Studying Abroad + Honors

Students may use Study Abroad courses taken while at the University to satisfy a maximum of two core Honors courses (Dialectics or Idea Labs), as long as the Study Abroad courses align with the course description and objectives. The course does NOT have to have an HON designation!

Also, if you study abroad + take 2 semesters of foreign language, you can receive the Global Scholars certificate, which looks great on a resume. We also have scholarships to offset study abroad costs.

Here’s the link to the international program office study abroad portal: https://ut-abroad.via-trm.com/authV2/welcome

Here’s the link to Honors Study Abroad Scholarships: https://honorsprogram.submittable.com/submit/62490/honors-study-abroad-scholarship

Here’s the link to the Global Scholars Application: https://honorsprogram.submittable.com/submit/304509/global-scholars-program-application

Distinguished Speaker Series ft. Poet Natasha Trethewey

This year’s Distinguished Speaker was Natasha Trethewey. Trethewey served two terms as the 19th Poet Laureate of the United States (2012-2014). She is the author of five collections of poetry, Monument (2018), which was longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award; Thrall (2012); Native Guard (2006), for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, Bellocq’s Ophelia (2002); and Domestic Work (2000), which was selected by Rita Dove as the winner of the inaugural Cave Canem Poetry Prize for the best first book by an African American poet and won both the 2001 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Book Prize and the 2001 Lillian Smith Award for Poetry. In addition to her poetry, Trethewey is the author of two memoirs The House of Being (2024) and Memorial Drive (2020). Her book of nonfiction, Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, appeared in 2010. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Beinecke Library at Yale, and the Bunting Fellowship Program of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. At Northwestern University she is a Board of Trustees Professor of English in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. In 2012 she was named Poet Laureate of the State of Mississippi and in 2013 she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. For this sold-out event, where over 230 people attended, she read House of Being, her latest publication, which is about her life and why she writes poetry.