Honors Program - Honors within the Major Honors within the Major One goal of a student's academic career is to identify a scholarly discipline that interests that student enough to engage in major study leading to a degree in that field. Students typically spend the majority of the first two years in college sampling a broad liberal arts core of general studies classes. As they approach the end of the Sophomore year, most students have discovered one area of study that warrants the major work that will be done in the remainder of the student's collegiate life. The academic departments at Florida Southern College become centers for identifying areas of interest, learning research methods, exploring career possibilities, and developing mentoring relationships with faculty and more experienced students. Faculty members in each department become familiar with the academic performance of each student majoring in that discipline.
Faculty members begin to identify the potential of the top students in their departments.
Honors Within the Major is one way each academic department can officially recognize the special gifts that emerge in their top students. Honors Within the Major is a highly selective program that may be open to the very best students in each department. Previous participation in The Honors Program does not insure that a particular student will be invited to participate in Honors Within the Major, nor is such participation limited to students who have been members of the Freshman and Sophomore programs. There are no absolute caps on the number of students who may be invited to participate in this highly selective program, but it is unlikely any department at Florida Southern College will support more than three Honors Within the Major at any given time. Each academic department will establish its own criteria for selecting candidates for this program.