At graduation from the Honors Program, students will demonstrate competence in:
- Self–directed learning
- Students will make choices to be active agents in their own ongoing education
- Written and oral communication skills
- Students will employ an understanding of audience, purpose and context to communicate effectively to various audiences
- Ethical maturity and good citizenship
- Students will articulate the potential ethical ramifications for given situations and reflect on how ethics apply to themselves as local, national, and global citizens
- Context-driven research skills
- Students will demonstrate the ability to perform applied research in various contexts and use research conventions and technologies suitable to their research question and purpose
- Inter-disciplinary synthesis
- Students will apply the benefits of a liberal arts education by demonstrating that they are able to view topics through the lens of more than one discipline
- Active participation in the UMW community
- Students will actively participate in the extra-curricular life of UMW, demonstrating service and creating community within both UMW and the larger Fredericksburg area
- Active meta-analysis of self and others
- Students will actively engage in self-reflection, using meta-analysis as a tool for personal growth and general problem solving and reflection.
 