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»University Honors Program

The Honors Program is designed for academically curious students who want to pursue exacting studies in a wide range of intellectual concerns that cross disciplines and cultures. The university’s honors program combines a flexible, interdisciplinary curriculum with small discussion-centered classes. Students and faculty are encouraged to connect and share emerging ideas, drawing on shared texts, lectures, seminar discussions, and cultural experiences. Students also have the opportunity to design a course as a preceptorial and teach each other under a professor's guidance. The mission is to prepare each student for a personally fulfilling and socially responsible life during their college years at Chapman and beyond.

The undergraduate Honors Program satisfies the GE Inter/Multidisciplinary cluster. Select courses may also satisfy major, minor, elective or other general education requirements. The honors courses range in scope from music to math, sociology to science, and communication to religious and philosophical studies.

+-Program Details

The broad interdisciplinary honors program is based on great books and events from cultures from around the world. Honors students and faculty concentrate on mutually critical exchanges between the classics of human cultures and the contemporary world. Seminars are the heart of the honors program. They are grouped in 3 main areas of study:

  • Human Sciences
  • Natural Sciences
  • Social Sciences

+-Requirements

Honors students must:

  • Complete a minimum of 25 credits.*
  • Select 7 classes from a variety of courses. Must take 1 course from each of the 3 main categories (Human Sciences, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences).
  • Take the 1-credit Honors Forum their 1st year as an Honors student.
  • Take the Honors Capstone Seminar.

 

* Transfer students with 60 units or more prior to matriculation are required to complete 4 Honors courses (1 from each of the 3 main categories; 3 of the 4 at the 300 level or above). They must also take the 1-credit Honors Forum their 1st year as an Honors student and complete the Honors Capstone Seminar, for a minimum of 16 credits.

+-How does Honors fit into the CU curriculum?

  • The program satisfies the Inter/Multidisciplinary GE Cluster.
  • Select courses may also satisfy other major, minor or GE requirements.
  • Any course taken while studying abroad for a semester can count as 1 of the Honors elective courses.
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Dare to Think.

Read the latest entries in Sapere Aude, the Honors Program's online journal.