Prospective Students

 

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Application Form - This form is for students who wish to join our organization.  Please print it out and mail it to the Honors Director when you have finished.

 

UMKC HONORS PROGRAM
PREPARING FUTURE LEADERS

The Honors Program at UMKC combines the curricular, cultural, and research opportunities of a large, urban, research university in a major metropolitan area with the personalized advising, close-knit community, and small classes of a liberal arts college. These experiences along with a specially designed curriculum help to prepare our best students to become the future leaders of Kansas City, the nation, and ultimately the world. The Honors Program seeks exceptionally motivated and academically talented undergraduates from all of UMKC’s Colleges and Schools to study in an environment that challenges students to realize their greatest potential.

The Honors Program offers several ways to achieve these goals. Top professors, many of whom are nationally, even internationally known, teach small, honors-only seminars in their fields. Students enroll in a weekly interdisciplinary colloquium, intended to create a shared intellectual community amongst the students and introduce them to a wide variety of thinkers from UMKC and the region in general. Advanced honors students are encouraged to design and lead their own discussion sections. Leadership is addressed through special institutes and unique courses, wherein students study, theorize, and reflect on the nature of community and community leadership. Additionally, all honors students will be asked to participate in an innovative Honors-University Academy Partnership, working within their disciplines with high school students at an inner-city college prep school.

Honors students will have access to academic scholarships and an extraordinary summer study abroad program after their first year. The Program offers a supportive atmosphere to encourage integrative thinking through an exciting Living/ Learning Community and specialized advising with Honors Faculty Fellows. Honors students get priority class enrollment every semester and a Culture Pass that provides one free ticket to all UMKC and KC Repertory Theatre productions. With an eye towards giving students a leg up on their graduate school and career goals, honors students are strongly encouraged to work with a UMKC professor to conduct innovative individual and collaborative research or artistic activity in the form of the senior honors thesis. Students will gain valuable experience presenting their research in a public forum at our annual MO-KAN honors undergraduate conference. And, finally, students in the program can benefit from personalized guidance when applying for national scholarship competitions (Rhodes, Fulbright, Goldwater, Truman, Soros, Udall, etc.).

 

 

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