The College Honors Program

学院荣誉课程有三个主要部分: 

I. 通识教育荣誉课程

All Rhode Island College students are required to complete the General Education Program, 一系列的写作课程, literature, history, 社会科学和行为科学, the natural sciences, mathematics, and the arts. Most general education courses are taken during the first two years.

通识教育荣誉课程的学生必须在专门设计的荣誉课程中学习至少五门必修的通识教育课程, 包括“核心”一年级写作, First Year Seminar, and Connections Courses. Other Honors courses will be selected from the Area Distribution courses.  强烈建议新生(荣誉奖学金获得者的要求)也注册荣誉150* 课程，“荣誉体验”.”  To emphasize active class participation and close student-teacher interaction, 荣誉班的规模很小, 通常是12到15个学生, 并以讨论而不是讲座的形式进行.  荣誉课通常采用创新的教学方法. 

In addition to completing at least five Honors General Education* courses, 学生的总平均成绩必须保持在3分.0 (reviewed every semester) in order to graduate with General Education Honors.  Failure to maintain a 3.平均绩点为0的学生可能会立即失去荣誉奖学金. 

II. 三年级荣誉研讨会课程

三年级荣誉讨论会(荣誉351*) helps to prepare students to undertake departmental honors projects. It is a two-credit class, is graded credit/no credit, and may be taken twice. The class is open to continuing and transfer students who have achieved a 3.0 GPA. 它也开放给学生谁已经和那些谁没有参加通识教育荣誉.

III. 高级项目(部门荣誉项目)

Departmental Honors programs offer students the opportunity to do an independent research, critical, or creative project on a topic of the student's choice and directed by a professor of the student's choice. 这些项目通常在大四完成, 虽然他们可能会更早开始, and normally carry at least 6 credits of independent study over two semesters.

荣誉学生进行了实验室实验. They have written critical and research papers in literature and the social sciences. 他们创作并表演了音乐作品, and produced videos, and they have researched and devised pedagogy for elementary and secondary education.

*Honors 150 and Honors 351 do not count toward the five general education honors classes.

Freshman Year

• 第一年研讨会(荣誉)-通常是秋季
• 第一年写作(荣誉)-如果你获得了AP或EEP学分, you will need to select an additional Honors course from the Area Distribution Requirements. 大部分在秋天，一些在春天
• 荣誉经历(HON 150*)
• 至少有一门区域分销要求的荣誉课程

Sophomore Year

• 在区域分布要求中至少修完一门荣誉课程，完成至少5门通识教育荣誉课程. Typically Fall.
• Honors Connections Course (After 45 credits completed, usually Spring of Sophomore year)

Junior Year

• 青少年荣誉讲座(HON 351*)
• 完成区域分配要求**，如果还没有完成的话

Senior Year 

• 高级荣誉项目独立学习

*Honors 150 and Honors 351 do not count toward the five general education honors classes.

**例外情况必须得到批准. 未能达到年度标准可能导致失去奖学金.

Students in General Education Honors take at least five of their required General Education courses, 通常包括荣誉100分(第一年研讨会), First Year Writing 100H, 以及大三人脉课程, 在特别设计的荣誉区. To emphasize active class participation and close student-teacher interaction, sections are kept small, 通常是12到15个学生, 并以讨论而不是讲座的形式进行. 荣誉课通常采用创新的教学方法.

Each year the College awards a number of merit-based academic scholarships to incoming freshmen and, in certain cases, 已经注册通识教育荣誉课程的学生. Most of those scholarships are renewable for a maximum of eight semesters, 自学生在学院注册之日起, 前提是学生保持3.0 grade point average, 仍然是全日制学生, and makes satisfactory progress toward fulfilling General Education Honors.

In addition, the John Nazarian Honors Scholarship is awarded to an outstanding incoming freshman and Eleanor M. McMahon Honors Scholarships are given to an outstanding rising junior and an outstanding graduating senior, respectively.

通识教育荣誉课程的录取学生在入学时没有获得荣誉奖学金，可以在4月份向荣誉主任申请下一学年的奖学金. 这样的奖学金将被授予, if monies are available, on the basis of overall grade point average; progress toward completion of the honors program; and length of matriculation at the college. 申请的最低要求是3分.25 cumulative GPA. 主任将于四月发出申请通知.

完成部门荣誉项目指南

Any questions regarding this process can be sent to Rebecca Sparks, Director of Honors at rsparks@rusjuutycfwts.com.

I. 项目准备工作

Ideally, 项目开始前一个学期, 学生应该找到自己选择的指导老师，制定一个项目主题和完成计划.  这取决于部门, the student may have a more (or less) formal initial approval of the department.  荣誉课程每年春季为任何寻求在他/她的项目制定方面的额外指导的学生提供课程.  欢迎有兴趣参加的同学报名.

II. Working on the Project

• Register for independent (or directed) study based upon the needs of the student’s project.  Most students register for at least 6 credits spread across two semesters.  (通常是秋季3个学分，春季3个学分.)   
• Please notify Rebecca Sparks of the working title, advisor, and expected completion date.  还要包括你打算毕业的日期.  (Please use the online form 通知荣誉主任.)
• Consider applying for funding 来自Anne and Bob De Stefano本科研究基金. 点击页面左侧的“部门荣誉”链接，您可以在荣誉网站上找到相关信息. 

III. 在项目完成期间和接近完成时

Important events the student should participate in are itemized below.

• 四月的海报/报告环节

完成部门荣誉程序, 我们要求学生向大学社区展示他们的作品，作为年终esball官方网大会庆祝活动的一部分. 这次展示以海报的形式进行，旨在表彰那些在各自专业成功完成荣誉项目的学生，并与学院社区分享他们的成就. You are welcome, indeed encouraged, 邀请朋友和家人, 还有你的项目顾问, to the poster session. We also hope that many faculty members from your respective departments will attend.

• 毕业典礼期间的荣誉晚宴.

成功完成荣誉项目的学生被邀请带着他们的导师和嘉宾来庆祝他们的成就. Students will also receive honor cords to wear at commencement ceremonies.

When the final project is complete and passes departmental approval, 应作出以下通知:

• 通知记录办公室，学生已经完成了“荣誉(适当部门)”，并且应该在学生成绩单上有这个名称.
• 通知荣誉主任(丽贝卡·斯帕克斯)，学生的期末项目已被批准与相关的标题.
• The student should work with the library to have his/her project on archive within the library. Information on how to complete submission may be found on the honors website.

提交完成的荣誉项目亚当斯图书馆

If you have students completing theses or honors projects this year, please encourage them to electronically submit their work to Adams Library. 图书馆不再接受印刷版论文的装订. Instead, 电子学生论文和荣誉项目在DigitalCommons@RIC机构存储库中进行维护和存档, 如果需要，可以使用以下选项来限制访问:

• Students have the option to make their thesis or honors project accessible to the general public, 或者限制进入RIC校园和RIC社区. 这使学生能够以类似于通过图书馆的仅打印访问的方式限制访问. 
• 在他们导师的同意下, 学生也可以选择禁止他们的工作，在一段时间内阻止所有的在线访问. This is common if, for example, they are planning to publish the findings elsewhere. 
• Here are instructions 为数字提交的论文，学位论文和荣誉项目. 

For any questions regarding submission and archiving of student scholarship, please email Andrew Davis，数码计划协调员.