Honors Program

The Honors Program at Saint Michael’s College provides additional challenges and opportunities to outstanding students, with the aim of enhancing the liberal education offered by the College through engagement in small group discussion, research, and extraordinary curricular and extracurricular opportunities.

The Honors Program is guided by the mission of the College: “to contribute through higher education to the enhancement of the human person and to the advancement of human culture in the light of the Catholic faith.” It is the mission of the Honors Program to enhance the college experience of each Honors Program student; to promote intellectual growth of every student at St. Michael’s College; to encourage active involvement in service to the community.

As a group, Honors students distinguish themselves by their commitment to this mission and its concomitant approach to education; as individuals, they demand more of themselves, of each other and their instructors, and of their respective disciplines.

The components of the Honors Program, all serving these ends, are the Honors Core Courses, the Honors Colloquium and the Senior Honors Project in the Major.

Eligibility
 
Some students are invited to join the Honors Program at the beginning of their freshmen year on the basis of a promising high school record. Students who earn a grade point average of 3.6 or above in their first semester or by the end of their first year become eligible and enter at the beginning of their sophomore year.

To remain in the Honors Program, students must maintain a cumulative grade point average of 3.6 or higher. Those who complete the requirements receive special recognition at graduation.
 

For more information, see the Honors Program Handbook [PDF] or contact:

Nick Clary
Honors Program Coordinator
Saint Edmund's Hall 361
Phone: 802.654.2390
Box 353
E-mail: nclary@smcvt.edu