<p>College</a> Honors Academics</p>
<p>To UCLA students: Can someone describe how honors contracts (89HC and 189HC) work? What kind of extra work do the professors give you? Would you recommend the Honors Program? Are there any benefits to being in the program?</p>
<p>bump. I’m also interested in seeing what this entails.</p>
<p>I haven’t done contracts. I am in honors. There seems to be only two benefits: your own intellectual prowess, and eligibility for ****-ton more scholarships. You don’t get priority enrollment, and it’s not as cool on your transcript as latin honors or departmental honors.</p>
<p>Are contracts optional then? How else would you complete your honors units?</p>
<p>@Sopheee I read on another thread that you’re a history major. How are the history courses over there compared to CC courses? Is it difficult to get good grades on essays? (Do you have a syllabus you can share, by any chance?) How many history classes would you recommend taking per quarter?</p>
<p>Sorry for the long list of questions! :)</p>
<p>nah, it’s okay. I am procrastinating on a research paper. bah ha.</p>
<p>Yeah, the contracts are optional. On your myucla page you can check to see what professors are offering their availability for it, and then I believe you sign up for it, and have to plan meeting with the professor to “fufill” the contract. It usually involves an extra paper for the class. Check out the UCLA honors website, they have a good explanation of what the program involves.</p>
<p>Btw, I haven’t had to do an honors contract because my first quarter I took a required seminar class for my major, that counted as honors, then last quarter I took two honors colloquium classes (they had to be taken concurrently, and you need at least one colloquium class to meet honors requirements), and now I am taking a communications class that also counts as an honors course. I have one more required history course that again counts for honors, meaning aside from that I only need two more honors units to get the distinction at graduation. As you can see, you may not even need an honors contract to “get” college honors.</p>
<p>The history courses over here require much, much, much more reading, writing, and analytical thinking. IMO, the reading are more interesting, while, except for one of my history professors so far, the lectures are excruciatingly dry and numbing. But no, it’s not hard to get good grades. Harder than CC, but not tooooo hard. </p>
<p>I think averaging two history courses a quarter is decent (you need 11 to fulfill your major requirements).</p>
<p>Thanks for answering my questions, Sopheee!</p>
<p>How do you know which courses are counted for honors credit?</p>
<p>there is a list on the website.</p>