Honors in the Arts

What You'll Study

The Stanford Arts Institute offers the interdisciplinary Honors in the Arts program, which is open to undergraduates in all majors. Upon acceptance to the program and successful completion of a capstone project integrating a broad arts perspective, students will receive “Honors in the Arts."

The program features two tracks:

  • Interdisciplinary honors within the arts—for students majoring in an arts discipline who wish to incorporate other arts disciplines into their work. Students in this track are typically majors in a department such as Art and Art History; departments within the Division of Languages, Cultures, and Literatures; English; Music; or Theater and Performance Studies, who wish to do an honors project involving approaches from another arts field.
  • Interdisciplinary honors for non-arts majors—for students majoring in a non-arts discipline who complete a capstone project incorporating the arts. Students in this track are typically majors in a department other than those described above, who wish to do an honors project involving an arts element. This project should incorporate themes, discourse, or learning from a student’s major.

In order to receive honors in the arts, students admitted into the program will complete a capstone project as the culmination of three quarters of honors workshop classes. Capstone projects can be either scholarly / research projects involving a historical / theoretical approach or creative projects involving an arts practice element. 

Degrees Offered: 
Interdisciplinary Honors