Honors Program
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Program description
The Honors Program offers students an opportunity to pursue an intentional interdisciplinary and interdivisional curriculum and work toward graduation with honors.
Honors courses, limited to a class size of 15, are interdisciplinary in nature and often team-taught by faculty from different academic divisions and concern subjects of special interest to the faculty members who design them. All UMN Morris students are eligible to apply to the Honors Program. Admitted students usually take the required core course, IS 2001H-Traditions in Human Thought, in the fall of their second year. Honors students then complete at least 8 credits of interdisciplinary honors course electives and a 2-credit honors capstone project; the capstone is a substantial scholarly or creative interdisciplinary work designed by each student working cooperatively with an interdisciplinary panel of three faculty and includes a culminating project defense.
Learning Outcomes
1. Connections among disciplines. Students demonstrate an understanding of interdisciplinary inquiry and a recognition of its centrality in the liberal arts setting in general and the Honors Program in particular.
2. Engagement with big questions, both contemporary and enduring. Students are active members of intellectual communities within and beyond Honors classes.
3. Sustainable learning. Students develop across disciplines and academic divisions a strong foundation of lifelong learning.
Further information about the Honors Program may be obtained from the Academic Center for Enrichment (ACE) office at www.morris.umn.edu/ACE.
Honors courses, limited to a class size of 15, are interdisciplinary in nature and often team-taught by faculty from different academic divisions and concern subjects of special interest to the faculty members who design them. All UMN Morris students are eligible to apply to the Honors Program. Admitted students usually take the required core course, IS 2001H-Traditions in Human Thought, in the fall of their second year. Honors students then complete at least 8 credits of interdisciplinary honors course electives and a 2-credit honors capstone project; the capstone is a substantial scholarly or creative interdisciplinary work designed by each student working cooperatively with an interdisciplinary panel of three faculty and includes a culminating project defense.
Learning Outcomes
1. Connections among disciplines. Students demonstrate an understanding of interdisciplinary inquiry and a recognition of its centrality in the liberal arts setting in general and the Honors Program in particular.
2. Engagement with big questions, both contemporary and enduring. Students are active members of intellectual communities within and beyond Honors classes.
3. Sustainable learning. Students develop across disciplines and academic divisions a strong foundation of lifelong learning.
Further information about the Honors Program may be obtained from the Academic Center for Enrichment (ACE) office at www.morris.umn.edu/ACE.
Program last updated
Fall 2025