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Teaching An Honors Course Tied To A Large University Event, Anne Wilson, Tyler Blakly, Kathryn Leciejewski, Michelle Sams, Susan Surber
Teaching An Honors Course Tied To A Large University Event, Anne Wilson, Tyler Blakly, Kathryn Leciejewski, Michelle Sams, Susan Surber
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College- or university-wide events take place fairly often at academic institutions, and these events can easily provide honors programs the opportunity to offer a curricular focus based on the event. Herein, we describe a course centered on the sesquicentennial celebration of Butler University and the teaching model implemented to deliver the course.
The Literature And Cinema Of Revenge: Honors 493 And English 492, Rusty Rushton, Michael Sloane
The Literature And Cinema Of Revenge: Honors 493 And English 492, Rusty Rushton, Michael Sloane
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This course explores the moral and aesthetic tenets of revenge passion as represented in Western literature and film. In addition to viewing such cinematic works as The Godfather and Dead Man Walking, we read Greek and Renaissance drama, passages from The Bible, Romantic poetry and philosophy, and essays concerned with contemporary instances of revenge. We are particularly interested in the historical shift from family- and clan-oriented societies to those based on national judicial systems, as well as in the emotional price we continue to pay in moving from the one type of satisfaction to the other.
The Honors Community: Furthering Program Goals By Securing Honors Housing, Nancy Reichert
The Honors Community: Furthering Program Goals By Securing Honors Housing, Nancy Reichert
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Many of us involved in honors programs and colleges assume that honors housing plays an important role in creating an honors community on campus. Some of the institutions for which we work agree and do not necessarily insist that we make the case for honors housing on campus. However, my experience this past year in attempting to bring honors housing to my campus for the second time in three years indicates that those who are involved in the decision-making process do not necessarily support honors housing. This article concerns the methods I used as Director of the University Honors Program …
Where Are The Education Majors And Faculty?, Lynne Steyer Noble
Where Are The Education Majors And Faculty?, Lynne Steyer Noble
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As an Associate Professor of Education, I (Lynne Steyer Noble) became involved in the Columbia College Honors Program because I designed and taught an honors seminar based on my experiences living in Northern Ireland, not because of my education background. In 2004, on the way to present at the National Conference in New Orleans, I happened to look around the airplane and notice that there were very few education majors in the fairly large contingent of Columbia College Honors students. In conference workshops, as participants introduced themselves I noted that there were no other education professors in any of the …
First-Year “Initiation” Courses In Honors, Jim Lacey
First-Year “Initiation” Courses In Honors, Jim Lacey
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In 1993, the new director of the recently revived Honors Program at Eastern Connecticut State University discovered that even seniors in this small program did not know each other and that some of them, not wanting to be branded nerds, were reluctant even to identify themselves as honors scholars. The program clearly needed a culture, a sense of community, and pride. With ideas lifted from NCHC conference sessions, a number of initiatives were launched, including contracts with students, a revived honors club, student-sponsored social events, and active student participation in regional conferences. The most interesting and perhaps controversial method of …
More Than An Id Number Or A Gpa: Developmental Advising In Honors, Jacqueline Klein, Lisa French, Pamela Degotardi
More Than An Id Number Or A Gpa: Developmental Advising In Honors, Jacqueline Klein, Lisa French, Pamela Degotardi
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Developmental advising is a common form of advisement used with students in honors programs; it is defined as a “special advising relationship with students that both stimulates and supports their quest for an enriched educational experience” (Ender, 1997, p. 171). In a developmental advising relationship, students continuously interact with the advisor to achieve personal and educational goals. The relationship goes beyond typical advising issues such as registration and class scheduling, tapping into academic competence, personal involvement, and developing life goals (Ender). According to Ender and Wilkie (2000), developmental advising is challenging yet supportive, thereby allowing students to learn from their …
Social Systems And Issues: Food & Culture: Honors Breadth Social Sciences Hnr 1340 (Freshman), Sarah Gordon
Social Systems And Issues: Food & Culture: Honors Breadth Social Sciences Hnr 1340 (Freshman), Sarah Gordon
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This interdisciplinary course explores the complex roles of food and consumption in western and non-western cultures from pre-history to the present day, using socio-historical, developmental, and comparative approaches. Food and foodways are universal aspects of the human experience across time and geographical boundaries. This class investigates the relation of food to changing and static cultural values, beliefs, attitudes, rituals, and practices. We eat and consider how foods such as chocolate, sugar, potatoes, and insects have had an impact on different societies and cultures. We discuss current world events and issues related to food and hunger, health and disease.
Editorial, Volume 3 - 2007, Ada Long, Dail Mullins
Editorial, Volume 3 - 2007, Ada Long, Dail Mullins
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Table of Contents:
Editorial Policy
Submission Guidelines
Dedication to William P. Mech
Editor’s Introduction by Ada Long
Learning a Practice Versus Learning to Be a Practitioner: Teaching Archaeology in an Honors Context by Troy R. Lovata
Teaching Arts and Honors: Four Successful Syllabi by P. Brent Register, Robert Bullington, and Joe A. Thomas
Service Learning in the Honors Composition Classroom: What Difference Does It Make? by Ann T. Parker
First-Year “Initiation” Courses in Honors by Jim Lacey
Teaching an Honors Course Tied to a Large University Event by Anne M. Wilson, Tyler D. Blakley, Kathryn A. Leciejewski, Michelle L. Sams, …
Ten Steps To Honors Publication: How Students Can Prepare Their Honors Work For Publication, Ellen Buckner
Ten Steps To Honors Publication: How Students Can Prepare Their Honors Work For Publication, Ellen Buckner
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The gold standard for scholarly accomplishment in any professional discipline is publication in a national peer-reviewed journal. Many journals accept small studies such as those done as part of a senior honors project or thesis. Disciplines vary as to what they will consider, but listed herein are ten suggested steps that faculty can recommend to students who want to have their honors work submitted, reviewed, and possibly accepted for publication in such a journal. Just going through the steps will give the honors student valuable experience. Even more importantly, the review process often provides the student with excellent comments by …
Integrating An Honors Minor, Education Major And Global Teacher Preparation, David M. Bishop, Kelli Sittason
Integrating An Honors Minor, Education Major And Global Teacher Preparation, David M. Bishop, Kelli Sittason
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In the pages that follow we will describe an exciting collaboration between our university’s College of Education and Honors Program. In the twenty-two-year history of the Honors Program at Northern Kentucky University (NKU), we have averaged only one education major per year completing an Honors Capstone Project. This statistic stands in stark contrast to the fact that Education regularly has the third or fourth highest number of pre-majors beginning an honors minor. Some efforts have been made in recent years to mesh requirements for the two programs and to improve student advising. However, the number of honors minor/education major students …
Honors In Practice, Volume 3 (Complete Issue)
Honors In Practice, Volume 3 (Complete Issue)
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CONTENTS Editorial Policy
Submission Guidelines
Dedication to William P. Mech
Editor’s Introduction Ada Long
INNOVATIVE HONORS COURSES
Learning a Practice Versus Learning to Be a Practitioner: Teaching Archaeology in an Honors Context Troy R. Lovata
Teaching Arts and Honors: Four Successful Syllabi P. Brent Register, Robert Bullington, and Joe A. Thomas
Service Learning in the Honors Composition Classroom: What Difference Does It Make? Ann T. Parker
First-Year “Initiation” Courses in Honors Jim Lacey
Teaching an Honors Course Tied to a Large University Event Anne M. Wilson, Tyler D. Blakley, Kathryn A. Leciejewski, Michelle L. Sams, and Susan A. Surber
HONORS …
Majoring In The Minor: A Closer Look At Experiential Learning, Bernice Braid
Majoring In The Minor: A Closer Look At Experiential Learning, Bernice Braid
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Experiential learning is, for me, a preeminent means to accomplish goals that are fundamental to the entire educational enterprise. It is a set of strategies that structure acquisition of information, analysis of ideas, and self-reflection in order to pull people into active engagement with their world. Among these strategies are skills of observation and interpretation that require learners to take careful note and to examine themselves as processors of the details they themselves assemble into meaningful patterns, thus generating the insight, over and over again, that it is they who create the meaning they come to attach to events and …
Disability: Past And Present (Honors 232—Interdisciplinary Seminar), Carolyn Stuart, Mary Jo Festle
Disability: Past And Present (Honors 232—Interdisciplinary Seminar), Carolyn Stuart, Mary Jo Festle
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What does it mean to be “disabled”? How has this meaning changed over time in the U.S.? What factors affect a person’s experience of disability? Why should people—either disabled or not—learn about these matters?
This course explores the complexity of people’s experiences with disability in the past and present. Disability can be viewed from a number of lenses, including various academic disciplines, medical or social constructions, and minority-group perspectives. In this course, students analyze actions, ideas, and portrayals by cultural authorities and by the disabled themselves. Students complete a significant research project reflecting their major and interests. The instructors hope …
Teaching Arts And Honors: Four Successful Syllabi, P. Brent Register, Robert Bullington, Joe Thomas
Teaching Arts And Honors: Four Successful Syllabi, P. Brent Register, Robert Bullington, Joe Thomas
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My initial experience with honors in academia occurred several years ago when I was approached to teach a 3-credit course as the humanities component of the honors curriculum at Clarion University. Being a musician, I was not quite certain what I could offer these students. The majority of them could not read music, much less play a musical instrument, and I knew that I wanted the course to be more than a typical general education survey course. Several years later, and through participation at National Collegiate Honors Council conferences, I have learned that dilemma is typical in honors programs. I …
Service Learning In The Honors Composition Classroom: What Difference Does It Make?, Ann Parker
Service Learning In The Honors Composition Classroom: What Difference Does It Make?, Ann Parker
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I grew up in a family where helping others was a given. My parents have always been generous with their time, their money, and their tangible donations. I can remember many occasions when we took food, clothes, or household items to families in our community who were in desperate need of such basic necessities.
As a fitting result, I now encourage my own children, ages twelve and fourteen, to volunteer. We assist families during the holidays, make and deliver lunches to children for a local ministry’s summer lunch program, and work with a local pet adoption facility to help homeless …
Looking To The Future: The Everglades From Beginning To End?, Peter Machonis, Devon Graham
Looking To The Future: The Everglades From Beginning To End?, Peter Machonis, Devon Graham
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The fourth-year Honors theme is “Looking to the Future.” This course focuses on the Everglades National Park (ENP), examining not only the Everglades eco-system and the politics surrounding its conservation, but also literature and art about the Everglades, such as the photographs of Clyde Butcher and novels like Peter Matthiessen’s Killing Mr. Watson. This course requires active participation from students; most classes take place outdoors and involve hiking, biking, canoeing, and slough slogging. Class meets every other Friday (9am–5pm) at off-campus locations and is team-taught by FIU Honors College Faculty Dr. Peter Machonis, a linguist, and Dr. Devon Graham, …
Learning A Practice Versus Learning To Be A Practitioner: Teaching Archaeology In An Honors Context, Troy Lovata
Learning A Practice Versus Learning To Be A Practitioner: Teaching Archaeology In An Honors Context, Troy Lovata
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This paper is a case study in teaching archaeology as part of an honors curriculum. It uses the example of one course, The Legacy of Ancient Technology, and the general goals of an honors program to examine how discipline- specific knowledge can be taught to non-majors. This paper explores the differences between students learning about a field of study versus those learning to become practitioners in a discipline. It posits that courses can be successfully built from a disciplinary foundation and still serve a diverse body of honors students when seminars focus on non-foundational knowledge, collaborative learning, and a discipline’s …
The Fessenden Honors In Engineering Program, Michael Giazzoni
The Fessenden Honors In Engineering Program, Michael Giazzoni
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Developing honors opportunities for students in engineering programs can be difficult, and the experience at the University of Pittsburgh is no exception. Often these students’ degree requirements are so demanding that their opportunities for participating in honors experiences are severely limited. In each of the two semesters of their freshman year, freshman engineers at the University of Pittsburgh take the same courses: physics, chemistry, calculus, engineering computing, one elective, and a zero-credit, required engineering seminar that introduces them to their major choices. They enter their engineering majors in their sophomore year.
Monsters And Marvels Through The Ages: University Honors Program 100-Level, 3 Cr, Leslie Donovan
Monsters And Marvels Through The Ages: University Honors Program 100-Level, 3 Cr, Leslie Donovan
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Among the most fascinating and compelling stories passed down through the ages that continue to engage us today are works that involve monstrous creatures or the marvelous realms of the other world. Goblins and fairies, Grendel and Circe, dragons and gargoyles evoke visual or verbal creations from earlier periods that have inspired the imaginations of writers, artists, and thinkers since ancient times. This Fall 2005 course of 14 students examined how such monsters and marvels reflect a variety of historical ideas, social constructs, cultural patterns, and spiritual themes in ways that have become integral to contemporary popular culture.
“Bbq With The Profs” And The Development Of Collegial Associations, Craig Cobane, Lindsey Thurman
“Bbq With The Profs” And The Development Of Collegial Associations, Craig Cobane, Lindsey Thurman
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Western Kentucky University (WKU) is a medium-sized, open-enrollment public institution, classified by the Carnegie Foundation as a “Master’s College & Universities Larger Programs.” WKU has 15,9781 undergraduates spread across four campuses. The Honors Program, created in 1963, currently has around 500 students. Enrollment is based on an eligibility standard, with entry requirements for the program being a combination of minimum ACT/SAT scores and high school grade point average. However, the program’s philosophy is that a student is more than the accumulation of his or her “numbers,” thus allowing students to petition into the program if they are low on one …
The Advanced Classroom Technology Laboratory: Cultivating Innovative Pedagogy, Scott Carnicom, K. Watson Harris, Barbara Draude, Scott Mcdaniel, Philip Mathis
The Advanced Classroom Technology Laboratory: Cultivating Innovative Pedagogy, Scott Carnicom, K. Watson Harris, Barbara Draude, Scott Mcdaniel, Philip Mathis
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The National Collegiate Honors Council suggests in its “Basic Characteristics” that honors programs and colleges should be at the forefront of pedagogical innovation, serving as a “laboratory” for new approaches to teaching and learning (Schuman, 2006, p. 66). One approach to this charge is the integration of the latest technology into the classroom. Implementation of technology is important to millennial students, who are digital natives, never knowing a world without laptops or compact discs. Not only do students tend to be very comfortable with technology, but they also tend to be the early adopters. In addition to piquing student interest …
Methods Of Applied Mathematics: Honors Mathematics 450 And 451, Bruce Bukiet, Roy Goodman
Methods Of Applied Mathematics: Honors Mathematics 450 And 451, Bruce Bukiet, Roy Goodman
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In this course, students perform and analyze physical experiments in the context of an advanced mathematics course. This capstone course integrates the students’ experience with mathematical modeling, mathematical analysis, numerical methods, computation, engineering and communication. In the first semester, students have short modules (2–4 weeks) that include relatively simple experiments and numerical simulations. This prepares students for the second semester, when students work in teams to perform and analyze experiments of greater complexity using more advanced mathematical skills. At the end of the second semester, students present their research results both orally and in writing.
Multi-Level Benefits Of Using Research Journals In Honors, Christina Ashby-Martin
Multi-Level Benefits Of Using Research Journals In Honors, Christina Ashby-Martin
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As honors curricula develop and mature at our institutions, we constantly grapple with questions of what comprises an honors education. Besides the philosophical discussion of what it means to be “broad, well-educated, informed, challenging,” there is also the practical or methodological discussion of “How do we do that?” These questions become more complex as honors programs mature, possibly as a consequence of course sequencing or developing degree plans. In my experience, one of the more difficult areas to address is differentiation between a lower-division introductory experience and a mature, sophisticated upper-division seminar. Where exactly is this boundary when building a …