Honor curiosity
We see your intellectual curiosity, your passion for learning, and your willingness to actively participate in and outside of the classroom. Let’s lean into that.
The Clark Honors Experience is not some conventional honors program. It is co-designed by students and faculty to bring positive change, and each student contributes ideas to shape the experience for future cohorts. Through this experience and accomplishments in and out of the classroom, students who graduate with the honors accolade are stand-out candidates for potential employers and graduate schools.
Honors Experience foundations
Honors Experience students are immersed in activities that center around four primary themes in the context of “Challenge Convention. Change Our World.”
Community
Students build connections with, learn from, and collaborate with others from a diversity of backgrounds, lived experiences, and academic perspectives to develop deeper knowledge of themselves and others.
Inclusive Academic Excellence
Committed to learning beyond what is simply required, Honors Experience students nurture a culture that values the talents and passions of each individual.
Interdisciplinarity
The experience is purpose-built for inquisitive, independent thinkers who challenge assumptions, look at things from multiple angles, and aren’t afraid to take on the complex problems facing our world.
Ingenuity
Inspired by their own unique perspectives, students co-create and co-curate engaged learning opportunities, from community service to cultural events.
The hands-on experience
Honors Experience students engage in additional course work and experiential learning activities outside of the classroom.
In the classroom
Honors courses
You’ll complete four multi-disciplinary courses designed for the experience. These courses highlight the importance of exploring multiple approaches to address the big issues of the day. Up this year: Education, Equity and Possibility.
In the community
Co-curricular activities
Co-curricular activities are student-developed and student-led projects that take place outside of the classroom. You’ll participate in three activities that are centered around leadership development, engaged citizenship, and career preparation.
In your cohort
A learning community
Immerse yourself in a community of curious, like-minded students who love learning for learning’s sake and seek to answer big questions through interdisciplinary study.
Admission
The first cohort of Honors Experience students will be selected through the admission process and begin as first-year students in the fall 2024 semester. Students who are not selected for the fall cohort may apply to join in the spring.