Academics

Honors Classes

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Options	Each Educational Experience in Sum	Collateral Considerations
Honors Accelerated Rhetoric	Raise your writing and speaking to higher levels by taking your required Rhetoric course with Honors Students in classes just for Honors work.	Iowa invented the communication fields, and it still wins international acclaim for sharing its insights and skills with first-year students.
Honors First- Year Seminars	Almost any schedule has room for a small, 1-s.h. class, so discuss intriguing topics with a top professor and Honors Students.	What matters here are the intellects and the conversations you engage. A writer for early recommendations can be helpful too.
Honors General-Education Sections	Want more depth and interaction? Sign up for as many Honors Sections as fit your schedule. Talented teachers are the norm.	Sections are small-group meetings as part of larger courses or small-class versions of them. Credit usually is for general education.
Honors Courses in Common	Seeking community? Share a pair of courses with the same set of Honors Students. Every pair has at least one Honors Class.	Some Honors Courses in Common are small, self-contained courses; and some are Honors Sections for general-education courses.
Honors General-Education Seminars	These small, 3-s.h. classes target faculty research into exciting questions. These are our signature courses. Take them at your earliest opportunities.	First-Year Seminars are get-acquainted tastes of their topics, whereas General-Education Seminars are detailed explorations fully open to beginning students.
Honors Courses	In all formats, levels, and sizes, these link Honors Students with experienced teachers and exciting topics, usually for 3-s.h. each.	These are the Honors offerings most likely to be repeated each year. Many are mainstays of Honors Constellations, to get Commendations.
Honors Designations	Turn any course into an Honors Course by an extra project to enhance your study. Arrange this with the teachers and Honors early in the term.	The student and the teacher file a brief form for Honors approval of what has become a highly popular option for extending all kinds of honors educations.
Honors Studies	Get 1-3 s.h. Honors credit for independent study guided by the faculty member you arrange for topics and methods you identify.	Students and teachers file brief study plans. Honors Studies can be done individually or in groups, in the first two years or in the last two.
Honors Advanced Seminars	Enrich your education with disciplinary and interdisciplinary courses that explore frontier inquiries with top Iowa researchers.	The disciplinary versions often help qualify a student for graduation with honors in a major. Interdisciplinary ones complete Constellations.
Honors Study Abroad	Take your education into everyday life and foreign lands with field trips or courses that accent your Iowa experience with more.	Honors Commendations count any study abroad as an Honors Class or Experience, as well as those featuring Honors Students and Teachers.
Honors Major Seminars	Specialize in advanced seminars for Honors Students who share your major. These can count for graduation with honors in majors.	Some probe kinds of inquiry that shift from one offering to the next; others introduce the history, scope, and methods of disciplines.
Graduate Seminars	Try advanced seminars in further subjects. These often operate like Honors Classes, and teachers can open them to individual Honors Students.	Some count toward graduation with honors in the major. All count toward Commendations, and all confront the distinctive challenges of graduate education.
Honors Internships	Taste complications and satisfactions of tackling professional tasks — while tapping scholarly resources to reflect on what you are experiencing.	Honors augments the Career Center and similar sources of recurrent internships with personally tailored work for pay, credit, or volunteering.
Honors Practicums	Learn by doing and teaching in practical situations for research or instruction. Honors helps arrange faculty mentors and academic credit for the work.	ICRU pays for research; Honors pays for Writing Fellows, Editing Fellows, and Supplemental Instructors. But Honors Practicums let you teach or do research for credit.
Honors Theses and Projects	Many departments credit projects of art or research in the junior or senior year to offer culminations for honors in the major.	Some departments require Honors Theses or Projects for honors in the major, while some do not, but all can earn Honors Commendations.
Honors Constellations	Increase coherence for your education with 12-s.h. sets of Honors Classes, Inquiries, and other Experiences while gaining Honors Commendations.	Learning how to make connections among the diverse elements of your education is the focus of these Honors exercises for you to learn in an intellectual community.
Honors Commendations	Earn high University awards for every 12-s.h. set of Honors Courses that you do with a grade of B- or better as a member of the Honors Program.	You also earn Honors Commendations for research, study abroad, and other experiential learning — plus noting these awards on your University transcript.