Advantage: Engagement

Honors offers personal advising for all students, beginning at New Student Orientation and continuing on through graduation.

During orientation, you’ll meet one-on-one multiple times with an Honors academic advisor, exploring your academic and career interests and matching them to your fall schedule. Honors Orientation introduces first-year students to the breadth and depth of LSA and Honors course offerings. You’ll finish orientation with a complete schedule and a better understanding of U-M systems, along with a few new friends.

Our advisors continue to work individually with students over their academic journey, talking with them about their interests and goals and helping them map those onto a course schedule. Honors advisors also talk with students about their major and minor options. Additionally, the Honors Program offers some specialized advising services, focused on assisting students with pre-law and pre-med plans.

Underlying all the coursework in Honors is the firm belief that students should take learning outside the classroom and engage in an Honors Senior Thesis or an Honors in Engaged Liberal Arts (HELA) project–an independent study/ research project under the direction of a faculty member. This allows you to concentrate on an area of particular interest, to develop intellectual relationships with members of the faculty and research staff, and to make more informed decisions about your long-range goals. You are encouraged to look for a research placement when you have had adequate preparation to make your participation useful to the project and interesting for you.

All Honors students receive our weekly Honors newsletter about academic and community opportunities, This Week in Honors. Current U-M students can make appointments online; we recommend an appointment each semester in order to track your academic success and progress toward your degree.