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Honors Program

Nurture your passion for learning with in-depth coursework in UND’s Honors Program.

Cultivate your intellectual curiosity and develop your own ideas. As an Honors student at UND, you'll join a vibrant community that shares your love for learning.

Program type:
Certificates/Programs - Undergraduate
Format:
On Campus
Est. time to complete:
4 years
Credit hours:
24+ (The Honors Program aligns with any major.)

Why pursue the honors program?

Application Deadlines
Fall:
Aug. 15
Spring:
Dec. 15
Summer:
May 1

 

After you're admitted to UND, apply to the Honors Program by the May 1 application deadline. Priority deadline is December 1.

Designed for especially motivated students in any major, UND's interdisciplinary Honors Program combines advanced coursework with opportunities to get involved beyond the classroom.

As an Honors student, you'll choose between two tracks:

  • The Research Scholars track focuses on traditional liberal arts and encourages deep critical thinking about issues that interest you. This track is a good choice if you're planning to apply to top medical, graduate or law schools.
  • The Leaders in Action track emphasizes service learning, leadership development, experiential learning and civic engagement for students who are interested in politics, public service and entrepreneurship.

Whichever track you choose, you'll study topics across the disciplines, conduct high-level research and graduate as an engaged citizen of the world.

Honors at UND

  • Collaborate with professors on cutting-edge research.

  • Complete a high-level Senior Honors Thesis.

  • Get involved in the community through Civic Engagement projects.

  • Travel abroad with faculty and classmates.

  • Join the Honors Program Student Organization (HPSO).

  • Want to know more about the Honors Program? Sign up for Honors Student for a Day.

Honors Program Courses

HON 260. Honors Experiences. 1-4 Credits.

This flexible course allows Honors students to pursue specially arranged high-impact individual reflective experiences, like service-learning projects, community engagements and volunteering, internships, shadowing opportunities, peer mentoring, or tutoring for Honors credit. May be initiated by students with approval of Honors Director, provided appropriate supervisors are willing and structure for oversight is in place. Generally, credits will be determined by the number of hours devoted to the experience and reflection on it; for example, 1 credit = 15 contact hours, 2 credits = 30 contact hours, etc. Prerequisites: Admittance to Honors Program, and HON 101 or HON 102. Repeatable to 9.00 credits. F,S,SS.

HON 102. Leaders in Action Cornerstone. 3 Credits.

This course will feature readings and discussion of selected works that reflect the methodology of the social sciences, with emphasis on intercultural understanding, as a means to learn about diverse models of leadership and its connection to the Honors experience, and to cultivate skills for becoming thoughtful leaders within a pluralistic, democratic society. First-year students in the Honors Program who identify in the new Leaders in Action track will take this course and critically examine themes like power, effective action, communication, human differences and behavior, public service, and the common good through methods, sources, and paradigms central to the social sciences. Prerequisite: Admittance to the Honors Progam. F,S.

HON 101. Research Scholars Cornerstone. 3 Credits.

Reading and discussion of selected works that reflect the methodology of the humanities, with emphasis on US Diversity, as a means to establish fundamental skills for responsible research in any field, including: critical and creative thinking, deep reading, scholarly inquiry, and diversity of perspective through an intercultural approach. Taken by first-year students in the Honors Program who identify in the new Research Scholars track. Prerequisite: Admittance to the Honors Progam. F,S.

 

Honors Housing

Live and learn with others in the Honors Program. Be part of vibrant intellectual, cultural and social life on campus.

Honors Living Learning Community

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