Honors Program

Mission

The Honors Program at Southern Wesleyan University prepares students demonstrating superior academic achievement for admission into highly competitive graduate and professional schools. The program teaches students to integrate their scholarly abilities with other aspects of their lives by emphasizing the importance of fellowship with like-minded individuals and the development of leaders shaped by a Christian worldview.

Scope of Responsibility

The Honors Program has oversight over the university's honors activities. Responsibility does not extend to the creation of campus chapters of national or disciplinary honors societies.

Why be in an Honors Program?

1. Integration of faith, learning and living is important. We believe God expects us to be good stewards of the intellectual gifts He has given us.
2. Helps students to develop critical thinking, problem solving, and creativity.
3. Helps students to see that they can accomplish a level of academics beyond what they might have thought they were capable.
4. Helps students get "deeper" into their disciplines.
5. Helps students to develop intellectual independence.
6. Can help enhance student learning through mentoring relationships with faculty.
7. Helps students to possibly do "graduate level" work in performing research or developing a creative project.
8. Helps students to promote better oral and written presentation skills.
9. Helps students in presenting in on-campus forums or at local, state, regional, or national conferences.
10. Helps students to "stand out" as someone who finishes what they start, someone who overcomes "inertia."
11. Helps to promote an innovation-oriented culture among students.
12. Helps students to build an identity as a group.
13. May provide students an opportunity to be members of various honors organizations.
14. Helps provide effective career preparation so students are better qualified for their chosen vocations--better qualified for the job market.
15. Helps to increase acceptance/enrollment in graduate education and with getting teaching assistantships or fellowships.

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