How 3Year Program Works
The 3Year Honors Program is an integrated academic experience designed so students achieve proficiency in 10 competencies through interdisciplinary and cross-curricular modules. Foundations for the competencies are laid in the first year and are built upon and reinforced throughout each successive semester.
This program is based on students mastering the following competencies:
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Although the 3Year Honors Program will be taught in the time frame of the traditional semester, the course content will be delivered through comprehensive and often interdisciplinary modules instead of typical 3-credit classes. It is not a "rescheduling" or compression of our four-year program. Students are required to complete all specially designed modules in the 3Year Honors Program.
Highly Integrated
Each semester concludes with a week-long (20 hour) integrating experience that brings together competencies learned through the modules offered during that semester.
Teams of four to five students spend a week working together, trying to find creative solutions for real-world business challenges. At the end of the integrating experience, each team will present their research and recommendations to professors, just as they would for supervisors, board members and shareholders in the business world. Students receive team-based grades and college credit for their efforts.
Integrating experience helps students to see the relevance of their learning and serves as a vehicle for competency development.
Real World Perspective
The 3Year Honors Program provides you with real world experience and perspective. As a 3Year student, you will apply what you learn every semester to real business challenges. For example, our 3Year students run a consulting firm called New Paradigm Design (NPD), where you will have the opportunity to be a part of a consulting team developing creative solutions for your real-world client.
120 Credits / Six Semesters
3Year students earn 120 credits; the same number as students in a traditional four-year degree program. Students attend the university for two 15-week semesters each year, for three years, from early September until early May. Summer sessions, weekend or night courses are not required in the 3Year Honors Program.