Tier One (University Honors Minor):

1. Successful completion of the first-year honors seminar. This is a two-semester sequence of classes designed to provide students with a common intellectual experience and the guidance they will need in preparing research projects for the Mid-East Honors Conference. It is possible for students to enter Tier One of the HP in the second semester, provided they take an additional Honors seminar to achieve sufficient credit hours within the HP.

2. Successful completion of at least two more multidisciplinary Honors courses.

3. Engaged participation in one group project during their second year. Examples of such projects, which will be negotiable, include:

• Service learning
• Applied learning
• Travel
• Coordinating a speaker series through the HP, in service to the IU Southeast community
• Applying their knowledge for a social benefit

4. A cumulative grade point average of at least 3.4.


Tier Two (University Honors Scholar):

1. Current or transfer students will gain entry into the HP by recommendation of the faculty and/or by self-nomination.

2. Successful completion of honors course work (12-15 cr. hrs) as well as course work in one of three tracks:

• Honors Research Minor
• Discipline-Based Honors
• An Individualized Honors curriculum, defined in concert with the HP director and appropriate faculty

3. Engaged participation in one group project during the spring of their junior year. Examples of such projects, which will be negotiable, include:

• Service learning
• Applied learning
• Travel
• Coordinating a speaker series through the HP, in service to the IU Southeast community
• Applying their knowledge for a social benefit

Tier Three (University Honors Fellow):

Those students who successfully complete the requirements for Tier I and Tier II of the Honors Program (usually four-year students who begin during their first year) have the unique distinction of graduating as University Honors Fellows.