College Honors: Curriculum
The College Honors core curriculum is designed to follow the student during his or her four years, at each level of full-time coursework. For transfer students, or continuing students who join the program after their third semester at Ramapo College, the core curriculum will cover these levels in four semesters. Specific College Honors courses are designed intentionally and collaboratively solely for the College Honors Program by full-time, tenure-track professors committed to the learning community of the College Honors Program. The design reflects a focus on student priorities of coverage and integration of required courses.
The year-by-year College Honors Core Curriculum is set forth below.
The College Honors Core Curriculum Four Year Sequence:
| HNRS 101 - FIRST COURSE SEMINAR |
Honors FYS courses that emphasize academic skills (critical thinking, writing, oral presentation) and experiential learning; students choose one of three courses depending on term offered:
- Honors First-Course Seminar: Encounter with the Other (FA 09)
- Honors First-Course Seminar: Nature, Science and Society - An Ecological Framework (FA 09)
| HNRS 220 - International Issues Seminar |
Honors 200-level seminars that emphasize visits from numerous faculty, as well as guest lecturers, and the international, intercultural and interdisciplinary pillar learning goals. Students choose one of three courses depending on the term offered:
- Honors International Issues Seminar: Africa and the World (SP 10)
- Honors International Issues Seminar: Intensive Language and
Culture for Honors Students - Focus on the Spanish-Speaking World
(ACTFL Advanced-Low skill level proficiency required) (SP 10) - Honors International Issues Seminar: Business (SP 11)
| Year 3: Honors Ethics (Topics Arts/Humanities General Education) |
Honors 300-level seminars that emphasize exploration and development of personal values, civic engagement and ethics; students will be able to choose courses such as the following, beginning in Fall 2011, Honors Ethics
- Honors Ethics: Philosophical Ethics (FA 10)
- Honors Ethics: Professional Ethics - Comparative and Critical Analysis (FA 10)
| Year 4: Honors Senior Seminar (Contemporary Issues in Social Science General Education) |
Honors 400-level Capstone seminars that emphasize interdisciplinary analysis and approaches to address contemporary social issues; team projects/seminars plus individual research papers. The seminars would include a deep experiential piece integrated with the interdisciplinary analysis. (SP 11)
