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.

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 Minor in Social Justice: This 18-credit minor explores 6 key areas of social justice, analyzes public policy, and offers opportunities to think and problem solve in an interdisciplinary fashion. The Social Justice minor is open to all students at Temple University. 
• 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.