Students with high academic records will be invited to apply to the honors program, which provides special opportunities appropriate to their abilities and motivation.

Challenge yourself

Like any concentration, honors is taken in addition to your major and structured around a set of particular courses and experiences. But unlike most concentrations, these courses have a particularly interdisciplinary emphasis. They help fulfill the program’s goal of encouraging academic excellence, intellectual curiosity, and scholarship, developing in honors students their fullest potential for critical thinking and effective expression.

What’s to come

• Become a more incisive thinker and superior writer with foundation courses in philosophy and rhetoric.
  
• Interact and participate in small group atmospheres, an essential part of a Nazareth education, in two honors seminars.
  
• Write and present a senior thesis to a group of your peers and teachers. The thesis writing experience gives you an opportunity for one-on-one work with a faculty member. Students have written about everything from feminism in Wonder Woman to recycling at Nazareth.
  
• Receive special recognition at graduation, on student transcripts, and on your diploma.

Extraordinary opportunities

The honors program lecture series brings prominent thinkers, educators, artists, and political and religious leaders to campus. Students are able to host and interact with distinguished lecturers such as:

• Cherrie Moraga, Still Loving in the (Still) War Years: Reflections on Chicana Queer Concienca
• Douglas Rushkoff, Why We Buy What We Buy
• Jeffrey D. Simon, Ph.D., The New Age of Terrorism: Understanding the Threat and Designing Responses
• Dr. Susan J. Douglas, Growing Up Female with the Mass Media
  

Other advantages of the honors program include:

• Early course registration each semester.
  
• Preferential housing. Students can choose to live in single rooms in a setting shared by other honors students.