Interested students apply in the spring quarter for places in the following year.
At the lower division level, DHC participants take two honors courses or sections and one problem-oriented, interdisciplinary seminar per academic year. Students who successfully complete the program receive transcript notation. Lower division departmental Honors courses, special DHC sections of regular courses, DHC seminars, and special studies opportunities constitute the course offerings of the Honors Challenge. A complete list of these courses, with course registration numbers, is made available to admitted students through the Davis Honors Challenge Office. Eighteen lower division seminars are offered each year.