Specialty Houses

Introduction

Our CAS Honors Program specialty houses are part of the Specialty Residence Program at Boston University, which offers a broad range of floors and houses in which students with similar interests live, study, and socialize. It provides unique living environments to students who enjoy sharing intellectual, cultural, and social affinities. Specialty houses and floors are communities created and continued by students with the support and involvement of faculty and staff. The exploration of academic disciplines and/or special interests is encouraged. Specialty residences cover a range of interests, from language, to medicine, to the arts. For a complete list of Specialty Residences, please click here.

Residence Descriptions

The Honors Program has two specialty residence options for its students. Students who choose to live in either house participate in one of the dining plans.

Carlton Street: The Carlton Street house is the larger of the Program's classic Boston brownstones. Located at 37-39 Carlton Street, this residence for 46 students is comprised of two connected houses in the leafy, residential ambiance of south campus. Professor Stephen Esposito, winner of an Outstanding Service Award in the Honors Program and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Classical Studies, is the faculty member in residence. The Carlton Street house also has a kitchen in which students can prepare meals and hold informal house dinners if they wish. The Carlton Street house also has a piano in the basement recreational area.

Incoming Honors Program students who apply for Honors Program specialty housing are usually placed in the Carlton Street house, which enables them to benefit from the perspectives of older students while living in a unique residential community with other first-year students.

Bay State Road: The elegant 117 Bay State Road brownstone is located near Kenmore Square and features spectacular river and skyline views from many of its rooms. Typically returning students in the Honors Program live in the Bay State Road house.

Applying (Incoming students)

Incoming students indicate their interest in living in one of our specialty houses on their Housing Interests Survey, which is available here; students do not apply through the Honors Program office. General information about the Office of Housing is available here. Information regarding how housing assignments will be made can be found here. The 2009-2010 Residence calendar is available here.

For additional information about all housing options on campus, including information about the CAS Honors Program specialty houses, please contact the Office of Residence Life: (617) 353-4380.

Eligibility (returning students)

CAS Honors Program approval of specialty housing applications for the Carlton Street and Bay State Road houses for returning students is predicated on satisfactory progress toward fulfillment of the academic requirements of the Honors Program: a minimum grade of (B) or better in each HP course section and a GPA of 3.30+.