Our Program

一般来说，荣誉课程的组成部分使学生能够追求广度、深度和复杂性 和/或跨学科在他们的本科教育，帮助培养 知识和技能，促进学生的智力，个人和专业 development; their contributions to the Wilkes campus community; and their preparation for post-graduate success, whether through employment or continued education.

Honors components should constitute approximately 15-20% of a student’s work in a class. This could be quantified by proportion of final grade and/or by proportion of total assignments.

Potential Modes of Learning

• 独立工作，如研究，案例研究或学生的创意项目 discipline (in-depth learning)
• exploration of broad themes and/or enduring questions across disciplines (breadth of learning)
• experiential learning, such as internships, field work and study abroad
• 服务学习(有意识地、有目的地整合服务和学习元素)
• residential learning community (conscious and purposeful integration of living and learning elements)
• 校际本科生学术竞赛，演讲/会议，和/或 publications
• experimental or innovative pedagogy

Potential Topics

• trends, issues and/or best practices within the student’s discipline
• 学生不熟悉的社区、思想、实践、方法和/或价值观

Potential Skill Outcomes

• problem solving
• project management
• critical reading (ability to evaluate evidence-based arguments and judgments)
• critical thinking (ability to make evidence-based arguments and judgments)
• clear and persuasive writing
• clear and persuasive oral presentation
• artistic literacy
• metacognition (analysis of not just what is known, but also of how it comes to be known)
• comfort with ambiguity, uncertainty and the unfamiliar

推荐全球十大博彩公司排行榜荣誉课程支持学术严谨的核心价值观 学术期望的常规课程)，领导能力，诚信(证明 学习道德和价值观)，自我意识(强调自我反思)，重要性 of building community and appreciating diversity. Honors course components should reflect one or more of these core values.

See full listings for upcoming semester, and look for H/&H/HNR courses.

• &H (“And H”)
  • An &H部分是在现有课程中增加的，其中既有荣誉学生也有非荣誉学生 招收荣誉学生是为了表明他们有机会获得荣誉吗 course credit. To earn this credit, honors students must be enrolled specifically in the &H section and they must satisfactorily complete work complementary to the existing syllabus. An honors student is allowed only one grade of 2.5 in an honors course to receive honors credit. All other honors course grades must be a minimum of 3.0.
• H (“standalone Honors course”)
  • H部分表示所有参加该课程的学生都完成了应该完成的工作 yield honors credit for that course. Non-honors students could enroll in such a course with instructor permission, but while they would need to complete all of the same work as the honors students, they would receive only non-honors credit. An honors student is allowed only one grade of 2.5 in an honors course to receive honors credit. All other honors course grades must be a minimum of 3.0.

荣誉学生必须遵守以下条款才有资格参加 in the program, to retain access to the program’s resources and opportunities and, ultimately, to meet all Honors Program completion requirements:

Required Courses

FYF 101 H | Honors First-Year Foundations

即将入学的荣誉学生将参加一门特殊的三学分创意写作课程 在培养写作、口语、 problem-solving, and critical thinking as well as a comfort with encountering the ambiguous, uncertain, and/or unfamiliar. Students who do not achieve a minimum grade of 2.5 for the FYF 101 Honors course in the fall will be required to take the spring 300-level Honors creative writing course. Wilkes students who have been accepted into 现在的学生——推荐全球十大博彩公司排行榜至少一个学期后——也会参加这个项目 be required to take the spring 300-level Honors creative writing course.

HNR 390 | Honors Capstone Seminar

这个1学分的跨学科顶点研讨会是一个最终的经历 for all prospective Honors Program graduates. The course is intended to explicitly 让学生反思他们推荐全球十大博彩公司排行榜学到的东西，以及他们如何才能做到 在他们未来的个人和职业轨迹中推进这些技能和见解. Consequently, the course depends on students’ consistent investment in critically 评估他们在本科教育中学到了什么，这是如何 be communicated to others, and what that makes possible for future endeavors.

Additional Honors Courses

In addition to the above, students must take 18 additional honors credits, six of which must be at the 300 level or above.

Honors Credit Waivers

学生参加出国游学、实习或相关独立工作 study opportunities are eligible for honors credit waivers as described below.

Study Abroad

• A full semester abroad earns a waiver of 6 honors credits at the 300 level.
• A summer term abroad earns a waiver of 3 honors credits at the 300 level.
• 相关的独立学习项目(由相关学科指导老师建议) 返回获得3个荣誉学分300级(通过秋季HNR 395或春季) HNR 396).

Internships

• 一次实习，无论是在整个学期还是在夏季学期，都可以获得豁免 of 3 honors credits at the 300 level.
• 有相关的独立学习项目(由相关学科导师建议) to internship earns 3 honors credits at the 300 level (through either fall HNR 395 or spring HNR 396).

Minimum Cumulative GPA

• 3.0 after two terms at Wilkes
• 3.2 after four terms at Wilkes
• 3.3 after six terms at Wilkes
• 3.4 after eight terms at Wilkes/to meet all Honors Program completion requirements

A student is allowed only one grade of 2.5 in an honors course to receive honors credit. All other honors course grades must be a minimum of 3.0.

低于要求的累积GPA门槛的学生将获得一个完整的 term to return their cumulative GPA to the minimum required.

推荐全球十大博彩公司排行榜一直鼓励学生利用所有社区的专业知识 资源，如学术支持和健康和保健服务，遇到 academic, personal or other challenges.

First-Year Honors Learning Community

All first-year honors students living on campus reside together in honors housing. 这使学生能够在一个有利的环境中开始相互联系 to their shared values and aspirations. While you may live in the hall of your choice 在你推荐全球十大博彩公司排行榜的最后几年里，许多人选择继续住在社区里 with other honors students.

Good Standing

参加荣誉课程的学生必须在两项荣誉课程中保持良好的成绩 Program Community and university Student Conduct.

Honors Program Community

参加荣誉计划主办的活动，包括校园会议 邀请著名的客座演讲者，并与未来的荣誉学生交流，会有所帮助 培养知识和技能，提高智力，个人和专业 发展，对推荐全球十大博彩公司排行榜校园社区的贡献以及研究生的成功， whether through employment or continued education. Our weekly newsletter, “The Honors Buzz,” announces these opportunities throughout the academic year.

All honors students must participate in at least one honors-sponsored activity per term. This commitment is waived during a study abroad term. 此外，这些记录将包括在内，并由荣誉项目顾问审查 Council as a part of any competitive grant application.

Student Conduct

Honors students must remain in good standing with regard to student conduct. Any student 被发现违反大学政策的学生也要接受荣誉委员会的审查 Program Advisory Council.

Community Service

为校园、当地和更广泛的社区服务是推荐全球十大博彩公司排行榜的标志 Honors Program. We believe that as individuals who have been given additional resources 我们应该投入我们的时间和才能，这是正确和公平的 to work to make the communities that we live in better and healthier environments for everyone. Since this is the case, the Honors Program requires at least five hours of  community service per semester to remain in good standing. This can take a variety of forms such as working as members of campus student committees, clubs, and other groups. It can mean participating in regular or temporary volunteer work, service trips, service to a place of worship, service-related travel, etc. Students will submit a form each semester documenting their community service activities. Failure to submit 这个表格，或满足要求的门槛，每学期五个小时将产生 in the loss of good standing. 此外，这些记录将包括在内，并由荣誉项目顾问审查 Council as a part of any competitive grant application.

Student learning outcomes include

• Communicating characteristic topics, methodologies and professional concerns.
• Associated with their respective disciplines to non-expert audiences.
• 与各自学科内外的其他人合作， to accomplish shared goals.
• 计划和管理长期项目，平衡个人责任与协调 with team colleagues.
• 组织和提供连贯的工作演示，从提出前景 tasks to articulating evidence-based outcomes.
• 指定和批判性地评估连续性和非连续性 personal Wilkes educational trajectory and future endeavors.

Wilkes University Honors Program students are encouraged to use their Enhancement Grants to fund participation in co-curricular opportunities such as undergraduate 研究和参加专业会议，有国际学习经历，独立自主 research, and unpaid internships.

关于什么类型的资金可以提供给你的问题应该直接 通过访问办公室(Stark Learning Center 120-122)或发送电子邮件获得荣誉项目 Jennifer Mclaughlin. An Enhancement Grant can be used to support experiences such as international or domestic study-away, internships, or other opportunities beyond what your field of study requires. Funding cannot be issued in cash, nor can it be used for Wilkes tuition or fees.

MORE INFORMATION about Resources and Opportunities

• Honors Program Course Proposal (.pdf)
• Enhancement Grant Request Form (.docx)
• Competitive Grant information (.pdf)
• Honors Program Credit Waiver Form (.pdf)
• Honors Program Student Committee Application Form (.docx)
• Honors Program Peer Mentor Application Form (.pdf)
• Independent Study Form (.pdf)
• Honors Program Award Nomination Form (.pdf)
• Community Service Form - Year 1 (.pdf)
• Community Service Form - Year 2 (.pdf)
• Community Service Form - Year 3 (.pdf)
• Community Service Form - Year 4 (.pdf)