NSU’s Undergraduate Farquhar Honors College provides high-achieving students with a rigorous academic environment through value-added curricular and co-curricular experiences. It is open to all qualifying undergraduate students and encourages students to engage in a transdisciplinary setting.
Robin St. George, the academic program manager for the Undergraduate Farquhar Honors College and manager of the honors in major program, explained that the college gives students the opportunity to interact and connect with students outside of their majors.
“The honors college is a collaborative community where high achieving students can come together and collaborate in a transdisciplinary model. [They] can branch out and add to [their] academic career. It’s a place where they can broaden and expand their horizons, should they choose to do so,” St. George said.
The honors in major program within the honors college gives the highest achieving students the chance to expand their knowledge in their academic discipline through the completion of a project of interest. Projects are overseen by faculty advisors, who serve as mentors for honors in major students, and as St. George put it, “the faculty mentorships that you build alone are worth their weight in gold.”
Beyond building connections with faculty mentors, the program also gives students the option to engage in internships, research opportunities, thesis projects and even get published in their field.
“It’s a really highly regarded process once you complete it, so students who complete the honors in major program are recognized at graduation,” said St. George.
Students who complete the program will receive notations on their transcript and diplomas as well.
St. George also explained that, although the program is offered through the honors college, students do not have to be honors college students prior to applying. The honors in major program is open to all qualified undergraduate students with a minimum of a 3.8 GPA. Students must apply in the semester before their last two semesters as an undergraduate at NSU.
For students planning to graduate in May 2022, the deadline to apply for the program is April 15. Applications for students who will graduate in August or December 2022 will be due November 1.
St. George added that, although the honors in major program sends emails to qualified students inviting them to apply, they don’t necessarily capture all students. If you think you meet the requirements and want to apply, the application can be found at https://honors.nova.edu/honors-in-major/application.html.
Students who are accepted into the program become full members of the honors college.
St. George said, “They are afforded all of the membership opportunities, in terms of the workshops and the seminars that we offer and the honors courses that are available. They’re not required to fulfill any of the honors college requirements, only the ones for their home college set forth for the honors and major program, but they’re a member of the honors college from that point on… Once a member of the honors college, always a member of the honors college.”
