Honors Plans
Program Honors in Psychology
The program provides opportunities for individualized and intensive work for
the superior undergraduate psychology major. The program is designed to provide
students with several benefits. Students will have an opportunity to enroll
in small classes comprised of other outstanding undergraduates. Classes will
be taught by some of the best instructors in the department. Students will
have numerous opportunities to become directly involved with ongoing research
projects directed by psychology faculty. Students who complete the program
will graduate with both University
Honors as well as program honors in psychology. The program is likely
to be of particular value to students contemplating graduate study in psychology.
Requirements for graduation with program honors in psychology
A series of formal requirements must be met to graduate with program honors
in psychology. Students must take 33 hours of honors courses distributed in
the following manner:
| 1. | Six of these hours must be in honors science classes. | ||||||
| 2. | Three of these hours must be in an upper-division honors
class in a department other than psychology. NOTE: A science course can fulfill this requirement and part of requirement number 1 if it is an upper-division course. |
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| 3. | The student must complete three hours of electives in an additional honors class. | ||||||
| 4. | Twenty-one of these hours must be in psychology honors classes distributed in the following manner: | ||||||
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How to enter the program
Psychology majors whose cumulative grade point average is at least 3.5 (3.4
if enrolled under catalogue 126 or lower) are encouraged to explore the program
by contacting the coordinator of the psychology department honors program
as early in their academic studies as possible.
For more information, please contact:
Dr. Tony Bourgeois
(979) 845 0376
209 Psychology Building