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2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

Chancellor’s Honors Program Minor


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The Chancellor's Honors Program Minor delivers the knowledge, skills, experiences, and dispositions needed for students to effectively engage with complex problems as a multidisciplinary community of scholars. Using a design thinking framework, the minor prioritizes a collaborative and methodical approach to learning and ideation to address contemporary issues.  

Campus: Knoxville


Eligibility


The Chancellor’s Honors Program Minor is reserved for students in the Chancellor’s Honors Program (CHP). First-year applicants with superior academic and extracurricular credentials are invited to apply. Qualified transfer students with less than or equal to one year of credit can apply.

Minor Curricular Requirements


Problem-Solving Sequence


Three-course sequence focused on understanding and ideating around contemporary complex problems.

Communication Enhancement


  • Vol Core approved honors Written Communication (WC) (3 credit hours)
  • Vol Core approved honors Oral Communication (OC) or Applied Oral Communication (AOC) (3 credit hours)

College/Departmental Honors Courses


  • Choice of honors course in your major, an honors course related to your problem of interest, or an honors design/research-based course (3 credit hours)

 

Capstone Requirement


18 credit hours


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