Creating Exciting And Innovative Ways That Go Beyond The Classroom
Program Overview
The Honors Program creates a community of scholars characterized by strong student and faculty interaction, creativity, and enhanced learning opportunities. This community fosters an approach to education that incorporates the qualities of self-directed learning, a positive response to demanding work, and an appreciation of knowledge for its own sake.
Exceptional Students
Honors students are superior students from all disciplines who desire to participate more actively in their education and related activities. They bring together a diversity of talents, aspirations, and experiences. They seek out challenges and benefit greatly from sharing such experiences with students of comparable abilities.
Our Faculty
Excellence in teaching is emphasized as is the commitment to work with students in and out of the classroom.
Faculty who teach in the Honors Program are selected on the basis of their desire and ability to challenge and encourage high achieving students. Faculty are encouraged to be innovative in both the topic choice and the teaching pedagogy.
Recognitions
- Honors designation on diploma and course transcript
- Honors stole at academic award ceremony
- Honors thesis presentation on campus
Program Objectives
Honors Program graduates
- Know their disciplines in more distinctive and demonstrable ways than their peers.
- Think about their own primary fields of study and other disciplines in integrative ways.
- Apply knowledge to address contemporary problems and communicate their contributions through effective speech and writing.
Why Join the Honors Program?
- Priority scheduling
- Supplemental advising
- Leadership development
- Interaction with faculty
- Conference participation
- Honors Student Organization
- Appeal to future employers
- Preparation for graduate/professional school admissions
- Mark of distinction on transcript
- Enriched education opportunities
Admission
- All students may apply here
- Honors students are invited to become members by a pre-selection process that requires one or more of the following:
- Incoming Freshmen: SAT score of 1150
- or Composite ACT of 26,
- or 3.5 high school G.P.A.
- Transfer Students: SAT score of 1150 or Composite ACT of 26
- Returning LSSU students: Previous semester Dean’s List Award (3.5 GPA)
Curriculum
Honors classes are conducted in the seminar fashion and limited to fifteen students. An interdisciplinary focus is promoted by the inclusion of students and faculty from all majors as well as by the design of the honors core curriculum. Students will ask questions and seek answers to questions relating to self-knowledge, responsibility, societal challenges, and the demands of citizenship.
Each student admitted to the Honors Program is required to complete eighteen Honors Credits, including five credits of Honors Seminar/Thesis. The remaining credits may be acquired by enrolling in honors sections of general education courses, or by taking advantage of the Honors Option Contract. Students must maintain a cumulative 3.5 G.P.A. in order to graduate with an honors degree and to remain eligible for active program participation.
