HONORS PROGRAM

 

About Honors

The Kingsborough Honors Program offers a challenging and rewarding educational experience for academically-minded students. The program provides a platform for students to explore their scholarly interests through honors-level academic work open only to honors students. Honors work emphasizes independent research, critical thinking, and analytical writing and argumentation skills. Honors work may be transferable to a variety of four-year colleges and universities as well as open up opportunities for selective transfer scholarships. The Honors Program strives to nurture excellence in leadership and service in addition to excellence in academics. The ultimate goal of the Honors Program is to support students as they become active and engaged citizens and scholars while building strong academic and co-curricular resumes.

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Honors Course Offerings: Spring 2024 (coming soon)

All-Honors courses are designed to foster critical thinking, improve speaking and writing skills, and examine subject matter more deeply than a regular course. They generally do not require students to do more work; instead, these courses challenge students to work at a more sophisticated level and in a more independent manner. Courses are open to students who have a 3.20 or higher GPA and are capped at 25 or fewer students. Students must earn a grade of B+ or higher in order to receive an Honors notation on their transcript.

All-Honors courses are three (3) units.

 

Attention: Honors Program students and faculty should:

Identify the applicable honors experience, complete the requisite information, and submit the form and final version of the honors assignment as either a Word document or PDF file to honors@kbcc.cuny.edu.

The Honors Experience Form is due by the last Friday of the first month of each semester.

Honors Program grades and a copy of your student’s completed honors work are due by the end of the final examination period. 

Faculty must submit a representative of the student’s honors work. This might be the best part of the project or the part of the project that presented the most challenges for the student - whatever you deem the best representation of the student’s honors experience.

Please note: The Honors Program collects honors work so that we can support the college in assessing the Honors Program.

This data collection is necessary to improve the Honors Program’s best practices. It is not to assess any individual faculty member or honors student.

 

Getting Started with Honors: Best Practices (coming soon)
Honors Program Statement for Syllabi
Honors Program / Honors Credit

If you are interested in completing an Honors Contract (HC) or Honors Enrichment Component (HEC), please discuss your intentions with your professor.

Who is eligible to complete an Honors Project?

  • All admitted Honors Program students are eligible to complete an Honors Contract or HEC.
  • Honors-eligible students must have: i) 3.2 GPA, ii) 12+ cumulative credits, and iii) B+ or higher in ENG 1200/ENG 12A0 and/or ENG 2400 to complete an honors experience.

Students who do not meet this criteria but wish to complete an honors project should reach out to the Honors Program at honors@kbcc.cuny.edu
Faculty Grade Form

Complete the requisite information and submit your student's honors grade.

Honors Program grades and a copy of your student(s) completed honor work are due by the end of the final examination period:

Please Note:

  • It takes 6-8 weeks before the honors notation is visible on the student's transcript.
  • Students can only earn honors credit for either an Honors Enrichment Component (HEC), Honors Contract (HC) or Honors Service Project (HSP).

If you have any questions regarding this grade form, please contact the Honors Program.

Welcome to the Fall Semester, Honors Program Scholars!

Please join us for the following Honors Program events this fall:

Student Union & Intercultural Center Events – Fall 2023 - Click here to view the calendar

  • Honors Program - Presidential Scholars may earn honors service credit for volunteering to assist at a SU&IC fall event. To volunteer, please use the sign-up form below to select the event(s) that interest you. Most events will require assistance with event attendance tracking, handout distribution, etc.:
  • Click Here to Sign-up for Upcoming SU&IC Events
Transfer Scholars Network – October 11, 2023, 3:00–4:00 PM Honors Lounge, M-378
Vassar Exploring Transfer Information Session – October 12, 2023, 12:00–1:00 PM
Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 852 5940 7772 / Passcode: 271371

Honors Program Orientation – October 16, 2023, 12:00–1:00 PM, Honors Lounge, M-378

We will discuss our Fall 2023 programming, Honors Program requirements, the Phi Theta Kappa International Honors Society, honors transfer opportunities and scholarships, and other co-curricular and extracurricular opportunities. A light lunch will be served.
NYU CCTOP/Transfer Virtual Session - October 16, 2023, 10:00AM
Registration Link

Phi Theta Kappa (PTK) General Assembly
All PTK meetings will be held in the Honors Lounge, M-378 at 3:00–4:00 PM

  • Monday, October 16, 2023
  • Monday, November 13, 2023
Brooklyn College Scholars – October 23, 2023, 3:00PM-4:00PM, ROOM D-112
CSI Verrazzano School Information Session - November 9, 2023, 11:00AM
Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 836 4195 5438 / Passcode: 555870
Columbia University – School of General Studies Transfer Session - November 15, 2023, 12:00PM-1:00PM, Honors Lounge, M-378
Honors Scholars Holiday Luncheon – November 29, 2023, 12:00PM-1:00PM, Honors Lounge, M-378