Non-Credit Bearing Requirements
Book-of-the-year. First-year students in the Honors Program will read the book-of-the-year together throughout the academic year and attend discussion seminars and lectures on the book. They will write a paper on the book in their honors
Honors Program Events. Every semester, the Honors Program sponsors many events, including lectures, panels, concerts, plays, and movies that add to the cultural and intellectual climate on campus. Students in the Honors Program are required to attend at least two of these events every semester that they are on campus.
Required attendance at events
Honors Events are a series of cultural and academic events that are an integral part of the Honors Program curriculum. Events offer an array of presentations, lectures, films, theater, musical opportunities, field trips, etc.
All Honors Program participants are required to attend two Honors events each semester they are on enrolled as a full-time student on the Mechanicsburg campus. Thus, students who graduate after four years and who stay on campus the whole time will end up attending eight semesters of Honors events by the time they graduate. But students who will be graduating early and/or studying abroad will not end up attending eight semesters of Honors events, and they should not be alarmed by this default setting continuing to appear for a time on DegreeWorks. This will be adjusted soon after early graduation takes place and/or the conclusion of a semester’s study abroad.