General Honors
General Honors courses provide freshman and sophomore Honors students with innovative, interdisciplinary, inquiry based courses which are designed to tackle big questions of long-standing and contemporary relevance. General Honors courses fulfill Honors requirements and some General Core requirements. Admission to the General Honors program requires a successful application in a competitive process. All incoming freshmen who are admitted to Union and have a 3.5 GPA or a 28 on the ACT will be invited to apply to the General Honors program. Incoming freshmen who do not meet this criterion but think they are up to the challenge of Honors work are also welcome to apply. Transfer students and current Union students can be considered for admission to General Honors under certain circumstances. Additional details regarding the Admissions Standards and Procedures, as well as the application itself, can be found at our website: www.uu.edu/academics/honors/.
General Honors—three courses
General Honors Core:
Freshman Year:
Sophomore Year:
General Honors Electives (optional):
Special studies courses (variable credit)
Scholar-in-Residence tutorial (variable credit)
Other courses with the HON prefix
Select study abroad opportunities
Typically, students satisfy the requirements of General Honors through successful completion of three General Honors Core courses. In certain circumstances, the Directors may approve the substitution of a General Honors elective class for one of the General Honors Core classes.