Undergraduate Catalog - UMUC Europe

GRADES AND RECORDS
Lambda Pi Eta
Membership in Lambda Pi Eta, the official communication
studies honor society of the National Communication
Association (NCA), is open to qualified UMUC students.
To be eligible, students must have earned at least 60 credits
toward the bachelor’s degree, including at least 12 credits in
communication studies, with a GPA of 3.5 or higher in both
communication studies and overall coursework. In addition,
students must have completed at least 30 credits at UMUC.
National Society of Collegiate Scholars
The National Society of Collegiate Scholars is an honor
society recognizing students who have completed fewer
than 60 credits toward an associate’s or bachelor’s degree
and have shown academic excellence. The honor society
encourages students to participate in honor society, campus,
and community events, and provides resources for students to
focus on their professional and leadership development.
To be eligible, students must be seeking a first associate’s or
bachelor’s degree. Students must have completed at least 12 credits
at UMUC in courses graded A, B, C, D, or F and have a
cumulative GPA of 3.4 or higher. In addition, students must have
completed between 12 and 59 credits toward their degree. Students
are invited to join the honor society in the spring semester.
Phi Alpha Theta
UMUC students may qualify for membership in Phi Alpha
Theta, the international honor society in history. To qualify for
membership, students must attain a GPA of 3.5 or higher in
at least 12 credits of UMUC upper-level history courses and
have an overall UMUC GPA of 3.4.
Phi Kappa Phi
The honor society of Phi Kappa Phi promotes the pursuit
of excellence in all fields of higher education and recognizes
outstanding achievement by students, faculty, and others
through election to membership and through various awards
for distinguished achievement. To qualify for membership,
candidates must have completed at least 90 credits toward
the bachelor’s degree, at least 45 of which must have been for
UMUC courses carrying letter grades of A, B, C, D, or F.
The candidate’s GPA in UMUC courses must be in the top
10 percent of the previous UMUC Europe graduating class.
Phi Theta Kappa
Phi Theta Kappa is a national honor society for associate’s
degree students. UMUC Europe’s chapter has been active since
the 1998-1999 academic year. To be eligible for membership,
students must have completed at least 45 credits toward their
first Associate of Arts degree, including at least 30 credits with
UMUC Europe with a cumulative GPA of 3.5.
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Pi Gamma Mu
UNDERGRADUATE CATALOG | 2011-2012
Pi Gamma Mu is the international honor society for the
social sciences and recognizes outstanding scholarship in
the social sciences at UMUC. Membership is offered to
qualified students interested in anthropology, criminal justice,
economics, gerontology, history, political science, social
psychology, sociology, and women’s studies.
Students who are in their last 60 credits of undergraduate
study, have earned at least 20 hours of social science credit
(at least 9 earned from UMUC), and have a GPA that ranks
in the upper 35 percent of their class may be invited to join.
Psi Chi
Psi Chi is the international honor society in psychology,
founded in 1929 for the purposes of encouraging, stimulating,
and maintaining excellence in scholarship and advancing the
science of psychology.
Qualified students must be invited to join. To qualify for
membership, students must have declared a major or minor in
psychology and earned at least 30 credits toward a bachelor’s
degree, including at least 9 credits in psychology at one of UMUC’s
regional locations. Additionally, qualified students must be in the
top 35 percent of their class, based on rankings within sophomore,
junior, and senior classes; have an overall GPA of at least 3.3 for
sophomores and juniors and 3.5 for seniors; and have a psychology
GPA of at least 3.3 for sophomores and juniors and 3.5 for seniors.
Sigma Tau Delta
Membership in Sigma Tau Delta, the international English
language and literature honor society, is open to qualified
UMUC students with a major in English. To be eligible,
students must have earned at least 45 credits toward a
bachelor’s degree with a GPA of 3.5 or higher. At least
30 credits must have been earned through UMUC and must
include 12 credits of English, not including ENGL 101 (now
WRTG 101), and 6 upper-level credits. Students must also
have earned a GPA of 3.6 in English coursework at UMUC.
Upsilon Pi Epsilon
The Kappa Chapter of Upsilon Pi Epsilon, the international honor
society for the computing and information disciplines, is open to
graduate and undergraduate students. To qualify for membership,
undergraduate students must be pursuing a bachelor’s degree with
a major in the computing and information disciplines, and must
have completed at least 45 credits. Students should have completed
at least 30 credits at UMUC in courses graded A, B, C, D, or F,
including at least 15 credits in the computing and information
disciplines, and must have a GPA of at least 3.5, overall and in
all computing and information systems coursework. Students are
inducted into the honor society twice a year.