The Honors College

at West Chester University

Dr. Kevin Dean, Director
703 S. High Street
West Chester, PA 19383
Phone: 610-436-2996
Fax: 610-436-2620
Honors@wcupa.edu

Leadership Development Through Community Investment

The Honors College at West Chester University achieves this theme of leadership development through service by providing an exciting environment for academically gifted and highly motivated students to interact in a learning community of peers, faculty, administrators, and staff that will challenge and enrich the students' college experience.

At West Chester University, honors is more than a matter of strong grades. Honors implies a decision to use the gift of knowledge to be an active problem solver in both the campus community and in the world. To that end, the honors program seeks to build character and foster a commitment to lifelong learning that prepares leaders for the 21st century.

A core of nine sequenced courses will familiarize you, as a student, with defining and addressing challenges facing today's communities. Additionally, you will select a minimum of two 300/400-level special topics seminars that rotate each semester. The culminating experience, a three-credit capstone project, provides you with the opportunity to identify, investigate, and address creatively an issue in a community business, nonprofit agency, or research laboratory.

Honors is a supplement to, not a substitute for, an academic major. The honors core, plus one additional science or mathematics course, fulfills the University's general education requirements for honors students.