title: John Marshall Scholars
text: # John Marshall Scholars
  
  The John Marshall Scholars Program is an academic scholarship program that covers a majority of the cost of education for member students at Marshall University. Named to honor the Chief Justice of the United States John Marshall, the program affords a rigorous academic program and provides a full tuition/fees waiver and stipend to students with a composite ACT score of 30 or higher who have been accepted to the university. Students must maintain a 3.5 GPA in order to retain their scholarship.
  
  John Marshall Scholars complete a program of interdisciplinary honors seminars and departmental honors courses. Examples of these interdisciplinary seminars include:
  
  * Threads of Bale, exposing students to the literature and music of suffering in Northern Ireland and Appalachia.
  * The History of Science, exploring the nature of scientific revolutions and their impact on society
  * Global Terrorism
  * Literary Ornithology
  * Tolkien and Film
  * Writing Biography: Franklin D. Roosevelt
  * Post-Colonial Theory and Literature
  * The American Constitution
  * Endangered Species: Genetics and Policy
  * The Roosevelts: The Years Before the White House
  * Tests, Tests, and More Tests
  * Castro's Cuba and the American Imagination
  