Honors Program
The Honors Program offers talented and motivated students an opportunity to enhance and enrich their college learning experience. These specially designed courses offer more discussion and critical thinking and less lecturing and memorization.
The Honors Program isn’t more work, but an opportunity to do work that is more engaging, challenging and rewarding. Our flexible program allows students to take as few or as many honors courses as they like to fit their program and interests.
Build a record of academic achievement
As an honors student, you are actively involved in the learning process and able to form close relationships with instructors who can become lifelong mentors. You are part of a community of students who enjoy learning as much as you do.
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- Honors classes receive a special designation on your transcript and highlight creative thinking through engaging interactive learning
- Create your own opportunities by completing exciting projects in courses of your choice
Enhance your leadership skills
The Honors Leadership Board exists to provide service and leadership challenges outside the classroom, including participating in regional and national organizations.
2025-2026 Honors Leadership Board Officers:
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- President – Sydney Lambert
- VP of Service – Eliana Muhaxhiri
- VP of Membership and Recruitment – Becca Emmons
- VP of Fellowship – Lily Hileman
- VP of Fundraising – Emily Carroll
- Secretary/Treasurer – Grace Zwetzig
Honors Program opportunities
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- Priority registration (need to qualify by earning honors credit)
- Academic awards that distinguish your transcripts and resume
- Scholarship opportunities
- Service projects
- Priority consideration for tutoring positions at the Teaching Learning Center and the WRIT Center
- Additional consideration when applying for scholarly admission to the dental hygiene, nursing, physical therapist assistant, and diagnostic medical sonography programs
Eligibility
To be eligible for the Honors Program, students must meet one or more of the following:
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- Completed 12 Delta College credits with a cumulative GPA of 3.2 or higher
- SAT Composite score of 1200 or higher, must submit score report
- High school GPA of 3.5 or higher, must submit HS transcript
- Accuplacer Writing and Reading Skills score of 256 or higher (no longer required for college entrance, taken voluntarily in the testing center)
Did you know that anyone can take an Honors Course?
Honors Courses for Fall 2025 and Winter 2026
Honors Courses 25/FA
HONORS COLLEGE COMP I ENG 111H FA110
HONORS COLLOQUY ENG 201HW FA801
HONORS COLLOQUY IHU 201HW FA801
HONORS BIOLOGY GENES AND BEHAVIOR BIO 199H FA810
HONORS PHYSICAL GEOLOGY GLG 111H FA320
HONORS PUBLIC SPEAKING COM 112HW FA200
HONORS EARLY WESTERN CIVILIZATION HIS 11HW FA120
HONORS INTRO TO PSYCHOLOGY PSY 211HW FA100
HONORS PRINCIPALS OF BIOLOGY BIO 111HW FA728
HONORS INTRO TO ETHICS PHL 213HW FA110
HONORS INTRO TO MYTHOLOGY ENG 241HW FA801
Honors Courses 26/WI
HONORS COLLEGE COMP II ENG 112H WN110
HONORS COLLEGE COMP II ENG 112H WN210
HONORS COLLOQUY ENG 201HW WN205
HONORS COLLOQUY IHU 201HW WN810
ADVANCED COMPOSITION ENG 211H WN810
HONORS BIOLOGY GENES AND BEHAVIOR BIO 199H WN810
HONORS STATISTICS MTH 209HW WN110
HONORS INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION COM 114HW WN150
HONORS AMERICAN POLOTICS W/PROJECT POL 105HW WN110
HONORS EARLY RENAISSANCE HIS 240HW WN710
Frequently asked questions
The Honors Program is a local organization designed to allow students an avenue to pursue academic challenges beyond - or in addition to - the conventional classroom environment. We are a department within Delta College that offers several awards as well as an academic scholarship to students who demonstrate academic excellence.
Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society is an international-level organization that recognizes academic excellence in students attending two-year colleges.
Graduating with honors, according to the Delta College Catalog, is conferred upon a student who has completed an associate's degree while maintaining a cumulative GPA of at least 3.50. Graduating with high honors or highest honors requires a cumulative GPA of at least 3.70 or 3.90 respectively.
As a member of the Honors Program, you will be eligible to participate in these areas, among other opportunities:
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- Creative and interactive classes
- Honors options
- Academic awards
- Academic travel
- Leadership development
- Priority registration
- Scholarships
- Social activities
Honors classes are designed to be more challenging, not more work. For example, one student reported that in an ENG-111H class, very little time was devoted to basic concepts such as grammar and punctuation because it was expected that students in an honors-level composition class would have already mastered these basic elements. Instead, the instructor spent a great deal of time on more advanced writing concepts such as style, voice, and advanced revision techniques. Another student reported the Honors Colloquy class was a very enjoyable experience because the instructor encouraged a highly interactive classroom environment and allowed the students to explore topics of interest to them.
Honors options can be somewhat different. In honors classes, the course content and structure is designed with honors students in mind; regular sections are not. Honors students wishing to complete an Honors option must fulfill additional requirements beyond those of the class itself.
For example, one student took an Honors option in a CST-133 class. For the project, the student researched the role of computers in the music industry. They wrote a paper on the topic and made a presentation to the class using Microsoft PowerPoint. Sometimes class requirements can be substituted, as another student did for their Honors option in ART-271. The Honors option consisted of doing the same project as the rest of the class, but working on a more complex level.
The Delta College Honors Program welcomes all students to its program, provided they meet the eligibility requirements. The means dual enrolled students, part-time students and full-time students who meet the eligibility criteria are welcome to apply for membership.
Joining the Honors Program is free. Submit an Honors Program application along with a typed personal statement online.
While we make every effort to process applications as quickly as possible, we ask that you allow two weeks for us to complete the process. As soon as a decision is reached, you will be notified via email. If there are circumstances that require an expedited response, please make us aware of this when you submit your application and we will give your application priority status.
One of the flexibilities the Honors Program offers you is the ability to do as little or as much as you want as a member. There are no minimum activity requirements. The only time any sort of requirements come into play is when you try for any of the awards the program offers, such as the Honors Certificate or the President's Award for Excellence in Honors.
