our programs

Discovery Seminar Program

Now in its 12th year, the DISCOVERY SEMINAR PROGRAM (DSP) continues to be a most exciting opportunity for first-year students. Just as soon as you arrive on campus, we want you to be discovering how exciting your college experience can be at UK. DSP
offers small classes with the most engaging professors at UK, who are ready to help you discover with them the frontiers of knowledge. In the academic year 2007-08, our faculty will be offering seminars on such topics as social inequality, the environment, religion and politics, community service, music, art and, worldly cuisine.

Honors Program

Through its special multi-disciplinary curriculum and emphasis on active, small-group learning, as well as its related extra curricular and support activities, the Honors Program provides an alternative course of instruction for outstanding, highly motivated students drawn from around the state and throughout the region and country.

Intercollegiate Debate Program

Over the past twenty-seven years, Kentucky has had twelve teams in the quarter finals of the National Debate Tournament (NDT), six of whom reached semi-finals and including one which won the NDT. Over the same period, Kentucky has also produced an unprecedented six NDT first place speakers, three in the 1990s.

The Kentucky Women Writers Conference

The Kentucky Women Writers Conference is a place for celebrating achievement in women's literary arts and our state's esteemed literary history.

The Writing Initiative

The Graduation Writing Requirement (GWR) establishes the minimum criteria for students exiting with an undergraduate degree. Individual majors may have additional writing requirements.

Service Learning Program

Service-learning is both a philosophy of education and a method of teaching that bridges the classroom and the community by engaging learners in the application of theory to service. Students may have a chance to participate in meaningful service and practical learning on an individual basis or through group projects incorporated into UK courses and programs by faculty. There are 55 service-learning sites and community partners.