• DePauw_Gold

    DePauw_Gold

    DePauw_GOLD: Cheers! RT @adken03: @DePauw_GOLD give a GCB or two. Join me by toasting ole DePauw with a gift. You can do it!

    11 hours ago

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    DePauw_Gold

    DePauw_GOLD: Thank YOU! RT @jessicadix: Just delivered a GCB to DePauw! Thanks @DePauw_GOLD for bringing back some great memories...

    11 hours ago

  • DePauwU

    DePauwU

    ICYMI: 515 graduate during 173rd commencement exercises, hear address from James B. Stewart: http://t.co/CMn6Wwog

    13 hours ago

  • DePauw_Gold

    DePauw_Gold

    DePauw_GOLD: Welcome to the #GOLD community Class of 2012! #finally http://t.co/VjMUHsF3

    18 hours ago

  • DePauwU

    DePauwU

    And it's official. Congratulations to the class of 2012. We wish you the very best. #DePauw2012

    18 hours ago

  • DePauwU

    DePauwU

    And now The Toast. #DePauw2012

    18 hours ago

  • DePauwU

    DePauwU

    And now @PresidentCasey officially charges the graduating class. "Whatsoever things are true... Just... Pure... Lovely... of good report...

    18 hours ago

  • DePauwU

    DePauwU

    Alumni Board President Marc Veatch '75 welcomes the new graduates as new DePauw alumni.

    18 hours ago

  • DPU_StudentGov

    DPU_StudentGov

    Congrats to all of the graduates today! You will be missed! Good luck on your future endeavors and come back and visit @DePauwU often!

    19 hours ago

  • DePauwU

    DePauwU

    Awarding of degrees from @DePauwMusic complete. Asbury CLA beginning now.

    19 hours ago

  • DePauwU

    DePauwU

    And now the awarding of degrees begins. #DePauw2012

    19 hours ago

  • DePauwU

    DePauwU

    Sharon Ubben challenges 2012 graduates to be future Ubben Lecture speaker. #DePauw2012

    19 hours ago

  • DePauwU

    DePauwU

    Fun fact: Tim Ubben started the Little 5 bike race at DePauw in 1956.

    19 hours ago

  • DePauwU

    DePauwU

    Casey on Ubbens: "You exemplify the best of DePauw." #DePauw2012

    19 hours ago

  • DePauwU

    DePauwU

    And Sharon Williams Ubben and Timothy H. Ubben, the founders and stewards of the Ubben Lecture Series w/ a generation of service to DePauw.

    19 hours ago

  • DePauwU

    DePauwU

    Sara Lennox, Director of Social Thought and Political Economy at UMass Amherst.

    19 hours ago

  • DePauwU

    DePauwU

    Honorary degree recipients: David Nathaniel Baker Jr, Distinguished Professor of Music at Indiana U and Dir. of Smithsonian Jazz Orch.

    19 hours ago

  • DePauwU

    DePauwU

    And now, the recognition of Stewart with the Kilgore Medal, and the awarding of honorary degrees.

    19 hours ago

  • DePauwU

    DePauwU

    "Now it is your turn; your defining moments are at hand... Embrace this moment."

    19 hours ago

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Program Requirements

The DePauw Honor Scholar Program is open to students of all majors who show unusual promise and commitment to the development of the life of the mind. Each year a small number of carefully selected first-year students are invited to participate in the program and the special opportunities it presents.

Seminar

In their first year, Honor Scholars take two special Honor Scholar First-Year Seminar courses. During their remaining three years, students take three interdisciplinary seminar courses. These seminars focus on a wide variety of topics, and allow students to investigate topics in the natural sciences, socials sciences, and humanities. These seminars allow Honor Scholars to read, discuss, and write about both classic and cutting edge sources in a small group setting, working closely with professors.

During their last two semesters at DePauw, Honor Scholars pursue independent work under the direction of a faculty thesis advisor and a committee of two or more additional faculty members, culminating in an Honors thesis.

Being an Honor Scholar implies more than formal academic study. There are opportunities for Honor Scholars to mix socially and informally with one another and with members of the faculty. Above all, the program provides an opportunity to be part of a group that seeks especially to find in its college education an intensive and stimulating intellectual experience.

Liberal arts education at its best, the Honor Scholar Program ideally prepares its members for any postgraduate training or careers.