<p>is there an honors program for the college of letters and scienes?</p>
<p>no. it’s by department and its not something you worry about till your upperdiv (usually requires 3.5+ or higher gpa and honors thesis)</p>
<p>And its not really an honors program, just departmental honors.</p>
<p>There is no honors “program” at Cal, unless you want to count the Regents/Chancellor’s scholarship thing. As cnat says, it’s by department – meaning through whoever offers your major – and related almost entirely to your GPA in courses in your major (with, of course, a minimum overall GPA requirement).</p>
<p>In the English department, for example, you need a 3.51 Berkeley GPA and a 3.651 major GPA (in classes taken at Berkeley) in order to apply for the Honors Seminar series, which is a 2 semester seminar class culminating in a long (40+ page) thesis. After all of this, you get to graduate with honors.</p>