ACE Honors Program

The Sul Ross State University Honors Program, administered through the Academic Center for Excellence, is a challenging and exciting integrative program of academic experiences with a high degree of student-faculty interchange designed to stimulate the more motivated student.

This program offers the outstanding student an opportunity to take intellectually motivating academic classes and seminars. It is not an accelerated program but an in-depth approach to the understanding of ideas and relationships. It offers our students a chance to go beyond the norms of the traditional classroom experience, and explore with a greater intensity more challenging concepts and issues while applying critical thinking to the learning experience.

Students will have the opportunity to take courses designed with a low student to teacher ratio. The courses offered will carry an HONS (Honors) designation and will apply toward the student's core curriculum requirements.

Program members will also have the opportunity to participate in honors sections of courses offered by individual departments. A student that completes a minimum of 24 semester credit hours in honors classes with a GPA of 3.50 and total GPA of 3.30 will have earned the distinction Graduate in Honors Studies, with the designation imprinted on the student's transcript.

Prospective Honors Students – This link is intended for incoming freshman, transfer students and students currently enrolled at Sul Ross State University that are considering the Honors Program.

Current Honors Students – This link has current and future honors course offerings, downloadable/printable documents, and guidelines for completing contract courses and the new course HONS 4300.

Honors Events and Happenings for 2008-2009 – Check here to a get a handle on the latest events and deadlines.

Related Links

• Honors Course Contract (PDF Format)
• Honors Course Contract (Word Format)
• Honors Courses
• Honors Program Application Adobe Acrobat File