The University Honors Program is currently reviewing its curriculum in order to make a distinctive, vanguard program. In Fall 2011, the Vice Provost of Undergraduate Studies convened an Honors Curriculum Task Force to make recommendations. The task force met throughout the Fall and forwarded its recommendations in December.

These recommendations were presented at the Ann Ferren Conference in January 2012. Here is the slide show and the accompanying notes:

Honors College Slide Show
Notes for Honors College Slide Show

Please read these materials and return any comments to the director of the University Honors Program, Michael L. Manson (mmanson@american.edu). Please check back on this site periodically since materials will continue to be added.

Throughout its work, the task force posted its ideas and materials on the Honors website so that it could receive plenty of comment and ideas from all students, faculty, and staff interested in the part that the Honors Program can play in providing what the University’s strategic plan calls “an unsurpassed undergraduate education.”

The Honors Curriculum Task Force considered a variety of data and brought forward a number of proposals to consider. It looked at the following documents:

Task Force Syllabus

Agendas

• September 29
• October 6
• October 13
• October 20

Strategic Plan

Profile of the University Honors Program

Comparison with Other Honors Programs

• Overview
• Comparison

Proposals for a New Honors Program

• New Honors Mission, Revised 10-13
• Creating a Distinctive Honors Program
• Linda Lucia Lubrano, 10-4
• Will Hea, 10-5
• Alan Levine, 10-13
• Monika Konaklieva, 10-18
• April Shelford, 10-18
• Falon Dominguez, 10-18
• Michael Manson, 10-18
• Cathy Schaeff, 10-19
• Greg Grauman, 10-19
  
• Larry Engel, 10-20
• Decision Points for Oct. 20 Meeting
• Linda Lucia Lubrano, 10-24
• Alan Levine, 10-25
• April Shelford, 10-26
• Michael Manson, 10-27
• Content of a Core Curriculum
• Falon Dominguez and Will Hea, 11-3
• April Shelford, 11-9
• Transformational Leadership, 12-1
• Challenges of a Global World, 12-1
• Global Leaders, Scholars, and Artists Program, 12-1