A PLAN FOR HONORS WORK IN THE COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES
T. General Nature of Honers Work,

1. Honors may combine distinction in the general work of the College with
distinction in the work of the major department; or honors may be granted
in the major department alone; but a student may not take general honors
alone,

2, The conditions for departmental honors shall be determined by the majer
department granting such honors, but in order that requirements may be
reasonably uriform in the different departments, they must be approved

py the General Committee on Honors (see III), It is recommended that in
addition to high general average in all studies and in the studies of

the major department, the student shall devote 6-8 credit hours to special
reading or investigation courses designed for departmental honors students,

3, In order to be eligible for general honors, a student must fulfill
the requirements for departmental honors and in addition must take special
henors courses designed for the candidate for general honors.

4, Credit in special honors courses (general honors) shall be 8-12 hours.
Three courses designed especially for honors students shall be offered,

one of 4 hours each in the three fellowing fields: (1) Humanities;

(2) Social Sciences; (3) Natural Sciences, Each of these courses shall be
planned and supervised by a committee of faculty members representing a
single field and appointed by the Dean after consultation with the depart—
ments concerned, The course shall be described in the catalogue and regulare
ly announced in the schedule, It shall be placed on the basis of other
teaching courses, and adequate provision shall be made for it in the

teaching load,

Every candidate for general honors must take the courses representing his
major field, and at least one other general honors course,

Each course shall consist of readings or investigation in all departments
representing the field, and the student shall be allowed to choose out of
a wide field of reading. It shall extend over at least two semesters

and may extend over three or four, The chief test shall be an examination
at the close of each semester and a final comprehensive covering all the
honors work for the two years.

The courses may be further enriched by reports and discussions of the
students at regular intervals, and lectures given by the faculty, if such
discussions and leatures seem feasible and profitable, but the chief method
followed shall be that of reading and original investigation and examination,

5, A student may receive credit for work in honors courses even though
he is not recommended for honors upon graduation.

I<, Aé@mission to Honors,

1. Honors work shall ordinarily begin in the first semester of the junior
year. No student shall be admitted to hgnors work later than the first
semester of the senior year,

2. The candidate for honors must have a general average of B in all work
in the University at the time of application and a grade of 2.50 in his
major subject. Each department shall add such other reguirements for its
gwn students as it sees fit. Advanced-standing students will ordinarily
be expected to have had at least one semester in the University.
Exeeptions to this rule must be passed on by the General Committee on
Honors (see III),