The University Honors Laureate (UHL) designation recognizes enrolled Honors students who have completed depth in the major as well as breadth across the disciplines. To earn the UHL designation, Honors Scholars demonstrate involvement and leadership. Students must earn the Honors Scholar designation in the major to be considered for the UHL designation with their degree.
Honors Scholar and UHL Planning Worksheet - this is not the required Honors Plan form
The minimum requirements to graduate as a University Honors Laureate (UHL) are as follows:
Meet Honors Scholar Requirements
Complete all Honors Scholar graduation requirements for your major.
Enroll in an Honors Core Course
The Honors Core is a select set of courses designed to engage you in interdisciplinary scholarship connected to real-world problems.
Earning Honors credit in an Honors Core course is a requirement for the University Honors Laureate award.
Earn Additional Honors Credits
These requirements ensure that advanced Honors academics have constituted a substantial part of your UConn academic career.
- Earn a total of 30 Honors credits including those used toward Honors Scholar.
- Additional Honors credits beyond Honors Scholar may be in any subject.
- Of those additional credits, 6 Honors credits must be at the 2000-level or above
Meet Distribution Requirements
These distribution requirements ensure that you have had breadth across your Honors degree, and they may be fulfilled across any of the 30 Honors credits, including those applied to Honors Scholar in your major.
A single course may fulfill multiple requirements.
- Honors Core: At least 3 Honors credits in an approved Honors Core course
- Course categories: At least 3 Honors credits in each of the following categories:
- Arts & Humanities (A&H)
- Social Sciences (SS)
- Science, Technology, & Mathematics (STEM)
- Diversity & Multiculturalism (D&M): At least 3 Honors credits
More details about course distribution, including how to identify courses for each one.
Complete Co-Curricular Components
The University Honors Laureate award brings explore, create, and lead out of the classroom and helps prepare you to be a leader in your field and your community. Each of these co-curricular components are documented by earning the corresponding badge in the UConn Honors HuskyCT course.
- Events: Attend and reflect upon 10 approved Honors events, with at least one event in each of the following event categories:
- Career, Professional, and Personal Development
- Honors Community Development
- Academic & Interdisciplinary Engagement
- Multiculturalism & Global Citizenship
- Social Change, Service, & Sustainability
- Academics in Action: Complete at least one academic enrichment experience in which you demonstrate creative productivity in addition to or beyond that required by the thesis or capstone project. Qualifying experiences will be:
- Academic in nature
- Representative of creativity or innovation
- Shared with an authentic audience
- Leadership: Select and complete an experience in which you develop leadership skills or qualities, then reflect on your learning and your future goals with an Honors GPS.