Honors Contracts

Download and print the Honors Contract Form

for each class you wish to contract.

The Honors Charter provides that a student who is unable to obtain 15 hours of Honors sections of courses in the disciplines may ask a professor in a non-Honors course to allow the student to supplement the course work under an Honors contract. (Approval will not usually be given for making an Honors contract in a non-Honors section of a course for which there is an existing Honors section unless the Honors section is full and another Honors section can not be opened.) Note that the deadline to submit a proposal for this fall is May 1, 2009.

To initiate the Honors contract, the student and professor should do the following in order to make the course an Honors experience. The student should prepare a preliminary written draft of the proposed contract, including all items listed below, and take it to the professor for approval and signature.

The student's name and T number at the top
The title of the course, the section number, and the professor's name
An explanation of why the student needs to do this project
A list of all the other Honors courses the student has had
A description of the project (including books or other materials to be used)
The date by which the project will be completed
A description of how the grade will be weighted in the course (extra points, percent of final grade, or some other method)
The signatures of the student and the professor
The date of the signing

The student should take the final proposal, including all items listed above, to the Honors director for approval.

If the project is approved by the Honors Director, the student's name will be removed from the class roll of the non-Honors course and a special Honors section will be created with only the student's name in it. Students should ensure that they are enrolled in the proper course section (e.g., 800, 801, etc.) on Eagle Online.

Important: Before the end of the exam period for the semester in which the student is taking the course, the student must turn into the Honors office a graded copy of the extra work done for the Honors grade, together with any evaluative comments by the professor. The paper will then become part of the student's Honors portfolio.