DEPARTMENTAL HONORS IN MATHEMATICS
The Honors Program is
designed to provide intensive and personal instruction for selected students.
For those who intend to pursue graduate or professional study it provides extra
guidance, and it leads to graduating with honors at commencement.
Purposes:
- Intensify the student's knowledge in an area of specialized research.
- Relate this knowledge to the broader concerns of Mathematics
or Statistics through the dialogue of a formal presentation to faculty and students.
- Establish individual professorial direction for the student's
senior year and graduate plans (i.e., mentoring).
Results:
- Graduation with Departmental Honors with cum laude, magna cum
laude, or summa cum laude from the Department. You may be able to graduate through
the Department as cum laude even though your overall GPA does not earn a University
cum laude. The honors designation will be reflected on your diploma.
- Unique opportunity for mentored research at the undergraduate
level.
Minimum Requirements:
- Grade point average of 3.5 in the major and overall GPA of 3.2
at UNM.
- Consultation and approval with appropriate faculty advisor for
directed research project.
- Notification and registration to Department Honors advisor, Coordinator,
Program Advisement, no later than two full semesters before graduation.
- Approval of the research project by the Undergraduate Committee
- Recommendation of honors by faculty advisor (mentor) and Department
Coordinator, Program Advisement
Course Work (in addition to hours for major):
- Completion of an approved project based on 6* credit hours of
either Math 499 or Stat 495
- Submission of a written research report to the faculty mentor.
- Presentation of research in a Department Colloquia at the end
of the project.
*In these 6 hours, grades of two A's OR an A and B are required.
Registration:
After obtaining approval for a research project from a faculty
advisor (mentor), complete the Honors Program Form a minimum of 2 full semesters
before you plan to graduate and give it to the Coordinator, Program Advisement
in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. You will receive instructions
on how to proceed at that time.
 Funding information
Application for Department Honors
Honors Memorandum [download and have the faculty advisor sign]
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