THE MICHIGAN DAILY UNDERGRADUATE COURSES: Honors Programs Limited to Few By MICHAEL OLINICK In recognition of a "special re- sponsibility" to students of su- perior ability, the literary college invites about 10 per cent of its entering freshmen to participate in the Honors program. These students are selected after appraisal of their various test scores and high school records and a personal interview with the pro- gram's director, Prof. Otto Graf of the German department. The four-year program is de- signed to give "opportunities for greater depth in study through the undergraduate years," accord- ing to Prof. Graf. It features hon- ors courses and honors sections in" regular courses, special counseling, opportunities to participate in re- search projects of faculty mem- bers, faculty student discussion groups and directed summer read- ing. Every Department Honors classes are offered by almost every department in the literary college and are intended to give breadth and depth to learning. Acceleration is intended to be an accompanying factor, only. The honors classes take the form of separately created courses. or special recitation sections in com- mon with a regular course's lec- tures. In addition to these basic aca- demic units, the program offers special interdisciplinary courses open only to honors students. These courses aim at surveying areas that would be covered only by many separate parts of other courses, but which are inter-re- lated. Living Ideas These include "Living Ideas in the Social Sciences" taught by Prof. James H. Meisel of the poli- tical science department. Intended primarily for sophomores, the, course introduces them to the ideas which have been and are being used in the analysis of prob- lems of the social sciences. Another is "Revolutionary Ideas on Science" open to all honors students with ,noprerequisites needed. This course treats evolu- tion from the viewpoints of phys- ics, astronomy, geology and zool- ogy and is jointly taught by four professors. Other Courses Other College Honors courses deal with the concepts and meth- ods of physics, romanticism in the American arts, psychology and lit- erature, the Renaissance, and gen- eral systems. Students are invited into the rHonors Program whenever they appear qualified for it, Prof. Graf said. There is a periodic reclassi- fication based on academic per- formance. Freshmen and sophomore hon- ors students are expected to main- tain a 3.0 average..Students with a 3.5 average not in the program are interviewed for possible ad- mission. Discussion groups led by faculty members on topics of the students' choosing and seminars led by dis- tinguished visitors to the campus have been regular offerings of the program since its inception in 1957. Honors Council Members of the- Honors Council -the faculty group that oversees the program-volunteers to serve as counselors for the honors stu- dents. In the junior and senior years most of the honors work -is done under the. supervision of the stu- dent's department of concentra- tion. Admission as a candidate for an honors degree in a major re- quires a 3.25 average in courses already taken in the department and an over-all 3.0 average. All the departments in the liter- ary college give honors degrees. Many offer seminars or allow hon- ors students to be excused from one or more courses to pursue in- dependent work under a faculty tutor. Steering Committee 'A student steering committee, elected by the honors students each spring, helps guide the pro- gram by planning social events and seminars, communicating complaints to the council, and helping advise on new programs for superior students. Closely allied with the Honors program are the Unified Science offerings. This program aims to develop the scientific talents of honors students who have had a strong background in high school mathematics and science. The Uninect Science sequence includes a series of integrated physics and chemistry courses which build upon one another and which have been designed to make use of mathematical skill as soon as they are developed in the parallel math courses. Science Concentration These math and science courses amount to about one-half the stu- dent's program for his freshman and sophomore years. During the upperclass years, students com- plete a program of concentration in the field of their choice. A novel feature of the Unified Science is the research tutorial courses numbered Unified Science 291 and 292. This sequence is open to sophomores in the program and each participating student serves as a research assistant to a faculty scientist. 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