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Honors Concentration


Honors Concentration

Students who wish to pursue the honors concentration for the civil engineering major will normally be part of the Chancellor’s Honors Program. Candidates for the honors concentration in civil engineering must complete the following requirements.

  • English 118, under the same conditions as stated for the Chancellor's Honors program.
  • University Honors 100 seminar.
  • Four additional 100 or 200 level honors courses. For engineering students, these would normally be EF 157, EF 158, and two courses chosen from Math 147, 148, 247 or Chemistry 128, 138.
  • One 200-level University Honors seminar to be completed during the second semester of the freshman year.
  • 1Two upper-division honors courses in civil engineering via honors-by-contract or Civil Engineering 407.
  • A minimum of 3-credit hours of an honors senior project course. This requirement may be satisfied by Civil Engineering 407 or by enrolling in the honors section of the senior capstone design course (Civil Engineering 400).

1 The contract must be submitted to the Chancellor’s Honors Program for approval by the third week of the semester.