The University of Delaware aspires to develop students with skillful, creative, and informed thinking; clear speaking and writing; sound judgment; and the ability to work collaboratively. Honors students exhibit intellectual promise and a record of taking advantage of opportunities for further academic engagement.
The Honors Program is not for all students who have excelled in high school, but it is for students who want to stretch themselves academically. The Honors Program enrolls approximately 450 freshman each year. In Honors courses students are expected to be active in their own learning and to be far-reaching and demanding of themselves in their efforts. Honors faculty have higher expectations of Honors students. Honors instruction emphasizes writing, interdisciplinary study, and original analysis. It involves wrestling with primary texts and data sets, doing advanced laboratory work, meeting difficult challenges, welcoming the unfamiliar, taking intellectual risks, examining one's own intellectual presuppositions, participating in lively and thoughtful discussion, and thinking and writing clearly. The students themselves, with their ability and their dedication to learning and the resulting personal interactions, are the heart of the program.
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