When you enroll at Susquehanna, you’ll be paired with an advisor and application tool to guide you in your course planning and scheduling. The following is an excerpt from the complete course catalog. Enrolled students follow the requirements of the course catalog for the academic year in which they declare each major and/or minor, consult with their advisor(s) and the Academic Planning Tool.
Curriculum
Students typically enroll in one Honors course during each of their eight semesters at Susquehanna. 学生必须在所有荣誉课程中获得C-或更高的成绩. 所有荣誉课程都满足核心课程要求的特定组合. Only Honors students may register for Honors courses.
参加荣誉课程的学生必须保持总平均成绩为3分.40 during each semester at Susquehanna. 如果学生在任何荣誉课程中获得低于C-的成绩, the student, at the discretion of the director, may be removed automatically from the Honors Program. 项目主任在每学期结束时审查学生的gpa. If an Honors student’s GPA falls below the 3.40 level, the student will receive a warning letter. After a second semester below a 3.40 level GPA, the student is dismissed from the program.
During the first year, students must successfully complete HONS-100 Thought, which focuses on ideas and their expression, and one of the following: HONS-200 Thought and Civilization, an interdisciplinary look at literature and cultures; HONS-210 Thought and The Arts, which focuses on Western aesthetics as seen in varied artistic forms; or HONS-230 Analytical Thought-Logic, 这门课程考察符号逻辑作为科学方法的生成认识论.
In their sophomore year, students must successfully complete either HONS-240 Thought and Social Diversity or HONS-250 Thought and the Natural Sciences, which offer cross-disciplinary approaches. 高二荣誉学生还必须成功完成HONS-260和HONS- 261, the Sophomore Colloquium, in which they engage with an interdisciplinary view of a chosen theme and write a reflection-portfolio.
As juniors, students must successfully complete eight semester hours from a series of HONS-301 seminars that foster interdisciplinary engagement. If the chosen course is part of the student’s major, 学生必须向荣誉项目主任提交一份“荣誉级合同”，说明, in consultation with the instructor, 荣誉学生的课程作业与其他学生的作业有何不同. Since some HONS-301 seminars are occasionally offered as electives that do not fulfill Central Curriculum requirements, students need to check individual course descriptions for Central Curriculum categories and communicate with the Honors Program Director for any needed equivalency adjustment.
The Honors Program culminates in the Honors Research Project, an experiential learning project that applies an interdisciplinary frame to a topic chosen by the student. 研究项目必须至少持续两个学期(两门课程), with a minimum of 1 SH each), and may be built around the student’s capstone project. Students may register for HONS-450 after completion of the Sophomore Colloquium (HONS 260+HONS 261), 项目建议书被荣誉项目主任正式接受后, which requires securing an academic research mentor. 研究项目的结论必须包括公开陈述, usually in a forum organized by the Honors Program.
Honors Courses and the Central Curriculum
荣誉课程将其课程与中心课程要求保持一致, however, Honors courses fulfill Honors Learning Goals that follow guidelines from the National Collegiate Honors Council. For Honors students, the manner in which Central Curriculum requirements are fulfilled may differ from the manner in which Central Curriculum requirements are defined in the course catalog. Honors students enrolling in Central Curriculum courses should consider whether or not to select Honors options to fulfill those requirements. A student who completes the requirements of the Honors Program also fulfills the interdisciplinary requirement of the Central Curriculum. Students with special concerns about their programs should seek additional advising from the Director and/or Associate Director of the Honors Program.
