About Honors
Honors Seminar
Enhance Your Education
The Honors Seminar courses at the University of Michigan focus on a variety of enriching topics, including:
- Community-building
- Leadership development
- Focus area-specific topics
- Showcasing opportunities available at the university
- Peer mentoring
- Developing an ePortfolio
Competencies Developed
These seminars aim to enhance your education beyond technical knowledge by developing the following key competencies:
Communication
Ability to critically read, listen, reflect, and convey information effectively in a variety of media with diverse audiences with different needs and perspectives across a variety of settings and contexts.
Global and Cultural Awareness
Ability to acknowledge, practice, and articulate one’s own cultural identity to better appreciate, adapt to, and interact with individuals from differing backgrounds, values, and cultures.
Empathy
Ability to feel, understand, appreciate, value, identify with the perspective of someone else by reasoning from their premises, assumptions, or ideas.
Leadership
Cultivating an environment that collectively develops a shared purpose and inspiring others to work toward it.
Ethics
Fully engage stakeholders to recognize that actions and choices have consequences, and that one must act with integrity and trustworthiness.
Teamwork
Working to define and achieve a shared goal by leveraging individuals with different perspectives, roles, responsibilities, and aptitudes to overcome and use conflict to their advantage to create a more robust solution.
Course Information
Honors Seminars are 1 credit each and are taken in sequence. Typically, students take one seminar each academic year. Students applying after their sophomore year can take the courses during their junior and senior years.
Honors Seminar 1
(ENGR 230 – 1 credit P/F)
- Schedule: Meets every other week for the full semester.
- Times: Mondays 3:30-5:30pm or 5:30-7:30pm (Winter) & Mondays 5:30-7:30pm (Fall)
Honors Seminar 2
(ENGR 330 – 1 credit P/F)
- Schedule: Meets every other week for the full semester, with a 7-week option in the Fall and Winter.
- Times: Tuesdays 3:30-5:30pm (Winter) & Tuesdays 3:30-5:30pm or 5:30-7:30pm (Fall)
Honors Seminar 3
(ENGR 430 – 1 credit P/F)
- Schedule: Meets five times throughout the full semester, with an additional retreat-style option.
- Times: Mondays 4:30-7:30pm or Mondays 3:00-6:00pm & one Saturday 9:00am-6:00pm (Winter) & Mondays 4:30-7:30pm (Fall)
Stacie Edington
Honors Location:
251 Chrysler Center
2121 Bonisteel Blvd.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2092
Hours:
Monday – Friday
8:30 AM – 12:00 PM EST
1:00 PM – 5:00 PM EST
Walk-In Peer Advising Hours:
Monday – Friday
1:30 PM – 4:30 PM EST
(September – April)
Contact Us:
Email: coehonors@umich.edu
Phone: (734) 763-0505