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Honors Program

Introduction

The Honors Program at Western Oregon University is designed to nourish intellectual abilities and cultivate interest in new subjects and activities. The program is comprised of dedicated, friendly, and highly motivated students who pursue a variety of majors and extracurricular activities, ranging from creative arts to community service and study abroad.

 

It is the goal of the Honors Program to help its students achieve their highest aspirations. Toward this end, we seek to foster a way of life in which faculty and students understand that inquiry and learning happen everyday, and in a shared and continuous mode.  

 

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The Honors Program's mission is therefore to:

  • Develop a learning community committed to scholarly inquiry
  • Offer a rigorous disciplinary environment to prepare students for excellence in and out of the classroom
  • Create and sustain an interdisciplinary curriculum that will encourage faculty and students in their intellectual pursuits

History of the Honors Program at WOU

Though Honors courses have been offered at WOU for many years, the four-year Honors Program has existed only since 1984. 1989 was the first year in which the current program (featuring the Honors Seminars & capstone Thesis) was fully implemented.


In the 1995-1996 academic year, the two-year Honors Associate Program was introduced for juniors and transfer students, who had completed most of their general education requirements at WOU or other universities.

 

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Interested students should:

 

Click here to visit the General Information page which details the many benefits of participating in the Honors Program.

 

Click here to visit the Curriculum page which explains the differences between the four-year full Honors and two-year Honors Associates programs.

 

Click here to Apply

 

 

 


 

  Honors Program Western Oregon University
345 N. Monmouth Ave.
Monmouth, OR 97361
(503) 838-8519
or e-mail
honors@wou.edu
Last Updated: Saturday, 22 March, 2008 08:28 AM

 

Located in the heart of Oregon’s lush Willamette Valley, Western Oregon University is the oldest institution in the Oregon University system with an award-winning campus that blends welcoming traditional features with multimedia classrooms, wireless web access and a state-of-the-art library. WOU is home to the nationally-renowned Teaching Research Institute, the Regional Resource Center on Deafness and the Rainbow Dance Theatre with approximately two-thirds of its students in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the rest in the College of Education.