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John Shelley-Tremblay, University of South Alabama;
Steven Trout, University of South Alabama;
Michael Doran, University of South Alabama
A novel program is described that served to orient incoming honors freshman based on the theme of War and Memory. A partnership with the University of South Alabama Center for War and Memory, the program served to introduce interdisciplinary thinking while providing hands-on learning and encouraging social cohesion.
Hanna Larsen, South Dakota State University;
Timothy Nichols, South Dakota State University
"My Place in This World" is the theme for a new honors college senior seminar at South Dakota State University. The course, developed in response to student interest, stimulates students to reflect, reconnect, and envision their futures as leaders. Texts, syllabi, assignments and assessments will be shared.
Daniel Hedden, East Tennessee State University;
Rebecca Pyles, East Tennessee State University;
Joy Wachs, East Tennessee State University
Undergraduate honors students are often expected to conduct research under the direction of a faculty mentor. Foundations of Research provides students with the basic knowledge and skills needed to successfully and ethically plan, conduct and present their research studies; course syllabus, teaching strategies and evaluation data will be presented.
Julye Bidmead, Chapman University
This poster explores the pedagogical challenges and offers teaching suggestions to help introduce students to difficult concepts such as critical race theory, hegemonic masculinity, classism, and Christian privilege by using examples from Disney's animated films including the controversial Princess and the Frog.
Kathleen Duffy, Chestnut Hill College
This poster describes how the elements of our interdisciplinary honors program work together to develop and strengthen an honors learning community comprised of honors students and faculty. Elements include interdisciplinary seminars, an honors living and learning community, special academic honors events, and a regional honors conference.
Sarah Harlan-Haughey, University of Maine
An honors faculty member trained as a medievalist presents her strategies for avoiding a teleological approach to the great books curriculum. Chronologically-presented courses that span centuries often catalyze unwitting buy-in to critically unexamined narratives of 'progress.' This poster presents several ways for teachers and students to avoid the pitfalls of this approach and instead focus on real diversity.
Maria Vandergriff-Avery, Catawba College;
Margaret Stahr, Catawba College
Our faculty poster will provide information about our team taught course, Happily Ever After?, and discuss the benefits and challenges of exploring a topic from both sociological and literary lenses.
Lauren Rice, Des Moines Area Community College;
Tiffany Thomas, Des Moines Area Community College
We started our honors program with just one student. Not only was it possible, it was a huge success. The lessons we learned from our 2-to-1 semester can empower other honors programs to think small when it comes to their approach, regardless of the size of the honors student body.
Craig Fox, California University of Pennsylvania
Recently there have been several problems with the capstone course for our honors program: varying quality of projects, and uncertain student/faculty expectations. My poster highlights efforts to solve these problems by having the faculty member teaching the course improve communication in both directions between students, faculty, and the program.
D. Chris Ferguson, University of Wisconsin-Stout
This paper shares pedagogical approaches developed to apply the Place-as-Text approach to the study of economics. By exploring a community to examine prices of goods, services, and resources, students move beyond basic supply and demand graphs to make real world connections to economic theories of value, markets, and market failure.
D. Chris Ferguson, University of Wisconsin-Stout
This paper introduces an innovative active learning approach to teaching economics by utilizing the card game Gloom. This approach is well suited to honors courses at the introductory level as well as the advanced undergraduate level and can easily be adapted to different audiences.
Don Hickethier, Flathead Valley Community College;
David Smith, Flathead Valley Communtiy College
A twelve by forty foot ceramic mural consisting of over 200 tiles ranging in size from two feet to six inches is the result of the Scholars Math/Art class at Flathead Valley Community College. This major work of art was imagined, designed, and produced entirely by the students.
Ellen Hostetter, University of Central Arkansas
Are there places you just don't go? Places you're scared of, or think are ugly and undesirable? This course explores scorned landscapes as a way of exploring personal and American identities. These rejected places highlight norms and assumptions, providing an unvarnished perspective on who and what we are as individuals and a community.
Sarita Cargas, University of New Mexico
My poster will illustrate how faculty can explicitly teach critical thinking with a controversial topic. We know that getting students to think about current issues enhances their ability to connect to academic concepts. When a topic is important to them personally and/or especially controversial their level of engagement is increased.
Swarndeep Gill, California University of Pennsylvania
Our perception of time is both non-linear. Attitudes towards time are tied tightly to the culture where one grows up. Measurement of time is linear and determined with a degree of accuracy unfathomable to the human mind. History, psychology, and culture come together in a unique class.
Summer Arrigo-Nelson, California University of Pennsylvania;
M. G. Aune, California University of Pennsylvania
Our poster will define three options for how to integrate student research activities into honors first year seminar, and examine the strengths and weaknesses of each approaches, based on the constraints of our program and institution.
Kathryn MacDonald, Monroe College
This poster presentation shares the Monroe College Honors Program course: Contemporary Literary Genres, a liberal arts elective that is only offered to honors students.
Kathryn MacDonald, Monroe College
This poster presentation shares the Monroe College Honors Program course: Science and Technology: The Formation of the Modern World, a liberal arts elective that is only offered to honors students.
Allison Wallace, University of Central Arkansas;
John Dillon Welter, University of Central Arkansas
In a capstone honors senior seminar themed "Issues in Global Economics and Environment," students were required to devise, research, and implement a service learning project. Given a climate of growing concerns over food safety, the loss of independent farms to consolidating agribusiness interests, and the environmental impacts of decades of industrial agriculture, a project aimed at supporting the local-foods movement seemed an ideal choice. Farm2Work is an on-line farmers' market that connects UCA employees and students to local farmers and their goods weekly throughout the year, with the special feature of workplace delivery of customer orders. To give the project a life beyond these seniors' graduation, a student club was formed to take over administration of the program. By engaging underclassmen in the effort, the club involves students in the many facets of the university workplace and its personalities (from senior administrators all the way down to physical plant and housekeeping personnel) as well as, of course, area farmers and local-foods activists.
Teddi Deka, Missouri Western State University
Primary/secondary gifted programs may improve coping with "smart kid" stereotypes, but not all honors college students have such opportunities. I compare 82 students with varying participation on giftedness denial, fitting in, fear of failure, increasing activities, and peer acceptance.
Bethyna Murray, Wingate University;
Pamela Thomas, Wingate University
In this one-hour interdisciplinary seminar focused on transitional justice, students learn about key locations around the world where multiculturalism and class/ethnic conflict have led tyrannical leaders to commit acts of horror and even genocide against their own people. From the killing fields of Cambodia to the terrorist tactics of the Shining Path leaders and soldiers in Peru to the forced recruitment of boy soldiers into armed conflict and atrocities against villagers in Sierra Leone, students learn about subsequent Truth Commissions and their efforts to right the grievous wrongs that have been perpetrated. In this process, students also learn how to be compassionate citizens of the world.
Fatima Malik, Texas Woman's University;
La'Quisha Morris, Texas Woman's University;
Jennifer Wilson, Texas Woman's University
Students admitted into honors programs as pre-nursing majors face a unique set of challenges while pursuing their degree. Honors nursing students at Texas Woman's University utilize one another as necessary resources to ease that transition between traditional and health science campuses to avoid "falling through the cracks."
Usama Abbasi, University of Alabama at Birmingham;
Ronan O'Beirne, University of Alabama at Birmingham;
Brian Rice, University of Alabama at Birmingham;
Mike Sloane, University of Alabama at Birmingham
The purpose of this course is to analyze microeconomic principles and examine the impact of our cognitive limitations on the decision making of homo economicus using soccer as a lens. Students learn how markets function, the economic principles underlying their decisions, and the impact of bounded rationality on those decisions.
Jacqueline Whitling, Lock Haven University
Poster highlights the 25th Anniversary Celebration of Lock Haven University's Global Honors Program and how you too can organize a similar event.
Virginia Cope, Ohio State University
This poster presents information and learning outcomes from a yearlong service-learning honors course in which Ohio students traveled to New Orleans to work with community organizations working to preserve the city's unique cultural traditions and livelihoods. Students enhanced their leadership and teamwork skill and their facility with intercultural communication.
Prakash Chenjeri, Southern Oregon University
Focusing on some of the critical issues (ex: global warming, stem cell debate, etc.) that dominate both our cultural and political spheres, this honors course examines questions such as: What should be the role of science in society? What does it means to be a scientifically literate citizen in the twenty-first century?
Lana Whited, Ferrum College
For most Americans, work is a part of their identity and their system of values. The novelist and theologian Frederick Buechner describes vocation as "the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet." The honors capstone seminar provides an opportunity for Boone Honors students nearing the end of their undergraduate careers to explore the connections between values and vocation in the context of American culture and work, to consider alternative values and connections in other cultural contexts, and to contemplate the values and connections in their own lives, especially with regard to their own professional plans.
