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University Skills and Requirements

Basic Skills

Some students come into the Frederik Meijer Honors College with advanced placement credit fulfilling the writing (WRT 150) or mathematics (MTH 110) basic skills requirements.

Writing

WRT 150 Strategies in Writing: Fulfilled when a student has AP English credits (with a score of 4 or 5), obtains a B or better grade for an Honors Arts and Humanities sequence, or has passed the CLEP test.

Supplemental Writing Skills (SWS): Fulfilled when a student has completed an Honors Arts and Humanities sequence.

Mathematical Sciences

 You can fulfill the mathematical sciences requirement with any one of the following courses:

  • CS 160 - Programming with Visual Basic

  • MTH 122 - College Algebra

  • MTH 123 - Trigonometry

  • MTH 125 - Survey of Calculus

  • MTH 131 - Introduction to Mathematics

  • MTH 201 - Calculus and Analytic Geometry

  • MTH 221 - Mathematics for Elementary Teachers I

  • PHI 103  - Logic

  • STA 215 - Introductory Applied Statistics

Link to the Advanced Placement Program (AP)

Other Requirements

All students are also required to fulfill two diversity requirements, one U.S. Diversity and one World Perspective. Students do not need to take Honors courses to fulfill these requirements. Options are listed below.

US Diversity

  • American Civilization Sequence: HNR 213/214 (Fall) and HNR 223/224 (Winter)

  • HNR 312 as your Junior Seminar

  • A course that fits into your major, which fulfills the U.S. Diversity Requirement

  • Any General Education course that fulfills the U.S. Diversity Requirement

World Perspectives

  • Islamic Middle East Sequence: HNR 209/210 (Fall) and HNR 219/220 (Winter)

  • Classical World Sequence: HNR 211/212 (Fall) and HNR 221/222 (Winter)

  • European Civilization Sequence: HNR 215/216 (Fall) and HNR 225/226 (Winter)

  • Making of Europe Sequence: HNR 217 (Fall of First Year), HNR 218 (Winter of First Year), HNR 227 (Fall of Second Year), and HNR 228 (Winter of Second Year)

  • HNR 300, HNR 311, or HNR 331 as your Junior Seminar

  • ANT 204 E (fulfills one of the Honors Social Science requirements as well)

  • A course that fits into your major that fulfills the World Perspectives Requirement

  • Any General Education course that fulfills the World Perspectives Requirement

The following is an example of how a course is noted for fulfilling the U.S. Diversity in the Undergraduate & Graduate Catalog:

SOC 280 Social Problems. Examines a range of social conditions, arrangements, and behaviors typically defined as problems in modern society. Applies sociological analysis to understand how problems arise from the organization of society, and the processes by responses to social problems. Fulfills the Social Sciences Foundation. Fulfills the U.S. Diversity requirement. Three credits. Offered every semester.

 

Glenn A. Niemeyer Learning and Living Center • Allendale MI 49401
Phone 616-331-3219 • honors@gvsu.edu