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Welcome to the Honors Program in History
at Purdue University. Descriptions, instructions, and helpful
links have been made available on this page. We look forward to a growing program.
Check back later for updates.
The Department of History's Honors Program
offers students with a record of superior achievement in their initial
History courses the opportunity to engage in challenging courses,
research, and sustained historical writing beyond the work required of
majors in the field. The program's intent is to broaden and deepen
the historical and historiographical understanding, critical thinking,
and research abilities of history majors. Course work within the
program will emphasize the development of skills and engagement in the
field within an environment that emphasizes discourse between students
and faculty and independent student research with close faculty
mentorship. The Department believes that this program not only
will enrich the Purdue undergraduate educational experience on an
intellectual level, but that it will help better prepare history majors
for graduate work in the field, legal studies, and other professional
post-baccalaureate initiatives. Students who demonstrate
excellence by completing the Departmental Honors program should be
competitive for admission to the finest post-graduate programs in
History as well as have enhanced credentials for other candidacies.
This program is designed as a supplement
to Purdue University's Liberal Arts and University Honors programs,
rather than as a replacement for either or both of them. Students
can fulfill the requirements of the Department's Honors Program without
completing either the Liberal Arts or University Honors program.
On the other hand, if they so choose, they can use work in the
Departmental Honors Program towards the requirements for the
Liberal
Arts program. Students eligible for the
University Honors program
may also earn Honors in History.
Students successfully completing the
Departmental Honors Program will have this achievement indicated on
their Bachelor of Arts transcripts. This notation will serve as an
instant alert to graduate programs, law schools, prospective employers,
and others of the student's superior accomplishment in undergraduate
studies.
Robert May
Director of Honors Program
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