U-M English Honors Program Achieving Honors in English Becoming a member of the English Department's Honors Program means becoming a part of a small, intensely committed group of teachers and students all working toward achieving excellence in the related disciplines of reading, understanding, and writing about texts. Honors Courses and the program at large place a premium on discussion, on sustained elaboration of ideas inside and outside the classroom, on conceiving of projects in complex and engaging ways, on learning to do research, and on presenting the fruits of that research in expressive, lucid prose. To achieve a degree with Honors, a student must maintain a superior academic record in courses in the concentration and must also successfully complete, in the senior year, an Honors thesis focused primarily on the thesis.
Applications are due at the end of the seventh week of each term.
Students must also be maintaining a 3.5 GPA or better in the concentration. It is recommended that this be done during the student's junior year. These courses may also fulfill English program concentration requirements. These should number among the most exciting and difficult courses you take as an undergraduate. Students are guided throughout much of their senior year by a faculty adviser chosen early in that year.