Women Studies Departmental Honors are open to all majors who meet the criteria below. Students who graduate with departmental honors will graduate "with distinction" noted on their transcripts and diploma. Honors courses require that the student complete additional work allowing them to engage with course content to a greater depth and with more intensity than she /he would within the framework of the regular class.

Students who are completing the UW Honors program must also complete the departmental honors. For more information about UW Honors, go to: http://depts.washington.edu/uwhonors/index.html

Women Studies Departmental Honors  Requirements:

• Sign up with the Women Studies adviser.
• Maintain a 3.5 GPA in Women Studies coursework
• Maintain a 3.3 GPA cumulatively
• Complete 20 credits of upper division Women Studies coursework including the senior capstone or senior thesis as an honors course.

How do I take honors credits?
All honors courses within our department are done on an ad hoc basis. Through ad hoc, a student can contract with an instructor in a give course to obtain Honors credit.

1. Contact the instructor the first day of class (or prior) to request that the course be an ad hoc honors course.
2. Before meeting with the instructor, obtain an Ad Hoc Honors form, available from the Women Studies advising office, or downloadable at: http://depts.washington.edu/uwhonors/faculty/adhoc.html
3. Meet with the instructor to discuss and determine what your honors work will be for that course including time frames or deadlines, if applicable, and fill out the form and sign it.
4. At the end of the quarter, have the instructor sign the form under "Instructor Approval" and submit the form to the adviser.