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About the Howard Thurman Honors Program
DEVELOPING COMMUNITY AND GLOBAL LEADERS
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Overview
What is the Howard Thurman Honors Program?
The Morehouse College Honors Program is a four-year comprehensive program providing special learning opportunities for students of outstanding intellectual ability, high motivation, and broad interests. The program emphasizes leadership and social outreach systematically in classes and in co-curricular activities from freshman year to graduation. The program has established a record of actively supporting the College’s internationalization focus by introducing its students at the freshman level, in classes, and external meetings—to active interest and participation in global studies and study-abroad commitments to balance the students’ academic pursuits.
Mission
The Morehouse College Honors Program empowers its students through a stimulating learning environment to achieve their maximum potential and excel in academics, leadership, service, and global awareness.
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How to Apply
How to Apply
Admission to the program is based on SAT and ACT scores (generally a minimum of 1200 and 27, respectively), high school GPA (a minimum of 3.4), and completion of the Honors Program Student Profile by each prospective student. In some cases, however, freshmen whose entrance scores fall just below the minimum may be admitted on a one-semester, conditional basis. Second-semester freshmen and first-semester sophomores may also be considered for admission if they are not admitted at the beginning of their freshman year, as capacity allows. The program is open to students in all academic disciplines.
Apply
The Morehouse Honors Program accepts applications on a rolling basis through May 1st. Priority is given to those who apply before March 15th. -
Special Advantages
Special Advantages
- Smaller class sizes
- Variety of scholarly, cultural, and social activities
- Practice and encouragement in thinking and working across various academic disciplines
- Use of the Honors Program office library and computers
- Opportunities to receive first-rate recommendations to graduate and professional schools
- Opportunity to attend and present at Honors conferences
- Graduation with Honors designated on the transcript
- Honors Program seniors listed on the graduation program
- Honors cord to be worn with graduation regalia
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Faculty and Administration
Core Faculty
Honors Program faculty members are chosen on the basis of their reputations as outstanding teachers, both rooted in their academic disciplines and experimental in their classrooms. Chairpersons from the departments which offer Honors Program courses recommend to the Honors Program director the faculty members “released” from one or more regular department courses to offer Honors sections. All Honors Program core faculty at Morehouse are committed to engendering leadership among students by providing classroom curricula and academic experiences leading to individual excellence, as well as to group productivity. Morehouse HP instructors practice the latest classroom pedagogies endorsed by the National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC).
What is the Howard Thurman Honors Program?
The Morehouse College Honors Program is a four-year comprehensive program providing special learning opportunities for students of outstanding intellectual ability, high motivation, and broad interests. The program emphasizes leadership and social outreach systematically in classes and in co-curricular activities from freshman year to graduation. The program has established a record of actively supporting the College’s internationalization focus by introducing its students at the freshman level, in classes, and external meetings—to active interest and participation in global studies and study-abroad commitments to balance the students’ academic pursuits.
Mission
The Morehouse College Honors Program empowers its students through a stimulating learning environment to achieve their maximum potential and excel in academics, leadership, service, and global awareness.
How to Apply
Admission to the program is based on SAT and ACT scores (generally a minimum of 1200 and 27, respectively), high school GPA (a minimum of 3.4), and completion of the Honors Program Student Profile by each prospective student. In some cases, however, freshmen whose entrance scores fall just below the minimum may be admitted on a one-semester, conditional basis. Second-semester freshmen and first-semester sophomores may also be considered for admission if they are not admitted at the beginning of their freshman year, as capacity allows. The program is open to students in all academic disciplines.
Apply
The Morehouse Honors Program accepts applications on a rolling basis through May 1st. Priority is given to those who apply before March 15th.Special Advantages
- Smaller class sizes
- Variety of scholarly, cultural, and social activities
- Practice and encouragement in thinking and working across various academic disciplines
- Use of the Honors Program office library and computers
- Opportunities to receive first-rate recommendations to graduate and professional schools
- Opportunity to attend and present at Honors conferences
- Graduation with Honors designated on the transcript
- Honors Program seniors listed on the graduation program
- Honors cord to be worn with graduation regalia
Core Faculty
Honors Program faculty members are chosen on the basis of their reputations as outstanding teachers, both rooted in their academic disciplines and experimental in their classrooms. Chairpersons from the departments which offer Honors Program courses recommend to the Honors Program director the faculty members “released” from one or more regular department courses to offer Honors sections. All Honors Program core faculty at Morehouse are committed to engendering leadership among students by providing classroom curricula and academic experiences leading to individual excellence, as well as to group productivity. Morehouse HP instructors practice the latest classroom pedagogies endorsed by the National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC).