Sheraton (Governor’s Square 15)
Leslie Heaphy
, Kent State University- Stark
Great Books I--Team Taught class in honors. Showcases books, assignments, and basic details.
Edward Kardas
, Southern Arkansas University
Describes collaboration between app developer empowered.com and the honors college to develop iPad apps for honors seminar and honors general psychology courses. The latter app is successfully being implemented and evaluated. Using it, students teach half of the classes covering eight chapters and later upload their presentations for future study.
Kathryn MacDonald
, Monroe College
This poster presentation will explore the methodologies used to teach writing and research to students in the Monroe College Honors Program, from the freshmen experience to the senior capstone course.
Mark Aune
, California University of Pennsylvania;
Angela Selby*
, California University of Pennsylvania
This poster will present an assessment of a semester-long group project assigned to incoming freshmen in their honors first-year seminar. The project is designed to help students learn about the honors program and build community. Surveys and interviews will be conducted of freshmen from the past three years.
Sarah Harlan-Haughey
, University of Maine
Class blogs afford many possibilities for collaborative writing and peer-editing. If you want to start blogging, or discovered your blog did not generate the rich online content desired, establishing a clear evaluative structure and blog routine might help. This poster outlines assignments and evaluative expectations for a successful honors blog.
Erin Buchanan
, Missouri State University
A blended-learning environment was implemented to improve course outcomes and student perceptions for both traditional and honors offerings of a statistics course. Both classes show improvement in homework/quizzes, variable exam scores, and positive feedback about the structure of the course. Blended pedagogy pros and cons will be discussed.
Stacy Amling
, Des Moines Area Community College
This session shares an innovative project, for which the Phi Theta Kappa (PTK) Honors in Action planning model was used for a student group leadership project to initiate a community garden on campus. The HiA model will be shared, along with results, feedback received, and additional suggestions for future use.
Craig Fox
, California University of Pennsylvania
I recently implemented a Peer Mentor program in my honors course in introductory first-order logic. I hoped: (i) to provide additional pedagogical benefits to students in the course, (ii) to provide practical leadership experiences and skill-building for the peer mentor, and (iii) to contribute to the retention of honors students.
John Shelley-Tremblay
, University of South Alabama;
Michael Doran
, University of South Alabama
Brian Peters
, North Carolina State University
This poster highlights the experience of teaching a history seminar. Students learned about the history of their university and created original historical works using primary documents from the institution's library. The poster will highlight the benefits and challenges of engaging students in primary document research at a STEM-focused institution.
Jared Diener
, James Madison University
The Areas of Emphasis curriculum allows students to develop advanced knowledge and practical experience in an area that reaches beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries: Creativity, Global Studies, Leadership, Research, or Service. This poster presents the motivation, design, and outcomes of this initiative, including courses, progression paths, student testimonials, and project descriptions.
Jeremiah Atkinson*
, South Dakota State University;
Allyson Lucht*
, South Dakota State University
Love is a new honors colloquium team-taught by a husband-wife faculty team at SDSU. Built on a multi-disciplinary foundation, the course examines love through the social sciences, biological and neurosciences, art, music, history, and literature. This poster features major course components, examples of students’ work, and assessment results.
James Bell
, Texas State University-San Marcos;
Jennifer Lirette*
, Texas State University-San Marcos;
Katherine Sobel*
, Texas State University-San Marcos
This session details and demonstrates learning where change projects and knowledge application are the focus and outcome. Photos, syllabi, descriptions, and handouts, related to campus and community changes--Hospice, Homeless Shelter, UNICEF, Athletics, and an Environmental Project--will be shared. Stop, review, and discuss entrepreneurial ideas and more.
Ann Bomberger
, Gannon University
Gannon University’s Introduction to Honors (1 credit) course encourages students to be engaged, global citizens. Each section of the seminar focuses on a different country by discussing a memoir, conducting research for poster presentations, and presenting those posters to the honors community. Students meet regularly with students from another country.
Erin VanLaningham
, Loras College
The Loras College Honors Program focuses on sustained student-directed research projects for a three-year period. This model diversifies conventional research experiences, namely through the extended collaboration with a faculty mentor and community partner, and provides the opportunity to synthesize learning from other disciplines and experiences.
Barbra Nightingale
, Broward College
The honors capstone seminar incorporates service learning, an interdisciplinary approach, and steps toward completing an honors thesis. This poster will highlight the online section of this course as offered at Broward College.
Jordan LaBouff
, University of Maine;
Christopher Paradis*
, University of Maine
This presentation describes the initial steps towards developing a nationwide database of success and engagement in honors. We describe an example of a yearly student and faculty feedback tool that can be adapted to any honors program or college to better understand student experiences and faculty expectations.
Jennifer O'Loughlin-Brooks
, Collin College
Honors General Psychology students gain tools necessary to compete academically upon transfer. Internships are often acquired and scholarships garnered, enabling further access to educational opportunities. Students have even published their research in academic journals and received full scholarships; in some cases as a direct result of involvement in honors psychology.
James Pfrehm
, Ithaca College
This poster presents an honors seminar entitled "Cultural Encounters with Ithaca College," developed to provide opportunity and encouragement for honors students to experience college’s unique culture and identity through the attendace, discussion, and assessment of cultural events on campus.
Stephanie Stockwell
, James Madison University
Interdisciplinary honors courses that foster deep learning are difficult to design and implement. One strategy for overcoming this hurdle is the use of real-world big problems to scaffold and contextualize course content. Here I will present two cases in which major course components have been built upon big problems.
Diane Tucker
, University of Alabama at Birmingham;
Joe March
, University of Alabama at Birmingham;
Joel Berry
, University of Alabama at Birmingham
In collaboration with an interdisciplinary team of educators, entrepreneurs, and creators, we developed a focus on innovative problem-solving and entrepreneurship within the UAB Science and Technology Honors Program. Students develop skills in interdisciplinary teamwork and persistence in the face of setbacks along with an appreciation for the innovation process.
Georgeann Ward
, Lee College - Texas;
Gordon Lee
, Lee College - Texas
This workshop introduces an interdisciplinary pedagogical approach to English and Humanities that helps students identify sources of oppression through literature, film, art, and architecture. Using Marx and Engels’ The Manifesto of the Communist Party as a lens, our class challenges students to critically examine issues of race, class, and gender.
Tori Abbott*
, Eastern Kentucky University;
Martin Brock
, Eastern Kentucky University;
Daniel Klapheke*
, Eastern Kentucky University
A sophomore-level integrated science course with a service-learning component and taught using inquiry approaches will be described. This six credit-hour course satisfies life and physical science GEN ED requirements for the university. We will show that non-majors in the course gain content understanding and knowledge of the scientific process.
Dan Kemp
, South Dakota State University
Several projects that have been successfully used in an honors calculus class will be described. In particular, students will present their solution to a project that shows that some important functions do not have elementary antiderivatives. Through projects beginning calculus students can do some important classical mathematics.
Belle Zembrodt
, Northern Kentucky University
A unique honors opportunity is a spring course with the study abroad component attached to the course. In this presentation we will describe an honors course, Grimm Fairy Tales Past and Present, that concluded with a study abroad trip to Germany. We will discuss logistical, academic, and personal issues.
David Kime
, Northern Kentucky University
Results of a citizen scholar project creating an inventory and assessment of cultural artifacts left by Depression Era CCC workers within Mammoth Cave are highlighted. Presenters include faculty and students who participated in the project as part of a course devoted to an interdisciplinary examination of Mammoth Cave.
Sarita Cargas
, University of New Mexico
One of the missions of many honors programs is to teach interdisciplinary thinking skills. I will define interdisciplinary teaching (including the role of integration) and present methods for preparing to teach interdisciplinarily, while offering a case study of teaching solutions to human rights problems to illustrate interdisciplinary teaching.
Scott Cook
, Motlow State Community College;
Heather Morris*
, Motlow State Community College;
Dallas Foster*
, Motlow State Community College
Sex and the Supernatural is an honors seminar offered at Motlow College, a course that fosters critical thinking and the free exchange of ideas through the historical and contemporary lenses of human sexuality. Students examine and discuss sexuality across civilizations and time to see the world in new ways.
Scott Cook
, Motlow State Community College
In addition to traditional academic research and presentation, Motlow College honors scholars each select a local person to interview and document the individual's history through the digital story medium. Through the use of video, audio, text, pictorial artifacts and traditional research, students preserve pieces of local history in tangible ways.
Amaris Ketcham
, University of New Mexico
Where the physical universe collides with the fanciful and flawed human experience of life, there is creative energy—be it in research or writing. This presentation will cover the adaptation of the writing core to an interdisciplinary, experiential course that uses science as the filter to explore creative writing.
