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Editorial, Volume 4 - 2008, Ada Long, Dail Mullins Jan 2008

Editorial, Volume 4 - 2008, Ada Long, Dail Mullins

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Table of Contents:

Editorial Policy

Submission Guidelines

Dedication to Elizabeth C. Beck

Editor’s Introduction by Ada Long

Determining the Significance of Honors by Katherine E. Bruce

Portable Widgets and Techie Tattoos: Honors of the Future by Rosalie C. Otero

Honors in 2025: Becoming What You Emulate by Craig T. Cobane

Honors 2025: The Future of the Honors College by Richard Ira Scott and Philip L. Frana

Majoring in the Minor: A Closer Look at Experiential Learning by Bernice Braid

Cultural Studies as the Foundation for an Honors Program: Documenting Students’ Academic and Personal Growth by Sara E. Quay and Amy …

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Creating Community: Honors Welcome Week Programming, Lauren Pouchak, Maureen Kelleher, Melissa Lulay Jan 2008

Creating Community: Honors Welcome Week Programming, Lauren Pouchak, Maureen Kelleher, Melissa Lulay

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The Northeastern University Honors Program established its first-year Welcome Week initiative in 2006 as part of our movement toward enhancing the goals of an Honors Living Learning Community. The Welcome Week is characterized by a series of linked events that bring together various on-campus members of our honors community for the common goal of welcoming new students to campus. Members of that on-campus community include faculty, administrators, staff, and upper-class honors students. Welcome Week introduces new students to the opportunities and challenges of a university honors experience.

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The American Musical As An Honors Course: Obstacles And Possibilities, Mara Parker Jan 2008

The American Musical As An Honors Course: Obstacles And Possibilities, Mara Parker

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Music courses are often problematic for the general undergraduate student as they focus on abstract concepts, employ a specialized vocabulary, and examine compositions not part of most people’s everyday listening repertoire. Many will acknowledge that while they enjoy listening to music, their background and experiences are limited and steeped in the familiar. Appreciation is based on personal taste and often fails to consider historical context, structural components, and stylistic trends. Despite these obstacles, it is possible to construct a meaningful and challenging course for students, regardless of their major, as long as one is willing to use music not as …

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Honored To Be A Part Of Service-Learning, Patricia Powell Jan 2008

Honored To Be A Part Of Service-Learning, Patricia Powell

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What do an adolescent self-esteem workshop for African-American girls, a food and clothing pantry, a Young Authors event in Montego Bay, Jamaica, an HIV/AIDS awareness brochure for a Chicago health-care facility, an after-school program for low income students, and an international student awareness survey have in common? Each started as an idea born of a personal passion and then grew into a semester-long service-learning project for six honors students at Trinity Christian College in Palos Heights, Illinois.

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Wholly Spirit: Searching For A Plausible God By C. Grey Austin, Sam Schuman Jan 2008

Wholly Spirit: Searching For A Plausible God By C. Grey Austin, Sam Schuman

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Long before NCHC had a paid, professional staff, Grey Austin was one of a small group of legendary executive secretary/treasurers (along with Jean Philips, John Portz, Lothar Tresp, Bill Mech, and Earl Brown, Jr.) who kept our organization functional and solvent. He served in that capacity in the 1970s and was also the president of our organization early in the following decade. Those of us in honors “of a certain age” recall Grey as a thoughtful, quiet, gentle, skilled leader and manager. Some of us, too, will never forget his characterization of honors leadership: being an honors director, he said, …

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The Senior Honors Thesis: From Millstone To Capstone, Jim Lacey Jan 2008

The Senior Honors Thesis: From Millstone To Capstone, Jim Lacey

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When I became director of a small college honors program, many students perceived the senior honors thesis to be a millstone. Even worse, the word was being bruited about that students didn’t really have to complete the thesis, that the only penalty was not being listed in the separate section for honors scholars in the graduation program. Although the discussion below is about redeeming the thesis process in a small program, some of the strategies should be applicable to large programs as well.

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The Newest “Basic Characteristic” Of A Fully Developed Honors Program, Robert Spurrier Jan 2008

The Newest “Basic Characteristic” Of A Fully Developed Honors Program, Robert Spurrier

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After years of conversations about the sixteen “Basic Characteristics of a Fully Developed Honors Program” (adopted in 1994), NCHC has added a new Basic Characteristic to the arsenal of the honors dean, director, or coordinator seeking to demonstrate that a particular institution’s honors program or honors college complies with NCHC’s “best practices” documents. NCHC’s Board of Directors approved the newest characteristic in November, 2007:
A fully developed program will provide priority enrollment for honors students who are active in the program in recognition of their unique class scheduling needs.

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Mentoring Honors Thesis Students: A Lawyer’S Perspective, Linda Vila Jan 2008

Mentoring Honors Thesis Students: A Lawyer’S Perspective, Linda Vila

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As a mentor of thesis students in an honors program, I find that students acquire tremendously helpful substantive knowledge through courses they take during college but rarely develop a honed skill set necessary to succeed in graduate or professional education or employment in the real world. These skills range from problem solving to effective communication to analytical thinking. To address these weaknesses, I constructed an approach, borrowed from my law school days, for engaging students in an active, student-centered learning process during the thesis stage of their honors curriculum. My purpose is to provide them the opportunity to cultivate, if …

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Learning By Leading And Leading By Teaching: A Student-Led Honors Seminar, Luke Vassiliou Jan 2008

Learning By Leading And Leading By Teaching: A Student-Led Honors Seminar, Luke Vassiliou

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In the fall of 2004, the honors program at the two-year Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College offered six core classes and two one-hour seminars for the Honors students, and nothing else. The classes themselves were rewarding for both students and teachers and encouraged student participation, but since the program’s existence was limited to the space within the classroom walls, it had low visibility on campus and none beyond our campus. As a new (and completely inexperienced) honors director, I consulted both the NCHC executive committee’s statement of “Basic Characteristics of a Fully Developed Honors Program” (1994) and Rew Godow’s article on …

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Honors Calculus: An Historical Approach, Todd Timmons Jan 2008

Honors Calculus: An Historical Approach, Todd Timmons

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When the honors program at the University of Arkansas-Fort Smith (then Westark Community College) began in 1990, it was decided that the honors mathematics course would be College Algebra, a decision based on the premise that our student population required an opportunity to earn honors credit at an introductory level, at least in mathematics. The course developed by the mathematics department met with some success by stimulating interest in algebra topics using an environmental modeling approach. The textbook, Earth Algebra (by Schuafele, Zumoff, Sims, and Sims), provided a wonderful opportunity for our students to learn the techniques of College Algebra …

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A Dangerous Thing: A Memoir Of Learning And Teaching By Betty Krasne, Paul Strong Jan 2008

A Dangerous Thing: A Memoir Of Learning And Teaching By Betty Krasne, Paul Strong

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Betty Krasne’s A Dangerous Thing: A Memoir of Learning and Teaching opens with her paternal grandparents, the Krasnoschezeks (the name means “red cheeks” and probably refers to a beard), leaving the Ukraine and its pogroms for the safety and hope of America. Once here, they set up as retail grocers, then wholesalers, then owners of Krasdale Foods and Bernice Foods. Both sides of the family make a good living. Betty’s mother’s parents, the Goldsteins, own a Philadelphia brownstone with a Steinway grand in the living room; her father’s family lives in a large apartment on Manhattan’s Central Park West. They …

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Honors 2025: The Future Of The Honors College, Richard Ira Scott, Philip Frana Jan 2008

Honors 2025: The Future Of The Honors College, Richard Ira Scott, Philip Frana

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As we attempt to foresee the future, we recognize that the increase in the number of honors colleges over the past decade appears to be an accelerating trend. We base our predictions on the continuation of this trend and on our need as honors administrators to anticipate and welcome the multiple impacts it will have on current and future honors colleges. We have selected four connected areas as the focus of our consideration: mission; curriculum; assessment and accreditation; and recruiting.

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Literary Ornithology: Bird-Watching Across Academic Disciplines With Honors Students, Kateryna Schray Jan 2008

Literary Ornithology: Bird-Watching Across Academic Disciplines With Honors Students, Kateryna Schray

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As professors of literature, we have a fairly good chance of engaging our students when we teach Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” True, the text can seem daunting on a first read, but who can resist a moody if not downright creepy ghost story told by the survivor of a nightmarish ordeal to a detained and gradually mesmerized wedding guest? The story has an intriguing psychological component in the progressive isolation of its main narrator, strong theological references, and vivid tactile images. And it has a bird in it, an albatross, the image of which has …

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Creating Faculty-Student Interaction, Lindsay Roberts, Jessie Salmon Jan 2008

Creating Faculty-Student Interaction, Lindsay Roberts, Jessie Salmon

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Creating a thriving community is a challenge for any honors program or college, especially for a program in transition like the Honors College at Towson University. The Honors College has approximately nine hundred students out of about sixteen thousand undergraduate students, and within the past three years it has undergone major curricular and structural changes. To keep honors students and faculty connected and invested in their honors experience through this transition period, the Honors College has focused on establishing a tighter bond between faculty and students, one that is unique to the college and recognized by the university as a …

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Cultural Studies As The Foundation For An Honors Program: Documenting Students’ Academic And Personal Growth, Sara Quay, Amy Damico Jan 2008

Cultural Studies As The Foundation For An Honors Program: Documenting Students’ Academic And Personal Growth, Sara Quay, Amy Damico

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A new honors program based on the field of cultural studies rigorously combines theory and practice, resulting in significant academic and personal growth among participating honors students. Particular activities and assignments connect academic theories to real world experiences, including writing a ‘shopping’ paper, eating dinner at an Indian restaurant, conducting an ethnography, playing the Game of Life, and participating in a walking tour of Ground Zero. Pre- and post-test assessments, five qualitative surveys, and an end-of-the-year comprehensive portfolio are used to document student learning. A new honors journal publishes an essay by each student from the first year in the …

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Portable Widgets And Techie Tattoos: Honors Of The Future, Rosalie Ortero Jan 2008

Portable Widgets And Techie Tattoos: Honors Of The Future, Rosalie Ortero

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Just twenty-five years ago, in 1982, Gray Austin from Ohio State was the NCHC President. William Daniel from Winthrop College was the program chair for the NCHC conference that was held in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The conference fee was $46 and a room at the Hilton cost $37 a night. Writing Across the Curriculum was big news, and interdisciplinary seminars centered on the Great Books concept were a major component of honors programs. Today, there are honors programs and colleges at large and small universities, colleges, and community colleges. Service Learning is big news as is Outcomes Assessment. Honors curricula …

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Sweden In The Summer: Developing An Honors Study-Abroad Program, Gayle Levy Jan 2008

Sweden In The Summer: Developing An Honors Study-Abroad Program, Gayle Levy

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I want to begin this paper by making a claim with which, at first, not everyone might agree. Any good study abroad experience can be considered an honors experience. This short sentence raises any number of questions, which I cannot fully answer in this space, nor is it the primary topic of my essay. It is, however, a way to contextualize our one-month honors study abroad program at University of Missouri-Kansas City.

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Using External Review In The Honors Project Process, Joyce W. Fields Jan 2008

Using External Review In The Honors Project Process, Joyce W. Fields

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Understanding the competitive nature of applications to graduate programs, Ferrari and Davis (2000) surveyed psychology faculty to discover their level of awareness of resources for undergraduate research publication. They found that most of the psychology faculty members they surveyed were unaware of such resources. Their finding made me curious about how many honors directors, faculty, and advisors are aware of such resources for their students not only in psychology but in all disciplines across the curriculum. Most of us realize the importance of helping our students become competitive for graduate work, and we know that publication and/or presentation of research …

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Honors In 2025: Becoming What You Emulate, Craig Cobane Jan 2008

Honors In 2025: Becoming What You Emulate, Craig Cobane

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Predicting the future is always difficult and fraught with many dangers; just ask your local weather forecaster. The process of looking into the future, even if the predictions are in error, is nevertheless an important tool for honors faculty, staff, and administrators; it is part of the strategic planning process that helps develop new and interesting ideas. The goal of this essay is to look over the horizon, make some predictions about what honors education will look like in the year 2025, and encourage people to think about the future of honors. My predictions will most likely seem naive to …

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The Advanced Classroom Technology Laboratory: Cultivating Innovative Pedagogy, Scott Carnicom, K. Watson Harris, Barbara Draude, Scott Mcdaniel, Philip Mathis Jan 2007

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 …

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Looking To The Future: The Everglades From Beginning To End?, Peter Machonis, Devon Graham Jan 2007

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, …

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Disability: Past And Present (Honors 232—Interdisciplinary Seminar), Carolyn Stuart, Mary Jo Festle Jan 2007

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 …

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The Honors Community: Furthering Program Goals By Securing Honors Housing, Nancy Reichert Jan 2007

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 …

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Multi-Level Benefits Of Using Research Journals In Honors, Christina Ashby-Martin Jan 2007

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 …

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Teaching An Honors Course Tied To A Large University Event, Anne Wilson, Tyler Blakly, Kathryn Leciejewski, Michelle Sams, Susan Surber Jan 2007

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.

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Learning A Practice Versus Learning To Be A Practitioner: Teaching Archaeology In An Honors Context, Troy Lovata Jan 2007

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 …

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Monsters And Marvels Through The Ages: University Honors Program 100-Level, 3 Cr, Leslie Donovan Jan 2007

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.

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Methods Of Applied Mathematics: Honors Mathematics 450 And 451, Bruce Bukiet, Roy Goodman Jan 2007

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.

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Majoring In The Minor: A Closer Look At Experiential Learning, Bernice Braid Jan 2007

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 …

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Honors In Practice, Volume 3 (Complete Issue) Jan 2007

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 …

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