Gwynedd Mercy University
AY2020-2021 / Undergraduate Academic Catalog
Honors Program
Director : Patrick Messina , PhD Associate Director : Robert Clewis , PhD
Honors Program Mission Students who are enrolled in undergraduate degree programs may be invited to participate in the Honors program based on admission criteria . The Honors Program is dedicated to providing an academically rigorous and challenging curriculum , steeped in the liberal arts and sciences , to its brightest and most industrious students . The Program is committed to preserving an academic culture that inspires a genuine eros for learning . Honors courses are designed to delve deeply into their subject matters in a way that allows students and professors to enter into a conversation of discovery .
Admission Requirements
First Year / Transfer Students
• 1100 combined SAT scores or ACT equivalent
• 3.33 GPA
• Interview with Honors Program Director Current Students
• 3.33 cumulative GPA
• One letter of recommendation from faculty
• Interview with Honors Program Director Completion Requirements
• Seven Honors courses
• 3.0 Honors Program GPA , plus 3.33 cumulative GPA in an undergraduate program
Curriculum Students in the Honors Program take a seminar and six courses in these artes liberales :
Trivium Dialectic : philosophy , religious studies , history Rhetoric : English , political science , communication , history , philosophy Grammar : English , communication , history , religious studies , philosophy , language
Quadrivium Music : music , drama , art history , English , communication , philosophy , history , religious studies Mathematics Science : interpreted as physical and social sciences
To ensure that honors course credits are applied appropriately and efficiently within a student ’ s academic plan , the student should meet regularly with his / her program advisor and the Director of the Honors Program , preferably each semester at the time of pre-registration , for a review of the distribution and placement of honors credits .
Benefits
• Recognition of Honors Program on transcript and diploma
• Special advising
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