A special summer independent study program is offered to students enrolled in the Honors Program in the College. Students with a cumulative GPA of at least 3.2 and no unfinished courses on the transcript, and who are not enrolled in the College or elsewhere for both spring and summer half-terms or the equivalent, may elect up to eight hours of credit during the summer. A maximum 15 hours of Honors Summer Independent Reading credit may be counted in the 120 credits required for a degree. Any appropriate course regularly offered by the College may be elected, pending departmental approval. Courses elected through this program are not correspondence courses even though the course work is completed off-campus.
Credit earned in the program is considered in-residence credit and earns honor points.
Students interested in Honors Summer Reading should schedule an appointment in the Honors Office. They are designed to provide a sound base for the undergraduate experience and to allow students to acquire knowledge, develop analytic skills, exercise creative abilities and critical faculties of mind. Literature and Ideas. The Honors Program has established special courses that satisfy the introductory composition requirement at Michigan. It is our firm belief that strong writing skills are best achieved by exposure to great works of literature, history, and philosophy, and by exposure to the range of critical approaches to those works.