HONORS LIVING AND LEARNING COMMUNITIES
Learning and Living Among Friends
Villanova’s innovative Honors Learning Communities bring together students with similar interests—like Medical Humanities or Business and Society—to take coursework alongside like-minded peers in the Honors Residence Hall. Most Honors students choose to participate in one of these optional, enriching learning-living experiences.
Students live and learn alongside peers with the same interests, all while remaining fully immersed in programs that allow them to pursue their own path. Joining a learning community makes class discussions more engaging and creates deep friendships.
Within Honors Learning communities, students remain an integral part of the larger Villanova community, making friends across all academic disciplines, attending athletic and cultural events and experiencing all that being a Villanovan entails.
Learning Community Sequences
The Honors Program offers the following Learning Communities:
The most popular first-year learning community in the Honors Program, this sequence invites you to a collaborative inquiry of all we desire, know and delight in as human beings.
Energized discussion will sustain you at the Honors level for three semesters, fulfilling important University and Honors Program requirements.
Through its innovative incorporation of both seminar discussion and lecture, the sequence offers an introduction to the examined life in the company of ancient and modern writers.
You’ll enter into dialogue with thinkers who, in their own place and time, have thought hard about goodness, truth, and beauty—and what it means to be wonderfully, fully alive. Read more
In this learning community, Honors students are given a unique course of study through the Honors Program that culminates in the Honors Degree. This is an opportunity to engage in a well-described curricular path that encompasses Villanova's core requirements. All courses within this sequence take a balanced business, society and technology perspective.
This sequence provides students the skill set to: 1) engage in critical reflection on the meaning of concepts such as the nature of suffering, health, quality of life, disability and the purpose of research; and 2) analyze and formulate recommendations for action in situations of ethical dilemmas in health care. Read more
This program educates students to become transformative leaders for the global environment of the 21st-century through a distinctive series of classes that explore the relationship between our political, economic and ethical lives. In sophomore year, students have the option to study abroad for one semester with our study abroad partner in Cambridge, England. Read more
Shaping a College Life
This co-curricular, one-credit experience aims to help Honors students navigate a successful transition to college. Various themes are explored and students are introduced to resources on campus that highlight these topics.
This reflective experience provides students with the opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of themselves, their peer group and Villanova.