Lambuth Honors College Requirements

University of Memphis Lambuth Honors College Requirements
- General Information
  - All University of Memphis and University of Memphis Lambuth Honors College students must complete 25 hours of honors credit including the UNHP 1100 Freshman Honors Forum (see below), two approved Honors Experiences and a 3.25 GPA or higher at the time of graduation. Students may graduate with University Honors or University Honors with Thesis. Please follow this LINK for general UofM Honors College information about requirements, student responsibility, maintaining Honors standing, graduating with Honors (including with thesis), probation and removal from Honors College, and Grievances.
- Mandatory Honors College orientation meeting – UofM Lambuth students may receive an email from the UofM Honors College in reference to a mandatory Honors College orientation meeting. This meeting is NOT REQUIRED FOR UofM LAMBUTH HONORS COLLEGE STUDENTS – the orientation information is provided via email by Dr. Mego, during the Fall "Meet and Greet" event, and during the UNHP 1100 course offered at the UofM Lambuth campus each Fall semester.

CONTRACTS at UofM Lambuth
- UofM Lambuth Honors College Students complete all their honors credit (except UNHP 1100) through CONTRACTS.

Currently, here at UofM Lambuth we do not have enough students or faculty to offer honors-specific courses on this campus (except UNHP 1100 see below); therefore, UofM Lambuth Honors College students need to ‘contract’ regular courses for honors credit. For UofM Lambuth, this means any courses may be contracted for honors credit, including 1000 level courses which are not allowed to be contracted for Honors College credit on the Memphis campus (except for MATH courses – MATH courses may NOT be contracted for Honors credit at the UofM Lambuth campus). Online courses may also be contracted for Honors credit!

The following information is important for the UofM Lambuth Honors credit contracting process. This information is also available on the left-side navigation bar under CONTRACTS.

The contract submission process is open ONE WEEK PRIOR TO THE FIRST DAY OF CLASSES.

It is BEST for students to begin to think about an Honors contract BEFORE classes begin. The online submission process ENDS TWO WEEKS AFTER CLASSES BEGIN.

This is a relatively quick window of time for you decide what class you will contract and what that contract will be.

Once you have decided what course (you may contract more than one, but that is a lot of work) you want to contract for Honors College credit, get in touch with your course instructor AS SOON AS POSSIBLE! Students are responsible for working with the course instructor to design the Honors contract for that course.

Note that honors contracts assume that "In general, it is preferable for the contract to consist of something different rather than just something more. Often, but not always, YOU propose the topic of the contract, although some courses have specific honors contract content.

Contracts should be as CLEAR and SPECIFIC as possible regarding what the student will do.
Contracts should be AS DETAILED AS POSSIBLE (not just “my instructor and I will decide”), with references (if applicable), bibliographies (if applicable), techniques specified, dates and timelines for the project.
Contracts should explain WHY they are suitable for the UofM LAMBUTH HONORS COLLEGE and how they differ from the regular course requirements.

NOTE: Contracts with insufficient detail may be returned.

The BEST contracts (and most likely to be approved) are those,

Undertaking an additional, or more demanding research project
Expanding a paper for presentation or submission to a research forum (e.g., Student Research Forum or UM Lambuth Spring Undergraduate Research Symposium) or undergraduate research journal (e.g., Quaesitum)
Conducting field work
Performing service hours related to a course topic along with meaningful reflection (service-learning)
Creating an original piece of music, work of art, or design portfolio

If you have questions, note some examples HERE or contact Dr. Mego for some general ideas.

Once the contract is APPROVED by the instructor, begin the ONLINE CONTRACT SUBMISSION PROCESS here: https://www.memphis.edu/honors/members/contract.php

Contracts submitted after the deadline will not be accepted.
UofM Lambuth Honors College students can contact Dr. Mego for questions about this process.
Courses contracted for Honors College credit must be completed with at least a final grade of B (not B-) for any contract to count for Honors College credit.
Please remember that instructors DO NOT HAVE TO AGREE to allow you to contract for Honors College credit with their courses.

If the contract submission process is SUCCESSFUL, both you and your instructor should receive email confirmations.

Toward the end of the semester, your instructor will receive an email asking them confirm that you have completed the Honors contract to their satisfaction for Honors College credit.

Main UM Honors College contract information page https://www.memphis.edu/honors/members/contract.php

UNHP 1100 Freshman Honors Forum at UofM Lambuth – this is required of all UofM Honors College students. At the UofM Lambuth, we offer this course every Fall. We realize that on this campus with only one section of this course offered and only in the Fall semester, a new Honors College student may not be able to take this course in their first Fall semester. Therefore, UofM Lambuth Honors College students may take this requirement the Fall following their first semester, if necessary, and upon request. The Freshman Honors Forum is a 1-hour credit course designed to introduce Honors students at the UofM Lambuth to the kind of critical thinking and sophisticated analysis expected of Honors students. On the campus, we like to introduce students to the idea of ‘interdisciplinary, team-taught’ courses for this course, and we strive to offer the UNHP 1100 forum with this structure every Fall. This means that usually, two instructors from two different disciplines will be in the classroom together, to offer perspectives and analytical techniques from two different disciplines to one topic. The content can vary from year to year. In the past, the topics have included “Political Science Fiction” (politics in science fiction literature); “Science and Politics” (how politics has an impact on scientific research and analysis); “Global Citizenship” (what it means to be a global citizen in the world today); “Politics and Cinema” (the politics in classic film), among other topics. Honors students in the course are strongly recommended to prepare their final papers with presentation at the UofM Lambuth Spring Undergraduate Research Symposium as a goal.