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University Honors Program

 

What are Honors Courses?
Honors Program courses emphasize enriched rather than accelerated learning, adding dimension and depth to the subject at hand. They stress dialogue and active learning and are limited to 15 students at the upper levels and 20 students at the beginning level. The result is closer classroom interaction and greater intellectual and emotional investment. Honors classes are offered at all levels of the curriculum, from 100 level to 400 level.

Registration
  • Honors Seminars (100 or 200-level):
    Entering freshmen in the upper 10% of high school class or letter of recommendation from high school official accompanied by transcript and SAT scores.
    Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors with a cumulative grade point average of 3.30 or better.
  • Honors Colloquium (HPR 201 or 202):
    Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors who have completed at least one honors courses and have a cumulative grade point average of 3.30 or better.
    Freshmen interested in the Honors Colloquium should contact the Program Director and request a permission number
  • Honors Tutorials (300 or 400-level):
    Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors with a cumulative grade point average of 3.30 or better.
    Freshmen interested in an Honors Tutorial should contact the course instructor and request a permission number
  • Honors Senior Seminars (HPR 411 or 412)
    Second-semester Juniors and Seniors with a cumulative grade point average of 3.30 or better.
  • Senior Honors Project (HPR 401 or 402):
    Students interested in completing a Senior Honors Project should contact Prof. Carolyn Hames at chames@uri.edu
  • Students who entered the University before Fall 2010 require a grade point average of 3.20 to be eligible for honors courses and to complete the University Honors Program.
How to find honors courses on Ecampus:
  • Go to "Class Search"
  • Click on "Additional Search Criteria"
  • Type "honors" in the field "Course Title Keyword"

This will produce a list of all honors courses offered, in alphabetical order from ARH to WRT.

Fall 2013 Course Offerings

 

 

 

NEWS

 

 

CONGRATULATIONS to the following students:

Juniors Christopher Bobba (Chemical Engineering/Biological Sciences) and Russell Dauksis (Marine Biology) who have been named as Goldwater Scholars, and to Farid Topchiev (Chemical Engineering and German) who has received a Goldwater Honorable Mention! See their URI Press release to learn more.

Brian Stack (senior History/Philosophy) who has received a prestigious Humanity in Action Fellowship!

URI Honors Student Megan O'Brien has been awarded a 2012-2013 Fulbright Scholarship to Iceland. Read more about Meghan's story here, and follow her blog!

Brittany O'Brien has been awarded a 2012 National Security Education Program (NSEP) Boren Scholarship to study Swahili in Kenya for the fall semester. Brittany has also been granted an NSEP African Languages Initiative Summer Supplement to study Swahili at the University of Florida prior to her departure.

These six URI sophomores who won Hollings Scholarships from NOAA this year: Michael Canton, Eilea Knotts, Sarah Merolla, Benjamin Sevey, Callie Veelenturf and Brenton Wallin. Read more in their URI Press Release.

Farid Topchiev, who has been awarded two prestigious scholarships to study in Germany - the DAAD Undergraduate Scholarship and the Whitaker Undergraduate Scholarship!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CONTACT US

Honors Director:
Ric McIntyre, 874-4126

Associate Director:
Cheryl Foster, 874-4022

Associate Director:
Carolyn Hames, 874-2813

Assistant Director:
Kathleen Maher, 874-5875

Program Coordinator:
Deborah Gardiner, 874-2303

General inquiries:
honors.uri@gmail.com