1991-1992 Academic Catalog

The Honors Program Tue 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. Interdisciplinary Studies 127 Course requirements for the Honors Program involve 32-36 quarter hours including: I. Freshman Colloquia: The Making of the Modern Mind ...... 15 hours 1 HON-101 ClassicalAntiquity ................................................................. 5 2 HON-l 02 Renaissance and Reformation ................................................ 5 3 HON-103 The Age ofRevolutions .......................................................... 5 Il. Honors Integrative Seminars .......................................... 12-16 hours Four seminars, typically 3 hours each, taken in the sophomore and junior years. ill. Honors Research Project/Thesis ........................................3-5 hours A research project in the student's major, conducted under the direction of a departmental mentor or, participation in a one hour interdisciplinary colloquiem each quarter. 1 Satisfies HUM-140 Introduction to the Humanities 2 Satisfies the General Education requirement of a humanities elective 3 Satisfies the General Education requirement in history Honors Courses HON-101,102,103 The Making ofthe ModemMind-A,W,Sp 15 hours HON-101 Classical Antiquity ''Beginnings"-A 5 hours Explores those historical, religious, philosophical, and artistic beginnings that have shaped the modem rnind-or, what some are now calling the "postmodern" mind. The story begins, naturally enough, at the beginning, in the rnind ofGod.... HON-102 Renaissance and Reformation ''Faith and Reason"-W 5 hours Explores the uneasy tensions between Church and State, sacred and secular, piety and humanistic scholarship that have shaped and continue to shape how one views the world today. The story begins in the High Middle Ages, in Europe. HON-103 The Age ofRevolutions-Sp 5 hours Studies those political, artistic, scientific, and philosophical revolutions that have shaped the modem rnind. The story begins in the late eighteenth century, inAmerica and France.