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Dec 04, 2024
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2024-2025 Lakeland University Undergraduate Catalog
The Honors Program
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The Honors Program at Lakeland University is designed for intellectually curious students who desire to pursue academic activity in the company of other committed undergraduates. It emphasizes original and critical thinking in both its students and its teachers, asking that they participate fully in conversations that cross disciplinary boundaries. By means of small classes, challenging topics, and access to cultural events, it calls on students to take more responsibility for their education, developing and pursuing their own intellectual inquiries both inside and outside the classroom. Emphasizing clarity in oral and written communication and logic in thought, the Honors Program helps its students advance in their capacity to arrive at, have confidence in, and clearly support their own conclusions and views. It cultivates a sense of community, presenting academic work as a group process and a conversation among peers. Finally, it broadens the cultural horizons of its students, providing access to events and materials that may have otherwise been unavailable.
Students who have successfully completed the Honors Program from Lakeland University should be able to:
- Exhibit creative/original thinking
- Converse across disciplines
- Argue persuasively, fluently, and clearly, in speech and in writing
- Demonstrate mastery of and passion for an area of scholarly inquiry
- Think critically
With these qualities in place, graduates should have the capacity to become innovators, on campus and in their future lives.
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The Honors Admissions Process
Upon admission to Lakeland University, some students identified with review of their high school GPA and extracurricular activities earn automatic admission to the Honors Program and are not required to complete an application.
Upon admission to Lakeland University, students not granted automatic admission to the Honors Program all receive and invite to complete a program application. Students meeting these criteria are granted automatic admission to the Honors Program:
- Earn a cumulative 3.5 GPA or better in high school or from transfer institutions and demonstrate leadership in high school or transfer institutions through a history of extracurricular activities.
- Earn a full tuition scholarship through:
- Sheboygan County Scholars Program
- School of Humanities and Fine Arts
- School of Education, Nursing and Continuing Studies
- School of J. Garland Schilcutt School of Business and Entrepreneurship
- School of Natural and Social Sciences
Any student is welcome to apply during their first year of coursework at Lakeland.
Thus, the requisite criteria for entry are as follows:
- Completion of program application
- If applying after Lakeland coursework complete (30 semester hours or less):
- A cumulative GPA of 3.25 or better, and written recommendation of Lakeland faculty
- If applying after Lakeland coursework complete (more than 30 semester hours) or entering Lakeland from transferring institutions:
- Students should seek consent of the Honors Coordinator for admission to the program
- All students enrolled in the Honors Program must complete all 15-semester hours included in the requirements listed below. Students applying to the Honors Program after completing Lakeland coursework may be able to substitute GEN 130 Core 1 for HON 190 Introduction to Honors, pending approval of the Honors Coordinator and Dean of the College of College of Humanities and Education.
Note:
The Honors Committee reserves the right to remove a student from the program for inadequate academic performance. Inadequate academic performance consists of two semesters with the student’s term grade-point average below 3.25.
Honors Program Requirements (15-19 semester hours)
Students completing the Honors Program are also responsible for the Rhetorical Skills requirement, Quantitative Skills requirement, the distributional studies component of the Interdisciplinary Studies curriculum, and at least three credits of writing-intensive coursework in a major program.
Traditional Track (15 semester hours)
Complete the following courses:
Experiential Learning/ Cooperative Education Track (Four (4) additional semester hours)
Complete the traditional track coursework and the additional following courses:
Additional Honors Program Information
Students who participate in the Honors Program but do not complete all its requirements will still receive credit toward the Interdisciplinary Studies Critical Thinking Core Sequence and Rhetorical Skills requirements for the work they have completed in the Honors Program. The following chart relates how certain courses in the Honors sequence substitute for Interdisciplinary Studies requirements in the event of partial or non-completion of the Honors Program. Completion of Honors Program requirements in the left column below substitute for completion of Interdisciplinary Studies courses in the right column below.
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