HONORS SECTION GENERAL CRITERIA
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Limited enrollment to maximum of 18 (Honors students have priority registration)
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Other students may register with a minimum GPA of 3.2
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Full time tenured, tenure track, CCE, or CCE track faculty only may submit
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Faculty should be available to approve students for registration via email, phone or in
person during registration period
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The syllabus must have clearly defined learning objectives, detailed descriptions of
learning units, specific readings, a week by week schedule, and assessments cross-
indexed to specific learning objectives (see attached)
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The majority of the grade should be based on written assignments
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Grades cannot be based on statistical curves
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Honors Sections must incorporate two High Impact practices:
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Formal Writing Intensive designation
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A collaborative assignment
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A research component
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An experiential learning assignment
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A service learning or community-based learning component
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A short internship
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A capstone project such as the completion of an ePortfolio assignment
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Sections must incorporate three Level 2 General Education Core Competencies:
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Multicultural awareness
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Global awareness and citizenship
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Leadership/Interpersonal relationship skills
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Understanding of global environmental issues and ethics
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Understanding values and ethics
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Advanced research skills/ Empirical observation and data analysis
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Critical and analytical skills in personal and professional settings
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Understanding of aesthetic principles of beauty, order, and harmony
For more information on High-Impact Practices, please see: Kuh, George D. High-Impact Educational
Practices: What they are, who has access to them, and why they matter. Washington, DC: AAC&U, 2008.
For more information on GenEd at Hostos, please visit http://www.hostos.cuny.edu/oaa/ctl_ged.htm
