Senior Honors Thesis/Independent Study

1 or 2 Semester Course – Junior/Senior Elective Honors (All Disciplines)

Course Fee = $150.00 per semester

Prerequisites:

1. Student has demonstrated strong academic performance.

2. Student must apply for Honors placement.

3. Student has demonstrated ability to be an independent learner.

4. Student must arrange preliminary meetings with faculty mentor.

5. Student must complete the Independent Study Course Request Form, complete with signature by the instructor that will be mentoring their work.

6. Final approval by Office of Student Academic Services and Department Chairperson.

Students will develop, with the assistance and guidance of an instructor, an independent research project to include a written and oral report along with other pieces as determined by the instructor, which is submitted to the appropriate department. This is considered an elite level of learning with formal presentation of results to faculty board, family and other members of the general public. Students may choose to do a one semester or full year project within any discipline. Students must meet with their mentor a minimum of one time per week in order to earn credit.

Summer School Policies

All students must have the approval of the Office of Student Academic Services to take any off-campus summer school course for high school credit. Approval forms should be completed and submitted to the Office of Student Academic Services prior to enrollment in the course.

Courses that are part of the core curriculum at Marmion will not be approved for summer school with the following exceptions:

• Students may take a “for credit” course that is offered at Marmion Academy.

• Students who are making up a failure by taking a course at a local community college or through another approved provider (see note). This will allow the student to recover the credit, but not change the grade of the course.

• A student may take an approved “high school credit” course to enable him to take a more advanced course in the same field at Marmion. The student will enroll in the advanced level at Marmion the following fall.

• Students are to request that a Student Report of Completion with a grade be submitted to the Office of Student Academic Services prior to the first day of classes in the fall.

The student will receive credit for an approved summer school course (not taken at Marmion) upon completion with a passing grade. The student’s transcript will be updated with the appropriate credit. The grade is ‘noted’ on the transcript but not calculated in the student’s Cumulative GPA. If the course was taken to make up a failure, the original failing grade remains on the transcript, but is changed to “P” (Pass).

A “For Credit” summer class taught by a Marmion Academy instructor will be posted on the 1st and 2nd semester transcripts for the following year and will be calculated in the student’s Cumulative GPA in accordance with the student’s other course grades for each semester. All one semester summer courses are reported in the 1st Semester.

Credit Recovery

Any student who fails a course is REQUIRED to make up the credit by completing the assigned credit recovery work. Courses failed during the 1st Semester will incur a fee of $200.00 and can be made up concurrently during the 2nd Semester. Any work not completed in the 2nd Semester will be rolled into the summer program with an additional $200.00 fee. Courses failed during the 2nd Semester will incur a $400.00 fee and require the student to complete credit recovery during the summer program. Once credit recovery is completed, the credit will be awarded for the class for the purposes of graduation and college requirements. The grade of “F” will be replaced with “P”, but that will still count as a 0 towards the GPA. Failing grades cannot be replaced by re-taking the course. Any credit recovery that is not finished during the summer school term will result in either the student retaking the failed course, or the student continuing his credit recovery work into the fall term with an additional charge of $200 for each additional semester.