University officials are planning to start an honors program in fall 2009, which will give “high ability” students a chance to sharpen their skills and intellect in more challenging classes, said Dr. Paul Streufert, director of the program.
Streufert said the classes will be similar to advanced placement courses in high school and will be taught “seminar style.”
“As of right now the only plan we have in place is to take freshmen,” Streufert said.
He said about 20-25 students from a variety of disciplines would be admitted into the program.
“They would take normally English 1301 and 1302 (in the freshmen year),” Streufert said. “We’re going to combine [those classes] with other disciplines so they could be writing about rhetoric or sociology.”
He said the classes would be “team taught,” where more than one professor works with students in a round-table-type discussion.
But right now, he said his main goal is to develop the curriculum and develop ways to recruit students.
The classes will be three credit hours and won’t significant add to the overall total hours needed to graduate, he said.
Unlike AP courses, the honors program would remain on a four-point scale.
By Allen Arrick Editor in Chief
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