University Honors Program | Southern Illinois University

UNIVERSITY HONORS PROGRAM  

The University Honors Program (UHP) is a university-wide undergraduate program that models the excitement of a small liberal arts within a large research university. It is designed to reward SIU's best students for their high academic achievements. We mentor each student individually, empowering them to take charge of their education, form enduring relationships, and develop life-long habits of thinking independently and working collaboratively. Through our motto of Learn. Lead. Serve we work with the whole student, introducing them to academic, leadership, and service opportunities. Our students are multi-faceted, engaged, and eager to make a difference. And, we help forge connections for them across the campus community and beyond, both local and global.

Students choose from a changing array of seminar-style classes that fulfil the University Core Curriculum; enhance their academic experience with independent studies and thesis with faculty; and are supported by their Honors Mentor. Faculty teaching in Honors come from all disciplines across the campus, create classes that innovate in concept and course design, and bring their research into the classroom. Each year, some of the courses cohere around a theme. Our theme for the Fall 2019-20 year is Survival.