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Location: Feinstein Academic Center 316
Phone: 401-865-2233
Fax: 401-865-2057

The Liberal Arts Honors Program offers students of high academic ability and initiative a more in-depth and rigorous version of the Providence College core curriculum. Students are required to take a minimum of six Honors courses: normally four interdisciplinary courses in Honors Development of Western Civilization in the freshmen and sophomore years, one or two Honors courses in the junior year, and a capstone Colloquium in the senior year. Most Honors courses fulfill core curriculum requirements, and thus students enjoy plenty of flexibly to pursue any major or minor at the College.

Distinctive Benefits of the Honors Program:

• a superior education (more reading, more writing, and more seminar discussion among students and faculty—and thus students develop greater intellectual acuity,  breadth of knowledge, and aptitude for creative thinking)
• small seminar-style classes of 12-15 students
• classes taught by selected outstanding faculty, Dominican Friars, and distinguished visiting scholars
• expert academic advising by the director and associate director of the Honors Program
• special cultural and academic enrichment events (dinners, lectures, trips to museums, concerts, plays) and opportunities for students and faculty to travel abroad (such as annual Spring Break excursions to Europe)
• students enjoy select Honors classes but are otherwise fully integrated into the life of the college, including extracurricular opportunities such as varsity sports, theater, music programs, the College newspaper, poetry magazine, radio station, ROTC, and Friar’s Club
• grades in Honors courses are weighted (and thus students earn a higher GPA for all Honors courses)
• recognition on transcript of all Honors courses, and thus enhanced applications for professional careers and graduate schools (Honors students have routinely earned admission into the most competitive medical, law, and graduate programs, including Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Columbia, Brown, Penn, Oxford, Dartmouth, Johns Hopkins, Chicago, Notre Dame, Toronto, and too many more to fit this space.)

For course listings and descriptions, please see the  on-line undergraduate catalog. 

The Faculty
Stephen J. Lynch, Ph.D., Director
Suzanne J. Fournier, Ph.D., Associate Director

The Liberal Arts Honors faculty is comprised of professors and Dominican Friars from virtually all departments on campus. Faculty members are selected by the director of the program on the basis of outstanding teaching and scholarship. Honors courses are also offered by the Randall Distinguished Professor in Christian Culture. No courses in the Honors Program or at Providence College are taught by teaching assistants or graduate students.

Visit the Web pages maintained by the Liberal Arts Honors Program:
http://www.providence.edu/lah/