Honors and Lincoln Program
The University Honors curriculum is an alternative to SIUE’s traditional Lincoln Program requirements. We believe that honors students are capable of developing important college-level skills (writing, speaking, thinking) through exploring subjects and topics of interest. In honors, students will not find a composition course, an arts course, or a biology course. Instead, students may find one course that allows them to develop their writing skills while exploring the life sciences as portrayed in culture and literature.
The Lincoln Program is appropriately 33-36 credit hours, none of which are required for honors students.
The honors curriculum is 19 credit hours.
With a smaller, more efficient and effective approach to learning, honors provides students with opportunities that might not otherwise be as attainable. Because of fewer credit hours, our students are able to access campus opportunities like study abroad, undergraduate research and additional areas of study (double majors, additional minors, more focused electives). For those highly sequenced academic programs, honors often means that students are allowed to take fewer credit hours per semester (15-16 hours for example) than their non-honors counterparts, who may be required to complete 17-19 hours per semester.
The items listed below are not required for honors students. The honors curriculum entirely replaces these requirements.
Foundation Courses Replaced
- English
- ENG 101: Composition I
- ENG 102: Composition II
- Applied Communication Studies
- ACS 101: Public Speaking
- Reasoning and Argumentation
- RA 101: Logic
- Quantitative Reasoning
- QR 101 or MATH 150 (see Honors Additional Requirements)
Breadth Courses Replaced
- Fine and Performing Arts (BFPA)
- Humanities (BHUM)
- Information and Community in Society (BICS)
- Life Science (BLS)
- Physical Science (BPS)
- Social Science (BSS)
Experiences and Other Requirements Replaced
- First Semester Transition Course (FST 101)
- Experience: US Cultures (EUSC)/Experience: US Race, Gender, & Equity (EREG)
- Experience: Global Cultures (EGC)/Experience: Global Cultures, Race, & Equity Education (ERGU)
- Experience: Health
- Interdisciplinary Studies
