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Honors Program

Enrich your Honors experience in a friendly, open-minded environment. Honors Program students can choose to live on the Honors floor in Hastings.
Honors offers small classes that fulfill CORE requirements and satisfy your soul!
Honors is committed to small discussion-based classes in which students develop critical thinking skills while building collaborative relationships with fellow, students and faculty
Thesis meeting in the library
Multiple Sclerosis Walk in Scarborough
Scientific Inquiry in Honors.
Honors 201k lab
Honors Thesis Graduates-Interdisciplinary thesis work allows you to address complex, multi-faceted problems from a range of perspectives, academic disciplines, and methods.

The Honors Program provides students the opportunity to fulfill many of their Core requirements in a small, rigorous learning community.  Students work closely with faculty in seminar-style courses with an average of 16 students per class.  These courses tap and develop the curiosity, creativity, and motivation of every student.

News & Events

Posted April 30, 2012
The Honors Program formed a team of students, faculty and staff for the MS Walk in Scarborough on Saturday, April 28th.
Posted April 23, 2012
Rebecca Goodale is featured in the Maine Sunday Telegram April 22, 2012 (http://www.pressherald.com/life/audience/), for her exhibit ("Lullaby for Maine") in the Art Gallery at the University of New England. Her work focuses on endangered plant and animal species expressed via paintings, artist's books, prints and drawings. Rebecca will be teaching Illuminated Autobiography in Honors (HON207) Fall 2012.
Posted March 20, 2012
Mapping new approaches to teaching that challenge existing norms and practices across an array of educational settings, the newly released international collection--Disrupting Pedagogies in the Knowledge Society: Countering Conservative Norms with Creative Approaches (IGI Global, 2012)--includes a chapter by USM Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies Kaitlin Briggs: "Performing Dissident Thinking through Writing: Using the Proprioceptive Question to Break Out of the Classroom."
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