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Honors Concentration Release Instructions

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LSA HONORS
CONCENTRATION ADVISING INFORMATION

What's entailed in an Honors Concentration?

Honors concentrations are open to every student in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; students are not required to participate in the Honors Program in their first two years to apply for an Honors concentration in their department. Every student admitted to an Honors concentration is thereby admitted to the Honors Program; the student's records are transferred to the Honors office (1330 Mason), and the student is put into an Honors email group at the start of the next term (students may request to be added earlier, if they wish). All Honors students, including those who entered through the concentration, come to the Honors office for all general advising, Academic Board and enrollment issues, and graduation paperwork.

Each department establishes its own application procedure and requirements for the Honors concentration. However, please note that the Executive Committee of LSA raised the minimum GPA requirement. All students who entered the Honors Program in or after the Fall of 2004, or who entered an Honors concentration during or after Fall 2006, must have an overall cumulative GPA of at least 3.4 by the end of the academic career in order to graduate with any level of Honors.

How to declare an Honors concentration:

Students must be admitted to the Honors concentration through the departmental procedure (whatever that is) before declaring an Honors concentration. Students may, and frequently do, declare a concentration in a department before being admitted to the Honors concentration; if they do so, when they are admitted to the Honors concentration, they fill out a new declaration form.

There is a check-off box on the Concentration Declaration Form, located below the "Concentration" blank, to indicate that the student has been admitted to an Honors concentration. This form is filled out in the department in a joint meeting between the student and the Honors concentration advisor. New Honors concentrators will need to have a sub-plan of HONORS entered in M-Pathways for their Honors concentration; this should be done by the department's plan change maintainer.

We'd like to meet all students who have been admitted to and declared Honors concentrations, to welcome them, especially those who have not been in the Honors Program before, introduce them to Honors academic advisors, and tell them how to apply to graduate with Honors. Forms for all academic issues, including Honors graduation, are different from those for mainstream LSA students, and are available in our office or on our web site.

Communication:

At the end of each semester or at the end of your department's Honors Concentration admissions cycle, please send a list of all known Honors concentrators to Daniel Kim in the Honors office (danjkim@umich.edu), highlighting any new Honors concentrators.

At the beginning of each year, please send the name and contact information of the Honors concentration advisor(s) for your department. We keep a roster in our office and on our website so we can refer students to the appropriate person in the department.  Those may be sent to Elleanor Crown (ecrown@umich.edu), Liaison to Honors Concentration Programs, or to Jacquelyn Turkovich (jacqzac@umich.edu), Honors Auditor.  

We are eager for better communication with departments and programs in the College. We will be contacting you in the Fall term to discuss ways to work more closely together. Let us know how we can help you!   

Honors Student Services Contacts: Call 734-764-6274, or email:

  • Daniel Kim (danjkim@umich.edu) - Exceptions, Files, Declarations/Plan Changes, Add/Drops
  • Jacquelyn Turkovich (jacqzac@umich.edu) - Graduation, Audits, Academic Board Petitions