Unlike the Rhetoric and Humanities Programs, the Honors Program is simultaneously a scholarship program, an academic enrichment program, and a cultural enrichment program. In addition, most of the opportunities offered by the Honors Program are options, not requirements.
The Program has the following components, each an independent entity:
- Introductory Honors Seminar for freshman honors scholars, consisting of one course per semester for two semesters. The Honors seminar usually is jointly taught by instructors from two of the College's three divisions (Humanities, Social Sciences, Natural Science).
- Student Summer Research Program, awarding research grants to rising sophomores, juniors, and seniors who show exceptional promise as independent researchers.
Apply for the 2009 Summer Research Program for Students -- Deadline for applications: March
6, 2009
- Departmental Honors, comprising a series of courses, independent studies, or tutorials focused on a central theme and culminating in a Departmental Honors Project in the student's major or, if the student is pursuing a double major, in a cross-disciplinary project that draws on both fields.
Departmental Honors Program Booklet in .pdf
- Senior Fellowships, providing a year-long program of independent study for students who have demonstrated exceptional maturity, intellectual competence, and imaginative curiosity.
Senior Fellowship Student and Faculty Handbook of
Procedures and Guidelines
in .pdf
- Honors Reading Seminars are small-group discussion courses normally meeting
for one hour per week and following one book (classical or contemporary
fiction or non-fiction) over the course of a semester.
Participation in the Honors Program is limited to recipients of honors scholarships and to other demonstrably superior students who apply for membership in the program. Entrance into any phase of the program is subject to the approval of the Honors Council.
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