Honors Courses
Your Honors Academic Pathway:
- Complete minimum 26 credit hours of honors courses, of which at least eight hours must be:
- Upper-level honors courses
- Include at least two Honors Seminars or one Honors Topics course
- Optional: Up to three hours of research may be eligible as part of your eight hours of upper-level honors courses (cannot count as your HIEP if you choose this option).
The Reaud Honors College is attentive to the energy and curiosity of emerging scholars. If you so desire, you can fulfill all of your core curriculum requirements in honors sections of core courses.
Honors sections provide smaller classes, more engaging course content and a supportive learning environment. Academic Support & Professional Development resources are also available to guide you toward success.
Advising Support for YOUR Honors Journey
The Reaud Honors College is here to support you as you build your personalized honors academic pathway that helps you achieve your goals.
If you bring a significant number of AP/co-enrollment credit hours to Lamar University, you need to be careful about preserving the remaining core courses for honors. Please review our non-course credit guidelines.
If you plan to design an individualized pathway, keep in mind that you may earn no more than a cumulative total of 15 hours of honors credit through any combination of Independent Study and Honors Contracts.
Whatever your circumstances, our Honors Graduation Counselors will be available to guide you throughout your honors college career to help keep you on a path toward success!
Honors Credit Hour Targets For the End of the Second Year
Excellent: 17-19
Good: 14-16
Acceptable: 12-13
Problematic: Under 12
ANNUAL HONORS COURSE ROTATION*
FALL
| CHEM 1311-60 | Honors General Chemistry I |
| CHEM 3311-61 | Honors Organic Chemistry I |
| COMM 1315-60 | Honors Public Speaking |
| COMM 1375 | Honors Film Appreciation |
| ENGL 1301-60/61 | Honors Composition I |
| ENGL 2326-60 | Honors American Literature |
| HIST 1301-60 | Honors US History to 1877 |
| MATH 2312-60 | Honors Precalculus II |
| MATH 2413-60 | Honors Calculus and Analytical Geometry I |
| MATH 2415-60 | Honors Calculus III |
| PHIL 2306-60 | Honors Ethics |
| PHYS 2426-60 | Honors University Physics II Lecture |
| PHYS 2426-61 | Honors University Physics II Lab |
| POLS 2301-60 | Honors American Government I |
| PSYC 2301-60 | Honors General Psychology |
SPRING
| CHEM 1312-60 | Honors General Chemistry II |
| CHEM 3312-60 | Honors Organic Chemistry II |
| COMM 1315-60 | Honors Public Speaking |
| DANC 2304-60 | Honors Dance Appreciation |
| ENGL 1302-60 | Honors Composition & Rhetoric II |
| HIST 1302-60 | Honors US History Since 1877 |
| MATH 2413-60 | Honors Calculus and Analytical Geometry I |
| MATH 2414-60 | Honors Calculus and Analytical Geometry II |
| PHIL 2306-60 | Honors Ethics |
| PHYS 2425-60 | Honors University Physics I Lecture |
| PHYS 2425-61 | Honors University Physics I Lab |
| POLS 2301-60 | Honors American Government I |
| POLS 2302-60 | Honors American Government II |
| PSYC 2317-60 | Honors Introduction to Statistical Methods |
| SOCI 1301-60 | Honors Introduction to Sociology |