Certificate Progress

Each year, the University Honors Program offers a number of scholarships for Idaho residents and out-of-state tuition waivers to non-resident students and international students. The awards are renewable, contingent on a student’s satisfactory progress toward and completion of the honors certificate while maintaining an overall GPA of 3.3. Renewal of scholarship support for students enrolling fall 2006( or before) depends upon successful completion of the requirements for the honors certificate by the time of graduation. If progress towards completion of the full honors certificate is not satisfactory, funding may be revoked.

Satisfactory progress requires, initially, successful completion of at least two honors university core courses during the first two semesters in the honors program and a total of four honors university core courses within the first three semesters in the honors program--this amounts to 12 to 15 honors credits completed by the end of the third semester. These 12 to 15 honors credits are to be distributed among honors core courses in the humanities, social sciences, and science. After successfully meeting this requirement, to maintain satisfactory progress students must continue to average at least three honors credits per semester until the minimum course and credit requirements for completing the certificate have been achieved. Note that some honors courses are offered once a year, and students therefore must plan ahead to arrange class schedules to accomodate required courses. The honors certificate is awarded to students who, upon graduation, have completed 27 credits of required honors courses, with a minimum GPA of 3.0 in those classes.

New awards of such support are also routinely made to those making good progress toward earning the honors program certificate. Note that renewals of scholarship support are determined and processed in June, following evaluation of coursework completed and grades received.

University Honors Program Certificate requirements: Six honors humanities credits and six honors social science credits, selected from at least three different disciplines; three honors science credits; Math 315 or honors Philosophy 202 (via Honors Elective Agreement*); six upper-division honors course or seminar credits; additional credits as needed to reach 27 credits, including at least 20 credits with the HON designation, with an average GPA of 3.0 or above in honors coursework completed, and an overall cumulative GPA of 3.2 or above [for those entering fall 2001 and after].