作为尼斯比特的优等生, 你将完成5门或更多的荣誉课程, including interdisciplinary courses that connect learning from two different fields and a junior honors seminar designed to give you a leg up in graduate school and life after Converse. Most of these courses are available only to students in the honors program.
Types of Courses
新生荣誉研讨会
如果你从高中毕业就直接参加这个万博下载ios, you will typically begin your first semester of college with a Freshman Honors Seminar. 这些课程计入通识教育计划(GEP)的要求.
Sample Courses:
- “Gender, Indian Wars, and Witchcraft in Colonial New England” (History)
- “Perspectives of the Vietnam Experience in Novels and First Person Accounts” (Politics)
- “A Woman on Stage! Masterpieces of Spanish Theatre in English Translation” (Hispanic Studies)
跨学科荣誉研讨会
As signature Converse experiences, these courses are team-taught by professors from different fields. 作为尼斯贝特荣誉学生,你至少要选其中一门. 这些课程计入通识教育计划(GEP)的要求 and sometimes major requirements.
Sample Courses:
- Literacy and the Life & Work of C.S. Lewis
- Music & Society in the 1960’s
- Getting Glazed: The Art & Science of Ceramics
- Numbers, Infinity & Reality
- 通过纪录片从非洲穿越边境到西班牙 & Films
Junior Honors Seminar
This is a one-credit course designed to help students prepare for life after Converse. 你会了解到研究生院的奖学金, 为研究生申请起草一份个人陈述, 了解本科生的研究机会, revise resumes, 讨论家庭和事业上的挑战, and explore the meaning of the liberal arts before and after graduation.
指导独立研究荣誉
作为万博地址经历的更明显的因素, these one-term independent research or creative project courses are designed by one or two students together with a faculty mentor. Students taking these courses often present their work at conferences or in publications.
高级荣誉课程
In these courses, students delve deeper into less common topics to fulfill major requirements or to explore an area of interest.
Sample Courses:
- “From Colonial Goodwives to Martha Stewart: Domestic Advice and Experience in America”
- “智力与大脑”
- “非洲和亚洲的妇女”
Senior Honors Thesis
这是一个密集且经常是跨学科的研究万博下载ios, creative project, or musical performance beginning during a student’s junior year and culminating in a public presentation to the college and local community late in your senior year. 在与教师导师协商后, 学生设计万博下载ios, 帮助选择教师的咨询委员会, 研究并创作最终作品. Highly qualified and motivated students are permitted to do an honors thesis as a substitute for two upper-level honors courses.