Every student interested in graduating with University Honors should submit a Declaration Form to his or her college honors coordinator. This form can be submitted once a student has completed 1-3 honors course(s), and it should be filed by the end of the student’s sophomore year. Once submitted, an honors student will be advised by the honors coordinator on program requirements and available opportunities.
Depending on the college honors requirements, a student can take one or more regular academic course(s) for honors credit by completing an Honors Contract. An Honors Contract is additional and substantive work that a student completes in a regular course. The first step students should take is identify the course they would like to complete a Contract in, think of a substantive project, and ask the class instructor if they will supervise it. Instructors can and may say no for various reasons.
If the instructor says yes, the student must submit a Contract proposal (see below) which will be reviewed by their College Honors Coordinator. All proposals must be submitted by the end of week four of the semester, and the project itself must be completed by the final week of classes. With the satisfactory completion of the project, and a final grade of B or better in the course, honors credit will be assigned to this course. See below for examples of previous Honors Contracts.
Spring 2025 proposal deadline: Friday, February 14
Examples of Honors contract projects:
- CMM 452 Special Problems in Media: Mini documentary covering the history of race and racial inequality and its effect on popular culture specifically in the medium of television
- FIN 451 Intermediate Financial Management: Research project entailing a multivariate time series forecast for a currency using dependent macroeconomic variables
- ME 242 Acoustic Engineering by Design: Use of ODEON to create sample rooms to test reverberation time in, and prepare a few audio examples for each room
- NUR 360P Psychosocial Issues in Nursing Practice: Create an educational pamphlet on issues in mental health which patients need help with (i.e. stress management, depression)
- AFL 499 Applied Flute: Recorded performance of five commonly requested piccolo orchestral excerpts
- UISC 155D Fact and Fiction: Culture Clashes in Literature and Film: Reflection paper on Toni Morrison's book, Beloved
- HTA 410 Voice for the Actor VI: Memorize a Shakespeare monologue in one of the dialects we will learn this semester. I will also score the monologue in IPA to demonstrate my understanding of phonetics. I will then perform it in class to be critiqued
- DFA 270 Dance Kinesiology I: Research paper and presentation on hyper-mobility and dance, specifically, how to use hyper-mobility to your advantage as a dancer but also how to control it to prevent injuries
- SDB 110 Effective Speech: Produce an 8-10 song album on topics including the cost of education, and food at the University of Hartford