Academic Catalog 2020-2021

HONORS PROGRAM (HON) The Bluefield College Honors Program is an interdisciplinary curriculum that provides a stimulating academic environment and intellectual challenge for highly motivated students. Students who complete the Honors Program will receive the designation, “Honors in ____,” inscribed on their transcripts and be recognized as first graduates in the commencement ceremony. • participate in an interdisciplinary junior seminar which integrates various area of knowledge culminating in a significant research project in any area of the student’s interest. • join in an interdisciplinary senior seminar highlighting the landscape of your intellectual odyssey Scholarships are available to all Honors students. ADMISSION TO PROGRAM Incoming Freshman: ACT score of 25 or SAT score of 1100 or eligibility for Presidents Scholarship. Submission of the Bluefield College Honors Program application. REQUIREMENTS Six Honors General Education courses: chosen from English, Social Science History, Communications, Fine Arts, Christian Studies, Natural Science (w/ lab), and Health: 18 Hours (or 19 w/ lab science). Students who have already met some of the general education requirements may arrange to take another course which could become an Honors Enhanced Class, with permission from the instructor. HON 3013 Honors Junior Seminar 3 Hours: In-depth interdisciplinary investigation of issues in students’ majors culminating in a term project of the students’ design. HON 4011 Honors Senior Seminar 1 Hour: Joint discussion of a central concept that links students’ intellectual odysseys. HONORS PROGRAM SCHEDULE • Students will be advised to follow the honors schedule in choosing particular general education courses. Ideally these six courses would be taken during the students’ freshman and sophomore years. They will be allowed to complete these requirements by the end of their senior year. • It is recommended students take two Honors courses their first semester. • Enrollment in these courses is limited to participants in the Bluefield College Honors Program and students who have received instructor’s permission. Through the Honors Program, students have the opportunity to: • take exclusive, small specially focused general education seminars • travel to Washington, D.C. and other urban areas • attend regional and national Honors conferences

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