1. Read the Honors Conversion Policy before pursuing an Honors Conversion.
2. IMPORTANT: Search for the course in the Dynamic Class Search, Honors Classes Only.  Conversions are not allowed for courses with sections already offered for Honors credit or Honors course equivalents. Students must arrange their schedule to accommodate the Honors section (unless the course is full at the time of registration).
3. Communicate with the instructor to gain their support BEFORE submitting an online conversion request.
4. Look up your Honors advisor prior to beginning your online request. Log into Student Admin, Academic Progress & Advising, Advisor tab, and cross check which advisor is on this list for your Honors major Honors advisor list by school/college.
5. Only submit one request per course.  If you create a duplicate please email honors@uconn.edu to have one removed from the system.
6. Submit request(s) early in the semester to allow approval by the instructor and then your Honors advisor by the posted approval deadline.
7. IMPORTANT: You must receive an email confirming that the instructor and your Honors advisor approved your request, prior to beginning conversion work.

For Fall 2025, approved conversion requests were due by Friday, September 12th.

Approved Conversion Request Deadlines:

• Spring/Fall approved conversion requests are due by the end of the 3rd week of the semester.
• Winter/Summer approved conversion requests are due by the end of the 1st week of the course.

• Content: Honors conversion is a method for adding an “Honors dimension” to a course or section that is not already an Honors course. The Honors conversion project should go more deeply into methodology and theory; it should address more sophisticated questions and/or include more advanced or demanding readings or problems; and it should satisfy more rigorous standards than non-Honors coursework.
• Workload: The Honors conversion project should require no more than an additional 20 – 25 hours of work (for a 3-credit course) beyond other course requirements.
• Plan: Students and instructors create a plan for the conversion activity that the student will complete to be eligible for Honors credit. The plan is submitted to the Honors Program via the designated process during the outlined timeline.
• Group Conversions: An instructor may arrange to oversee a group of students enrolled in the same class in a group conversion experience. Each student must submit their own online Honors conversion request to earn Honors credit.

• Researching and writing an extra scholarly paper
• Preparing and delivering a presentation of relevant material to the class
• Attending symposia or lecture series and writing critical reviews of the ideas presented
• Participation in additional service activities or field experience and analyzing one's experiences
• Completing an additional set of challenging problems or laboratory experiments
• Participation in regular seminars that complement a class

• Courses with sections (or equivalent courses) already offered for Honors credit in the same semester cannot be converted, students must enroll in the Honors section or equivalent course. [Students may convert courses where Honors sections are full.]
• Graduate courses (5000 and above in the course catalog) may count as Honors credit toward your Honors graduation requirements if approved by your Honors advisor on your Honors Final Plan of Study. You do not need to complete a conversion form. Graduate courses will not be noted as “Honors credit” on your transcript.
• S/U courses and courses placed on P/F are not eligible for Honors credit.
• Conversions while studying abroad

It is the student's responsibility to check the status of their conversion request(s) to be sure they have been approved by the instructor and by the advisor.  The instructor must first approve, then the Honors advisor receives a request to approve. After they both approve you will receive a confirmation email and can begin the work.

Check your conversion requests by logging into Kuali Build, clicking on My Documents at the top, and looking at the Status column. Click near the Title of the form to view the full form you submitted, then click the vertical ellipsis and Workflow Status to see where your form is in the process.

Go to your Kuali Build home page, https://uconn.kualibuild.com/build/space, click on My Documents, locate your conversion form, refer to the Actions column, click on vertical ellipses, and then Withdraw.

Please Note: The Honors office will not post anything to your transcript about attempting or withdrawing from a conversion.

By the last day of classes, after all the extra work for your Honors conversion has been completed and shared with the professor, you must use the following steps to confirm completion of the work, which will automatically send a request for approval of your work to the instructor in our online Kuali system. 

If you have arranged with the professor for extra time on the conversion work, please complete the steps below as soon as you have completed the work.

1. Go to Kuali Build, https://uconn.kualibuild.com/app/builder/, and log in with your NetID.
2. Look at the top of the page and click on Action List.
3. Locate your Honors Conversion request(s) and open.
4. Scroll down to the Student Conversion Completion step and click "Yes" for "Yes - I have completed the work and submitted it to the professor" and Mark as Complete.  These actions are required to send a request to the professor to approve your conversion work for Honors credit.

IMPORTANT: If the professor approves your conversion work and posts a grade for the course by Wednesday, December 17th, (when course grades are due), the "Honors credit" notation should be posted to your transcript by the second week of January.  Late conversion approvals involve manual processing and will result in a delay in "Honors credit" posting.

Email honors@uconn.edu with any questions or issues with the system.