Lander University Honors Program
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. . . .
-- St. Augustine
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.
-- G.K. Chesterton
Program Overview
In order to provide its students with a better understanding of the global nature of our complex society, Lander University is revising its long-standing Honors Program to include a new International Focus. The Honors Program, with its International Focus, presently revolves around four interdisciplinary seminars, each rooted in the subject matter of the four academic colleges, and a required study-abroad experience (in which the student matriculates as a foreign student in one of our partner schools in Europe). Currently, we are partnering with the University of Winchester, in the south of England, to provide our best and brightest students a challenging and exciting academic semester in the town of Jane Austen's birth. The four honors seminars (HP 111, 112, 113, and 114) tackle current and pressing questions in the disciplines of each of the four colleges, inviting our honors students to explore their international implications in a roundtable, discussion-based class.
For an outline of the 18-hour honors curriculum, please see catalog page. Each honors student will normally complete the curriculum during their first five regular semesters in the program. The Director of the Honors International Program may make scheduling exceptions in special cases. The 18-hours of coursework will usually count as electives within the student's Lander curriculum.
Application Information
Approximately 25 students will be admitted into the program each fall semester from the top applicants in the entering class. For incoming Freshman, the criteria for selection are, ordinarily:
- Graduation in the top ten percent of graduating class in high school;
- SAT score of 1140 or higher;
- Successful record of AP/Honors-type courses in high school.
Individualized portfolios displaying high academic promise, significant creative work, and prior experience in the area of foreign service (e.g., People to People ambassadorships, mission work abroad, service learning in an international setting, etc.) may also be submitted by graduates of home-schooling associations, and other students with non-traditional, educational backgrounds.
Applications from continuing Lander students who have distinguished themselves
academically in their first two years of coursework may also be made, and require a letter of
recommendation from a Lander faculty or administrator, and a letter of application explaining the
student's interest in completing the study-abroad requirement (minimum GPA: 3.2).
Transfer students with fewer than 50 hours of college credit earned and a prior
record of honors coursework and a cumulative GPA of 3.2 or higher are eligible for entry into the
program.
Applications and Brochures
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For a current brochure, click here(pdf).
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For an electronic application, click here for MS Wordapplication;
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please email, as attachment, to honors@lander.edu.
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For a paper application, click here (pdf); please print out and mail to:
Dr. John G. Moore,
Associate Professor of Philosophy & Director,
Honors Program,
Department of History and Philosophy,
Lander University,
322 Stanley Avenue,
Greenwood SC 29646
For additional information, please call 1-864-388-8267; you can alsoclick herefor email form.
