Lynn University

The Honors Program provides a process through which selected student scholars engage in and experience the entire learning cycle of concrete experience, reflective observation, abstract conceptualization, and active experimentation, which then can be applied to any area of interest. The goal of the Honors Program is to create a dynamic academic environment that serves to awaken intellectual curiosity, promote free and active inquiry, and stimulate creative discovery.

Honors Curriculum

Honors students pursue a rigorous and exciting course of study. Honors classes focus upon specific themes that are investigated from different perspectives. Students in the Honors Program take their first two years of courses in the Dialogues of Learning with specially selected Honors faculty. They finish their Honors degree with a two-semester Honors capstone course in their major during their senior year, culminating in an Honors thesis.

Benefits of the Program

Students who participate in the Honors Program are awarded a scholarship of $1,000 per academic year, renewable each year if the student remains in the program.

Students who complete the program graduate with an Honors degree, noted on both their diploma and their transcript, serving to set them apart as exceptional learners in the job market and in applying for professional and graduate education.

Other benefits include:

• an opportunity to present their work at state, regional and national Collegiate Honors Council conferences.
• an opportunity to publish research in the Honors Program journal Scholar.
• an opportunity to participate in various Honors sponsored extra-curricular learning and service experiences.

Honors Eligibility

The university invites entering freshmen who demonstrate a high level of scholastic achievement during the application process to join the Honors Program.

Also, currently enrolled Lynn students who perform particularly well during their first semester and have a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.5 may apply to join the Honors Program. Each student who meets these criteria must also provide recommendations from two faculty members in support of his or her candidacy, as well as provide a written statement describing his or her interest in the program.