The
Honors Program features GenEd. courses offered as Honors classes.
Course listings vary each term across the campuses. For
your convenience you may view the Honors course schedule
here.
One
of greatest benefits for Honors students are the dynamic
and interesting Honors classes. Honors
classes offer
many educational advantages including: smaller class size,
discussion oriented classroom environment, and an Honors
Project. Honors courses are not designed to generate more
work for the students, but rather to engage the students
in academic inquiry.
Note:
Taking Honors courses is also a general requirement for
all BCC Honors scholarships.
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HONORS COURSE CRITERIA
The
Honors courses include some, if not all, of the following
criteria:
Students will be introduced not only to the usual content
of the course, but they also will be challenged to develop
in-depth understanding of subject matters of the course.
Students will be encouraged to study and evaluate primary
source materials in addition to discipline textbooks.
Students will be given the opportunities to develop appropriate
research skills, which should result in major documented
papers or projects.
Students will participate in activities that encourage them
to become independent thinkers, risk takers, and problem-solvers.
Students will study and interpret aspects of the course such
as historical development, cultural applications, theoretical
or philosophical disputes that should lead to the students'
heightened appreciation of the discipline - thereby preparing
them to succeed in upper division courses.
Students will experience a variety of learning activities
which may include collaborative learning, field experience,
debates, documented projects, interviews, service projects
and presentations.
Students will given the opportunity to demonstrate computer
literacy and work with instructional technology which may
include word-processing assignments, the use of internet tools
for research, the use of power-point for presentations, and
course discussion via chat rooms and email.
Student evaluations should be based on standards and methods
designed to encourage creativity, imagination, critical thinking,
and risk-taking rather than simply imposing more assignments
and tests.
Student evaluations should be based on standards and methods
that require demonstrated competency and mastery of the course
objectives.
