Advantages of The Citadel Honors Program
For students who are selected and participate, there are many advantages of The Citadel Honors Program. Some advantages include pre-professional counseling, small class sizes, a special curriculum, and your fellow honors students.
Discussion-Style Teaching
Professors teach through discussion in your Honors courses. With the guidance from your professor, you and your classmates will engage in deep discussion throughout class time. When you take an active part in class, you will find it more interesting, and you will learn more, too.
Faculty Connections
You will get to know your Honors professors and they will get to know you! We encourage you to meet individually with your professors to develop the kind of personal student-teacher relationship which is more difficult to achieve in the normal curriculum with larger class sizes. Such one-on-one experiences will be an invaluable advantage to you in many ways, both personal and academic.
Honors Faculty
Handpicked from The Citadel’s best teachers, your Honors Professors are noteworthy for their outstanding scholarly achievement, their openness and flexibility, their demonstrated teaching skills, and their appreciation of students.
Student Advisory Committee
You will have the opportunity to participate actively in the administration of the Honors Program through this student committee. The Committee will advise the Honors Director on matters such as faculty selection, course development, and social activities.
Emphasis on Contributing Excellence to our Community
The Citadel Honors Program has a strong tradition of producing leaders for the Corps of Cadets, ROTC units, athletic teams, and numerous campus organizations. Throughout the chain of command, our students are in positions of responsibility in numbers disproportionate to the small size of our program. Perhaps the future Regimental Commander will be one of your Honors Program classmates. Or maybe the Regimental Commander will be you! We will encourage you to fully engage in your Citadel and Honors Program experiences to develop and refine leadership skills which are impactful here at The Citadel and beyond our gates as well.
Pre-Professional Counseling and Personal and Professional Development
During our Honors First-year Experience course, we will talk about your personal vision for how your skills and interests can serve your profession and society. In the following years, you will engage in our Personal and Professional Development 6-course series (one course each semester) that focuses on refining that vision and developing an action plan.
This Personal and Professional Development 6-course series is completed through one-on-one tutorials with the program director. It is through these periodic tutorials – and the independent reflection and research done between them – that we will clarify your goals for the future, identify opportunities for development during The Citadel years, emphasize maximizing your meaningful experiences, and prepare you for success upon graduation. These tutorials encourage you to reach your full potential by engaging in the things that are fulfilling and that will position you to be a strong candidate for your postgraduate endeavors.
Special Honors Program Diploma Seal and Transcript
A paragraph will be placed at the end of your official college transcript indicating that you have completed The Citadel’s Honors Program and describing the requirements and philosophy of the program. Potential employers and graduate/professional school admissions deans will know that you chose a challenging curriculum and that you are one of the very best students at our college. Also, your Citadel diploma will bear a distinctive seal recognizing the significance of your accomplishment.