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Lycoming Scholars Program (SCHOL)

Professor: Chandler (Director)

The Lycoming College Scholars Program is a special program designed to meet the needs and aspirations of highly motivated students of superior intellectual ability. Lycoming Scholars also participate in special interdisciplinary seminars and in an independent study culminating in a senior presentation. The Lycoming Scholars Seminar is a 1 credit course and does not result in overload charges for full-time students.

Scholars-Level Distribution Requirements

Lycoming Scholars satisfy the College’s Distribution Requirements with more challenging courses than students not in the Lycoming Scholars Program are required to complete. Substitutions to the Distribution Requirements for Lycoming Scholars can be made only by successful application to the Committee on Academic Standards with a supporting signature by the Lycoming Scholars Council Director. In the case of transfer students and those who seek to enter the program at the sophomore level or higher and in other cases deemed by Lycoming Scholars Council to involve special or extraordinary circumstances, Lycoming Scholars Council shall make adjustments to the Lycoming Scholars Distribution Requirements provided that in all cases such exceptions and adjustments would still satisfy the regular College Distribution Requirements.

Lycoming Scholars Seminars

Team-taught interdisciplinary seminars are held every semester under the direction of the Lycoming Scholars Council. They meet for one hour each week (Tuesdays at noon) and carry one hour of credit. Lycoming Scholars are required to successfully complete five seminars, and they are permitted to register for as many as eight. Topics for each academic year will be selected by the Lycoming Scholars Council and announced before spring registration of the previous year.

Students must be accepted into the Scholars Program before they enroll in a Lycoming Scholars Seminar. Scholars are strongly urged to register for at least one seminar during their first year.

Senior Project

In their junior or senior year, Lycoming Scholars must successfully complete an independent study or departmental honors project which has been approved in advance by the Independent Studies Committee and Lycoming Scholars Council. This project must be presented orally as part of the Senior Lycoming Scholars Seminar and be accepted by Lycoming Scholars Council.

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LYCOMING SCHOLARS SEMINAR
Team taught interdisciplinary seminar held each semester under the direction of the Lycoming Scholars Council. May be repeated for credit. Completion of five semesters is required by the Lycoming Scholars Program. Prerequisite: Acceptance into the Lycoming Scholars Program. 1 credit.

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SENIOR LYCOMING SCHOLARS SEMINAR
Lycoming Scholars complete independent studies or departmental honors projects. These projects are presented to scholars and faculty in the senior seminar. Completion of two semesters, typically during the senior year, is required by the Lycoming Scholars Program. Prerequisite: Acceptance into the Lycoming Scholars Program. Non-credit course.