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Honors Program

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The Honors Program offers students the opportunity to advance their liberal education in new areas by embracing academic challenges and experiences beyond those of our standard Program of Studies.  Students in the Honors Program may complete a more extended honors thesis and graduate with a Latin, honors distinction.

Each semester, through an honors colloquium seminar, students explore selected texts, themes, authors, or media that complement our larger Program of Studies. One of the benefits of the colloquium is that students from all four years come together in a common pursuit in a seminar setting.

The Honors Colloquia have included the following courses, authors, and texts:

Course Authors and Works
Cinema and Narrative Selected American and European films
Lyric Poetry and Theology Selected lyric poets, Lynch, von le Fort
Houses of Mirth: The Comic Muse throughout the Ages The Second Shepherd’s Play, Aristophanes, Plautus, Shakespeare, Voltaire, Chekhov, Moliere, O’Connor, Waugh, Wilde
Classics of Children’s Literature Alcott, Andersen, Hawthorne, MacDonald, Stevenson, Hodgsdon, and Grahame
The Nature of Tragedy Aristotle, Shakespeare, Eliot, Becket, O’Neill Tolstoy, Ibsen, Conrad, Racine, Nietzsche, et al.
The Presence of the Past: Tradition and Reform in Christian Culture Power and the Holy in the Investiture Conflict, Apocalyptic Spirituality, Chaucer, Langland, More, Bacon, Twain
Dante, A Party of One Dante’s Divine Comedy
Man and Woman He Created Them Pope Saint John Paul II, et al.
Truth and Tolerance Dawson, Kirk, Pope Saint John Paul II, Benedict XVI

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