Requirements

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, coordinator or Norlin Instructor 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 the Spring semester)
  • Take NRLN 3500, Constructions of Knowledge in the Fields
  • 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 as an undergraduate student (a minimum of 12 semester-based, on-campus credits)
  • Maintain regular and frequent communication with the program staff 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 NRLN 3500, Constructions of Knowledge in the Fields in their first year as a Norlin Scholar
  • 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 as an undergraduate student (a minimum of 12 semester-based, on-campus credits)
  • Maintain regular and frequent communication with the program staff 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.**