| The Nisbet Honors Program offers the academically gifted student the challenge and the community where she may grow to her full potential.
 The Honors Program allows her to:
- to pursue independent research with faculty mentors
- to take honors courses with other academically gifted students
- to learn from nationally known visiting scholars
- to receive funding for study-travel
- and to meet socially to discuss intellectually challenging topics.
Outcomes:
More than 50% of Converse honors graduates receive admission to graduate school in the two years following graduation. Recent grad school acceptances for Converse’s honors graduates include acceptances to the following programs and institutions:
- Yale University
- Harvard's Kennedy School of Government
- Cornell University’s PhD program in musicology
- Clemson University’s PhD program in math
- Wichita State University's MFA in Creative Writing
- North Carolina State's PhD program in microbiology
- Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
- College of William and Mary’s MS program in computational operations research
- USC’s Master’s of Accountancy program
- USC's economics PhD program
One of the most unusual features of the Nisbet Honors Program is its emphasis on interdisciplinary learning. All participants must take at least one interdisciplinary honors course which is team-taught by two professors from different fields. These courses can be used to satisfy General Education Program (GEP) requirements.
Recent interdisciplinary course offerings include:
- "The New South" (History and English)
- "Human Sexuality and the Literature of Love, Marriage, and Birth" (Biology and English)
- "The Sixties in Music and Historical Memory" (History and Music History)
- "The 1930's and the Great Depression" (Economics and History)
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Dr. Laura Feitzinger Brown
Co-director
Nisbet Honors Program
(864) 596-9115
Dr. John Theilmann
Co-director
Nisbet Honors Program
(864)596-9703
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Jennifer Woodruff
Converse graduate; now a graduate student at Duke University
“As a vocal performance major in the Honors Program, I was able to sing an amazing piece of 20th century music that I probably would not have been able to do in an ordinary senior recital. I was able to work with faculty instrumentalists as colleagues, which really taught me a great deal about performing professionally. I was also able to complete a great deal of research about the piece…research that helped separate me from other applicants in the very competitive graduate pool." |
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