There are three categories of honors in sport management: honors, high honors, and highest honors. The criteria for achieving honors is based on academic performance, as evidenced by the student's major grade-point average (GPA). In addition, students have the opportunity to participate in the Department of Kinesiology and Health Honors in Research program (see below), which guides students through an independent research project.
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: Either a 4.000 major GPA or a 3.800 major GPA and the three-semester Honors Research Program
Department of Kinesiology and Health Honors Research Program
To qualify for the departmental honors research program, a student must have attained, by the time of application, a cumulative overall GPA of at least 3.0 and a GPA of at least 3.40 within the major. In the beginning 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 must complete the Honors Seminar in Health Science: Research Principles and Methods (01:377:480) during the spring semester of their junior year. During the fall and spring semesters of their senior year, each student approved by the instructor must register for 01:377:481 Honors Research in Exercise Science and 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.
