The Honors Program Mission

The central mission of the CU Honors Program can be summarized in a single sentence: to provide special education opportunities for academically prepared, highly motivated undergraduate students. The Program does far more, however, than offer advanced subject matter to bright students. The intensity of interpersonal contact in these small courses and co-seminars provides students the opportunity to "learn-by-doing" the scholarship of discussion, debate and the exchange of ideas. Students and faculty alike are pushed to examine first principals and the fundamental assumptions upon which strongly-held beliefs are based. More perhaps than in any other program, Honors courses nurture a profound respect for the alternative points of view that define the human experience. Honors aspires to provide no less than the best education possible for the moral and ethical leaders of the future.