Honors Program Mission & Learning Outcomes
Mission: The Academic 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 (PLOs)
- 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)
or HNR 120: Honors Seminar
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 Honors Program you have the choice of receiving credit for two non-Honors courses by completing an Honorization Contract:
Year 4 - Culminating Experiences
Complete the two courses listed below:
