Honors Program
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- Develop the ability to examine ideas as human constructs made to bring order to chaos and sense to life, and the ability to respectfully and systematically wrestle with ideas, even those fundamental to core beliefs.
- Develop the ability to read and use the wide variety of "texts" (written, visual, relational, scientific, cultural, etc.) that drive and derive from the ideas formed by human experience.
- Develop tools to bring balance to the destabilizing impact of challenging core ideas, and the ability to contextualize one's own story amidst the Biblical understandings of the wider Anabaptist and Christian traditions.
- Develop the ability to formulate, critique and begin to implement ideas in a leadership capacity.
The EMU Honors Program seeks to attract bright and motivated students to participate in a challenging curriculum, and is highly recommended to students who entered EMU with an Honors Scholarship. It is also enthusiastically recommended to any student who has excelled academically during their first year at EMU and wishes to join the program. It is important to note that the Honors Program is an academic minor and thus functions as an academic program. It is connected to the larger EMU Honors system, which includes scholarship packages for incoming first-year students (details about this are at www.emu. edu/honors), but the Honors Program itself does not include a scholarship, nor is it limited to students who entered EMU with an Honors Scholarship. All EMU students who are excelling academically are eligible to join the program.
Each fall semester, students awarded an EMU Honors Scholarship will be invited to take HONRS 111 Ruling Ideas, which serves as an introduction to the program and the curriculum. Students may elect to participate in the Honors Program at the conclusion of this course, or any time thereafter.
Yoder Scholars (the students awarded full-tuition scholarships) are required to participate in the Honors Program, but for all other students it is purely optional, available to all interested students who would like to join a program designed to enhance the normal EMU curriculum, providing increased rigor and more in- depth and alternative forms of study.
Honors courses are assessed via an alternative grading system: Qualify-Fail-A, to encourage students to take academic risks by exploring courses outside their comfort zone. Students who do their work diligently and well will earn a "Q" or "Qualify" which does not impact their GPA. Students can still earn an A if they excel, and an F if they do not do the work.
Eligibility
Students finishing their first year of course work (regardless of whether they received an EMU Honors Scholarship), and who have excelled academically dur- ing their first year at EMU, may choose to join the Honors Program. To complete the program, all the requirements below must be met, including a 3.6 or higher GPA at the time of graduation.
Honors Program Requirements
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