Honors Program: Create

Your college experience is what you design.

Create and mold your ideas and experiences in the Honors program and turn them into valuable knowledge. Students will have opportunities to:

• host and interact with invited distinguished lecturers
• live in single rooms in a setting shared by other honors students
• have the option of early registration
• work collaboratively with fellow students and professors on research and writing
• defend publicly a Senior Thesis — on a topic of your choice — before an invited audience of faculty and peers

 

Recent Interdisciplinary Seminars		Previous Distinguished Lecturers
The History of Scientific Thought Dr. Jack Bopp, Chemistry		2000 Dr. Sandra Steingraber Ecologist, Cancer Survivor, Author of "Living Downstream"
Job's Dilemma and Ours Dr. Joseph Kelly, Religious Studies		1999 Dr. Mark Plotkin Ethnobotanist, Author of "Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice"
Nonviolence in Eastern and Western Traditions Dr. Harry Murray, Sociology		1998 Dr. Diane Ackerman Poet, Essayist and Naturalist, Author of "The Rarest of the Rare"
Wilderness Writers: American Views of Nature Dr. Monica Weis, English		1998 Anna Quindlen Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, Author of "One True Thing"
The Normal, the Abnormal, the Ideal Dr. Heidi Northwood, Philosophy		1997 Dr. Stephen Carter Professor of Law, Yale University, Author of "The Culture of Disbelief"
Our Daily Bread Dr. Joe Daboll-Lavoie, Economics

 

"The Honors Program has offered me choices and challenges far above and beyond Nazareth's normal curriculum. Last year I was involved in a seminar in which seven of us discussed seventeenth-century pop culture; this year I'm studying the works of Thomas Aquinas. The classes I take are with students who share my goals and academic drive, and the Program's professors are always willing to help if we stumble along the way. It has truly been one of the best experiences I've had here at Nazareth."

Karen Dietlein, Honors Program graduate