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Contact:
Lanan, Laura
Program Coordinator, AU Honors
Anderson Hall, Room 103 on a map
AU Honors 4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW Washington, DC 20016 United StatesHonors Advising
Welcome to the Honors advising page. You can find information about graduation requirements, Good Standing requirements, and course registration here. If you have further questions, contact auhonorsadvising@american.edu - we're happy to help!
Course Registration
Priority Registration
Honors students receive the benefit of priority registration. Course registration times are assigned based on the number of credits students have completed.
To give Honors students priority, fifteen "ghost" credits are temporarily added to the number of credits Honors students have already completed. This helps students register as if they have completed an extra semester of credits. Ghost credits are added after a student's first semester in the Honors program.
Note: Priority registration does not change students' position on a course wait list, nor does it guarantee an Honors student will have a seat in a non-Honors course.
Registering for Honors Courses
Students are expected to register themselves for all Honors courses.
Challenge Course and Honors Supplements have additional steps before studnets can register. Those steps can be found under the course titles below.
Challenge Course
The AU Honors Challenge Course (HNRS-398) is a 3-credit group research project for AU Honors students. The Honors Challenge Course is meant to enable a student-led, multi-disciplinary effort to grapple with a significant problem or issue by drawing on more than one tradition of inquiry. The course functions much like an independent study in that each group will meet with a faculty mentor and the course has no centrally scheduled class meeting time or location
How to Register:
- Form a group and find a faculty mentor
- Complete the Group Registration Form.
- Honors Staff will register each group for their own section of HNRS-398.
Honors Supplements
Honors Course Supplements add an Honors component to a regular 300 or 400 level course in the form of an extra project, paper, presentation, or other work to make it count for the Honors Colloquium requirement.
Supplements do not change the credit value of the course. They will appear on Eagle Service as HRNS-050.
How to register:
- Register for a regular 300 or 400 level course.
- Discuss the Honors Supplement with the registered faculty member for the course.
- Submit the Honors Supplement Qualtrics Form.
Graduation Requirements
Students who Entered Honors in 2019 and later
Students must complete the following requirements in order to receive the Honors notation on their transcript:
- Complete the entire Honors Curriculum
- Minimum 3.50 cumulative GPA
First-Year Advising
All first-year AU students receive a first-year advisor based on intened major who also teaches their AUx1 course.