学生们在默多克大厅的春天散步

荣誉项目

实现更高的目标

学生上下楼梯

更有趣的工作

One of the ways MCLA explores its Liberal 艺术s mission is to foster a cohort of passionate students - students who are intellectually engaged with each other and the world, who love books, writing, and learning for their own sakes, whose curiosity ranges beyond conventional disciplinary boundaries, and who crave intellectual challenges. 荣誉项目旨在为这些学生提供一个家. 荣誉背后的理念 at MCLA is not that you are undertaking more work, but that the work you undertake 更有趣.

学生在MCLA的四边形上微笑

课堂内外

 

Your passions don't just stay in the classroom, Honors student have a fully immersed 校园经历.

常见问题解答

Students who aspire to become honors students, regardless of their past academic records, may request an interview with 这个项目 director to be admitted provisionally into 这个项目. Those with an academic track record at MCLA are eligible if their cumulative 绩点是3.2或以上.

Remaining a member in good standing of 这个项目 entails maintaining a cumulative 平均绩点不低于3分.2、每学年至少修一门荣誉课程.

Completing 这个项目 to graduate with all-college honors involves completing a minimum of six, three-credit honors 课程 (at least half at the upper division) with a grade 各科成绩均在B或以上,平均绩点不低于3分.毕业后.

 Some honors students choose to graduate as 英联邦的学者s in addition to All 大学的荣誉. This option involves a year-long process of re搜索ing and writing an interdisciplinary thesis, culminating in a public presentation and defense in the 春天. The 英联邦的学者 makes an additional presentation at the Commonwealth 本科生研究会议在阿默斯特. 如果你对这个挑战感兴趣,那就开始吧 a conversation about the possibility sometime early in your junior year. 招股说明书 和论文指南.

 许多 honors 课程, especially at the lower division, are designed specifically 作为核心课程. 一些荣誉课程也可以用来满足要求 你的主修和副修课程,要经过部门许可. 你需要咨询一下 your department chair or advisor to determine this on an individual basis.

 Part of the point of 这个项目 is to get students out of their comfort zones, doing intensive intellectual work in areas beyond their specialties (and bringing the investigative 这些专业的工具,以其他主题事项). 因此,实际上最好是 选择你专业或部门以外的大部分荣誉课程.

 MCLA's campus is rather small, so one measure of whether you might be honors material 你有能力自己定位中心吗. (提示:在马克·霍普金斯大厅, 213房间.)

 没有一个. The MCLA 荣誉项目 is an academic program (a bit like an interdisciplinary 学术小). 我们没有就职典礼,没有钥匙,没有会费,也没有全国性的 购买目录.

 只要你愿意. 作为一名优等生,你可以选择任何优等生课程 you like, in consultation with the honors directors, who serve as secondary academic 顾问(在你的主要顾问之后). 这是一个很好的主意,然而,成功的 在深入学习之前,先上100级的荣誉课程.

 Honors work is not designed to be more work, but rather more interesting work, which 是不是说更具挑战性和吸引力,因此也更有趣. 具体的课程 requirements vary from course to course, and some 课程 will have a specific honors 项目. Either way, honors students are generally expected to do background and supplemental reading on their own initiative, and to take the lead in class in drawing the other students out and steering the discussion in intellectually stimulating directions.

 This varies a bit with different 课程 and professors, but in general honors 课程 are reading intensive (with a preference for primary-source material), writing intensive, interdisciplinary, collaborative (most are small seminars), and present opportunities 进行独立研究. 所有这些都是专门为那些想要的学生设计的 to be challenged and push them to new levels, in fascinating areas of inquiry.

 The honors directors, in consultation with the honors students and faculty, develop 荣誉课程的时间表. 我们定期开发或重复特定的课程 回应学生兴趣. 作为一名优等生,你将被邀请参加一个聚会 at least once a semester, one purpose of which is to brainstorm about the future honors 时间表. Of course, if you can't make those meetings, the honors directors always 随时欢迎您的意见和建议.

 Part of what it means to be an honors student is to participate fully in your own larger learning process, seeking out intellectual and cultural experiences to attend 和朋友讨论. 我们鼓励您尽可能多地这样做,并且 try things you know nothing about rather than sticking to what you are already interested in. Another important principle in honors learning is autonomy--making your own choices, 作为一个成年人,关于什么时候参加什么活动. 因此我们有强烈的期望 that you will participate in Honors-sponsored and many other events, but we have no 正式要求,而不需要出席. 

 我们认为这是一个好迹象. 随时与荣誉主任联系 项目,扎克芬奇教授在D.圣扎迦利.Finch@mcla.Edu或413-662-5137.