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, John Hopkins, Chicago, Notre Dame, Toronto, and many more.)

Director:  

Dr. Stephen J. Lynch 
Feinstein Center 316
401-865-2233 
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Dr. Suzanne Fournier 
Feinstein Center 316 
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