Welcome to the University Honors Program at the University of Maryland

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Welcome

University Honors is the largest living-learning program in the Honors College and allows students the greatest independence in shaping their education.  University Honors welcomes students into a close-knit community of the University’s top faculty and intellectually gifted undergraduates committed to acquiring a broad and balanced education. Because of its multitude of exceptional opportunities, each year approximately 600 first-year Honors College students select University Honors as their first choice.

 

News

University Honors and Department of History Professor Richard Bell is honored with the Kirwan Undergraduate Education Award at the 2011 Faculty and Staff Convocation. In fall 2011, Professor Bell is teaching HONR 258F Incarceration Nation: Behind Bars in America.

Honors Event Calendar

Federal Semester & Honors Credit

Take Your Honors Professor To Lunch

Choice & Flexibility

University Honors allows students to choose their own Honors courses and complement their classroom learning with self-selected research, internship, and study abroad experiences. There is no set curriculum that limits what students can do or when they can do it.

University Honors students thereby maximize their opportunities and put together a powerful education and a compelling set of credentials that make them highly competitive in today’s rapidly changing world.

Honors Courses

Honors Seminars

Students choose from over 130 engaging seminars each year, covering interdisciplinary topics in three categories: Contemporary Issues and Challenges, Arts and Sciences in Today’s World, and World as Classroom. These small, graduate-style seminars are full 3-credit courses, capped at 20 students, and taught by outstanding faculty and national experts in their fields.

H-Version Courses

Honors versions are special sections of departmental courses that students may take to satisfy CORE, major requirements, or electives. They are designed for and open only to Honors students. H-versions are generally smaller classes; they may treat the same curriculum in a more sophisticated way, or they may be particularly suited to the subject and the audience.

Opportunities Abound

University Honors is a gateway to: Internships (on campus and in the DC area); Undergraduate Research; Study Abroad (with short-term, semester, full-year options); Federal Semester (a program in which students learn about federal policy and gain experience on Capitol Hill); and National Scholarships such as the Rhodes, Truman, and Fulbright scholarships. Students can never outgrow the opportunities available to them.
Internships Study Abroad National Scholarships Federal Semester