Before you begin this activity, approach your mentor and make sure that all details of your activity have been agreed upon in writing, and that they amount to 45 hours (or more) of student input and meet the requirements spelled out in the current Honors requirements document. You will need to submit all of these details later! Once the activity is complete, but before the last day of the semester, launch the WorkflowGen process. The Workflow will prompt your mentor to confirm that you met expectations. Students may complete more than one mentor-supervised independent activity for non-course Honors experiences, but each must be clearly different in nature, such that the growth opportunity is evident each time.
More About Mentor-Supervised Independent Activities
Mentor-supervised non-course Honors experiences can take a variety of forms, including research, internships, and independent study. Some—but hardly all—of these options appear in the Honors Requirements document. If the proposed experience is a major or collegiate requirement, students wishing to count these as Honors Experiences must demonstrate the extraordinary nature of their experience that would go above and beyond what is typically done by non-Honors students completing the same major/collegiate requirement. At a minimum, UHP expects these experiences to provide significant growth opportunities of 45 or more hours in one or more of the following ways:
Academic: Interacting with and/or creating knowledge in an academic discipline under the guidance of a mentor with an appropriate graduate-level degree or credential from an accredited institution; should not duplicate topics or formats already available to undergraduates in existing coursework students have access to during their undergraduate degree
Professional: Directly related to student's career goals after graduation in a way that provides opportunities for growth and development; should go beyond a typical student campus or summer job
Personal: Directly related to student's sense of personal growth and development in a way that will provide long-term benefits to their sense of identity and life goals; should not be able to be reported under another non-course experience category (e.g., community engagement or internship)