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Honors

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Contact Information

Director:  Shirley Shultz Myers, Ph.D. 
Contact: Geoffrey Whitebread
IK Jordan Student Academic Center (JSAC)  1226

TTY: 202-651-5550
Voice: 202-651-5550

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Honors Program Student Learning Outcomes

Language and Communication

  • Honors students will use American Sign Language for academic and professional presentations
  • Honors students will use written English to develop skills in academic writing to use in their civic, social, and professional responsibilities
  • Honors students will use and apply and excel in conventions of academic and professional discourse best demonstrated in their Capstone experience

Critical Thinking

  • Honors students will learn to analyze, synthesize, and evaluate multiple perspectives and facts, ideas, and interpretations from various sources-particularly academic and professional sources

Identity and Culture

  • Honors students value understanding their own social identities, as well as others', to enhance tolerance, respect, and civility

Knowledge and Inquiry

  • Honors students will use and understand knowledge and modes of inquiry of humanities, social sciences and natural sciences at a level more advanced than non-Honors students.
  • Honors students will conduct original research, scholarship, or creative activity in their capstone experience that exemplifies graduate or professional level achievement on an introductory scale
  • Honors students will demonstrate technological competence

Attitudes and Values

  • Honors students appreciate intellectual pursuits
  • Honors students develop dispositions and abilities conducive to strong cognitive skills
  • Honors students develop skills of academic leadership to promote learning
  • Honors students appreciate the difference between structural and transformative diversity in enhancing the academic experience and promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion
  • Honors Students will experience and value connecting academic methods of inquiry to public conflicts and dilemmas

The Department has established student learning outcomes (SLOs) for the Honors programs. The SLOs are available in Adobe Acrobat PDF format (Download Acrobat Reader).


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