Applicable Hamilton Honors Program Courses & Experiences

Learn about ways to earn Hamilton Honors Program (HHP) experience credit.

Courses Earning Hamilton Honors Program Experience Credit

All courses counted for Hamilton Honors Program credit must be taken for a grade.

• All Hamilton Program Core Courses
• All 180 and 380 Honors seminars. (For courses currently offered, see left.)
• All HHP courses approved for credit by the Hamilton Honors Advisory Committee
• One departmental or divisional Honors course offering of at least three credit hours that is not already a Hamilton Honors Advisory Committee-approved HHP offering.
  NOTE: Such offerings must either be designated in the official University Bulletin as honors courses, or must be certified as such in writing by either the Chief Departmental Advisor or the Honors Adviser of the department, or by a divisional Honors Adviser.
• One graduate-level course of at least three credit hours.  This course must be taken at the graduate level but for undergraduate credit.
• "Allowing a Non-Honors Course to Provide Honors Course Credit:  A student in good standing with the Hamilton Honors Program (HHP) may ONCE extend for HHP credit a course offered at the Hamilton campus.  The course must carry at least three credit hours, and a course extension contract PDF) must be approved both by the faculty member of record and by the Hamilton Honors Advisory Committee."

Non-Courses Earning Hamilton Honors Program Experience Credit
NOTE: proposals to be approved by the Hamilton Honors Advisory Committee.

Each of the following experiences may be counted only once:

• Participation (structured) in The Michael J. Colligan History Project
• Participation in any Miami-approved study abroad experience of three credit hours or more
• Participation (structured) in a Fitton Center for Creative Arts project
• Participation (structured) in a project with Hamilton Community Foundation
• Participation (structured) in approved similar projects

Honors Versions of Existing Courses
These courses are special sections of already existing and highly demanded courses at Miami. They offer students the opportunity to take required courses in an enriched, enhanced manner. These courses are designed to be smaller, more discussion-based, more focused on critical thinking, and more writing intensive than non-Honors sections of the same course.

• 180 Seminars
  Honors 180 courses are small seminars that allow for in-depth study of fundamental issues, ideas, topics or problems. These seminars stress critical thinking, discussion, writing, and student initiative in the classroom. Most courses integrate knowledge across disciplines. They are courses with original topics that are based on the instructor’s areas of interest. Past offerings have included: "Philosophy through Rock and Roll," “Passing & Identity in Literature & Film,” and “Readings in Colligan Lecture Series.”
• 380 Seminars
  Honors 380 courses have the following characteristics: a focus on a problem or an inquiry, an emphasis on original sources (as opposed to explanatory books), modest formal coursework prerequisites and opportunities for student participation in carrying out the course. Many of these 380 seminars incorporate moral or ethical thinking and problem-solving components and provisions for an independent writing project that students may turn into a senior thesis. Like the 180's, these courses have original topics that are based on the instructor's area of interest.