Required Coursework
Honors Activities
Capstone
Benefits
Honors Units & HARS
100

This honors course is completed in the first semester of all Honors College students

What is HON 101? 

100

This type of activity involves traveling

What is Study Abroad?

100

This project is completed during a specific time while a student is at UIC

What are the Final 2 Semesters?

100

These individuals serve as an honors advisor and mentor 

What are Faculty Fellows?

100

This is the minimum number of HU a student needs by graduation 

What is 18 HU?

200

This honors course allows students to gain deeper knowledge of a specific topic, and needs to be taken at least once

What is HON 201?

200

This activity can be done through supervised work in faculty labs

What is Research & Independent Study?

200

Students register for this honors course when completing their Capstone

What is HON 322?

200

Advising, tutoring, and faculty fellows fall under this benefit of the Honors College

What are Resources?

200

This is the number of HU a student obtains during their first year in the Honors College

What is 7 HU?

300

This honors course shows a students's honors participation on their transcript

What is HON 222

300

This activity can be completed by tutoring, mentoring, co-op's, or working a job

What are Internships & Professional Development?

300

Creating new knowledge fulfills this Capstone requirement

What is the Research + Writing Component?

300

This is what HCAB stands for

What is the Honors College Advisory Board?

300

This is what HARS stands for

What is Honors Activity Reporting System?

400

This honors course serves as a class type where students meet to explore a topic of skill

What is HON 200?

400

This activity can only be used for Honors Units one time

What is Student Service?

400

The Undergraduate Research Forum (URF) fulfills this Capstone requirement

What is the Presentation Component?
400

HCAB is considered this under the Honors College

What is Official Student Organization?

400

This is the latest date a student can submit their HARS completion form

What is the Friday of Finals Week?
500

This honors course may not be required depending on a student's major field of study

What is HON 301?

500

This activity requires a minimum of two semesters in the Honors College in order to be considered

What is Honors Tutoring?

500

This major field of study serves as an example of an embedded, alternative capstone

What is Biomedical Engineering (BME)?
500

This is normally the time that a student is assigned their Faculty Fellow

What is Second Year?

500

This is the number of HU you can obtain from a Study Abroad Activity

What is 1 HU for <2 weeks, 2 HU for 2≤8 weeks, and 3 HU for ≥8 weeks?

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