The Honors Journey
Merrimack College’s Honors Program offers our students a four year journey where they can perfect their workplace skills by designing their own pathway.
Inspired by Augustine’s philosophy of teaching and learning, the program is dedicated to active learning in community with others leading to transformative experiences.
The Four Trajectories
Travel/Study Abroad
Learn by traveling and immersing yourself fully into other cultures and understanding. Your experience may include studying abroad in Wroxton, England, for a semester or a 6-week study abroad in Rome, Italy. Soak up all the tutelage you can while earning credits towards your degree.
Leadership Development
Serve as an Honors society committee chair, peer mentor or ambassador, be paired up with an alumni mentor, and attend the alumni Honors networking events Merrimack holds in New York City or Washington, D.C. your senior year.
Research/Academic Pedigree
Be one of the students to participate in a directed study on your own independent research goals, serve as a peer mentor for other students, attend academic conferences with our faculty members, and choose to serve as either a teaching assistant or research lab assistant your senior year.
Community Engagement & Service
Merrimack Honors imparts the skills needed for true leadership. Through opportunities ranging from topics in classroom discussions, to the Honors Student Council, to our emphasis on educating the whole person, we strive to prepare students for when they will no longer be students, in whatever their chosen field and way of life.
You can pick a new trajectory every year, or stay with one consistent trajectory across your four years.
Travel/Study Abroad
Leadership Development
Research/Academic Pedigree
Community Engagement & Service
Honors Pedagogy
The Honors Program at Merrimack College offer students access to exclusive learning experiences, such as:
- Honors Research Seminar: Honors students at Merrimack who major in Education will have the opportunity to pursue a specialized research project prior to the Practicum in senior year.
- Honors News Internship: This one credit course is an opportunity for Honors students to work on an award-winning newsletter alongside Honors faculty and editors.
MORE HONORS EXCLUSIVE OFFERINGS
RTS1947H - Saints, Sinners + the Sacred
Humans have a long and complex history with what is often called "the sacred," "the divine," "the holy," or God.
CRM3600H - Drugs and Society
This course examines the use and control of mind-altering and medicinal substances in the U.S. and abroad.
CRM4500H - Statistics in Criminology
This course introduces students to descriptive and inferential statistics in criminology & criminal justice.
MGT1150H - Technology Skills for Business
This course will get students ready for a career in business by teaching them how to properly use some of the most popular software in industry.
CRM3900H - Incarceration
This course looks at prisons, jails, & alternative-to-incarceration programs in terms of daily life, operations, hierarchies, & institutions.
WGS3300H - US Women's History
An examination of the history of women in America. It will include history prior to colonization, beyond and to the present.
Scholarship Opportunities
Merrimack College’s Honors Program Faculty are happy to guide our students towards several different scholarship and fellowship opportunities for post-graduation:
- Truman Scholarship: The Harry S. Truman Scholarship is an opportunity for undergraduate students interested in pursuing public service as graduate students to receive mentorship, programming, and funds to pursue the graduate school of their choice.
- Fulbright Program: The Fulbright Program offers multiple opportunities for students to pursue research and/or teaching focused projects.
- Rhodes Scholarship: The Rhodes Scholarship is a chance for students to study at the University of Oxford with full funding.
- Goldwater Scholarship: The Barry Goldwater Scholarship candidates are college sophomores or juniors who intend to pursue research in life sciences, engineering and mathematics.
For more information or to learn more about the application process, please contact your Honors Program Faculty Advisor.
