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and media and communication arts, these courses create opportunities for collaborations and relationships that transcend the classroom. Honors Course Characteristics • Academic and Intellectual Challenges: Honors courses provide engaging and academically challenging opportunities for all students. Classes are committed to inclusive academic excellence. • Interrogation of Power and Privilege: Honors courses provide spaces where students can question how factors including race, class, gender, disability, and ethnicity influence culture and knowledge. • Independent Learning: Honors courses provide opportunities for students to further develop their own areas of interest through independent and self- directed projects. • Smaller Class Sizes: Honors courses provide robust mentorship from faculty instructors and, in many cases, more involvement with faculty members’ scholarly and creative interests. • Scholarly Communities: Honors courses provide academic and professional development through an expectation of collaboration, research, and interdisciplinary work. Students can become eligible for the Honors Program in two ways: Students with excellent applications may be invited to join the Honors Program at admission. Alternately, any student who achieves and maintains a cumulative grade point average of 3.5 or greater is eligible to take Honors courses and may declare into the Honors Program. Students who declare Honors, complete the required number of Honors credits, and maintain at least a 3.5 cumulative GPA will receive the designation “Honors Program Graduate” on their final transcript. This is distinct from Latin Honors, which is based solely on GPA. Please contact the Director of the Honors Program with questions at honors@colum.edu, or visit https://students. colum.edu/honors/. Columbia College Chicago Honors Program is inclusive of those students who would like to pursue ‘Honors Program Graduate’ distinction and have earned transferable college-level credit prior to their first term of Columbia enrollment. College-level credit includes: Advanced Placement (AP), College Level Examination Program (CLEP), International A-Level, International Baccalaureate (IB), military credit, and transferable post-secondary coursework. For students who have earned prior to their first term of Columbia enrollment: • 0–15 transferable credits: at least 15 Honors credits must be completed. • 16 – 30 transferable credits: at least 12 Honors credits must be completed. • 31–75 transferable credits: at least 9 Honors credits must be completed. *Honors Program Credit Hour Requirement OFFICE OF THE REGISTRAR www.colum.edu/registrar The Office of the Registrar is responsible for the management of student academic records, registration, immunization records, student directory information, the 15