Honors Activities
Academic Activities
Honors work includes opportunities for advanced levels of critical thinking, analysis, research, writing, and communication. Other options include experiments, community service, performance, and multimedia and art projects.
What is an Honors Academic Activity exactly?
An honors academic activity is an honors colloquium, an honors contract, or an honors course. An honors contract requires additional, independent scholarship carried out within a regular LPC course.
Honors Contract
Honors contracts consist of in-depth research, demonstration of critical thinking, and scholarship of greater breadth or depth. Frequently, honors contracts result in the production of a research paper or other written work. The honors student must receive the earned letter grade of "B" or better in the course. Successful completion of the honors contract results in "H" credit for the course.
In addition:
- The honors contract paper/project will require approximately 50 hours of work (about 3 extra hours per week).
- The honors student should contact the instructor regularly to receive input and guidance on the academic activity. There should be at least six contacts: about one every three weeks.
- There
should be clear outcomes to the honors contract that have
been previously agreed upon by the student and the instructor.
These may include one or more of the following:
- Research paper(s)
- Research project
- Creative project
- Service/community based learning project
- The honors contract is graded on a "pass/no pass" basis and will not affect the student's grade in the course. Successful completion of the honors contract will result in the student receiving honors credit for the course as well as transcript designation of the honors contract. The student must receive a "B" or better in the course to receive this honors credit.
- Honors contracts must be completed before the end of the semester. There are no 'incomplete' honors contracts. However, in the case that the student receives an 'incomplete' in the overall course in accordance with college guidelines, the student shall be permitted time to complete the honors contract along with the course.
- Honors students may drop out of the honors contract obligation at any time during the semester; however, if this occurs twice, the student's membership in the Honors Transfer Program will be reviewed by the Honors Transfer Advisory Board.
Honors Seminar
The Honors Seminar is a nine-week, two-hour class (with a TBA hour) that focuses on contemporary ideas with invited authors, artists, scientists, and scholars; topics related to success in transfer to a four-year school; and strategies for succeeding academically at the four-year school.
Activities may include field trips to four-year colleges and universities, art and historical museums, film archives, theater productions, operas, symphonies or other activities.
GNST 9 1.0 unit
CRN: 22134
Tuesdays 4:00 p.m. - 5:50 p.m.
Room 712
Dr. Klaschus, Instructor