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Academic Honors and PrizesAcademic HonorsHonors StudentsThe Dean’s ListHonors in CourseGraduation Honorsin the Liberal ArtsAware that students may achieve high scholarship in a variety of ways, the University faculty hasformulated the following programs of recognition:The University’s Honors Students constitute a community of scholars who have achieved at thehighest academic levels and hold outstanding promise for continued academic growth.Students with outstanding high school records may become Honors Students through admissionto the University as Schubert Scholars. These students are eligible to take Tutorials and HonorsSeminars and may participate in special programs for Honors Students. Students who achieve atleast a 3.5 cumulative grade point average while a student at Ohio Wesleyan may also apply tobe Honors Students through the Office of Academic Affairs and are then entitled to participatein Tutorials, Honors Courses, and other Honors programs.Students who achieve a superior academic average each semester will be placed on the Dean’s List.Academic qualifications for inclusion on the Dean’s List require at least a 3.50 semester grade pointaverage for all courses attempted and for a minimum of three unit (or 1.25 unit) courses withgrades assigned.“Honors” are awarded in a course for satisfactory completion of some project beyond the normalrequirements of the course. The project must have been initiated by the student and approved bythe instructor as a project worthy of honors. The student will register the project within the firstfive weeks of the semester with the course instructor. Provided the student has a grade of B or betterin the course, and provided the instructor considers the completed project worthy of honors, anH will be appended to the student’s grade for the course. Time limitations on the completion ofan honors project must conform to the general rules for completion of course work. Honors inCourse cannot be applied to the Graduation with University Honors or Departmental Honorsdesignations.In exceptional cases, an instructor may, after consultation with the Office of Academic Affairs,award honors to a student who has not formally registered with the instructor, but who hascompleted a project of such merit as to warrant the award of honors.To graduate with Honors in the Liberal Arts, one must:1 . Achieve at least a 3.5 cumulative grade point average by the end of the junior year.Students must also achieve a 3.5 cumulative grade point average by graduation.2. Complete at least four semester units of work in Honors Program courses, selectedfrom among the following areas:Tutorial and Independent Study Projects. (Two units of credit required.) Honors Studentsmay count two tutorials or one tutorial and one independent study/directed readings or twoindependent studies/directed readings toward graduation with University Honors. Participatingstudents are eligible for grants to help offset expenses such as research, travel, expendableequipment, and project materials.27