Centenary College Honors Program

The mission of the Centenary College Honors Program is to challenge academically motivated students to discover the interdisciplinary relationships and cultural mosaics within the liberal arts. It engages scholastically accomplished students in a program that they find stimulating and exciting.

The Centenary College Honors Program is designed around the theme “Kaleidoscope: Tradition and Change.”

Tradition and change are linked to the shifting patterns of life and culture in the 21st Century. Students and their instructors will study the development of emerging social and intellectual panoramas of the world and work to envision their future challenges and opportunities. They will consider transformations of government and social institutions and the evolution of new modes of human interaction.

Through research, travel and discussion students will develop new perspectives culminating in a senior research project in an area of personal interest. Through the Honors Program Lecture Series, visiting scholars are invited to campus to share with students in-depth perspectives on their disciplines, and open dialogue among Program participants on various fields of endeavor.

The Centenary College Honors Program is designed to:

1. Produce graduates who envision themselves as leaders and innovators in their professional and social communities.
2. Enable students to gain insights into the impact of change on a global and national scale, as well as to assess the future and their potential.
3. Grant student-scholars recognition among peers and faculty.
4. Distinguish Centenary College as a place where outstanding academic performance is both encouraged and rewarded.
5. Enrich the Centenary community by encouraging participation in special events and presentations sponsored and promoted by the Honors Program.

Each year Honors Program students will have the opportunity to enroll in this four-credit course and participate in a one-to-two week study tour. These tours allow students to incorporate academic pursuits with culture and society, broadening their experiences and understanding of the diversity of the world in which they live.

The trips will be within the United States or overseas and will be offered during the intercessions or over the summers. Honors Program students will receive a stipend to help defray the costs of the trip. Recent trips have been planned Ireland, Spain, Italy, Greece, and Great Britain.

In order to remain eligible for the stipend students must maintain a 3.2 GPA, make appropriate progress in the honors curriculum, and attend at least one Honors Program lecture per semester.