
Honors Contract Option
The Honors-by-contract option allows students to earn Honors credit in a course of their choosing. Students will create the Honors contract by collaborating with their professors in the creation of an Honors project, which sparks the students' interests and provides academic enrichment and challenge to the existing course. The Honors contract form may be found on the Honors Blackboard site. Honors students and their faculty mentors complete an Honors contract, which details the specifications and scope of the Honors project. After successfully completing an Honors contract in a course, an H will appear after the designation for that course on the student's transcript, for example ENG101H.
After successfully fulfilling the Honors contract, students earn
Honors designation and Honors credit(s) for the courses. For
instance, if a student completed an Honors contract in PSY-101, he
or she would earn three (3) Honors credits. The student's
transcript will designate any course taken as an Honors-by-contract
course with an H, signifying Honors credit: PSY-101H. No
Honors designation is given in courses in which the student fails
to earn a B or better for the Honors contract project and a C or
better in the course in which the contract is completed.
The maximum number of credits that can be earned by completing an Honors contract is three credits, even if the Honors contract is completed in a course with four or more credits
Honors students who are not
fully funded by another source will receive Honors scholarship
money in the form of in-county tuition reimbursement (up to three
credits per course) for successful completion of
Honors contract courses, earning a B or better for the Honors
project and a C or better for the course in which the project
is completed.
Due to the academic rigor required, students are not permitted to engage in more than one (1) Honors contract per semester.