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Freshman Triple

In the first year of studies, the Honors Program student will complete three Honors courses each term. These courses will be in the disciplines of history, literature and philosophy, and will, over the course of the year, take the student from the ancient world period to the contemporary period. The professors teaching in this first-year program make every attempt to coordinate their readings and assignments so that, at any particular point in time during the academic year, the students will be viewing the same period of civilization through the perspective of three different disciplines.

A typical week would have the student spending three hours of class time in each of the three disciplines and three-hours of time in a special situation in which an attempt is made to integrate the three seemingly distinct disciplines. This three hour period of time brings all of the students in this program and their professors together, in a variety of experiences. Although some of these sessions are held on campus, most will make use of the varied and abundant resources of the Philadelphia area. In recent semesters, this has meant afternoons, or evenings, spent at the Academy of Music with the Pennsylvania Ballet, evenings at the Kimmel Performing Arts Center with the Philadelphia Orchestra, plays at the Arden Theatre with discussions led by their artistic director, and visits to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Each of these activities is designed to complement and supplement the work of the classroom --a humanities lab, in effect.

Having completed this first year of studies, the Honors Program student is then offered a wide variety of Upper Division Seminars.