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Jun 25, 2025
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2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog (DRAFT)
Honors Interdisciplinary Studies, Minor
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Focusing on three key values, community, creation, and professionalism, the Honors Program provides ambitious, success-centered PennWest students with a high-quality, accessible, and challenging array of academic, social, and professional opportunities. Students from all majors enjoy small class sizes, interdisciplinary and experiential learning, living-learning residences, scholarships, travel and research support, extracurricular opportunities, and a supportive community of like-minded peers and faculty. The Honors Program prepares PennWest’s highest-achieving undergraduates to be campus and community leaders and enables them to succeed in a wide range of careers, graduate, and professional schools
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Student Learning Outcomes
- Critical thinking, communication, and problem solving Students will demonstrate effective written and spoken communication and creative problem-solving through completing honors courses that provide opportunities for experiential learning, primary and secondary research, and creative scholarship.
- Creating and maintaining an individual campus identity. Each campus will develop and / or maintain curricular and extra curricular activities, experiences, and opportunities that are unique to their location, history, and culture.
- Career Preparation (experiential learning, research and creative scholarship) Students will demonstrate preparation for graduate and / or professional school or for careers in industry.
- Community Awareness (service learning and leadership, learning communities) Students will demonstrate a sense of community awareness, engagement, and knowledge of issues related to social justice through practical experience, curricular and extra-curricular experiences, and service learning opportunities.
- Research and Creative Literacy (research and creative scholarship) Students will demonstrate critical writing, reading, and speaking skills in a variety of disciplines.
Curriculum Requirements
Students must complete a minimum of 6 credits of advanced standing per the PennWest minor policy. Students are required to earn 18 honors credits. 6 credits must be at the 3000 level or higher. These credits can be earned by taking any Honors course, any other prefixed course with an HONR attribute, or by completing contracts/addendums for non-honors courses. Students must also complete an Honors Portfolio, and participate in Honors Program events and meetings. Required Courses
Students must complete 18 credits in Honors courses. These include Any Honors Course: HONR 1000-4999
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Non-HONR courses that possess an Honors attribute (such as COMJ 1010, COMJ/POLI 1210, and ENGL 1200)
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Non-Honors courses where a student has completed an addendum/contract. |
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