The Honors Program creates a community of scholars characterized by strong student and faculty interaction, creativity, and enhanced learning opportunities. This community fosters an approach to education that incorporates the qualities of self-directed learning, a positive response to demanding work, and an appreciation of knowledge for its own sake.
Honors students are superior students from all disciplines who desire to participate more actively in their education and related activities. They bring together a diversity of talents, aspirations, and experiences. They seek out challenges and benefit greatly from sharing such experiences with students of comparable abilities.
Lake State’s honors students have been given the privilege and rights to the use of Ontario Hall. Ontario Hall offers students:
Ontario Hall offers students:
Check out what Engineering Alumni Trace Hill has to say about his experience living in the Honors House below.
Excellence in teaching is emphasized as is the commitment to work with students in and out of the classroom.
Faculty who teach in the Honors Program are selected on the basis of their desire and ability to challenge and encourage high achieving students. Faculty are encouraged to be innovative in both the topic choice and the teaching pedagogy.
Honors Program graduates
Honors classes are conducted in the seminar fashion and limited to fifteen students. An interdisciplinary focus is promoted by the inclusion of students and faculty from all majors as well as by the design of the honors core curriculum. Beginning in the Fall of 2020, students will be asking questions and seeking answers to questions relating to self-knowledge, responsibility, societal challenges, and the demands of citizenship. Specially designed courses in these areas will count as honors courses and as general education courses. This means that you will be fulfilling university requirements as you pursue the examined life through the honors curriculum. For more on our exciting and transformative honors curriculum changes, click here.
Each student admitted to the Honors Program is required to complete twenty-one Honors Credits, including ten credits of Honors Seminar/Thesis. The remaining credits may be acquired by enrolling in honors sections of general education courses, or by taking advantage of the Honors Option Contract. Students must maintain a cumulative 3.5 G.P.A. in order to graduate with an honors degree and to remain eligible for active program participation.
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Lake Superior State University
650 W. Easterday Avenue
Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan 49783
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