HONORS PROGRAM General Objectives—The Honors Program is designed to offer students of extraordinary ability and motivation opportunities for study which will challenge and stimulate them and lead to a greater development of their special abilities than might have occurred without the Honors Program. The educational aims of the Honors Program are those of the college generally, that is, the inculcation of the knowledge, the values, the arts, and the skills that Weber State College, as a comprehensive four year institution, promulgates and symbolizes. Recognizing that diversity of talent and interest is socially useful, the Honors Program offers various ways for the Honors student to acquire the knowledge, values, arts, and skills that the college comprehends. Common to these various ways is the assumption that the Honors student will develop his abilities beyond the ordinary and in that process will find many rewards, including stimulation, pleasure, and excitement during his stay at Weber State College and special recognition useful after graduation. For the student desiring to excel within a major, the program offers a Departmental Honors option. The student graduating with Departmental Honors is certified to have mastered to an unusual degree the discipline in which he has majored. For the student desiring broad interdisciplinary education, the Program offers several options. The Honors General Education Program offers studies in the tradition of intellectual culture and studies in the principles of the diverse disciplines represented by the college. No two Honors students will possess the same knowledge and skills in the same degree. However, generally speaking, the Honors graduate will possess the following accomplishments: unusual depth and mastery of a particular discipline; an intimate acquaintance with the major outlines of the human intellectual tradition; a broad acquaintance with the principles of the various disciplines of the college; a cultural attitude appreciative of both cosmopolitan and local values; a strong sense of social responsibility; a love of the arts and humane pursuits; a recognition of environmental values; a practical mastery of logic, languages, and mathematics necessary to survival in a complex world ; critical acumen, including the ability to analyze, synthesize, and make critical evaluation; and the ability to pursue independent learning. 83