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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 2026

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 to receive an Honors notation on their transcript. All-Honors courses are three (3) units.

To see the description of courses, please visit the Schedule of Classes website.

Please Note:

  • Students must express interest in completing an honors project to the professor of designated honors courses.
  • Students may also earn honors credits in courses not on this list.

Honors Contract or Honors Enrichment

Class Name

Class Number / Section 

Mode of Instruction 

ACC 1100 - Fundamentals of Accounting

15857 / Section 02

Hybrid Asynchronous

ANT 3700 - Introduction to Anthropology

15119 / Section 02

In Person

ANT 3700 - Introduction to Anthropology

15137 / Section 11

Online Synchronous

ART 4300 - Digital Illustration

15290 / Section 01

In Person

ART 4800 - The Art of 3D Animation

15311 / Section 01

In Person

ART 6800 - Illustration

15296 / Section 01

Online Mix

ART 6800 - Illustration

15295 / Section 02

In Person

ART 6900 - Illustration Style

15254 / Section 01

In Person

ART 7400 - Typography

15258 / Section 01

In Person

ART 7400 - Typography

15257 / Section 02

In Person

BA 1200 - Business Law I

14926 / Section 02

Hybrid Asynchronous

BA 1200 - Business Law I

14925 / Section 04

Hybrid Asynchronous

BA 1400 - Principles of Marketing

14900 / Section 04

Online-Asynchronous

BA 6000 - Intro Comp Concepts

14914 / Section 02

Online-Asynchronous

BA 6000 - Intro Comp Concepts

14912 / Section 03

Online-Asynchronous

CRJ 6400 - Crime and Punishment

15191 / Section 01

Hybrid Asynchronous

CRJ 6600 - Constitutional Law

15178 / Section 01

Hybrid Asynchronous

CRJ 6700 - The United States Judiciary

15175 / Section 01

Hybrid Asynchronous

ECO 1200 - Macroeconomics

14836 / Section 06

Online-Asynchronous

ECO 1200 - Macroeconomics

14834 / Section 07

Online-Asynchronous

EDC 3100 - Social Science In Child Ed

15045 / Section 01

In Person

EDC 90A4 - Practicum In Teacher Dev

15108 / Section 03

In Person

HE 3800 - Women's Health Issues

14381 / Section 01

Online-Asynchronous

HE 4200 - Health and Nutrition

14347 / Section 01

Online-Asynchronous

HPE 1200 - Concepts of Wellness

14395 / Section 03

In Person

HS 4000 - Drugs:The Individual & Society

14429 / Section 01

Online-Asynchronous

HS 4100 - Global Health Issues

14422 / Section 02

Online-Asynchronous

HS 5200 - Human Sexuality

14433 / Section 01

Online-Asynchronous

HS 5200 - Human Sexuality

15882 / Section 02

Online-Asynchronous

RPE 1100 - Intro to Rec & Physical Ed

14354 / Section 01

In Person

RPE 1100 - Intro to Rec & Physical Ed

14355 / Section 02

Hybrid Asynchronous

RPE 1200 - Leadership in Recreation & PE

14340 / Section 01

Hybrid Asynchronous

RPE 1200 - Leadership in Recreation & PE

14339 / Section 02

In Person

RPE 9152 - Field Exp PE/Rec/Rec Ther/Spt

14402 / Section 01

Online-Synchronous

SOC 3100 - Introduction to Sociology

15060 / Section 15

Hybrid Asynchronous

SOC 3100 - Introduction to Sociology

15073 / Section 14

Hybrid Asynchronous

SOC 3100 - Introduction to Sociology

15088 / Section 19

Hybrid Asynchronous

SOC 3100 - Introduction to Sociology

15774 / Section 22

Online-Asynchronous

SOC 3100 - Introduction to Sociology

15085 / Section 23

Online-Asynchronous

SOC 3100 - Introduction to Sociology

15079 / Section 24

Online-Asynchronous

SOC 3100 - Introduction to Sociology

15082 / Section 25

Online-Asynchronous

SOC 3100 - Introduction to Sociology

15078 / Section 26

Online-Asynchronous

SOC 3200 - Urban Sociology

15106 / Section 02

Hybrid Asynchronous

Attention: Honors Program students and faculty must:

Identify the applicable honors experience, complete the requisite information, and submit the form by the last Friday of the first month of each semester.

Please submit honors project grade(s) and a copy of your student(s) completed honors work via the Faculty Grade Form. Honors project grades and projects are due by the end of the final examination period of each semester.

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.

 

Academic Integrity Policy:

The Kingsborough Honors Program expects commitment to academic integrity standards from all Honors Program students in all academic work. Academic integrity violations include academic dishonesty, cheating, acts of plagiarism, forgery, fabrication, or misrepresentation such as the following:

  • Claiming the work or thoughts of others as your own
  • Copying the writing of others into your written work without appropriate citations
  • Buying papers and turning them in as your own
  • Having someone else write or create all or part of the content of your assignments
  • Fabricating and/or altering documents and/or information written by others, including Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools
  • Utilizing Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools, including AI grammar checkers, without proper citation and outside of the explicit directions of your instructor

Academic integrity violations are a serious matter and may result in the following honors violations:

  • An Honors Program student being placed on honors probation
  • An Honors Program student being dismissed from the Honors Program.
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 [email protected]

Faculty Grade Form

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

Honors project grade(s) and a copy of your student(s) completed honor work are due by the end of the final examination period of each semester.

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.

Faculty Recommendation

The Honors Program at Kingsborough Community College works to promote enhanced academic opportunities and scholarly experiences for Kingsborough students. Faculty recommendations are an essential part of that process and an essential part of supporting Kingsborough's highest achieving students. We depend on faculty to help us identify Honors Program candidates, to encourage students to apply, and to serve as academic mentors for Honors Program scholars as they work on honors experiences in the classroom, and progress toward Honors graduation, transfer, and beyond.

Please use the link to answer the following questions about the Honors Program candidate to best of your knowledge. The best recommendations give us a sense of the candidate's scholarly goals and abilities and convey their overall academic character with an eye toward both their successes and failures. We thank you for your thoughtful consideration!

Welcome to the Fall 2025 Semester!

Please join us for the following Honors Program events:  

September 26th: Honors Program Applications Due

Honors Program Eligibility: 

  • 3.2 GPA or higher after 12 completed credits; maximum 30 credits completed towards a degree
  • Earned a B+ or higher in ENG 1200, ENG 12A0, and/or ENG 2400
  • CUNY Proficient in Math and English

If you meet the Honors Program Eligibility requirements, please consider applying to the program.

October 6th: Honors Program Orientation – Honors Lounge, M-378, 12pm-1pm  
October 8th: TSN-Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship Information Session | Registration Link
October 22nd: Columbia University GS Transfer Information Session – Honors Lounge, M-378, 12 pm-1 pm
October 27th: Phi Theta Kappa General Assembly Meeting I: Commuter Link – Honors Lounge, M-378, 12 pm-1 pm
November 13th: Macaulay Honors College Friedman Transfer Scholars Program, Virtual Session, 6:30-7:30 pm | Registration Link
November 17th: Phi Theta Kappa General Assembly Meeting II: PTK Scholarship Application – Honors Lounge, M-378, 12 pm-1 pm
December 3rd: End-of-Term Luncheon - Honors Lounge, M-378, 12pm-1pm
Honors Lounge

The Honors Lounge is open to all Honors Program Students and PTK Members!  

Location: Honors Lounge, Room M-378
Days: Monday and Wednesday
Time: 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM  

If you need a quiet place to study or complete assignments, please feel free to come by.  

Please note: There are no computers or printers available for student use.