University Honors Scholar Program (HON)

Honors Program

521A French Hall
Program Director: Dr. Maureen Thum
Administrative Assistant: Laura L. Staudacher
(810) 424 5354
www.umflint.edu/honors

Contact Information
General Information: Honors-Program@umflint.edu
Honors Director: (810) 762 3467 email: mthum@umflint.edu
Administrative Assistant: (810) 424 5354 email: laurast@umflint.edu

Since its founding in 1979, the University of Michigan-Flint Honors Scholar Program has offered qualified students the opportunity to enhance their education in the challenging and rewarding atmosphere of small, enriched core classes with close faculty guidance and one-on-one learning and research partnerships with specialists in their field.

The Honors Program is designed to promote education across the disciplines in an environment that emphasizes a high degree of literacy, critical thinking and humanistic and scientific inquiry and to encourage a high level of academic achievement and scholarly research.

Programs in Honors

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The University of Michigan-Flint offers two programs in Honors:

The four-year University Honors Program . This program, designed for entering freshman, consists of a Freshman/Sophomore phase and a Junior/Senior phase, parallels the regular university non-honors curriculum from freshman through senior years.
The Junior/Senior transfer University Honors Program . This program, designed for transfer students and students who do not apply to the Honors Program until the end of their sophomore year, parallels the second phase of the four-year Honors Program and includes similar requirements.

Note: Honors courses are fully complementary to the regular non-honors degree program. With few exceptions, students in the Honors Program are not required to complete additional or “add-on” courses – that is, courses taken in addition to the regular requirements for graduation. In the Freshman/Sophomore phase of the program, the core honors courses also fulfill general education requirements (ENG 111 , ENG 112 , humanities, and social sciences). In the Junior/Senior phase of the program, Honors courses fulfill the requirements for upper-level courses (those numbered 300 or higher) in the major area of concentration.

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