Academic Offerings and Community
The University of Pittsburgh Honors College offers between 70 and 80 undergraduate courses each year, from introductory courses to upper-level seminars. In offering its courses, the UHC focuses on providing small class sizes (usually restricted to 18 or fewer students), and faculty who must present detailed course proposals before teaching classes. This is done to ensure that UHC courses continue to focus on in-depth examination of course material rather than an accelerated program which would cover more ground.
The University Honors College offers students the opportunity to earn the Bachelor of Philosophy degree in their major. The degree, unrelated to the study of philosophy, is awarded jointly through the UHC and any of the University of Pittsburgh's other undergraduate programs in recognition of a rigorous course of study and ends with an undergraduate thesis. The University Honors College has had the authority to award such a degree since 1987.
The honors college also provides the programs such as The American Experience Distinguished Lecture Series and the Brackenridge Fellowship Program that supports the research endeavors of 52 undergraduate fellows.
Various student groups exist within the honors college including the Student Honors Activities Council, which plans a variety of cocurricular events for honors students, as well as the Pitt Quiz Bowl team, and various other clubs such as the Pizza and Plays and Pizza and Prose book clubs. In addition, the honors college produces four publications including an award-winning undergraduate literary magazine founded in 1995, the Three Rivers Review, and Collision Magazine, which publishes nonfiction prose and poetry. Other publications include Pitt Political Review and the Pittsburgh Undergraduate Review.
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