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Applying to Teach an Honors Course at RBC


Honors Program Goals

Critical Thinking: teaching students reflective processes that lead to better habits of mind; comprehensive and nuanced consideration of issues and topics, well beyond basic defining and understanding; assignments and activities emphasize analysis, synthesis, and evaluation, along with the application of skills and concepts.

Independent Research: instruction in how to research successfully in the disciplines, along with opportunities to collect, evaluate, and synthesize research in the execution of extended projects and activities.

Interdisciplinary Learning: emphasizes reaching across conventional disciplinary boundaries, considering the connections and implications of other fields of study and disciplinary approaches.

Engagement: emphasizes the development of collaborative learning skills, student participation in leadership roles in the classroom, application of experiential learning, recognition of professional responsibilities, as well as engagement on an ideological level. Focuses on students as part of multiple, overlapping communities: academic, local, national, and global, in order to expand worldview and perspective.

Name*
Is this course offered as a non-Honors course?*
Which general education requirement(s) will the course fulfill?*

3.Share the following elements from the proposed Honors course syllabus: