The Honors Program…

The Honors Program at Miami University Middletown provides students, teachers, and staff with opportunities for intensified scholarly engagement. Honors opportunities may include involvement with enriched coursework, collaborative work with Middletown faculty and other student scholars on research and community service and/or interactions with Honors opportunities in Oxford. Honors learning experiences will range from special 3-credit courses to enhanced individual honors contracts within scheduled courses. To complete the Honors Program, students will need to complete a variety of Honors learning experiences. Students who complete the Honors Program will have their accomplishments noted “With Honors” on their transcripts.

The Honors Committee at Miami University Middletown actively recruits students to participate in this program and relies, as well, on students’ self-nominations to maintain a diverse and creative group of Honors Scholars. While any student can, with an Honors Opportunity Recommendation Letter and the teacher’s approval, enroll in individual Honors course selections or participate in a course extension contract, the Honors Committee, on the basis of Self-Nominations, selects students to participate in the broader range of Honors opportunities available. Honors scholars will have seats reserved for them in all Honors course sections.

Benefits…

Admission to the Middletown Honors Program allows you to complete Honors Extension Contracts in existing courses and to register for Honors courses. Completion of the program is indicated on academic transcripts, which also indicate honors courses taken. For each Honors Learning Experience completed, students will receive an official certificate from the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs.

Qualifications…

A student’s ability to contribute to the Honors Program might come from past academic accomplishments in areas very different from standard educational settings. Examples of such experiences could include military or community service, work experiences, parenthood, living in highly diverse US locations or places abroad, etc. The program is meant for students who wish to reflect actively upon not only their own views about society, culture, and school but also upon the views of others.

Experience Essay…

You should express in a 500-750 word essay (which may incorporate a story or DVD or music or other alternative form or combination of forms) how you believe your particular interests, concerns, and experiences will contribute to the Honors community. As an applicant to the campus Honors Program (as opposed to being an applicant for a single Honors course,) you will submit a written work that should express your background qualifications in a compelling fashion. The essay should show clear evidence that you are excited about learning, consider multiple perspectives on topics, think in creative or original ways, demonstrate a significant desire to contribute to our particular intellectual community, and take intellectual risks.