Curricular Requirements

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The Student Learning Outcomes of the George Whitworth Honors Program:

Engage the liberal arts by means of interdisciplinary courses designed for integration, reflection and application of skills, knowledge, and understandings.
Reflect on the ways that diversity, equity, and inclusion practices contribute to greater interdisciplinary effectiveness.
Reflect on how the liberal arts and disciplinary paradigms generate solutions to local and global issues, using higher-level intellectual practices.
Apply the liberal arts and disciplinary paradigms by independently planning, carrying out, documenting and defending a capstone project related to one’s chosen discipline.

Students entering Whitworth University as “first-years” must complete the following 17 credits:

Nine credits of “H” designated work in Shared Curriculum Honors Courses Three courses; one course from 3 of 4 Inquiry Groups	9
Three credits of upper division (300+) “H” designated work Honors Upper-Division course; course(s) for campus leadership; any combination of Honors-earning credits in research, creative project, internship, or off-campus program	3
Three credits of “H” designated work at any level Honors SC or Upper-Division course; course(s) for campus leadership; any combination of Honors-earning credits in research, creative project, internship, or off-campus program	3
HN 300H: The Motivated Project	1
HN 400H: Honors Exhibition	1

Students entering Whitworth University as “transfers” must complete the following 11 credits:

Six credits of “H” designated work at any level Honors SC or Upper-Division course(s); course(s) for campus leadership; any combination of Honors-earning credits in research, creative project, internship, or off-campus program	6
Three credits of upper division (300+) “H” designated work Honors SC or Upper-Division course; course(s) for campus leadership; any combination of Honors-earning credits in research, creative project, internship, or off-campus program	3
HN 300H: The Motivated Project	1
HN 400H: Honors Exhibition	1

To be a George Whitworth Scholar, a student must complete one of these two tracks.
No more than nine honors credits can be earned within a single department.
Honors courses cannot be taken for P/NC.
If an Honors course is audited, it will not count toward the Honors requirements.
To graduate as George Whitworth Scholars, students must finish their degrees with a 3.5 cumulative GPA.
Students who do not meet these requirements will still be enriched by these experiences, but will not graduate as George Whitworth Scholars.