SUMMERLAND HONORS PROGRAM
A Quest for Identity

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The Curriculum

Honors and the
Core Curriculum

Benefits of the
program

Requirements
for continued
enrollment and
graduation

Graduates

Faculty

At Newberry College students and faculty walk together on the path of knowledge, and along the way they bring to life a distinctive learning community.  The Summerland Honors Program accentuates all that is best about living and studying at Newberry College, a place where people are willing to seek innovative and memorable educational opportunities and experiences inside and outside the classroom.  The community is a perfect haven for students to search for understanding and to consider a myriad of questions old and new.

In many ways the human story has been and will continue to be a quest for identity.  How have we understood what it means to be human?  The Summerland Honors program is structured upon the theme, A Quest for Identity, and affords opportunities to explore this essential question from a number of vantage points.  Indeed, each of the three years of paired, interdisciplinary courses focuses on a particular perspective concerning this quest for identity.

The program includes innovative curriculum that enables participants to realize Newberry College's institutional goals.  While educating the whole person, the Summerland Honors Program promotes the development of communication skills (oral and written), the development of critical-thinking skills, and emphasizes and awareness of ethical concerns.  A service-learning component provides even greater opportunities for growth and rewards.

Summerland Honors Program graduates are prepared and motivated for active citizenship, empowered and ready to assume positions of advocacy for social change as a way to make life more productive and meaningful.
 

Summerland Honors House (right), as seen from the college's main entrance on College Street.  The house allows for students to study or hang out in a quiet atmosphere only steps from central campus.  Several of the Honors classes are also taught here.