The Honors Program minor challenges students to fulfill their intellectual and personal potential through enriched and stimulating experiences; by cultivating a community of scholars committed to an earnest, cooperative, free, and open pursuit of truth; by developing an understanding of the unity of knowledge and the interrelationship of the academic disciplines; by providing the occasion for mentoring relationships with faculty; by preparing students for the pursuit of original and advanced research, scholarship, and performance; and by equipping students for outstanding leadership in service to God, their communities, and the world.