The following list includes forms (and supplementary materials) needed by students to make specific requests of the Honors College. Please direct any questions regarding their use to honorscollege@marshall.edu.
Curricular
Contracted Honors Credits
In what are generally limited circumstances, students are permitted to propose projects that will allow them to earn honors credits. This may be through contracted work in non-honors courses, through an approved internship experience, or through independent work under supervision by the Dean of the Honors College.
When offered as a non-instructional course, Honors Peer Mentors & Leaders is an opportunity for students to apply principles of CPE and design-thinking through work within the Honors College and the communities of which it is a part, both on and off campus. The focus of HON 300 when offered in this manner is experiential learning through direct application. Students who have already completed the instructional form of HON 300 (typically in the Fall semester) may continue to use Certified Peer Educator (CPE) principles by working with college staff or instructors (or potentially others) by providing different kinds of services to our community members, generally other students. They may also continue to work on projects that begun in the instructional HON 300 taught in what will, essentially, be “independent studies,” to earn academic credit and, as needed, honors credits toward completion of the General Honors requirements of the college.
Each student (or team of students) taking the course when it is offered as an application of principles will need to submit a proposal for review, which (when approved) will become the HON 300 Project Contract for the student/s and define many details for different elements of the syllabus that will apply to the student/s named in the application. The contract will be appended to the HON 300 Syllabus.
Prerequisites:
- Good standing in the Honors College.
- Completion of the instructional section of HON 300 (typically in the Fall semester), which includes CPE training.
- A completed and approved HON 300 Project Contract (this application is to establish the contract) on file BEFORE the beginning of the first week of the semester. A student cannot be permitted to register without completion of an approved HON 300 Project Contract.
This is an overview of required elements of the proposal and administrative requirements for h-options. The guide here (and linked above) MUST be carefully reviewed by students planning an h-option AND with a Faculty Mentor BEFORE submitting the online form (via the link below). Students are very strongly encouraged to know their professor and to have worked with them well in advance of the semester in which a student seeks to submit a proposal to complete an h-option in a regularly scheduled course being offered by this professor.
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- H-Option Contract Proposal Form – Optional to assist preparation of the contract proposal offline to later complete online submission.
- The proposal (last of three steps below) is DUE every semester on the second Friday in the same semester as the proposed h-option. While faculty will need to work with the honors student to develop the H-option, the student is expected to submit ALL materials. Incomplete proposals or those lacking required detail as described in the instructions above may require re-submission upon notification by the Honors College. Be sure to check your MU email account for updates.
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- You need for an Honors Option must be reviewed by the Honors Advisor for your application to be considered. Submitting your application will initiate this review. Once your record has been reviewed by the Honors Advisor, the proposal itself will be reviewed. H-options are intended to serve in highly limited cases where a student may be unable to complete the General Honors portion of our curriculum with honors-designated courses.
- Students are expected to initiate planing with their proposed faculty mentor, develop the contract proposal with this faculty, and then personally submit the required materials to the submission link above.
- Please be aware of the following policies regarding h-options: “All proposals for h-options must be approved by the Honors College. No more than one h-option may be arranged per semester and no more than two may be completed with the same professor. Online and summer school courses are not eligible for h-options” (Honors College Policy Handbook).
- The proposal must make clear how the work done for the honors option is distinct from what students are already doing in the course. What makes this work worthy of earning honors credit in addition to the grade that a student will receive on the non-honors course?
- A service element must be part of the assessed work under contract in the semester the honors option is completed.
- Students will receive notification regarding approval or revision of their contract proposal no later than the third Friday of the semester. If you believe that you have not received a notice by email, you should contact the Honors College.
- Here are three different illustrations of successful proposals: Sample 01; Sample 02; and, Sample 03. Note that the college learning outcomes have been updated since these were submitted.
Certain internships may be contracted for between 1-3 credits under the designation of HON 489. The college also permits students to earn credit in the required honors curriculum for enrollment in a departmental-specific internship course. Either way, the honors student must submit an Honors Internship Contract with the same expectations for the experience in order to receive honors-designated academic credit. The Honors Internship allows students to complete some of their requirements in the Honors College through a rewarding co-curricular experience.
1st READ: Honors Internship Contract Guide 2nd REQUEST: Honors Internship ApplicationHonors Credits Obtained by “Waiver”
No more than 6 credit-hours total (for any reason for any student) can be waived from requirements in the Honors Curriculum.
In recognition of the value of study abroad experience, the Honors College will waive up to 6 of the required General Honors credit hours for study abroad experiences for which the student receives academic credit through Marshall. To receive a waiver of 3 honors credits, students must earn a minimum of 3 transfer credits and the study abroad experience must have a duration of at least 3 weeks. A total of 6 credits of waived honors credit can be awarded for a semester abroad with full time enrollment of 12 credits or more. Students must request the waiver by submitting the Study Abroad Honors Credit Waiver Petition form available on the Student Forms page. In order to receive a waiver of General Honors credits, students must submit the form to describe enhanced academic experiences that they expect to have before they leave and another after they return to provide justification for why these credits deserve an honors credit waiver after they return.
Study Abroad Honors Credit Waiver
Part I, Pre-Travel Form Part II, Post-Travel FormSpecial Requests
Student Achievement Notifications
Congratulations on your achievement as a student in the Marshall University Honors College. We would like to hear about it. You can help us by submitting the form above. If you’d like to let us know and, potentially, to let others know as well (e.g., through our website, social media accounts, the Honors College student-publication “The Honors Oracle,” and/or by referral to MU Communications), please fill out the information in the online form as requested. Achievements should be within the past three months or pending. You will be asked to categorize your achievement, consider a “title” for it, describe it, and provide optional materials and images. You’ll also be asked if there is a faculty member who should be recognized for having mentored you.
