Honors

Arts and Architecture Honors Program

The Arts and Architecture Honors Program (AAHP) furthers the CoA+A’s goals of providing creative leadership for UNC Charlotte and greater Charlotte communities by encouraging and developing the full potential of our outstanding students. Through the AAHP, students take an active and engaged role in their own education within an interdisciplinary learning environment built on the shared nature of the built, visual, and performing arts. Within the AAHP, students not only explore connections between the various artistic disciplines but also between the arts and the community.

With the founding of the College, an AAHP was established to provide an enriched academic and extracurricular experience for its most exceptional, talented, and self-motivated undergraduate students. The AAHP is one of the first initiatives to formally bring students together from all units of the College in both coursework and extracurricular activities. Current students in any major in the CoA+A as well as incoming freshman and transfer students who have declared a major within the CoA+A are encouraged to apply. See below for details.

The AAHP is not currently accepting new applicants. If you are a current AAHP student, keep track of your fulfilled AAHP requirements: AAHP Tracking Form. Visit the Honors College website for information about the process for graduating with honors and to submit a thesis proposal to the University Honors Council for approval.

For more information about the AAHP, please contact the Director of the Arts + Architecture Honors Program, Dr. Kaustavi Sarkar.

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

Small Class Size

Enrollment in all honors courses is limited to 15 students to promote discussion and interaction between students and faculty, and among the students themselves. Honors courses are open to participants within the various departmental, college, and university-level honors programs.

Focused Advising

AAHP students are encouraged to use the AAHP Coordinator as well as the faculty representative to the Arts and Architecture Honors Council from their department as an informal advisor familiar both with the curricular requirements of their major as well as with those of the AAHP.

Honors Housing

As part of the wider honors community at UNC Charlotte, AAHP students are eligible to live in the honors residence hall. Currently, Levine Hall, one of the finest on campus, is reserved for honors students from across the University.

Research/Travel Grants

Research grants are awarded to final-year students for materials needed to complete their honors thesis. Additionally, the AAHP offers two exclusive grants to help cover tuition for a CoA+A international summer program.