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Undergraduate Catalog 2020 - 2021 > Honors Awards and Policies > Departmental Honors at Graduation

Departmental Honors at Graduation

Departmental Honors are awarded during the May commencement week events to students of outstanding scholarship in their program of study. To be eligible a student must: have an overall cumulative grade point average of 3.50, have a 3.50 average in their requirements for their major program of study requirements, have earned at least 60 credits at Molloy (30 credits if receiving an Associate’s Degree), have half of the major requirement credits earned at Molloy and have fulfilled any departmental requirements for all honors set down by the respective areas. To be eligible for May awards, students may have been awarded a degree with prior year degree award dates in August, December or January, or may be pending candidates for May graduation. Students, who are pending for the August graduation, will be considered for Departmental Honors in the following year.

For Allied Health's applied associate in science degree students, the two and a half year program is always completed in August. These students will be honored in May if they qualify and if they are pending candidates for graduation.

Each department/school of study may choose to give two awards in a discipline - one high honors and one honorable mention. Where there are unique programs of study in a department, there will be additional awards.

For Childhood Education in any content area, there is one award for high honors and one for honorable mention. The award is based on grade point averages in the content area and education requirements. (There are no awards for students in Childhood Education by content area.)

For students in Adolescence Education, there will be one award in each of the following areas, based on both the grade point average in the content area and the education requirements: Biology, Earth Science, English, Mathematics, Social Studies and Spanish.

For Special Subjects in Education, there is one award for high honors and one for honorable mention for Music Education and the same for Visual Arts Education.

Five Year Combined Degree students pending for graduation are eligible to be considered with the B.S. and B.A. student nominees.