SPC Honors Program

As a small liberal arts college with a highly favorable faculty-student ratio, Saint Peter’s College offers a superb opportunity for creative academic experimentation and advancement.

The Honors Program provides the framework for curricular innovation and meaningful scholarly inquiry. The Honors Program has three main components:

• Honors Core Course Seminars. Like all students at the College, Honors students must fulfill the College’s core curriculum requirements. Honors students can take many of their core courses in the Honors Program curriculum. These Honors core course seminars generally replace the introductory courses in such subjects as art, literature, expository writing, history, philosophy, theology, mathematics, natural sciences, and social sciences. 
• Special Honors Courses. The Program regularly offers a variety of special and advanced courses that may be taken in partial fulfillment of the Honors requirements. All courses are advanced electives and include specialized and interdisciplinary courses. The program offers courses in areas as logic, business ethics, Japanese, film studies, technology & society, contemporary management, travel courses and more. 
• Honors Thesis Project. The Honors Thesis Project is an intensive original research project under the direction of an academic mentor. The project  begins in the second semester of the student’s junior year when the student takes a research methods seminar. The written thesis is completed  early in the second semester of the senior year, with an oral defense of the thesis.