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Mission Statement
The Daley College Honors Program offers an enhanced and supportive learning environment responsive to the educational needs of highly able and exceptionally motivated students of any major. Through participation of faculty noted for excellence in teaching, a small class size, interdisciplinary Honors colloquia, special seminars, and an increased opportunity for undergraduate research, an enhanced, supportive learning environment is achieved. The essential core of the Honors Program is a liberal arts education which examines in depth the intellectual currents for the 18th, 19th, 20th, and 21st century and prepares students for transfer into a baccalaureate program at a four-year college or university. The Honors curriculum includes courses in humanities, natural and social sciences, mathematics, and literature. Emphasis is placed upon integration of course content, exchange of ideas, and development of critical thinking skills.
About the Honors Program
The Honors Program also offers many social and cultural events outside of the classroom. It provides opportunities for students to practice citizenship and leadership skills in a variety of settings. Students gain a heightened awareness of current issues facing our global community and develop a global perspective (which includes a foundation of knowledge about global conditions and events, empathy/concern for condition of others, and recognition of their power to effect positive change in the world).Perhaps the most important of all, however, is that throughout the program learning is treated as a worthwhile pursuit and education is considered a lifelong process.
Benefits to Students as Honors Program Participants:
- Small class size
- Personal attention from Professors
- Scholarship opportunities
- Special lectures, seminars, cultural events and awards
- Letters of Recommendation for transfer
- Intra-disciplinary coursework
- Transferable Courses
- Interaction with other highly motivated students
- Classes Monday - Thursday
- Honors designation on transcripts and Associate Degree diploma
- Certificates of Completion Awarded
Certificate of Completion
Eligibility to receive the Honors Certificate of Completion requires a student to complete 25 Honors credit hours. The Director of the Honors Program may allow a student to receive the Honors Certificate of Completion with only 22 Honors credit hours if the student was unable to take one or more of the course(s) offered because it had been taken prior to admission to the Honors Program.
Criteria for participation
Application Process:
Student Internships
Some of Richard J. Daley Honors Program students have interned here:
- Barack Obama's Office
- Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University
- Argonne National Laboratory
- Fermi National Laboratory
Study Abroad
Salzburg Global Seminar
Membership Affiliations
National Collegiate Honors Council
We would like to hear from you
Students apply to the Honors Program by completing an application available in the Honors Program Office, Room 2422. Call (773) 838-7628 for more information.