International Honors Program

International Honors Requirements

7 courses, 25 semester hours distributed as follows:

• • IHON 111 – 112: Origins of the Contemporary World
    8 semester hours

In these courses, students wrestle with enduring human questions captured in transformative texts from around the globe and across time, while developing their capacity to engage critically and empathetically with each other, with the texts, and with their own thoughts.

• • IHON: Three 200-level courses
    12 semester hours

Students may take any combination of 253, 257, 258, 259, or 260 to satisfy IHON requirements.
A wide range of these courses is offered every semester and often during J-term.

• • IHON: 300-level:
    • IHON 328 (4 semester hours)
    • IHON 329 (1 semester hours)

IHON 328 may be taken after or with the last 200-level course. IHON 329 can be taken with or after IHON 329.

Policies and Guidelines for International Honors

The three levels of IHON courses are built sequentially upon one another in terms of content and learning objectives. At the IHON 100-level, students cultivate their capacities to engage enduring human questions captured in transformative texts from across the world, while also developing their abilities to converse both critically and empathetically with each other, with what they’re reading, and with themselves. At the IHON 200-level, students engage with themes and questions which lie beyond disciplinary boundaries, while 300-level IHON courses prepare students to become more thoughtful, self-critical, and ethically responsible participants in the human conversation. Exceptions to this sequence of courses and levels can be made by the IHON Director in appropriate situations. In addition, one semester-long Study Away course may be substituted for one 200-level IHON course, with prior approval by the IHON Director. Multiple sections of IHON 111 and 112 are offered each semester; varying IHON 200-level courses are offered every semester and often in J-term; IHON 300-level course are offered every semester. Students are encouraged to complete the required courses in the IHON Program up to IHON 328 by the end of their junior year in order to focus on completion of majors, minors, and other work during their senior year. IHON students cannot pass/fail an international honors course.

GPA Requirements

Students in the International Honors Program must maintain a cumulative overall GPA of 3.00. Names of students who fall below a 3.00 will be forwarded to the student’s IHON advisor. Students have one semester to bring their GPA up to a 3.00. If the 3.00 GPA is not achieved, students will be disenrolled from the program. Procedures for assignment of general education credits are in place for students who do not complete the Honors Program.