The Honors Program is committed to getting involved in the community. We work in and around Philadelphia at various service sites to connect with our neighbors. There are also opportunities for students to engage in service within the Honors Program.
Join the Honors Program team as we volunteer at local non-profits throughout Philadelphia. Keep your eyes out for opportunities listed in the Honors Program weekly email newsletter. Honors Program students are not only academically talented and motivated, but are also have the ambition and drive to become active leaders within the Honors Program.
Each leadership position has its own set of requirements and application processes. The Honors Program Ambassadors Program is a unique leadership opportunity for engaged first-year Honors Program Students who are excited about sharing their experiences with others.
The Honors Program requires a total of 16 credit hours of coursework: Required Coursework 3 credit hours : HNRS , Honors Colloquia Additional Coursework 13 credit hours : Students must complete 13 credit hours of additional courses. Honors with Distinction Requirements Honors with Distinction requires a total of 24 credit hours of coursework.
Honors with Distinction requires a total of 24 credit hours of coursework: Required Coursework 10 credits : 10 credit hours of any HNRS courses offered through the Pennoni Honors College. For students not enrolled in an accelerated program, a maximum of 9 graduate credits can be applied to their Honors with Distinction additional coursework requirement. Please defer to the University policy regarding undergraduates taking graduate level coursework.
Honors with Distinction Requirements Honors with Distinction requires a total of 32 credit hours of coursework. A maximum of 8 capstone credits with an A- average or higher may be applied to their Honors Program elective requirements. Required Coursework 3 credit hours : Students must complete 16 credit hours of courses.
Explores some of the tensions between individualism and community. Students will receive an overview of what it means to be a leader and how to support the first year student experience including: preparing for Honors Student Orientation, mentor programming and best practices. Students will survey leadership models and explore topics including group dynamics, maintaining successful interpersonal relationships and conflict resolution.
Explores the relationship of representation to reality in literature, film, other arts, philosophy, the media, science, or some combination of these. Provides comparative explorations of the intellectual and expressive products of diverse cultures.
Focuses on one or more of the following cultural productions: literature, the arts, religion, philosophy, architecture, and politics. An interdisciplinary honors colloquium drawing upon literature, literary theory, and other cultural studies including the writings of scientists and engineers.
Students will explore relations among science, technology and literature from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries by reading primary critical texts produced during this period. This course is organized around the idea that, in order for a human society or a social system to exist, certain features of the environment or environ-mental system must be maintained.
The preservation and maintenance of these features requires us to regulate or restrict some of our social uses of these systems. Students will participate in an archaeology dig in the Philadelphia area.
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