Graduation Requirements

Required for all freshmen Honors Program students. This academic course is specifically designed to ease students’ transitions to Utah Tech University and prepare them for college success. Students will learn the value of a college education, including the purpose and value of general education. This Honors course develops high level learning and creative problem solving. This unique course focuses on helping students go about their Utah Tech education as intentional students–using resources, taking advantage of opportunities to develop holistically, and selecting courses that will enhance students’ education and postgraduate options and employability. This course allows students to develop a support network of classmates, faculty, and staff to help ensure a successful beginning to their academic experience.

Each student will enroll in three one-credit courses, taken during separate semesters.

Focusing on critical inquiry, problem solving, and/or questions relating to various disciplines, honors enhanced seminars give students from different majors a common foundation exploring topics or themes informed by their interests and postgraduate goals and the instructor’s research, art, and/or teaching. The courses will allow students to develop as learners and leaders.

Repeatable as topic varies up to 9 credits*.

Presents a topic, problem, or theme of broad academic interest. Honors students will engage in a challenging variety of academic activities, depending on the disciplinary focus of the topic.

*3 – credits may be substituted by an Experiential Learning Activity (Travel Study, Internship, Research)

*3 – credits may be substituted be a an Independent Study

Honors students, in consultation with faculty, design, propose, and produce an original senior Honors thesis.

Honors students consult with faculty to design reading plans based on the Oxford/Cambridge model

Repeatable as topic varies up to 9 credits*.

Presents a topic, problem, or theme of broad academic interest. Honors students will engage in a challenging variety of academic activities, depending on the disciplinary focus of the topic.

*3 – credits may be substituted by an Experiential Learning Activity (Travel Study, Internship, Research)

*3 – credits may be substituted be a an Independent Study

Honors students, in consultation with faculty, design, propose, and produce an original senior Honors thesis.