The Honors Program offers educational, advising, and social opportunities to enhance and expand your academic experience. Small classes, individual counseling, and increased opportunity for in-depth study, research, and working closely with faculty mentors allow you to more fully benefit from the resources available on campus and through the Five College consortium. The Honors Program offers several categories of courses-entirely enriched honors courses, colloquia, interdisciplinary seminars, independent study, honors thesis or project, and honors experiences. These courses emphasize enriched, rather than accelerated, study.
Enrichment means adding dimension to what is being studied.
That is why honors courses stress dialogue between leaders and learners, why their enrollment is limited to 20 students, and why they are open to all qualified students. Honors independent studies involve frequent interaction between professor and student. They may be structured so as to be taken in conjunction with a departmental course or to stand alone. Honors students who seek greater challenge can pursue individualized research culminating in an honors thesis or project. This process adds intensity to their academic experience through both depth of study and close work with faculty on an individual level.