The University of Tulsa Honors Program offers a unique opportunity for
students with exceptional academic ability. Once admitted, students in the
Honors Program take 18 hours of academic credit over a three-year course of
study.
The Honors Program engages students in a critical examination of the major
epochs and ideas of Western thought and culture through careful study of
primary texts. Beginning with the Ancient Greeks, the program traces the
development of those moral and political commitments, religious practices,
scientific achievements, and artistic sensibilities that have shaped the
world we inhabit.
Matt Warren
B.A., 2006
Truman Scholar
"The TU Honors Program allowed me to make the absolute most of my undergraduate experience. In a rigorous intellectual setting, I was able to form enduring relationshhips with bright classmates and dedicated faculty."
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Students in the program are not passive
recipients of inherited wisdom, and Honors Program professors are not
content to leave established beliefs unexamined. Participation in the
program thus requires a generous spirit of commitment and courage on the
part of both students and faculty. The close working relationships that
develop between them are essential to the success of the Honors Program and
are among the most rewarding college experiences.
Honors Program students have diverse aspirations and may major in any
academic discipline offered by the university. Still, they are united by
their love of ideas and conversation and by their conviction that the
present cannot be understood without confronting the great ideas of the
past.
The Honors Program is a good place for students in engineering, the
sciences, and business to bring breadth and depth to their education. It
enables students in the fine and performing arts to locate their own
artistic efforts in historical context. And it offers students in the
humanities and the social sciences a chance to integrate their studies, to
see how ideas and institutions emerge and influence each other.
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