The Two-Year Honors Program
Most transfer students will enter Pierre Laclede Honors College at the beginning of their Junior year. During the course of the Two-Year program, students must take a minimum of 22 credit hours in Honors, distributed as follows.
All transfer students must take Honors 3100, ‘Writing the City’ (normally during their first year), through which they will meet their advanced composition graduation requirement.
In addition, transfer students take one Honors seminar per semester, four in all, including at least one chosen from the 2010-2080 “Inquiries” seminars and at least one 3000-level seminar.
Transfer students admitted and enrolled after January 1999 must also take the "Portfolio" requirement of the writing program, Honors 4100 (one credit hour), normally in their first semester.
Finally, Two-Year Honors students must take 6 credit hours of Independent Study and/or Undergraduate Research, as with the Four-Year program (see above).
Students on the Two-Year program may take may take additional Honors seminars and/or 3 additional credits of Honors Independent Study or Undergraduate Research, subject to the same requirements as for students on the Four-Year program (see above).