Honors students can Earn Honors Credit in several ways. Identify which type of Honors course you are enrolled in and follow the steps below to edit your Honors status in the course.
Honors Optional
- To earn Honors credit, select the Honors Option during enrollment or at the beginning of the semester.
- Discuss Honors Optional requirements and intentions with your primary course instructor in the first two weeks of the semester. Students who do not enroll in the Honors Option and discuss Honors requirements with their instructors right away may not be able to earn Honors Optional credit with the course.
- The deadline to edit your Honors Optional status through Course Search & Enroll, if needed, is the same as the term’s final drop deadline. For fall and spring semesters, this deadline is the Monday of the thirteenth week of instruction.
- If you need to change your Honors Optional selection after your initial enrollment, follow the steps below.
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After Enrollment/Before the Drop Deadline
The deadline to edit your Honors Optional status for a course in the current semester can be found with the Office of the Registrar’s dates & deadlines.
To update your Honors Optional status after initially enrolling in the course, follow these steps:
- Log into MyUW and go to Course Search & Enroll.
- Select “My Courses” and then “Enrolled” to see a list of your courses for the relevant term.
- Select the course that you wish to edit.
- Select “See Sections.”
- Click your section to expand the section information.
- Scroll down and click “Edit Enrollment.”
- Select the desired “Take this course with honors” or “Do not take this course with honors” option.
- Click “Save changes.”
After the Drop Deadline
After the term’s deadline, adding or removing Honors from an Honors Optional course requires special approval from the instructor and your school or college’s academic deans’ office.
In cases where a late change to Honors enrollment is necessary, ask your course instructor (not a section TA) to fill out the Honors Optional Selection Change: Instructor Form. Form submissions will be reviewed by L&S Honors staff, and you and your instructor will be notified if the change is approved or if more information is needed.Honors Optional Selection Change: Instructor Form
Note: If you are not an L&S student, we encourage you to communicate directly with your school/college’s academic deans’ office. They may request that you submit a Course Change Request through your Student Center.
If You Have Received a Q Grade
“Q” stands for “question,” and instructors post this grade if your Honors enrollment does not match your actions for the course. In other words, if you are enrolled for the Honors Option but do not successfully complete the Honors assignments (or do complete the Honors assignments but did not enroll in the Honors Option), the instructor will post a “Q” grade instead of a regular earned letter grade.
To resolve this, ask your course instructor (not a section TA) to fill out the Honors Optional Selection Change: Instructor Form. Instructors can update Q grades after submitting the form. Form submissions will be reviewed by L&S Honors staff, and you and your instructor will be notified if the change is approved or if more information is needed.
Honors Optional Selection Change: Instructor Form
Note: If you are not an L&S student, we encourage you to communicate directly with your school/college’s academic deans’ office. They may request that you submit a Course Change Request through your Student Center.
Automatic Honors
Automatic Honors includes Honors Only and Accelerated Honors sections.
- All students in an Automatic Honors section are expected to complete the same assignments. It is not possible to remove Honors credit from an Automatic Honors course or discussion section.
- For courses offered with an Honors Only section, you must be enrolled in the Honors Only section to earn the Honors credit.
- Verify whether you are in the desired section by viewing your section information in the Course Search & Enroll app or by checking how the course appears under the Honors requirements of your DARS.
- Please follow campus deadlines and instructions for swapping courses or sections.
Green Sheets
- You may be able to earn credit toward your Honors degree from a non-Honors course by submitting a Green Sheet proposal by the semester deadline. Please review our Green Sheet information.
- If you received approval for a Green Sheet project but will not complete it, contact Honors advising and follow the instructions from “Honors Optional” to remove the Honors credit.
Do you wish to join or withdraw from the Honors Program?
If you want to change your status with the Honors Program, not just your status in one course, we encourage you to speak with an Honors advisor about your plans, interests, and any concerns. You can also find helpful information on the following pages: