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Students are required
to complete at least 24 semester hours of honors work, including
a senior thesis/project.
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Requirements include:
1. Of the 24 hours, at least 12 hours of honors general education
courses distributed as follows:
Four honors courses must be taken from three of the five knowledge
domains. Two of the courses chosen for this requirement must be
outside of your major and in the same knowledge domain. (The knowledge
domains are: Nautral sciences - NS; Artistic & Literary Perspectives
= AL; Societies & Institutions =SI; Personal & Social Responsibility
= PS; Selected Topics = ST)
2. At least six hours of honors work must be upper-division and
outside of your major.
3. At least six hours of honors course work shall be taken from
actual honors classes (as opposed to contract honors credit). This
requirement can be combined with #1.
4. At least one full credit hour of Honors Seminars or University
Honors Seminars.
Senior Year Honors:
During the senior year, a capstone thesis/project in the major department
is required. This is generally worth 1-3 semester hours depending
upon the department. A faculty advisor, selected by the student
and approved by the Director of Honors, will oversee this project
and be assigned an appropriate workload adjustment. The thesis should
be bound and archived by the Library and stored in the Honors Office,
Cafaro House. Certain projects other than theses could be presented
in poster form or technologically recorded and similarly archived
and stored. A public defense (or exhibition or recital) is required.
The student should also be encouraged to make a formal presentation
at a regional or national conference. Projects completed by individuals,
teams, and teams of students working with community officials are
all appropriate.
Further Considerations:
Students may join the Honors Program in the second or third year.
Please note that the above requirements stand. Students with multiple
majors only have to complete one thesis and 24 semester hours of
honors course work.
Transfer of Honors Credit:
1. Honors credit from other institutions will be accepted as honors
credit and can be used to partially fulfill the requirements for
the Honors Program at YSU provided that the honors credit was earned
in a college level course with a grade of B or higher.
2. Upon application, all students from other honors programs who
were in good standing relative to their previous program will be
admitted into the YSU Honors Program. Honors credit earned at other
institutions will be accepted as honors credit and can be used to
partially fulfill the requirements for Honors at YSU subject to
review by the Honors Director.
3. To graduate with an Honors diploma a student must complete at
least 12 of the total 24 semester hours of honors course work from
YSU, fulfill the depth and breadth requirements of the Honors Program
and complete a senior thesis in the major discipline. (For more
details, consult with the Honors Director.)
4. Students who transfer into the YSU Honors Program have all the
rights and privileges granted to its members, i.e., honors housing,
priority registration, use of honors facilities, etc.
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