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The UH Hilo Honors Program is designed to motivate, challenge, and enrich outstanding students in order to promote their intellectual curiosity, nurture their intellectual independence, and deepen their sense of scholarship. Honors students are outstanding in their desire for learning, demonstrated ability, and intellectual enthusiasm. To be admitted to the University Honors Program is a privilege reserved for those students whose intellectual capacities and motivation enable them to take advantage of the program’s unique learning opportunities, including specially designed interdisciplinary Honors General Education courses, enriched Honors sections of regularly scheduled courses, and small group or one-on-one tutorials with outstanding research and teaching faculty of the University. Neither a separate degree program nor a major, the program is a pathway designed to allow exceptional students to fulfill some General Education and academic major requirements in a unique community of scholars.

Honors Web Site

Visit the Honors web site at http://www.uhh.hawaii.edu/~honors/.

Program Description

Students are admitted to the program on the basis of an application to the Honors Advisory and Policy Committee. Students who are admitted to the program will complete 18 credits of the following requirements, which can also be used to fulfill General Education and major requirements. Under the General Education program, each of the two courses taken in the HONOR 200-203 sequence must be designated as a Social Science or Humanities elective.

  • Two Honors courses (6 credits) from HONOR 200-203.
  • Additional course work (minimum of 9 credits) selected from among Honors courses, Honors designated sections of regularly scheduled courses ( e.g ., English 100H, reserved for Honors students and other students who demonstrate high quality writing skills), Honors tutorials, Honors summer reading examinations, Honors directed studies.
  • Senior Honors Thesis (3 credits) . (It is anticipated that the thesis will be written with a faculty member in the student's major department and that credits earned in this way will count toward the student's major.)

The full list of Honors course offerings is provided in the course listing at the back of this Catalog.

Honors Faculty and Staff