Honors Program

3.6 GPA or greater

Incoming college freshmen and sophomores with a 3.6 GPA or greater are eligible to interview for a place in the Honors Program. Begin the process today by completing the form below.

Honors Interest Form

Intellectual challenge. Community. Support.

The Huntington University Honors Program is a community of scholars from various academic backgrounds who love to learn and are skilled in engaging in the liberal arts inside and outside of the classroom. HU's program fosters a culture of intellectual challenge, community, and support.

The program is open to all disciplines and provides an enhanced foundation for deeper exploration of issues from any major discipline or pre-professional program. Special curricular and extracurricular opportunities serve to build community and provide a point of departure for a lifetime of meaningful "face-to-face" encounters with God and God's image-bearers. The program is designed for students of all disciplines to work together through deep, well-informed conversation to understand and solve problems in the world around them. The program features small class sizes, increasing opportunities for meaningful faculty-student and student-student interactions.

A deeper academic experience.

The Honors Program requires the completion of the following for a total of 16 credit hours:

• Students admitted to the Honors Program enroll in designated Honors sections of Huntington University's Core curriculum: HU 210 Created to Belong, HU 220 Created to Create, HU 230 Created to Flourish, and HU 240 Created to Discover. Honors sections of these courses are specifically designed to foster critical thinking and deep, well-informed discussion.
   
• Two one-hour seminars on selected topics chosen from HN 310 Honors Colloquium courses. Course themes are determined on a year-to-year basis and are coordinated with assigned readings, the Forester Lecture Series, and co-curricular opportunities to develop multidisciplinary understanding of issues in the contemporary world.
   
• A two-hour senior capstone experience comprised of two one-hour courses.
   
  • Fall Semester - HN 401 a one-hour independent study which will lay the groundwork for the scholarly work completed the following semester. The research will be supervised by a faculty mentor in the student's field.
     
  • Spring Semester - HN 402 a one-hour course during which the result of the scholarly work in the previous semester is prepared in tangible form (e.g., sculpture, film, manuscript, etc.) which will be archived in the HU's RichLyn Library and presented to the public (e.g., at the annual HU Academic Research Forum).

Additionally, graduating with Honors requires participation in Honors Program-sponsored service activities, field trips, and campus lectures.

An honors designation on a student transcript signifies for employers and graduate schools a host of desirable traits: conscientious, self-starting, collaborative, engaged, broad interests, and problem-solving. More importantly, an honors education at HU provides an enhanced, formative experience.

Community: The Honors Program brings together students from a variety of disciplines for thoughtful discussions on the big questions of life, ranging from the individual and community to aesthetics, power and corruption, leadership, being human, and Christian origins. Cultural enrichment trips and other extracurricular experiences make for meaningful relationships with students and faculty.

Challenge: Honors students work together to address questions from diverse fields of study, give their best in their coursework, and live lives of virtue and achievement at HU and beyond. Our seminars are characterized by slower, deeper, and well-informed conversations among students skilled in engaged dialogue, both inside and outside of the classroom.

Support: Honors students are encouraged to make the most of their college experience by exploring off-campus study, participating in academic conferences, and attending guest lectures and culturally-enriching plays and concerts. Activities are often funded.

The Honors Program is designed to deepen rather than extend the requirements of HU's "Forester Foundations" curriculum, and it can be completed without adding additional time to your undergraduate degree. While it does demand additional effort and diligence, you will still have time to enjoy the HU student experience and complete your degree in four years.

Applying to the Huntington University Honors Program is a two-part process:

1. First, complete the Honors Interest Form and our team will contact you to set up an intereview.
    
2. Admittance to the program will be decided after the interview and further details will be communicated as you prepare for life as
   a student at Huntington.