Honors Program
Natasha Todorovich
Coordinator
Honors coursework encourages creative and critical thinking, collaboration across disciplines, diverse cultural understanding, engaged civic and ethical leadership, and research and advanced scholarship.
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Mission Statement
The Honors Program at Wright College offers coursework that
emphasizes in-depth and advanced understanding of the subject, creative and
critical thinking applied to difficult and complex topics, multiple
disciplinary approaches, diverse cultural understanding, and skills in
sophisticated problem-solving. Furthermore, the coursework encourages
collaboration across disciplines, engaged civic and ethical leadership, and
research and advanced scholarship. The Honors
Program offers two options to students: specially developed courses marked
Honors or an option to complete an Honors project in a regular course through a
negotiated agreement between faculty and student (“supplemental Honors
contract”).
The goal of the Honors Program at Wright
College is to develop students who are:
- Intellectually curious and lifelong learners; able to
persist in finding answers to difficult and complex questions; - Intellectually tolerant; able to tolerate ambiguity and
uncertainty in examining difficult ideas; - Creative and critical thinkers across disciplines; able to
contextualize ideas and to synthesize multiple disciplines in creative ways; - Skilled researchers; adept at designing, articulating, and
conducting research or scholarship following the academic methodologies,
professional standards and conventions of their field of study; - Articulate in their reasoning; able to communicate their
ideas in multiple media; - Informed and balanced agents in the world; able to
articulate informed personal standards to evaluate new ideas, experiences, and
cultures; - Engaged members of their local and global civic communities;
able to articulate moral obligations of their citizenship; - Outstanding students; competitive in their applications for
scholarships, ability to transfer, and in their job applications.
Program Learning Outcomes
Students who successfully complete four Honors courses will demonstrate in their coursework all learning outcomes for the Honors certification which are:
- Quality research or scholarship in their fields;
- Professional quality skills in written, oral, graphical and
digital communication; - Advanced knowledge of the arts and sciences as well as the
interrelationship among them; - Analytic skills in addressing complex ideas and texts across
disciplines and incorporating multiple disciplinary perspectives; - Leadership skills and engaged civic and ethical
responsibility in local and global settings, both collaboratively and
individually; - Cultural awareness and sensitivity both to his/her own
cultural traditions and those of other cultures.
