distinctions

The Senior Honors Thesis

General Registration Information

General Requirements for Honors  

Students who complete all of the following requirements and who fulfill the requirements of their chosen major will graduate with either University Honors or Collegiate Honors. Students who pursue the University Honors path and complete a senior honors thesis will earn University Honors and Honors in Major, the highest honor a University of Houston student can achieve. Students who enter the Honors College while writing a senior honors thesis graduate with Membership in the Honors College with Honors in Major.

Honors students must:

• Achieve at least a 3.25 grade point average.
• Take (on average) 1–2 Honors courses each semester.

There are two primary Honors designations:

• University Honors — for the four-year Honors student
• Collegiate Honors — for the students who join Honors mid-career

"Honors in Major" can be added to either of the two Honors designations if the student completes a senior honors thesis in addition to the required Honors hours for the respective curriculum.

Special Requirements for Honors Distinctions

University Honors

For students entering the Honors College from high school, a typical 36-hour Honors curriculum comprises the following: 

1. Human Situation sequence, 10 credit hours:
   1. Antiquity (6 hours, fall semester)
   2. Modernity (4 hours, spring semester) 
      
      
2. Other University Core Curriculum, 9 Honors credit hours:
   1. 3 hrs. Honors American Government (GOVT 2306 or GOVT 2305)
   2. 3 hrs. Honors American History (HIST 1301 or HIST 1302)
   3. 3 hrs. Honors Core Social and Behavior Science

**The Honors requirements in this second category are waived if a student completed the respective core requirement prior to joining the Honors College.

3. Honors Colloquium, 3 credit hours: from the approved list in the Honors Coursebook, or three credit hours from the six-hour Senior Honors Thesis sequence. 
   
   
4. Additional Honors credit, 14 credit hours: Classes offered with the Honors designation or petitioned for Honors credit, from any discipline, to bring the total Honors credits to 36 hours. 
   
   
5. Non-Honors credit requirements:
   1. 1 hr. Natural Science lab
   2. 3 hrs. credit for (or placement beyond) elementary functions level mathematics, e.g. MATH 1314, MATH 2312, or MATH 1342.

Collegiate Honors

The Collegiate Honors curriculum comprises ONE of the following:

OR

Honors in Major

Honors in Major is an additional graduation designation available to students who earn 6 hours in Senior Honors Thesis credit 3399 and 4399. When it is earned in addition to one of the designations above, "with Honors in Major" is appended to the original designation.

Membership in the Honors College with Honors in Major

The Senior Honors Thesis

The senior honors thesis forms the capstone of a student's work at the University of Houston. Interested students should begin considering thesis topics and considering professors to serve as thesis directors no later than the spring semester of the student's junior year. All students should begin the process by reviewing the senior honors thesis information found on the Office of Undergraduate Research's website.

General Registration Information

NOTE: Forms referred to on this page are available at thehonorscollege.com/forms. Return completed forms to the Student Services Office or to honors@uh.edu.

 Before participating in any registration activities through the Honors College, please consider the following:

1. Students who are withdrawing from the University must complete a Withdrawal form.
2. If you do not intend to continue in the Honors College but will continue studies at the University, you must complete a Withdrawal form prior to the first day of the semester.
3. Prior to registering for your final semester, you are recommended to make an appointment with an Honors advisor. Make this appointment as soon as possible in the first semester of your senior year.

Also, please take note of the following:

1. Every Honors student should plan to take at least one Honors course each semester. There are three ways to do so:
   1. Enroll in any one of the courses listed here with an “H” designation.
   2. Petition to receive Honors credit for a non-Honors course. In the first three weeks of the semester, make an agreement with your instructor about what additional work will be required to receive Honors credit. The completed Honors Credit Petition form, found in the Student Services Office (SSO) or online at thehonorscollege.com/forms, can then be turned into the SSO.
   3. Enroll in a Senior Honors Thesis. Those in good standing in the Honors College should secure permission to begin a Senior Honors Thesis project by the time classes begin for the first semester of their senior year and before enrolling in a Senior Honors Thesis course. Students with junior level standing should begin thinking about this process by reading the information available at http://www.uh.edu/ honors/undergraduate-research/honors-thesis/.

2. Honors College students who wish to remain active members should ensure their eligibility by meeting the following criteria:
   1. Achieve at least a 3.25 grade point average.
   2. Complete approximately 36 hours of Honors class work during one’s undergraduate career. Transfer students and students who enter the College after the freshman year must complete about one-third of their courses at UH for Honors credit.

3. Honors students pursuing the “University Honors” designation who have not completed “The Human Situation: Modernity” are required to register for the course unless they have been specifically advised not to do so by an Honors advisor.

Schedule an Honors advising appointment through the Navigate app on your AccessUH portal.