DEPARTMENTAL HONORS
Students can get an Honors degree in any major offered here University of Hawai`i at Mānoa but several departments have developed Honors "tracks" within their program and they actively recruit talented and motivated majors to pursue an Honors degree. Other programs have more informal, but well-established relationships with Honors.
You can find out more about these programs by clicking on the majors listed below and following up with an inquiry to the appropriate undergraduate advisor or departmental honors director:
"The Economics Honors Program provides our most highly motivated majors the chance to conduct advanced study and research in close contact with a faculty advisor from the department."
Interested students should contact the Honors Program (honors@hawaii.edu) and/or Dr. Ilan Noy (noy@hawaii.edu) for further information.
Engineering
Interested students should contact the Honors Program (honors@hawaii.edu) and/or Dr. Tep Dobry (tep@eng.hawaii.edu) for further information.
"Pursuing Honors in English offers students a dynamic and focused intellectual experience as they select from a range of Honors tutorials, work closely with faculty members and one another, and write creative or scholarly theses."
Interested students should contact the Honors Program (honors@hawaii.edu) and/or Dr. Caroline Sinavaiana (sinavaia@hawaii.edu) for further information.
Interested students should contact the Honors Program (honors@hawaii.edu) and/or Dr. Jane Schoonmaker (jane@soest.hawaii.edu) for further information.
"The Psychology Honors Program serves to train students to conduct psychological research and prepare them for graduate school. Students receive mentoring, take psychology honors classes, receive assistance in preparing for graduate school, participate in informal activities associated with psychology, and present their work at meetings or co-author a research paper."
Interested students should contact the Honors Program (honors@hawaii.edu) and/or Dr. Takahashi (lkt@hawaii.edu) for further information.
By agreement between the Honors Program and Psychology Department, majors may substitute PSY 439 for HON 495, providing that students complete a written proposal for their Senior Honors Project and defend this proposal in poster and oral presentations at the Spring Symposium or Fall Forum. In addition, majors may substitute PSY 499 for HON 496, provided that both student and advisor submit the progress reports required for HON 496 (see Senior Honors Project). Majors must meet all other requirements for the degree (see Graduation with Honors).
