For all students, regardless of major, a Knox education begins with an intensive seminar involving stimulating readings, small group discussions, challenging writing assignments, and lots of student-teacher interaction.

The nationally-recognized Knox College Honors Program provides support for advanced independent study, producing a major piece of research or creative work. One in seven seniors participates in this yearlong, in-depth independent research program.

Knox is a leader in promoting top-notch undergraduate research. The newly created Center for Research and Advanced Studies coordinates student access to more than $200,000 in grants to support research and creative projects.

One of the great advantages of a Knox education is the opportunity to work closely with faculty on independent study projects. More than 90% of Knox students complete a research project or participate in a self-designed class before they graduate.

A nationally recognized home of incisive scholarship on the life and work of Abraham Lincoln directed by two of the leading Lincoln scholars working today, the Center conducts a variety of activities - including research, the Lincoln Colloquium, and lectures- to broaden understanding of Lincoln and his legacy.

McNair Fellows benefit from special tutorials, research skill development, and intensive career education, receive funding for substantive summer research and help in finding assistantships and internships that involve academic careers, all focused on first-generation college students and those from groups underrepresented in research and higher education careers.

Students interested in clinical psychology, counseling and social work can spend a term immersing themselves in the field by taking two courses, Theories and Methods of Psychotherapy and Clinical and Abnormal Psychology. The third course is a clinical psychology internship.

In this interdisciplinary program at our Green Oaks Biological Field Station, students and faculty spend an entire term conducting research and creative projects and participating in courses in biology, anthropology-sociology, and English, as well as workshops in outdoor skills, first aid, and photography.

Students immerse themselves in the language, history, and philosophy of Japan through this interdisciplinary program that integrates coursework with a two-week trip to Japan.

Open Studio Term allows advanced art students to spend an entire 10-week term working as full-time artists. Open Studio is taken the term before the Senior Show, where work is exhibited in the gallery of the Ford Center for the Fine Arts, and is required of all studio art majors.

The only course of its kind in the nation, it enables students, regardless of their majors, to dedicate an entire 10-week term to the study and staging of two major theatrical productions.

Knox is the pilot site - and the first college or university in the country - with an official Peace Corps Preparatory Program, featuring a curriculum designed to prepare students to serve in the Peace Corps or in international service.