Honors Program
The Honors Program at Anna Maria College was founded in 2007 in order to intellectually challenge highly motivated scholastic achievers. It serves as a "college within a college" providing honors students with specialized learning and community service opportunities on local, national and global levels. The Honors Program is a member of the National Collegiate Honors Council [NCHC], the National Association of Honors Programs, and the North East Regional Honors Council [NRHC]. Honors students are welcomed to contribute to all of the majors at the College.
The AMC Honors Program takes its commitment to research, scholarship and culture seriously. Honors students are active as student leaders on and off-campus and each academic year they attend an academic symposium or lecture, as well as ballets, plays, musicals and other cultural events. Nationally, honor students participate in internships in the Washington Internship Program and support the Habitat for Humanity project to provide low cost housing to America's poor. Locally, the help in the Marie Anne Center of the Sisters of St. Anne in the immigrant day care program. In 2010, in Vienna, Austria, they helped with a soccer program for poor children.
The President of Anna Maria College is a special patron of the Honors Program and he shares a strong commitment to research, scholarship, culture and global awareness. His participation is intended to encourage learning and scholarship at a higher level, knowing that the honors students will make special contributions to a global society in the future and especially to Anna Maria College after graduation.
Unique Benefits
Exciting Curriculum
Honors students follow a curriculum guided by the following themes that match the goals of the College's commitment to developing research & writing skills, global and social awareness and humanistic values in the Roman Catholic tradition.
Freshman Year: Globalization and its Challenge to Maintaining Community and World Peace [four courses]
Sophomore Year: The Western Academic Tradition and its Means for Seeking Truth [two courses]
Junior Year: Social Engagement in Pursuit of Justice [one course]
Senior Year: Leadership as the Integration of Learning and Social Action [one course]
Global Studies Opportunities
Anna Maria College is committed to engaging its honors students in the study of challenges that affect everyone in the 21st century. This includes global warming, the impact of immigration on societies, and the economic impact of the post-industrial age and the challenges of world population growth. Each honors student takes the opportunity once in her/his four-years at Anna Maria College to engage directly in global studies through interesting programs.
The Honors Program at Anna Maria College was founded in 2007 in order to intellectually challenge highly motivated scholastic achievers. It serves as a "college within a college" providing honors students with specialized learning and community service opportunities on local, national and global levels. The Honors Program is a member of the National Collegiate Honors Council [NCHC], the National Association of Honors Programs, and the North East Regional Honors Council [NRHC]. Honors students are welcomed to contribute to all of the majors at the College.
The AMC Honors Program takes its commitment to research, scholarship and culture seriously. Honors students are active as student leaders on and off-campus and each academic year they attend an academic symposium or lecture, as well as ballets, plays, musicals and other cultural events. Nationally, honor students participate in internships in the Washington Internship Program and support the Habitat for Humanity project to provide low cost housing to America's poor. Locally, the help in the Marie Anne Center of the Sisters of St. Anne in the immigrant day care program. In 2010, in Vienna, Austria, they helped with a soccer program for poor children.
The President of Anna Maria College is a special patron of the Honors Program and he shares a strong commitment to research, scholarship, culture and global awareness. His participation is intended to encourage learning and scholarship at a higher level, knowing that the honors students will make special contributions to a global society in the future and especially to Anna Maria College after graduation.
Unique Benefits
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| Students in the Honors Program with their medals at the 2012 Senior Honors Dinner with President Jack P. Calareso, Ph.D. and his wife Rose, along with Paul Russell, Ph.D., Honors Program Director. |
Exciting Curriculum
Honors students follow a curriculum guided by the following themes that match the goals of the College's commitment to developing research & writing skills, global and social awareness and humanistic values in the Roman Catholic tradition.
Freshman Year: Globalization and its Challenge to Maintaining Community and World Peace [four courses]
Sophomore Year: The Western Academic Tradition and its Means for Seeking Truth [two courses]
Junior Year: Social Engagement in Pursuit of Justice [one course]
Senior Year: Leadership as the Integration of Learning and Social Action [one course]
Global Studies Opportunities
Anna Maria College is committed to engaging its honors students in the study of challenges that affect everyone in the 21st century. This includes global warming, the impact of immigration on societies, and the economic impact of the post-industrial age and the challenges of world population growth. Each honors student takes the opportunity once in her/his four-years at Anna Maria College to engage directly in global studies through interesting programs.
- A short-term study experience related to our global environment; many of these opportunities are sponsored by the NCHC. They include the Partners in the Parks Program, where students study the effect of global warming in our national parks or a week-long, concentrated study in the Amazon Rain Forest in Peru.
- A focused seminar that meets in a city like Paris, Rome or Berlin, that is part of course offerings at Anna Maria College. This also includes a science course that studies the Caribbean rain forest in Puerto Rico.
- A self-designed study abroad experience.
- A more traditional semester abroad, like the Anna Maria College "Vienna Semester," in Vienna, Austria.
For More Information
Please call the Admission Office at (508) 849-3360 or (800) 344-4586.
