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What is Honors?
- The Honors Program’s Mission
Our mission is to provide the richest possible collegiate experience to intellectually-gifted and highly-motivated undergraduate students by promoting:
- Challenging academics for high-achieving students which is addressed by the wide array of courses available to students. Honors students can take honors courses, honors sections, convert a course to be worth honors credit, and take graduate level courses. Anything labeled as honors implies small class sizes, instruction from a faculty member, personalized attention, discussion, and challenge.
- A personalized collegiate environment which can be found in not only the classroom but also from the attention students receive from faculty and staff. Each student has a faculty advisor designated to work solely with honors students and to be familiar with honors requirements. The Honors Program staff also strives to know every student who wishes to be known and to provide them with appropriate activities and information about opportunities such as scholarships and leadership roles.
- A community designed for individual, social, and cultural development, which is in part exemplified by the efforts of honors faculty and staff. Honors students are housed together in Buckley their freshman year so that they not only form strong bonds, but become acclimated to college and develop self-confidence through being with others like themselves. They can then choose to live together in Brock their sophomore year in an honors sponsored community. Juniors and seniors often live in Wilson.
- Engagement and leadership beyond the classroom, many opportunities for which are offered by the Honors Program. We recognize that a great deal of student learning occurs outside of the classroom. The Sophomore Honors Residential Community is designed around the theme of community service. Students are encouraged to study abroad on Honors Program sponsored trips, to join both honors organizations and other student organizations on campus, and to engage in research among other things.
- The Honors Program’s Vision
- How does a student get into the Honors Program?
- What are the advantages of being an Honors student?
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