May 27, 2024  
2023-2024 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2023-2024 Undergraduate Catalog

Honors Program


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Focusing on three key values, community, creation, and professionalism, the Honors Program provides ambitious, success-centered PennWest students with a high-quality, accessible, and challenging array of academic, social, and professional opportunities. Students from all majors enjoy small class sizes, interdisciplinary and experiential learning, living-learning residences, scholarships, travel and research support, extracurricular opportunities, and a supportive community of like-minded peers and faculty. The Honors Program prepares PennWest’s highest-achieving undergraduates to be campus and community leaders and enables them to succeed in a wide range of careers, graduate, and professional schools.

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Student Learning Outcomes


  • Critical thinking, communication, and problem solving Students will demonstrate effective written and spoken communication and creative problem-solving through completing honors courses that provide opportunities for experiential learning, primary and secondary research, and creative scholarship.
  • Creating and maintaining an individual campus identity. Each campus will develop and / or maintain curricular and extra curricular activities, experiences, and opportunities that are unique to their location, history, and culture.
  • Career Preparation (experiential learning, research and creative scholarship) Students will demonstrate preparation for graduate and / or professional school or for careers in industry.
  • Community Awareness (service learning and leadership, learning communities) Students will demonstrate a sense of community awareness, engagement, and knowledge of issues related to social justice through practical experience, curricular and extra-curricular experiences, and service learning opportunities.
  • Research and Creative Literacy (research and creative scholarship) Students will demonstrate critical writing, reading, and speaking skills in a variety of disciplines.

Total Credits: 18


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