Requirements

Requirements – Effective for 2012 Scholars

All new students must attend the Norlin Scholar welcome dinner, orientation, and retreat in the fall semester. Additionally, all new students will meet with the director or coordinator during their first semester as a scholar to consult about the student’s academic plan and, later, to review the plan for research or a thesis.

Four-year Norlin Scholars must fulfill the following requirements in order to retain the scholarship:

  • Take NRLN 2000—Constructions of Knowledge: Ways of Knowing in the Academy and Beyond in the first year (Engineering Honors students will have to take this course in Spring 2013)
  • Take our upper division Norlin course
  • Undertake a research, scholarly or creative project within your discipline or write an honors thesis and present your work, even if work in progress, at our research forum
  • Keep a consistent GPA of 3.25 and be registered full time (a minimum of 12 semester-based, on-campus credits)
  • Maintain regular and frequent communication with the Director of the program regarding research, fulfillment of requirements, academic progress, studying abroad, time out, student conduct violations, etc.
  • Adhere to the University’s codes of professional, academic, disciplinary and personal conduct

    Two-year Norlin Scholars (rising juniors) must fulfill the following requirements in order to retain the scholarship:

    • Take our new upper division Norlin course (in development) or the Norlin upper division writing course
    • Undertake a research, scholarly or creative project within your discipline or write an honors thesis and present your work, even if work in progress, at our research forum
    • Keep a consistent GPA of 3.25 and be registered full time (a minimum of 12 semester-based, on-campus credits).
    • Maintain regular and frequent communication with the Director of the program regarding research, fulfillment of requirements, academic progress, studying abroad, time out, student conduct violations, etc.
    • Adhere to the University’s codes of professional, academic, disciplinary and personal conduct

    In addition to required courses, we invite all scholars to take Norlin one-credit electives taught by a variety of university faculty members.

    **The scholarship may be revoked at any time for failure to meet program requirements and/or at the discretion of the Norlin Scholars director.**