This is an honors course for the McMullen Scholars in the integrated Humanities: the arts of literature, painting, music, sculpture, and architecture, and the discipline of philosophy.

903 - Honors McMullen Capstone Research Seminar Grade 12 1 Credit
This honors course requires the student to demonstrate that he is qualified to graduate as a McMullen Scholar. It is completed in consultation with the Program Director and an individualized Committee of Readers and Mentors. This committee includes experts from outside Calvert Hall. By the end of the first Semester, the student is asked to complete a research-based process culminating with the original thesis paper providing ample persuasive evidence supporting a scholarly position. During the second semester, the student makes a presentation to all seniors in the McMullen Scholars Program, defending his project and responding to student and faculty critics. Students are advised to select topics of deep personal interest to foster their own intellectual growth as they wish to continue their education beyond Calvert Hall. This course is taken in addition to a student’s full six credit course load.
Prerequisite: Enrollment in the McMullen Scholar Program / Required for all McMullen Scholar

901H - Honors Humanities Grade 10, 11 0.5 Credit
This is an honors course for the McMullen Scholars in the integrated Humanities: the arts of literature, painting, music, sculpture, and architecture, and the discipline of philosophy. The components of humanities, philosophy and the arts are presented not as separate technical disciplines but as interrelated manifestations of human creativity. As such, recognizing the historical context for philosophy and the arts is a vital component of this course. To fully understand today’s western culture, this course focuses on western civilization and that heritage from Ancient Greece to the present. This course is taken in addition to a student’s full six credit course load.
Prerequisite: Enrollment in the McMullen Scholar Program / Required for all McMullen Scholars.

902H - Honors Rhetoric and Logic Grade 9 0.5 Credit Honors 
Rhetoric and Logic are a required course for the McMullen Scholars Program. The course concerns the faculty of discovering the means of persuasion for any possible subject. The course touches on highly transferable skills that have been valued by educators since Ancient Greece and Rome. Students will learn what an argument is, how it is crafted, and how it can be utilized. By taking a cross- curricular approach, this course will teach rhetoric and logic as arts and forms of inquiry. This course is taken in addition to a student’s full six credit course load.
Prerequisite: Enrollment in the McMullen Scholar Program / Required for all McMullen Scholars.