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About the Honors Program

Our Mission:

The Honors Program promotes high standards of scholarship, provides students with co-curricular opportunities for leadership and community engagement, and helps students not only reach their full academic potential, but also helps them foster skills and experiences to make a positive impact on their communities. Accordingly, our Program's motto is: Learn, Serve, and Lead.

Honors Program Diversity Statement:

The Elizabethtown College Honors Program is a community of scholars comprising a wide variety of perspectives and backgrounds. Our supportive network of Honors students, alumni, faculty and staff approach scholarship and service with an interdisciplinary approach. Consistent with our commitment to the College's mission of peacemaking and social justice, we are a community of learners celebrating diversity with an international and cross-cultural perspective.

Connect with the Etown College Honors Program:
Review The Honors Report newsletters here.

Throughout their immersion in the Honors Program, our students will:

Have an enriched experience focused on curricular and co-curricular components that encourage scholarship, service and leadership at the highest level
Collaborate with others, such as faculty scholars, campus leaders, prominent guest speakers, and visiting scholars
Demonstrate initiative and leadership through exploring and crafting unique learning opportunities
Engage in interdisciplinary work and foster a curiosity for looking at things from different perspectives
Experience ample enrichment opportunities and receive additional support, such as supplemental advising, field trips, guest speakers, community living, and assistance for applying to prestigious scholarships and fellowships and post-graduate service opportunities

Honors Students complete 24 honors credits (typically six 4-credit courses) over four years, including First-Year Seminar and a Senior Thesis in their major and/or minor. To remain in good standing and be eligible for certain program privileges, students need to maintain a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.50.

For more info on program requirements, including minimum GPA requirements for each year of studies, click here.

Elizabethtown College

717-361-1000

1 Alpha Drive
Elizabethtown, PA 17022

Elizabethtown College does not discriminate on the basis of gender, race, color, religion, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, genetic information, possession of a general education development certificate as compared to a high school diploma, or any other legally protected status. This commitment applies but is not limited to decisions made with respect to hiring and promotion, the administration of educational programs and policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic or other College administered programs. Discrimination or harassment of any kind is strictly forbidden.

Honors Program

About the Honors Program

Student Learning Outcomes

Program Requirements