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Undergraduate honors program
[edit]The Undergraduate Honors Program is a new program for students mainly in the United States and Australia during their undergraduate studies.
Description
[edit]The Undergraduate Honors Program differs from an ‘Honorary Degree’ and does not have a higher honorary degree award, but the degree is more effective than a research master. In most cases, the school adds one year of research-based learning to help students get a better career entry, and only top 5% of students can get a diploma. [1]Honors students have a very high degree of recognition, and Honors student is favored by multinational corporations and government agencies, and there is almost no pressure for job hunting. The honors program is helping the children find their own path of development and paving the way for their future life. [2]
Study content
[edit]How to promote students' success?
[edit]Undergraduate Honors program is mainly extended on the basis of the university curriculum.
There is almost no difference between college life in the first three years and ordinary college students, but honors students would be more concentrated on the academic achievement besides the general education. The purpose of this is also to make these outstanding students become more top talents. In the final year of the honors program, students will develop their studies and future plans based on a number of projects and will evaluate their projects dozens of hours a week. [1]
Is there any way to promote student learning?
[edit]Teachers can seek the best possible outcomes by investigating students’ goals and aspirations. Due to the high threshold of honors courses, many students are under increasing pressure. Teachers should give encouragement and support to students as much as possible. In the following disciplines, narrow their academic focus, integrate learning and clarify career goals.[3]
Selection criteria
[edit]How many grades do students need?
[edit]Undergraduate honors program has a detailed minimum criteria. While different university have varies criteria, but all most all of those are really restrict.
As WCU students who want to participate in honors program need a minimum SAT score of 1200. As well as high school GPA of 3.5 or AP courses record score will be counted. Not all types of students can join in this honors program.[1]
In the university of Brasilia, the school will evaluate the student’s transcript and require the student to have an average score above 70 percentile. And the school will conduct a knowledge-based test of the basic areas of the course(in some specific area), in which the candidate must receive at least 70 points in 100 points. Sometimes oral presentation is also an essential part of the selection criteria. [4]
Moreover, as for The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, the minimum GPA of 3.8 for high school student and 3.3 is required for current student. [5]
Merits of undergraduate honors program
[edit]Why undergraduate honors program is beneficial for most of students?
[edit]For most students who taking the Undergraduate Honors Program, very satisfied and proud of the learning process. Students will actively communicate with the teacher and enthusiasm for the next study. Also, students who attending undergraduate honors program would finishing their college life more quickly, using time more creatively and completing more majors/minors than the ordinary students. Taking the financial accounting profession as an example, an excellent honors student even has the opportunity to directly enter the investment bank.
Undergraduate Honors Program students would be more likely to work for pay on campus such as more participate in class.
The most capable students should be trained so that they can fully realize their potential, the school will develop students' abilities from all aspects of the subject as well. [4]
Effect of undergraduate honors program
[edit]What contribution can this program make to students and society?
[edit]The Undergraduate Honors Program is a great challenge for many students who strive to realize their potential and seek a rigorous learning program, students taking the Honors Program have more opportunities for quality extracurricular activities and development potential.
The University of Georgia's Undergraduate Research Opportunity Center (CURO) is an significant example of the impact of undergraduate honors programs on students. In this project, the teacher investigated the attitudes and values of the students before and after the honors program. It can be seen that over 1/3 of students are more open be valuing of other cultures. In the following study, they separately compared the number of subjects participating in the honor study course with the initial GPA. The results showed that the students reported the GPA of the students who studied were higher than those who did not. These data all have a positive impact on students, which achieving a win-win situation between honor students and honor programs[6]
What are the possible problems?
[edit]The self-contradictory nature of honor students are often very capable, enthusiastic, but at the same time may be shy, fearful or risky. Undergraduate Honors Students may lack of experience in some realms than others. Especially in the case of over-stressed learning in the fourth year, many honorary students are weaker than other ordinary students in releasing stress.[7]
See also
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Reference
[edit]- ^ a b c Polk, Denise M. (Spring 2014). "Forces for Positive Change: Preparing Leaders for the 21st Century in an Undergraduate Honors Program" (PDF). Journal of Leadership Education: 140–151.
- ^ Hébert, Thomas P.; McBee, Matthew T. (April 2007). "The Impact of an Undergraduate Honors Program on Gifted University Students". Gifted Child Quarterly. 51 (2): 136–151. doi:10.1177/0016986207299471. ISSN 0016-9862.
- ^ Huggett, Kathryn Dey (March 2004). "Advising in Undergraduate Honors Programs: A Learner-Centered Approach". NACADA Journal. 24 (1–2): 75–87. doi:10.12930/0271-9517-24.1-2.75. ISSN 0271-9517.
- ^ a b "Signing into eresources, The University of Sydney Library". login.ezproxy1.library.usyd.edu.au. Retrieved 2019-05-12.
- ^ Stanford, Deb; Shattell, Mona (September 2010). "Using an Honors Program to Engage Undergraduate Students in Research". Nursing Education Perspective. 31(5): 325–326.
- ^ Veugelers, Wiel; Wolfensberger, Marca; Kamans, Elanor; Schutte, Ingrid (June 2018). "Effects of an International Undergraduate Honors Course on Awareness of Global Justice". Education Sciences. 8 (2): 82. doi:10.3390/educsci8020082.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link) - ^ Achterberg, Cheryl (Spring 2005). "What is an Honors Student?". National Collegiate Honors Council: 170.