The UNCW Honors College is an academic enrichment program for students who graduated at the top of their high school classes with notable records for scholarly and community engagement.
They are bright, motivated, hard-working, and not afraid to ask good questions and discuss issues.
They want to be active participants in their own education.
They are the kind of students you would like to have for that dream course or for innovative teaching techniques that you may have been wanting to try out for a while.
Learn about faculty opportunities to teach Honors Courses at UNCW.
If you would like to teach a course for such students, please consider submitting a proposal for any of the options below.
Some of them constitute great opportunities for co-teaching experiences. All sections and seminars are limited to 20 students.
This course is an Honors section of a University Studies course in the faculty member’s discipline.
The section will cover the typical content of the university studies class, but will offer unique learning experiences, such as seminar format, extensive use of primary sources, more intensive laboratory work, or hands-on experience.
With no more than 20 students per section, this class provides the opportunity to experiment with creative, interactive teaching approaches that might not work in other classes, and it represents a chance to recruit some excellent majors for the faculty member’s department.
If a faculty member would like to propose an honors university studies section, he or she may be eligible for a CTE Curriculum Development Stipend if this will involve substantial revision to the format of the traditional basic studies format.
An honors section of a university studies class meets university studies requirements and is typically taught as part of the faculty member’s standard teaching load.
On occasion, we have offered honors level sections of existing upper level courses. This class retains the departmental prefix but is designated as an honors section.
Again, this means that the teaching style is likely to be different from that used in the traditional section.
All honors scholars enrolled in the class would be eligible for honors level credit for the class and this would be designated as such on the transcript.
If you are interested in teaching any of these options, seek your department chair’s approval to include such a course in the course schedule. Then, fill out the UNCW Honors College Course Proposal form below (via DocuSign).
Please note that we need course proposal forms with chair approval even if you are currently teaching in Honors. Contact Associate Director, Dr. Eva Mehl with questions.
For more information on the UNCW Honors College teaching philosophy and curriculum, as well as teaching and non-teaching opportunities for faculty participation in Honors, please check the Honors College Faculty Handbook below.