CERTIFICATION OF H-OPTION COMPLETION FORM
(Universal Form for Launching an Honors Student’s H-Option Project and Certifying H-Option Credit)
Honors students at Southeastern can fulfill some of their Honors Diploma requirements by contracting with a course’s instructor to turn that
course into an Honors version of the course (e.g. COMM 391 can become COMM 391H on the student’s transcript). Honors versions of
courses should provide students with additional experience, insight, and/or academic rigor over what they would have received absent the H-
option. Ideas for completing a course as an H-option include, but are not limited to, combinations of the following:
Additional readings
Readings beyond the level of other course material (e.g. journal articles)
Extra reflection assignments
Design of parts of the student’s senior thesis (e.g. prospectus, literature review)
Submission of a work from the course for competition, presentation, or publication
Completion of extra labs
Grading of assignments with a higher level of expectations (e.g. expecting senior-level performance in lower-level course
assignments or graduate level performance in senior courses)
Presentation of H-option project
This form records an agreement between a student and course instructor (the student’s “project advisor”), along with notification of the
department head over the course, regarding terms of the student’s project being undertaken for H-Option Credit. To launch a project, the form
should be signed by the instructor (A), the department head (B), and the student (C) and turned into the Honors office no later than the
fourteenth (14) day of the course semester. The Honors office will contact the instructor at the end of the semester to certify the H-option
was completed and Honors credit for the course should be awarded. Certification must take place prior to the last day of class.
The instructor should ascertain the following while advising the student:
1. The student is proposing a project that will be a bona fide full-semester study project enhancing the overall rigor of the course, not just an
“extra assignment.”
2. The H-Option project will be related in some way to the complete scope of the course.
3. The project will result in an appropriate finished product by semester’s end (e.g., paper, data presentation, exhibition).
4. The instructor has clarified for the student expectations regarding the scope and quality of the completed project.
5. The H-Option is undertaken by the student to meet requirements for an Honors/Scholars Diploma in the major or discipline.
STUDENT (Please print) W# _____________________ SEMESTER _______________
COURSE TITLE, NO., SEC. ____________________________________________ COURSE COMPUTER NO. ______________________
DESCRIPTION OF HONORS WORK TO BE DONE IN COURSE
(A) Instructor’s Name (please print)___________________________ Signature __________________________________Date ___________
Instructor’s Email (please print) ______________________________________
(B) Department Head over course (please print) ________________________Signature _____________________________Date __________
(C) Student signature ___________________________________________________ Date _________________________________________
Deliver completed form to the Honors Office (original in hard copy required) to Student Union 1305.
Please Note:
1. Forms must be submitted by the 14
th
day of the course semester.
2. Honors will contact the Instructor at the end of the semester to certify the H-option was successfully completed.
3. The Instructor must provide that certification prior to the last day of class for the student to receive H credit.
To be completed by the Honors Office Only
Instructor Certification of Completion Received: ____________ Honors Director Approval to Issue H credit:_________________________
Date Signature
