Undergraduate honors program

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See also: Honors colleges and programs

Undergraduate Honors Program differs from an ‘Honorary Degree’ and does not have a higher honorary degree award, but the degree is more effective than a research master. In most cases, the school adds one year of research-based learning to help students get a better career entry, and only top 5% of students can get a diploma.Honors students have a very high degree of recognition, and Honors student is favored by multinational corporations and government agencies, and there is almost no pressure for job hunting. The honors program is helping the children find their own path of development and paving the way for their future life.

History

The introduction of the first concept of modern honors education was the wider comprehensive examination of the University of Oxford in the nineteenth century. The provost of the University of Oxford requires students to pass the final exam to obtain a degree certificate, and therefore use the "Extraordinary Examinations" as a form of separation between outstanding students and some ordinary students. Next, a class system was introduced. The school divided the students into three categories through examinations. As the top class 1 students, the school believes it has the ability to recognize them.

In the United States, many schools also taught about honors courses in the early twentieth century. At Harvard University in 1931, the instructors met with their students individually or in groups every week for about an hour. All students are eligible to take the exam. This is an ordinary exam, but only a few will pass the honors course. The president of Harvard University described the honors program for all college students, but only the best students can earn an honors degree.

The first professional forum for honors educators was the Inter-University Committee on the Superior Student (ICSS), which established in 1957. Professional educators and honors managers believe that a national organization is needed to continue to guide the honorary movement, the new organization named National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC) was established in 1966. The function of NCHC is to “serve honors professionals and students, and to advance undergraduate education”. NCHC has developed some visible honor programs as a model for excellence in the program, as an advocate and source of information for honor education.

The modern honors course is as rich and varied in contrast history. The main honor plan changes are two-year and four-year changes, and early-entrance honors programs universities for qualified students. The promotion of the Honors Program seeks to provide a variety of personalized teaching for more talented college students. It also uses a short board of many university education to truly develop capable students through closer communication and learning. A complete honors education system was formed.

Study content

What is undergraduate honors program for?

People are increasingly aware that human abilities and talents are the most valuable resources for nurturing and benefiting society. Providing valuable courses for academically savvy students to reach their full potential is increasingly recognized by many universities. Not all talented college students have the opportunity to study at Ivy League institutions. In some less prestigious schools, talented students are also needed. The undergraduate honors program is to find a better opportunity for more talented college students to develop their potential, emotional needs and social needs, creating more possibilities for their future.

How to promote students' success?

Undergraduate Honors program is mainly extended on the basis of the university curriculum. Based on general university education, the core undergraduate honors program consists of nine 100-, 200- and 300- courses, along with additional courses in mathematics or science course, to meet the general education courses. Students achieve balanced goals through leadership, interdisciplinary, and liberal education. There is almost no difference between college life in the first three years and ordinary college students, but honors students would be more concentrated on the academic achievement besides the general education. The purpose of this is also to make these outstanding students become more top talents. In the final year of the honors program, students will develop their studies and future plans based on a number of projects and will evaluate their projects dozens of hours a week.

The core objective is to honor education through the provision of professional attention, a series of academic contacts, access to top teachers, inspiring seminars and opportunities for research and writing focus, to enhance the traditional learning experience and prepare students for the achievement.

The development of an honors program is a way to meet the needs of outstanding students, and it also helps colleges recruit more outstanding students who are looking for challenging and rewarding opportunities. Undergraduate Honors Program is an excellent opportunity for undergraduate social work courses, including meeting with students from other majors or degrees and building relationships with excellent professors and managers.

Is there any way to promote student learning?

Due to the high threshold of honors courses, many students are under increasing pressure. In the programs, teachers can seek the best possible outcomes by investigating students’ goals and aspirations. Teachers will —

1. Give encouragement and support. Encouragement is crucial for students. The consultant will give the most positive advice to the students'.
2. Narrow their academic focus. At the beginning of the project, the teacher will give the students a clear academic honors plan and set goals for different students.
3. Integrate learning and clarify career goals. In the following study, the consultant will discuss valuable meetings with the students and direct planning for the future, and propose academic advice in the field.
4. The consultant is a learner-centered to familiarizing students with non-linear thinking and discussing students' academic and career goals. The consultant is more like an personal advisor (both in emotional and learning aspect) than an academic counselor. Over time, students will reflect on discussions and decisions, and eventually will revisit their insights and expectations in new ways.

Honors students require certain team communication skills, leadership skills, initiative and thorough communication skills. It is necessary for most potential honors undergraduate students to have good leadership and employability skills. Honors program as a part of develop the foundation of further leadership skills for preparing students.

The program not only requires students to do more professional work and challenges than non-honor students, but also wants honors students to participate in different, challenging and thoughtful creative activities that will stimulate their learning and promote their professional and personal development. Honors program work usually involves taking more challenging courses and doing more independent work than the academic work required for non-honor courses.

Selection criteria

How many grades do students need?

Undergraduate honors program has a detailed minimum criteria. While different university have varies criteria, but all most all of those are really restrict. Take WCU University as an example. Students who want to participate in honors program need a minimum SAT score of 1200. As well as high school GPA of 3.5 or AP courses record score will be counted.

In addition to the requirements for grades, some schools have also judged students’ comprehensive abilities. Like the college not only evaluate the student’s transcript and require the student to have an average score above 70 percentile, but conduct a knowledge-based test of the basic areas of the course(in some specific area), in which the candidate must receive at least 70 points in 100 points. Sometimes oral presentation is also an essential part of the selection criteria.

Some courses even require essay papers or interviews to get permission, not all types of students can join in the honors program.

Effect of undergraduate honors program

What contribution can this program make to students and society?

The Undergraduate Honors Program is a great challenge for many students who strive to realize their potential and seek a rigorous learning program, students taking the Honors Program have more opportunities for quality extracurricular activities and development their potential.

In some specific project like Undergraduate Research Opportunity Center (CURO) in The University of Georgia, the teacher investigated the attitudes and values of the students before and after the honors program. Over 1/3 of students are more open be valuing of other cultures. In the following study, they compared the number of subjects participating in the honors learning course with the initial GPA. The results showed that the students reported the GPA of the students who studied were higher than those who did not. These data all have a positive impact on students, which achieving a win-win situation between honor students and honor programs.

Merits of undergraduate honors program

Why undergraduate honors program is beneficial for most of students?

Student who taken the undergraduate honors program with high ability, and advanced learning characteristics bring the following advantages to students -

1. It is faster than non-honors students to complete their studies.
2. Use the creative learning time to study a broader range of courses than the average student.
3. Study abroad.

For most students who taking the Undergraduate Honors Program, very satisfied and proud of the learning process. Students will actively communicate with the teacher and enthusiasm for the next study. Most students who attending undergraduate honors program would finishing their college life more quickly, using time more creatively and completing more majors/minors than the ordinary students. Taking the financial accounting profession as an example, an excellent honors student even has the opportunity to directly enter the investment bank. Undergraduate Honors Program students would be more likely to work for pay on campus such as more participate in class. The most capable students should be trained so that they can fully realize their potential, the school will develop students' abilities from all aspects of the subject as well.

Honors students are more likely to prepare for better class quality before class than non-honor students, ask more effective questions in tutorial, or discuss deeper academic views with professors outside of class. They are more likely to participate in special activities for joint learning at the school, as well as volunteer committee activities, resulting spend less time in social gatherings and exercises.

Compared with other high-achieving students (including those who have entered the honors program but have not successfully graduated), the honors program has the highest academic and graduation rates, as well as the shortest degree time.

Considerations

What are the possible problems?

The self-contradictory nature of honor students are often very capable, enthusiastic, but at the same time may be shy, fearful or risky. Students may lack of experience in some realms than others. Especially in the case of over-stressed learning in the fourth year, many honorary students are weaker than other ordinary students in releasing stress.

Due to the high requirements of the undergraduate honors program, it is difficult for some students to obtain the final honors degree.

Honor students are different from other ordinary students from lots of aspects, and many of their stress exist in areas that consultants can't think of. For example, students would worry about their learning potential. They will fear failure, they will live up to their parents’ expectations and can not be the significant one they wanted to be. More often, they are more difficult to choose aspects of future development. As many honor students have the potential to succeed in many areas.

Honors students vs. Un-Honors students

In terms of academic performance, honor students have higher higher GPA and standardized test scores. Honors students will also have higher education and higher social recognition than ordinary students. In terms of evaluation, honorary students will also be described as more autonomous, more responsible, and more motivated.In addition, honorary students have also proved some positive correlation behaviors to a greater extent. If you spend more time on writing a thesis, taking a longer class will result in less time watching TV, drinking, and focusing on professional grades. The reasons for many differences are more from learning styles and critical thinking of honorable students and non-honor students.

Honors students investigating more positive wellbeing than non-honors students. In most cases, honors students demonstrate more positive level of healthier wellbeing than non-honor students, and their positive attitude through the undergraduate honors program is higher than their peers. It can be seen that the academic environment of the honors program and the social environment of the honors course itself have a positive effect on the psychology of the students. The “student-centered” curriculum education model allows honors students to experience both academically and environmentally supportive atmosphere, which urges these honors students to progress. In addition, the teaching characteristics of the honors program can reflect the active relationship between the honors curriculum and the health wellbeing of honored students. Independent learning and learning with teachers and classmates, as well as study opportunities abroad, can make honors students more happiness than ordinary students in their perception of self-worth.

Honors program vs. undergraduate research program

For honors program and undergraduate research program, they target different student groups. In most universities with honor programs, they have high barriers to honors programs. Not only students with outstanding intelligence and achievements, but also needs talented and motivated students. The undergraduate research program is aimed at underrepresented students. The program plans to give more possibilities to the representative population of the weak background, and do no need special academic score or GPA to entry. The future possibilities of these students are realized by allowing more students to be educated from such projects.

See also

• Honors colleges and programs
• Honours degree

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