Honors Program Goals
The primary goal of the Reading Area Community College Honors Program is to enrich the educational experience of motivated, intellectually curious students.
The Honors Program achieves this goal through First Year Seminars, General Education courses, Honors courses in select majors, and Independent Study courses. Honors courses often involve exploratory learning, collaborative activities, interdisciplinary connections, and research projects.
The Honors Program also seeks to enhance opportunities for students to learn outside the classroom through field trips, service activities, and conference presentations, to receive special recognition for high academic achievement, and to transfer to four-year colleges and universities.
Honors Courses
Taking Honors courses at RACC offers many benefits:
- Academic challenge
- Personal enrichment
- Small classes with other academically motivated students
- Individual attention from instructors and faculty mentors
- A competitive edge when applying for jobs or transferring to four-year colleges and universities
- Honors designations on transcripts and a distinctive Honors diploma
- Special commendation as an Honors Graduate
- Opportunities for scholarships
- Honors Program Scholarships
- Free admission to up to two events at the Miller Center per semester
Graduates of the RACC Honors Program have gone on to many excellent four year colleges including:
- Albright College
- Brown University
- Columbia University
- Pennsylvania State University
- Smith College
- Temple University
- University of Pennsylvania
For more information:
Contact Dr. Pamela A.R. Blakely
Honors Program Coordinator
610-372-4721 (ext. 5452)