The mission of the Montgomery Scholars Program is
to recruit 25 diverse Montgomery County High School seniors each year
and to teach them in an intense, nurturing and stimulating learning
community. We are committed to an interdisciplinary approach to post-secondary
education, providing a first-year core curriculum which blends together
the four disciplines of history, literature world music and philosophy.
This first-year core is team-taught and has an emphasis on Global Perspectives:
Early Modern to Post Modern. In the second year of the program, another
team-taught interdisciplinary approach links the students’ speech
class with an honors seminar and International Relations class which
emphasize independent research and public speaking culminating in a
Scholars Colloquium. A number of other honors classes are also tied
to the core curriculum and enable students in the program to continue
making cross-academic links in Anthropology, English and Biology. The
aim of the Program is to encourage students to think critically, independently
and globally. We believe the experience in an overseas academic environment
also encourages such thinking, as do co-curricular activities including
museum and art gallery visits and service learning. Fundamentally, we
aim to facilitate students in the program to graduate in two years and
to pursue their major at a four-year school; to that end, we also believe
in personal counseling to enable students to pursue and fulfill their
aims.
