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College of Education and Health Professions Honors Program (HNED)

Joyce C. Graening, Director, HPER 308Y, 575-2899

The College of Education and Health Professions honors program is designed to enable undergraduate students in the College who have demonstrated potential for outstanding scholastic achievement an opportunity to broaden and deepen their liberal and professional education. Honors Program students are also eligible to take honors courses in other colleges.

The experience in the honors program includes, but is not limited to, enrollment in honors courses, an honors seminar, and a required undergraduate thesis/project.

Incoming freshmen who meet one of the following three requirements will be invited to participate in the honors program; however, each student must file a formal application to be enrolled.

1. An ACT composite score of 27 or better

2. An SAT score of 1150

3. Rank in the top 5% of their high school graduating class.

Eligibility for continued enrollment in the honors program will be based on the following cumulative minimum grade-point averages.

1. At the end of freshman year (30 hours) - 3.25 GPA

2. At the end of sophomore year (59 hours) - 3.37 GPA

3. At the end of the junior year (93 hours) - 3.50 GPA

It is desirable and strongly advised that students enter the honors program as freshmen. However, other students may make application to participate if they meet requirements for admission and for continued enrollment eligibility. They must still meet all program requirements before graduation.

Transfer students may enter the honors program based on the admission and eligibility requirements above and their cumulative grade-point average from the previous college.

At the end of each semester, the director of the College of Education and Health Professions honors program will review the academic records of all enrolled honors students to determine whether each one has the cumulative grade-point average to continue in the program. If a student has become ineligible, he or she will be sent a letter regarding status and requiring the student to drop all honors courses for which he or she is registered the following semester. The ineligible student's file will be flagged "probationary status." An honors student may stay on probationary status for only one semester without being dropped from the honors program. At the end of the probationary semester, the student's cumulative grade-point average will be reviewed. The student will be re-instated to good standing in the honors program or dropped permanently from the program.

The course and grade requirements for completion of the College of Education and Health Professions honors program are as follows:

1. Completion of 18 hours of honors credit. Only six of which may be taken outside the College of Education and Health Professions. The following courses are required:

HNED 1001H, Honors Leadership Skills
HNED 3923H, Honors Education Seminar (6 hrs of seminar required.)
HNED 3001H, Honors Education Thesis Tutorial
HNED 4003H, Honors Education Thesis/Project

2. Graduation with a minimum GPA of 3.50.

NOTE: Successful completion of the College Honors program is different from graduation with honors. Please refer to the previous section on graduating with honors.

HONORS (HNED)
College of Education and Health Professions

HNED1001H Honors Leadership Skills (FA, SP, SU) Designed to help the Honors student identify and implement leadership and organization development activities. Prerequisite: honors candidacy.

HNED1013H Honors Literacy Tutoring (FA, SP, SU) Addresses problems of meeting the educational needs of an illiterate adult population, including the socio-economic factors contributing to illiteracy and educational programs designed to remediate the problem. Prerequisite: honors candidacy.

HNED3001H Honors Education Thesis Tutorial (FA, SP, SU) Designed to provide the foundation for the Honors Thesis. Students and faculty tutors work "one-on-one" exploring a specific topic which has been agreed upon by the student and the professor. May be repeated for 6 hours. Prerequisite: honors candidacy.

HNED3923H Honors Education Seminar (IR) Special topics or issues in education for the Honors student. May be repeated. Prerequisite: honors candidacy.

HNED4003H Honors Education Thesis/Project (FA, SP, SU) Prerequisite: honors candidacy and HNED 3001H.