Interested in Joining Honors?
How to Join
Requirements:
High school students with a demonstrated record of academic excellence are invited to apply.
How to apply:
If you are eligible to apply to the CHP, you should see an option to apply in your admissions portal. If you are interested and do not see this in your portal, please email the Director and Associate Director of the CHP at honors@catawba.edu so we can assist you.
In either a 500-word essay OR 3-minute video, respond to ONE of the following prompts:
- What specific class experience (reading, project, conversation, teacher, course, etc.) led you to have a new understanding about yourself or the world around you? In your answer, please describe both the experience and how you were changed by the experience (answer both the what and the how). To help you brainstorm, you may wish to recall experiences in previous classes that led you to reconsider your preferred future lifestyle or career or your beliefs about an issue, person, place, or event.
OR - Describe: (a) a time where you became keenly aware that other people saw the world (or an aspect of it, perhaps even you) very differently from the way you see the world, (b) how this revelation way made you feel, and (c) your understanding of how different people can have different versions of what is essentially the same thing (event, person, etc.).
- Requirements: Second semester first-year students with a 3.5 GPA, successful completion of 14 semester hours, and completion of the ENGL 1103 General Education requirement by the end of the fall semester are eligible to apply.
- How to apply: Typically, first-year students who did not enter the CHP in HON 1200 will receive an email invitation from us. If you are interested and have not received an invitation, we would love to talk with you. Email the Director and Associate Director of the Program at honors@catawba.edu.
Why Join Honors
- Priority registration for classes
- Travel opportunities with courses, with financial assistance
- Opportunity for networking and professional development at Honors conferences, with most costs paid
- Scholarships for incoming students choosing to join the CHP
- Honors housing in Hurley Residence Hall, the CHP dorm
- We are not an additional graduation requirement, just a different way to chart your path from entering student to graduate.
- CHP courses allow you to fulfill General Education requirements in courses with dynamic faculty from across the College leading unique courses for students who are intellectually curious.
