There
are three categories of honors in sport management: honors, high honors, and highest honors. The criteria for achieving honors include both academic
performance, as evidenced by the student's major grade-point average (GPA), and a research component
fulfilled via the department's honors research program, which includes three semesters
of coursework (by arrangement).
Honors
Criteria
Honors:
Either a 3.600 major GPA or a 3.400 major GPA and the three-semester Honors Research
Program
High
Honors: Either a 3.800 major
GPA or a 3.600 major GPA and the three-semester Honors Research Program
Highest
Honors: 3.800 major GPA and the three-semester Honors Research Program
Honors
Research Program
To qualify for the departmental honors research
program, a student must have attained, by the end of the first semester of
their junior year, a cumulative overall GPA of at least 3.40
and a GPA of at least 3.40 in courses in the option they have
selected within the major. By the end of the first semester of the junior year,
the student must formally apply to the director of the honors research program
for admittance to the program. Accepted candidates complete coursework during
the spring semester of their junior year when an honors research project is
designed and developed. During the fall and spring semesters of their senior
year, each student will carry out a faculty-guided research project. All three
semesters must be successfully completed and the minimum honors GPA must be maintained for a student to receive departmental honors
recognition.
