Ad Hoc Option
Ad Hoc Honors is an option available to members of the College and Departmental Honors Programs. Through ad hoc, a student can contract with an instructor in a given course to obtain Honors credit. Honors students who elect to "ad hoc: a course will pursue the course matter to a greater depth and with more intensity than he/she would within the framework of the regular class. The student is prepared to work with the instructor to add extra work and expend the extra energy to do so. Typically, ad hoc only applies to upper-division courses and cannot be applied to courses that are required for a student's major.
Students planning to count an ad hoc Honors course as part of their Honors core curriculum must first meet with an Honors advisor to make sure that their course choice is appropriate; the advisor must sign the Ad Hoc Honors form (available for download below). After this initial step, they should meet with the instructor (preferably before or during the first week of class) to develop the altered course expectations for Honors credit. After the course is complete, the supervising instructor must sign the Ad Hoc Honors form. The student should then submit it to the Honors Office in Mary Gates 211.
Click here to download a printable copy of the Ad Hoc Honors form.
Each quarter, Honors posts a list of "Courses of Interest" along with its course selections for that quarter. Many of these courses are appropriate for this ad hoc option, although they are by no means the only ones available.
Last Updated: Thursday, January 3, 2008