Interdisciplinary Honors Certificate Requirements
What you'll need to complete the certificate:
Total credits: 18 (six 3-credit courses)
GPA: 3.3 or higher
The certificate is available to degree-seeking undergraduate students in the College of Arts & Sciences at CU Boulder.
Required courses:
- Honors Diversity Seminar (HONR 1810)
- Honors Internship Course (HONR 3900)
- Honors Capstone Seminar (HONR 4490)
Elective courses:
- Three 3-credit courses offered by the Honors Program (with section numbers 880-889 or 888R-889R)
- These Honors elective courses in the certificate must be distributed across 2 of the 3 divisions (Arts & Humanities, Social Sciences, and Natural Sciences).
- 1 elective course must be upper-division (3000 or 4000-level)
All courses that fulfill the requirement for the certificate must be completed with a grade of B or better.
Some examples of Honors elective courses: PSCI 2004-880: Survey of Western Political Thought (Social Sciences); HIST 4803-880: World War II: Europe in Crisis (Arts & Humanities); PSYC 1001-888R: General Psychology (Natural Sciences).
How to make sure you're set for graduation:
- As you approach graduation, you will want to make sure that you have all the necessary certificate requirements completed. The best way to stay on top of this is by checking your progress by running a Degree Audit.
- During your final semester, email Dr. Hickcox to confirm your progress and certificate completion.
- After confirming you are on track to complete the certificate, Dr. Hickcox will send you a Program Exit Survey to complete.
- Once you have completed this survey and she has confirmed that you have met the requirements, your name will be submitted to the Registrar's Office.
- The Registrar will award you the Certificate in Interdisciplinary Honors Studies. It will show up on your official transcript and a paper certificate will be mailed to you after graduation.
- Please ensure that you have updated your home address in the CU system prior to graduation.