The Integral Honors Program provides a unique educational opportunity for exceptional students to pursue advanced learning. The interdisciplinary, team-taught honors courses foster critical thought and encourage creative synthesis of ideas from many disciplines and many eras. Coursework that is focused largely within the humanities (and meets Core Curriculum requirements) explores the human experience in the context of history, stressing the development of civilizations and the connections and interrelationships that have molded our world. Integral Honors students make their own contribution to knowledge in their senior thesis research project, the culmination of their education in the Integral Honors Program. The goal of the program is to graduate students not only with the highest degree Le Moyne College offers but also with a love of learning and an exceptional foundation of understanding from which to continue a lifelong journey of exploration.

Students of all majors are invited to join the Integral Honors Program in the fall of their first year at the College, and the students in each honors class move through the program together for the next four years.  Honors courses are taught by a select team of faculty from a variety of disciplines. Excellent teachers and scholars, they provide honors students with a rich array of perspectives and experiences. Classes are small, which enables free exchange of ideas among peers and enhances student-professor relationships. The Honors Penthouse in Grewen Hall, available to honors students 24 hours a day, provides a comfortable environment for studying and socializing, as well as a place for student-sponsored activities and events, including dinners, parties, lectures, films and discussions.

Dr. Elizabeth Hayes, Director
Honors Penthouse, 501 Grewen Hall
315-445-4470
hayes@lemoyne.edu

2010 Recipient of the James C. Finlay Award for Integral Honors

Dan Molloy was awarded the James C. Finlay Award for Integral Honors, which is presented annually to the student with the most outstanding honors project, at the 2010 Honors Convocation.

Le Moyne President Fred Pestello, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies Darryl Caterine, Dan Molloy '10, Associate Professor of English Elizabeth Hayes and Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Linda LeMura gather following the 2010 Honors Convocation. Professor Caterine served as Dan's mentor during his Integral Honors thesis. Professor Hayes is the director of the Integral Honors Program.

In his thesis titled “In Pursuit of Meaning in Contemporary Times,” Molloy explored the perennial existential question of meaning from three different perspectives: through a fictional short story he wrote; through the analysis of several literary, philosophical and religious texts; and through a memoir recounting several of his reflections on meaning over the course of his life.

A psychology major, Molloy also received the Edward Egan Medal in the Arts and the Department of Psychology Medal.

This fall he will attend law school at Fordham University. Father Finlay, for whom the integral honors award that Molloy received was named, served as the president of Fordham from 1972 to 1984, and as interim president at Le Moyne from 1987 to 1988.

As the recipient of the Finlay award, Molloy had the opportunity to address those in attendance at the Honors Convocation.
To read his remarks, click here.