Admission Requirements
Admission to the Honors Program is selective. To qualify, applicants must be in the top twenty percent of their graduating class and have a minimum score of 550 on the reading section and a minimum score of 550 on the math section of the SAT.
AP Credits
A score of 4 or 5 on the corresponding AP exam is necessary for placing out of the Honors requirements in History, English, and Science. (A score of 3 will be awarded 3 credits but will not place out of History, English, and Science courses.) Students can place out of Math and Social Science requirements with a score of 3 or higher on the corresponding AP exam.
Academic Requirements
In 2007 the Curriculum and Teaching Committee voted in favor of a new set of requirements for students entering the Honors Program in the Fall of 2008 and thereafter. Students who entered Kings College in the Fall of 2007 or any time before that are grandfathered in under the previous set of requirements.
Academic Requirements for Students entering Fall 2008 and Thereafter.
Note: these requirements take the place of the Core Requirements. There is no one-to-one correspondence between the Honors courses and Core courses. Instead, completing the Honors requirements in their entirety replaces completing the Core Requirements in their entirety.
Historical Introductions to the Humanities (24 Credits)
HNRS 135 Ancient and Medieval History
HNRS 136 Modern and Contemporary History
HNRS 203 Literature from Ancient to Early Modern
HNRS 204 Modern and Contemporary Literature
HNRS 250 The Christian Theological Tradition
HNRS 260 The Christian Moral Tradition
HNRS 280 Ancient and Medieval Philosophy
HNRS 281 Modern and Contemporary Philosophy
The Arts(Core 17x) (3 Credits)
Foreign Language (12 credits)
Minimum 2 Semesters of Foreign Language with completion of the second semester of the intermediate level required. (N.B. Students automatically earn 12 credits when they complete the intermediate level of a foreign language with grades of C or better, even if they take only two semesters of the foreign language.)
Math (Choose one of the following)
Math 127 Logic and Axiomatics (3 credits)
or
Math 129 Analytic Geometry and Calculus I (4 credits)
*or another Math course with the approval of the Honors Program Director
Science (Choose one of the following) (4 credits)
Biol 111 General Biology with lab
Chem 113 General Chemistry with lab
Phys 111 General Physics with lab
or
Honors 270 Natural Science Perspectives
Social Science (Choose one of the following) (3 credits)
Core 153 Principles of Economics: Macro
Econ 112 Principles of Economics: Micro
Core 154 Introduction to Psychology
Core 157 Introduction to Sociology
Core 158 Introduction to Political Science
or
PS 231 American Intergovernmental Relations
Junior Year Project (Choose one of the following)
Study Abroad Semester
or
Service Learning Project (either a service learning course or a service trip or project)
Senior Thesis
The capstone thesis or project required by the students major will be extended or deepened. The student and professor sign a contract,certified by the Honors Program Director as deserving of the Honors distinction.