Preyer Honors Program Mission & Learning Outcomes
Mission: The Preyer Honors Program seeks to identify intellectually curious and academically adept students and to challenge those students to deepen, broaden, and enhance their Queens education, with a focus on leadership and community engagement.
Learning Outcomes
- Students integrate diverse learning experiences through reflection.
- Students demonstrate communication fluency using multiple modes of expression.
- Students investigate complex problems using interdisciplinary approaches.
- Students demonstrate personal awareness of the connection between themselves and the community.
- Students develop leadership in community engagement settings.
Curriculum Overview
To complete the program and graduate "with Honors" you must complete all the requirements below while maintaining a 3.25 GPA.
Year 1 - Gateway
*HNR 110: Honors Gateway Seminar (4cr) (Satisfies the QEN 101 - Rhetoric & Composition --> General Education Requirement)
*If you brought in transfer credit for QEN 101 or came into the program after your first semester you can "honorize" an additional class to substitute. Please reach out to Dr. Pasiali for additional information.
Years 1-3 - Queens Learning Community Seminars
These learning community seminars are not connected to a specific learning community. You will take them the semester you enroll in the general education learning communities. Throughout years 1-3 you will need to complete two (of the three) QLC seminars. Those three options are:
QLC 175H: Honors - Exploring Connections (1cr)
QLC 275H: Honors - Analyzing Disciplines (1cr)
QLC 375H: Honors - Engaing Communities (1cr)
Years 2-3 - Honorizing Courses
As part of the Preyer's Honors Program you have the choice of receiving credit for two non-Honors courses:
Year 4 - Culminating Experiences
Complete the two courses listed below: