Program Overview
学院荣誉课程有三个主要部分:
I. 通识教育荣誉课程
All Rhode Island College students are required to complete the General Education Program, 一系列的写作课程, literature, history, 社会科学和行为科学, the natural sciences, mathematics, and the arts. Most general education courses are taken during the first two years.
通识教育荣誉课程的学生必须在专门设计的荣誉课程中学习至少五门必修的通识教育课程, 包括“核心”一年级写作, First Year Seminar, and Connections Courses. Other Honors courses will be selected from the Area Distribution courses. 强烈建议新生(荣誉奖学金获得者的要求)也注册荣誉150* 课程,“荣誉体验”.” To emphasize active class participation and close student-teacher interaction, 荣誉班的规模很小, 通常是12到15个学生, 并以讨论而不是讲座的形式进行. 荣誉课通常采用创新的教学方法.
In addition to completing at least five Honors General Education* courses, 学生的总平均成绩必须保持在3分.0 (reviewed every semester) in order to graduate with General Education Honors. Failure to maintain a 3.平均绩点为0的学生可能会立即失去荣誉奖学金.
II. 三年级荣誉研讨会课程
三年级荣誉讨论会(荣誉351*) helps to prepare students to undertake departmental honors projects. It is a two-credit class, is graded credit/no credit, and may be taken twice. The class is open to continuing and transfer students who have achieved a 3.0 GPA. 它也开放给学生谁已经和那些谁没有参加通识教育荣誉.
III. 高级项目(部门荣誉项目)
Departmental Honors programs offer students the opportunity to do an independent research, critical, 或由学生选择的教授指导的关于学生选择的主题的创造性项目. 这些项目通常在大四完成, 虽然他们可能会更早开始, and normally carry at least 6 credits of independent study over two semesters.
荣誉学生进行了实验室实验. They have written critical and research papers in literature and the social sciences. 他们创作并表演了音乐作品, and produced videos, and they have researched and devised pedagogy for elementary and secondary education.
*Honors 150 and Honors 351 do not count toward the five general education honors classes.