Honors

To fulfill the honors curriculum requirements, students must complete 22 credit hours selected from honors courses and honors sections of department courses, subject to the following limitations:

(a) Three of the 22 credit hours must be from one of the following writing courses: HONRS 150, P 150H, or English 150H,

(b) A minimum of 10 credit hours must be from the "HONRS" type of course.

(c) No more than four credit hours can be from honors sections of religion courses.

(d) No more than three credit hours of 1credit Honors courses can be used to meet this requirement.

All BYU students must complete at least 34.5 credit hours to meet general education requirements and 14 credit hours to meet religious education requirements. Honors options are available for all of the General Education requirements (except the Wellness requirement). Honors 499R (Thesis Credit) does not count as credit for the Honors Curriculum Requirement but can be used as credit for completion of the Thesis Requirement if your major department does not have a 499R undergraduate thesis number.