Honors Program
Challenge Yourself, Grow, and Transfer
The Honors Program at Moreno Valley College is a learning community that helps students expand personal and academic horizons through mentoring, scholarship, and transfer support. Join the Honors Program to pique your curiosity and foster friendships as you strive toward academic excellence.
Why join the Honors Program?
The Honors Program will support you, challenge you, and help you grow. In return for participation in your classes and community, Honors students receive:
- Priority registration, which allows Honors students to register for any MVC classes before regular registration opens
- Scholarship workshops
- One-on-one student-faculty mentoring
- Small class sizes
- Specialized academic and career counseling
- Field trips to local transfer colleges
- Access to the MVC Honors Center in Humanities 205B, a dedicated study and collaboration space
- Opportunities to do original research
- Opportunities to attend and present at local and statewide conferences
- Opportunity to take contract courses. Work one-on-one with Honors faculty to complete a research project in a non-Honors course to earn program credit.
- Upon program completion, students can take advantage of transfer agreements with over 30 colleges and universities. Transfer agreements offer special admissions consideration, honors-to-honors transfer, research opportunities, housing priority, scholarship priority and more.
Opportunities to Explore
How do I join?
Students must apply to join the Honors program. Honors program applications are accepted year round for both current RCCD students as well as first-time college students. Requirements include a minimum GPA of 3.0 or membership on the Dean's List in any term.
Honors Classes
Honors classes use innovative teaching strategies to challenge students to discover creative or original solutions and conclusions. Honors students have two options when it comes to planning their course schedules: stand-alone classes and contract courses.
Benefits of Honors Classes
- Stand-alone Honors classes are limited to 20 students for greater emphasis on critical thinking and active participation.
- Honors contract courses allow students to take non-Honors classes while earning Honors program credit by completing tougher assignments designed by their instructor.
- Honors students read more primary texts and not simply textbook material.
- Honors classes develop your writing and critical thinking skills. Expect at least 20 pages of formal, graded written work to prepare you for the demands of university-level assignments.
Honors Course Schedule
- ANT-1H Honors Physical Anthropology: Disease and Death in Ancient Jericho and Egypt
- COMM-C1000H Honors Intro to Public Speaking: Voices for Change
- ECON-C2002H Honors Principles of Macroeconomics: Economic Policy Lab: Practicing Macroeconomics with Real-World Data
- ENGL-C1000H Honors Academic Reading and Writing: Do You Know Where Your Smartphone Is?
- HIST-2H Honors World History since 1500: Making the Modern World
- STAT-C1000H Honors Introduction to Statistics
- ARTH-C1200H: Survey of Art from Renaissance to Contemporary - Honors
- ECON-C2001H: Principles of Microeconomics - Honors
- PSYC-35H: Honors Abnormal Psychology
- BIO-60H: Honors Introduction to Molecular and Cellular Biology
- ENGL-C10003H: Critical Thinking and Writing through Literature - Honors
Contact the Honors Program, stop by the Honors Center, and drop in during faculty hours to meet with your Honors instructors.
Honors Center Hours:
Fall 2026 schedule coming soon.
Closed on holidays, college breaks, and during winter and summer terms.
Honors Counseling:
Check the Honors Counselor schedule.
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Coordinators -
Phone(951) 571-6948 -
LocationHumanities Building, Room 205B
