At Temple Honors, we believe in challenge by choice.

As an Honors student, you decide to opt into co-curricular opportunties that, yes, will challenge you, but will also open up new ways of learning and seeing the world. Our goal is to help you transform from a consumer of knowledge to a producer of knowledge, and Honors challenge by choice initiatives do just that. You don't have to go it alone - you'll have tons of support from Honors faculty, staff, and your fellow students. The Honors community provides a strong foundation for you to grow your ways of thinking.

Within Temple Honors, Some of the ways students can challenge themselves include:

• REACT First-Year Seminar: REACT is our shared first-year learning experience rooted in the Honors Pillars that helps students explore their own identity through reflection on how they operate in the larger context of the communities they belong to.
• Honors Courses: Honors students are encouraged to take as many Honors courses as they can! These courses are specifically designed for complex thought, experiential learning, and creative exploration. Students at Temple who are not in the Honors Program can also request to take these courses using this form.
• Graduate-Level Courses: Honors students can choose to enroll in a graduate course with professor permission to earn Honors credit.
• Honors Interdisciplinary Minors: Honors is home to two 18-credit minors: the Social Justice minor and the minor in Science, Technology, & Society. These interdisciplinary minors are open to all Temple students, and encourage students to analyze material related to social justice and the intersection of science and society in creative, well-rounded ways.
• Honors Senior Project: The culminating experience for upper-level students is our Honors Senior Project, a work of independent, original scholarship conducted under a faculty mentor.
• Study Abroad: We encourage all students to take advantage of the incredible opportunities for global learning through a week, month, semester, or year-long study abroad program.

Honors students are also encouraged to participate in undergraduate enrichment across all of Temple University. 

• Diamond Research Scholars Program - Temple undergraduates engage in a focused, mentored research or creative arts project during the summer and fall
• Liberal Arts Undergraduate Research Awards (LAURAs) - grants awarded to undergraduate student-faculty member duos to conduct a research project over the course of a semester
• Symposium for Undergraduate Research and Creativity - undergraduate students present and defend their original research or creative work among peers, faculty, family, and friends
• Diamond Peer Teachers Program - upper division undergraduates develop their own pedagogical skills by working closely with their faculty mentors to provide supplemental instruction in lower-level and GenEd courses
• Creative Arts, Research, and Scholarship (CARAS) - students can apply for research/creative project grants or travel grants to fund projects or travel to conferences 

Students can make an appointment with an Honors advisor to learn more about these opportunities.