1990-1991 Academic Catalog

The Honors Program is designed to challenge gifted students to reach their academic potentials through a specially designed course of study. This program is not a major, but rather a specially crafted sequence of courses which enriches existing major fields of study. The courses designated as "honors courses" are rigorous and demanding, challenging students to as– pire to greater heights in the world of ideas. Admission to the program for entering freshmen is based uponACT/SAT scores, written essays, high school rank and grade point average and, when possible, a personal interview. Prospective students must complete a sepa– rate application which is available through the admissions office. A limited number of students are admitted into the program each fall. Students enrolled in the Honors Program are required to complete seven honors courses in addition to a senior research project or thesis. Three of these courses are taken in the freshman year in a sequence entitled "The Making of the Modem Mind," which tracks the development of philosophic, literary, scientific and aesthetic traditions against the back– ground of the history of western civilization. These three courses meet general education requirements in humanities, philosophy and history. In the sophomore and junior years, honors students take four integrative seminars. Typically, each honors seminar is taught by two or three faculty members from different academic departments in a team-teaching effort providing an interdisciplinary perspective to the topic of study. In the senior year, each honors student conducts a year-long research project under the direction of a faculty mentor from the student's academic department. A thesis is written as part of this research project. At gradu– ation, honors students receive appropriate recognition of their honors status. Through the Honors Program, Cedarville College encourages superior scholarship, allows a thorough integration of the various disciplines, and provides the student an opportunity to understand better how all knowledge relates to its theistic source. Honors offers an adventure in the world of ideas, coupled with practical incentives for transcribing faith and learning into larger culture for the glory of God and the benefit of men and women in His image. Course requirements for the Honors Program involve 32-36 quarter hours including: I. Freshman Colloquia: The Making of the Modem Mind ...... 15 hours HON-101 ClassicalAntiquity .................................................................. 5 HON-102 Renaissance and Reformation ................................................. 5 HON-103 The Age of Revolutions .......................................................... 5 Il. Honors Seminars .......................................... 12m16 hours Four seminars, typically 3 hours each, taken in the sophomore and junior years. ill. Honors Research Project/Thesis .......................................... 5 hours A research project in the student's major, conducted under the direction of a departmental mentor. The Honors Seminar "Sociology ofSport," offered Winter Quarter 1988,featured special class sessions with "Golden Glove" third baseman Mike Schmidt, seen here in chapel with President Dixon.