Chemistry Honors Program—Requirements

The Chemistry Honors Program and the University-wide Guidelines for Honors Programs require a minimum of nine credit hours of coursework drawn from at least two of the three following categories:

Category 1: Special Courses
a) courses open only to Honors students,
b) Honors (H) sections of regularly offered courses,
c) Honors options in regularly offered courses, or
d) regularly offered courses that colleges or departments designate as appropriate for their honors programs;

Category 2: Advanced Courses
Courses at the 500-level that are taken as electives or as substitutes for lower-level courses;

Category 3: Independent Studies
Options such as a senior thesis or paper, a project and project report, lab work and lab report, a group or individual tutorial guided by a faculty member.  Generally these must include an oral, poster or other suitable presentation of your work.