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HONORS PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS

In order to graduate from Tulane with high Latin honors, students must achieve a cumulative GPA of 3.6 or higher, take four honors courses or equivalents before the senior year, and write an honors thesis or equivalent project during the senior year (see below). Students should also have no record of honor code violation.

Honors students are expected to maintain a cumulative GPA of 3.6 or higher. Students admitted into the Honors Program at the beginning of the freshman year will not be removed from the Program during their freshmen and sophomore years as long as they maintain a cumulative GPA of 3.45. Students who do not have a cumulative GPA of 3.6 at the end of the sophomore year will be removed at that time. In order to join the Honors Program after the end of the freshman year, students must have a cumulative GPA of 3.6 or higher.

Honors Students should aim to take at least one honors courses or equivalent per year, but the requirement is that they take a total of four, ideally before starting the senior year; at least two of these courses must be at the 300 level or above. Freshmen are urged to take at least one honors course during the freshman year. Honors students are strongly advised to take as many honors courses as their majors or specific courses of study will bear. The number of honors courses required can vary depending on when a student enters the program. In most cases, students who enter the program as sophomores are required to take three honors courses before writing the senior thesis, and students who enter as juniors are required to take two honors courses.

Honors course requirements can be met in the following ways:

Designated Honors courses in departments and interdisciplinary Honors Colloquia.
Honors option: This is a mechanism whereby a non-honors course may be counted towards the honors course requirement. Students negotiate with instructors to enhance the course in some way, typically (but not exclusively) by adding some significant reading and writing component, and then petition to the Director of the Honors Program to receive honors credit for the enhanced course. Credit will be typically be given only in courses at the 3000 level or above, except in cases where a student’s major does not currently offer honors courses. (For example, some freshmen have used the honors option effectively to enhance 1000-level courses in the chemical and biological sciences as a way to develop greater sophistication in anticipation of majoring in those fields.) A petition for honors option is available in the forms section below.
Certain specific courses in chemistry: Chem 3830-3840, 3110 and 3120.
Select Junior Year Abroad programs. More information can be found here.
Independent studies of three credits (class numbers 4910 or 4920).
Graduate courses.

To be in good academic standing at the beginning of the fall semester of the senior year, students need a 3.6 GPA and should have credit for at least four Honors courses.

Graduating with Honors

A student who at the time of graduation has achieved a cumulative grade-point average of at least 3.600 and has completed the Honors Program requirements will be awarded the degree magna cum laude. The degree summa cum laude is reserved for students who have achieved a cumulative grade-point average of at least 3.800 and have completed the Honors Program requirements upon graduation. These distinctions are reserved for Tulane Honors Students only.

To be eligible for departmental honors, a student must earn a cumulative grade-point average of a least 3.400 and a grade-point average of at least 3.500 in courses counting toward the major, must complete an honors thesis or project, and must fulfill all of the department’s other requirements for honors.

Honors Option Form 2013

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NEWS & EVENTS

Summer Research Grants Awarded
12/14/2012 Ten students were awarded Newcomb Tulane College Honors Program Summer Research grants to allow them to stay on campus for six weeks to conduct research [more...]

A Good Year for Scholarships
12/13/2012 Tulane undergraduates aggressively pursued scholarships in 2011-12, with honors students leading the way. [more...]

Jean Danielson Scholars 2012 Travel to Rome and England
12/13/2012 [more...]

Janet Ruscher Named 2012 Honors Professor of the Year
10/31/2012 We are pleased to announce that Janet Ruscher, Professor of Psychology has been named the 2012 Honors Professor of the Year. [more...]

The Future of Nuclear Weapons with Dr.Jim Walsh on Wednesday, April 18th
4/17/2012 [more...]

2012 Jean Danielson Memorial Scolarship
3/20/2012 The Honors Program invites you to apply for the Jean Danielson Memorial Scholarship [more...]

Christopher L. Clark Awarded Fulbright Scholarship, Chile 2011
6/13/2011 Christopher L. Clark has been awarded a grant from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program for research in Chile in 2011-2012. [more...]

Jean Danielson Memorial Scholars Announced
6/3/2011 India, Tanzania, and Washington, D.C. are the destinations of the three inaugural Jean Danielson Memorial Scholars. [more...]

Christopher Fettweis named Honors Professor of the Year
5/24/2011 We are pleased to announce that Christopher Fettweis, Assistant Professor of Political Science, has been named the 2011 Honors Professor of the Year. [more...]

Summer Research Grants Awarded
5/24/2011 Nine students were awarded Newcomb Tulane College Honors Program Summer Research Grants to allow them to stay on campus for six weeks to conduct research. [more...]

Establishment of the Jean Danielson Memorial Fund
2/1/2011 Dean Jean Danielson left an indelible mark on the lives of many students as well as faculty colleagues. [more...]

Sophomore Honors Community at Weatherhead Hall to open in Fall 2011
1/19/2011 Sophomore Honors Community at Weatherhead Hall, also known as "SoHo," will open its doors to sophomore undergraduates in the fall of 2011. [more...]

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

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