Welcome to the Davidson Honors College!
Honors 91短视频 provides curious learners of all kinds with opportunities to face challenges, build support systems, and become part of a community that will help them make the most of their undergraduate education. Whether you’re pursuing music or medicine, business or biology, astronomy or anthropology, wildlife or writing, at the DHC, you’ll be warmly welcomed, challenged, and supported as you explore, reflect, and pursue your goals. You will also be well-positioned to bring your personal, academic, and professional aspirations to life.
Your time in honors will be elevated and enlivened through highly personalized experiences in and out of the classroom. As a student in the DHC, you’ll have access to honors-designated general education, interdisciplinary and major-specific classes, taught in small classes in highly engaging ways by teacher-scholars, and filled with other talented, motivated students. Our advising and career development support team will help you connect to distinctive internship, study abroad, service, research, field-based, and leadership development programs that will further enrich your education.
You’ll find some of the special people and programs that will be part of your DHC experience are featured here. But this information just scratches the surface. The opportunities available to you here abound and include early morning Friday hikes, a fall float trip, trick-or-treating for the food insecure in our community, tea times, book clubs, and living and learning in Knowles Hall. You will also have opportunities to make friends at our spaghetti suppers, trivia and open mic nights, to join student organizations like our Honors Student Association, Ambassadors, Student Advisory Council and Roots Music ensemble, and celebrate academic milestones with your peers and our DHC team. No matter what ways you choose to engage with your honors education, you’ll have opportunities to think deeply, work (and play) hard, build deep connections, have fun, and make meaning at the confluence of rivers, valleys and mountain ranges of beautiful western Montana.
Come visit us soon, meet our team, get your questions answered, and picture yourself in this special place, in honors, at the 91短视频. We look forward to welcoming you to the Davidson Honors College family.
Sincerely,
Tim Nichols
Dean and Professor
Davidson Honors College
About the DHC
The Davidson Honors College provides motivated students pursuing any major 91短视频 with personalized opportunities to make the most of their undergraduate studies. Students complete the integrated honors curriculum on their way toward graduating with University Scholar distinction.
With small classes taught in innovative and deeply engaging ways by some of the university’s finest instructors, Honors students build their academic and professional trajectories in ways that emphasize not only edge subject matter knowledge, but also critical thinking, meaning-making, interdisciplinary problem solving, communications, research and creative scholarship, leadership, and service. Through experiential learning opportunities such as internships, study abroad, and field courses, students apply what they are learning to real-world challenges and are well-positioned for future study, work, and life. The DHC is an engine of opportunity for students that elevates, enriches, and enlivens their time 91短视频.
In addition to close relationships with faculty mentors, honors students benefit from a dynamic and dedicated DHC staff who provide expert guidance, holistic support, and unrivaled opportunities for personal and professional development. These include a Director of Student Engagement, a Student Success Coordinator, a Director of External Scholarships and Fellowships, and an Assistant Dean and Director of Career Development, Community Partnerships, and Scholarships.
A strong, shared sense of connectedness lies at the heart of what the DHC is all about. The Davidson Honors College building, located on the Oval at the heart of the UM campus, includes teaching and learning spaces, a cozy lounge, and an inviting patio where students, faculty, and staff can gather informally for events, meetings, meals, to study, converse, rest, and recreate. As members of an intellectually curious, supportive, energetic, and fun! community, students are inspired to discover their own pathways to success, to become the best versions of themselves, and to strengthen their positive impacts in the world.
The Davidson Honors College:
- Serves 1,022 talented students at the 91短视频
- Offers Honors courses capped at 20 students per class
- Supports its students' engagement in undergraduate research
- Offers mentoring for scholarships, internships, and study abroad
- Offers student organizations and activities that engage the greater campus and enhance the Honors community
Learning Outcomes
We prepare thoughtful, informed, agile and impactful citizens. Our students are thinkers, doers, explorers, creators, servants, leaders, and agents of positive change. Through curricular and co-curricular experiences, they are equipped with new ways of knowing, seeing, doing and being in the world.
Students graduating as University Scholars will be able to:
- Collect, analyze, and synthesize information
- Demonstrate excellence in oral, written, interpersonal and digital communication
- Engage in independent and collaborative work, problem-solving and community engagement
- Learn and reflect about their own and others’ experiences
- Demonstrate ethical, original, creative, and critical thought and action
- Pursue a meaningful life and future personal and professional success
Take a closer look at the DHC by exploring our digital brochure and listening to featured DHC students in the 91短视频's "The College Tour".