The Roger Hadfield Ogden Honors College is an academic community at Louisiana State University.

The college provides its students with a curriculum of seminar classes, mentoring relationships with faculty, and opportunities for undergraduate research, culminating in the Honors Thesis.

[3] Bill Seay served as the College's first and only dean until 2003 when Nancy Clark assumed the role.

The French House remains the only non-Quadrangle LSU structure on the National Register of Historic Places.

[14] The renovations of the East Hall and addition of a central lobby were completed in April 2012 at a cost of $14 million.

Courses offered through the Honors College are designated by the HNRS prefix and include interdisciplinary courses which generally exist as seminar-lecture pairs and feature the history, politics, philosophy, art, languages, and literature of specific civilizations or time periods.

[16] Ideally, the research that begins in an HNRS class may lead eventually to an Honors Thesis under the direction of the faculty member.

This modified coursework proposal provides an opportunity for upper-level students to earn Honors credit for a traditional 3000/4000 level LSU course.

In the Honors Thesis students answer questions and solve problems in order to demonstrate their mastery by completing a long-term project with an expert faculty member in their chosen discipline.