University Honors Program
Marquette’s University Honors Program is designed for intellectually curious, academically engaged students who want to learn in a close-knit community of their peers at the heart of a vibrant research university. Its broadly based, interdisciplinary curriculum addresses our most pressing contemporary challenges with cutting-edge knowledge and research and the wisdom of centuries of Jesuit values and pedagogy. Our Honors values and learning outcomes emphasize curiosity and open-mindedness, active listening and dialogue, breadth of learning and experience, and a commitment to equity, justice, and human rights.
The UHP offers two ways to participate in Honors: Core Honors, in which students follow an Honors version of the Marquette Core Curriculum throughout their undergraduate career; and Disciplinary Honors, in which students do Honors work in their majors. Students may participate in either program or both. Core Honors is open to incoming first-year students, who apply after being accepted to Marquette; students apply to Disciplinary Honors programs in their sophomore year. For more information on both programs, view our values and learning outcomes, browse our website, or contact us!
HONORS NEWS
Spring 2025 Classes Posted:
Honors classes for Spring 2025 are posted
to the courses webpage.
Honors Research Fair to Celebrate Research Award Winners
Congratulations to the Honors Research
Fellowship Awards Winners for Summer 2024! Student awardees received up to $3500 for research or creative projects carried out June-August 2024. Awardees will present their research findings at the Honors Undergraduate Research Fair
Tues, Nov 19, 4 - 5:30pm
Sensenbrenner Atriums
Learn more about the summer projects.
Honors Study Abroad Award Winners 2025
Marquette’s Office of International Education and the University Honors Program have designated six particularly outstanding Study Abroad Programs as Honors-specific. Students who enroll in these programs for regular semester study and commit to taking special Honors options within them are eligible for competitive Honors awards. Congratulations to recent winners: Emily Fairgrieve and Hannah Gerwing both won $1000 awards for the SLU Madrid program in spring 2025, and Kamaria Gragston won a $1500 award for the Sibanye Cape Town program in spring 2025. Congratulations!
New Honors Leadership Council
The University Honors Program welcomed nine alumni to campus with the goal of furthering the mission of the program and to support positive alumni relations. The Council participated in two days of events which included a Civic Dialogue on the topic of the value of education, with Honors students faciliating table discussions. The second day included an overview of the program; Q&A with Honors students, director, faculty and staff; tours, and a workshop on fundraising and building alumni-student relations.
Honors students attended Civic Dialogues with the new Honors Leadership Council.
Legal Empowerment Brigade
Applications open! Last March the Brigade went to rural Honduras to educate and empower a local community about their right to a violence-free life. Applications are open for new members to continue this important work. For more information contact Ava Ketterman.
Photo Opportunity
Honors Students working at this semester's first Creative Writing Workshop
Straz Registration Event
Wed. Nov. 13 6-8 pm
Meet Honors Advisors in Straz Hall. Open to all students, regardless of where you live.
What does it mean to be human in the age of AI: A Sci Fi Film and Philosophy Discussion
Join us for the 1982 film Blade Runner on Thursday night, 11/7, at 7 pm in Wehr Physics 153. Philosophers Desiree Valentine and Kris McClain will host a discussion afterwards.
Snacks included
Honors Civic Dialogue Pedagogy Workshop
A Lunchtime workshop on civic discourse in the classroom for faculty and students. Thursday, 11/14, 12-1pm on the 3rd floor of Raynor Library. Lunch will be provided. Amelia Zurcher and two Honors students, Alyssa Maves and Noah Mualem, will be presenting. Register now
Near West Side Bus Tour
Honors students explored Milwaukee’s near west side neighborhood by bus. They met community members and enjoyed lunch. Near west side: a neighborhood of neighborhoods.
Creative Writing Workshop
Tuesdays, 5 - 6:30pm.
Honors Creative Writing Workshops offer three writing events open to everyone with an optional open workshop for feedback. Each workshop will cover a different topic. While each month’s session will build upon the last, feel free to come to one, two, or all three! Snacks,provided.
Sep 17: World-building
Oct. 22: Character-sketching
Nov. 19: Dialogue
Honors Clothing Swap
Tues, Nov. 12 4 – 6 pm
Honors suite + lower level garden hallway. A collaboration with the Art Club and the Sustainability Club.
Intellectual Joy
Mon, November 18 4 - 4:50pm
Tues, November 19 3:30 - 4:20pm
Fri, November 22 3 - 3:50pm
This is a follow-up to workshops that Dr. Melissa Shew (longtime instructor in Honors Core classes, now in the Center for Teaching & Learning) facilitated in October with the peer mentor program. In these follow-up sessions, we’d like to include their instructors in the conversation to share their experiences with joy in their lives, educations, and as educators.
Photo OpportunityThe product of late-night studying in the Honors Program Suite.
