The Freshman and Sophomore Years
Honors requirements partially supplant General Education Core requirements. A number of specially designed honors tutorials will substitute for designated general education courses, as follows:
Substituted Honors Tutorials |
HN 1113 Ed. & Beh. Studies Tutorial I
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Core Courses Replaced |
| BT 1010 Christian Life Doctrine BT 1020 Christian World View EN 1102 English Composition I EN 1202 English Composition II HU 1213 Speech HU 3312 Sem. in Cultural Persp GS 1124 General Biology GS 1224 Physical Science MA 2044 College Algebra |
Honors students must complete the remaining courses in the General Education Core as part of their regular degree program. Those who demonstrate proficiency in computer applications may be exempt from the general education requirement in this area. Such demonstration may include high school transcripts, testing or other means acceptable to the Dean of the Honors Program and the Vice President for Academic Affairs.
The Freshman and Sophomore Years
Students in the honors program must enroll in nine honors tutorials during the first two years in residence:
Freshman Year |
HN 1113 Education and Behavioral Studies Tutorial
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Sophomore Year |
| HN 2123 Education and Behavioral Studies Tutorial HN 2144 Physical Sciences and Mathematics Tutorial (+Lab) HN 2163 Humanities Tutorial HN 2183 Business and Economics Tutorial |
Honors Scholars are encouraged to enroll in a variety of courses beyond lower division honors and general education requirements at their discretion and with approval from the Honors Dean.
The Junior and Senior Years
In the junior and senior years, students must earn a total of 27 credit hours in courses in which they earn supplemental honors credit. Supplemental reading in the Great Books in twenty-four of these upper division hours is to be distributed equally among each of four major schools of the college: six hours in Education and Behavioral Studies; six in Humanities; six in Natural Sciences and Mathematics; and six hours in Business and Economics.
Students also must undertake three supplemental hours of honors credit in upper division theology. Honors credit will not be granted for any course in which the final grade earned is below a "B-." The honors diploma also requires a traditional major. Honors students should declare this no later than the first semester of the junior year. Upper division courses in all major fields of study are adapted for honors credit by supplemental assignments in syllabi to incorporate continued reading in the Great Books. Thus in the normal course of seeking the baccalaureate degree with honors, students necessarily will earn 6 upper division hours in a major field. While provision has been made in the honors program for timely completion of the degree, academic planning should keep in view the need to earn a major and a minor while meeting honors requirements without unduly prolonging the student’s undergraduate career.
In upper division courses taken for honors credit students may be asked to prepare discussions, or other projects, on topics not on the regular syllabus for class presentation as part of the supplement adjustment for honors credit.
Honors students in these courses also may be required to participate in campus cultural events or cultural or political events in the Memphis Metropolitan area for course credit. Students must produce a written analysis of the event, the artwork, exhibit or presentation; assess its potential contribution to society and its value in light of concepts and values derived from Christianity and a traditional field in the humanities, social sciences, or economics.
Like all Crichton graduates, honors students must complete a total of at least 128 hours to earn the honors diploma.
The Honors Dean will, when possible, encourage a distribution of elective coursework outside the student’s major and minor. The end result of the honors experience should be exposure to a broad sampling of reading in the Great Books in mathematics and natural sciences; language and literature; theology; social sciences, education and psychology; and computer science, business or economics. Elective work should range outside the student’s major
and minor areas and may include study in a subject field in the upper division without regard for prerequisites, depending on the student’s level of preparation as evidenced in high school transcripts or because of experience in Honors Tutorials in related fields. Any such waiver of prerequisites must be approved by the Dean of the Honors Program.
