Liberal Arts Honors - Community College of Philadelphia

Liberal Arts Honors from Community College of Philadelphia is a Campus Associate Liberal Arts and Science degree that prepares you for a Liberal Arts career. The Honors curriculum is designed to serve students who plan to advance into professional life through demanding undergraduate and graduate programs in competitive colleges and universities. Honors prepares its graduates to be exemplary students at their transfer institutions by training them to excel in their mastery of the subtleties of intertextual interpretation, and to understand the role of theory in academics, including knowledge of a range of standard theoretical orientations in the Liberal Arts . Courses in the Honors curriculum stress practice in formal academic presentation, in both speaking and writing, and practice in the conventions of academic discourse and behavior. The Honors curriculum is designed to encourage students to be self-reflective about their own intellectual processes and to become more aware of the requirements of different academic discourses in the humanities and social sciences . The courses required in the Honors curriculum are designed to be transferable to other colleges and universities. Program Entry Requirements: This program is open to interested students who have demonstrated appropriate Honors program placement on the College's writing and reading comprehension examinations. Students who enter the Honors curriculum after completing some college work must have at least a 3.0 GPA in humanities and social science courses. Acceptance into the Honors curriculum requires an informational session with the Honors faculty. Program of Study and Graduation Requirements: To qualify for the Associate Degree in Arts (A.A.) degree in Liberal Arts: Honors, a student must complete a minimum of 61 credit hours as prescribed (27 credits of which must be in Honors designated courses) and maintain a 3.0 GPA. View more details on Community College of Philadelphia . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Liberal Arts and Science courses.