尼斯贝特荣誉计划

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 给 you a leg up in graduate school and life after Converse. Most of these courses are available only to students in the honors program.

课程类型

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 将 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.

样本课程:

• “Gender, Indian Wars, and Witchcraft in Colonial New England”  (History)
• “Perspectives of the Vietnam Experience in Novels and First Person Accounts” (Politics)
• “舞台上的女人!  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.

样本课程:

• 识字与生活 & C的工作.S. 刘易斯
• 音乐 & 60年代的社会
• 上釉:艺术 & 陶瓷科学
• 数字,无穷 & 现实
• 通过纪录片从非洲穿越边境到西班牙 & 电影

青少年荣誉研讨会

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, 修改简历, 讨论家庭和事业上的挑战, 并探讨文科在毕业前后的意义.

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 创新万博下载ios 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

在这些课程中, students delve deeper into less common topics to fulfill major requirements or to explore an area of interest.

样本课程:

• “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”

高级荣誉论文

这是一个密集且经常是跨学科的研究万博下载ios, 创新万博下载ios, 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.

Eligible students 将 be invited into the 尼斯贝特荣誉计划 and 将 be recognized as a 尼斯贝特认为荣誉 graduate once they meet all the requirements.

资格

Students enter the program either as incoming freshmen or as late entrants.

新生: Admitted freshmen 将 be guaranteed an invitation into the 尼斯贝特荣誉计划 if they meet the following standards:

• ACT Composite of 28 (or better) OR SAT Combined Math and Evidence Based Reading and Writing of 1300 (or better) AND
• 班级排名在10%以上

从不提供班级排名的高中录取学生, 以及其他有学术天赋的新生, 将 be considered individually and notified on a rolling basis if they are invited to join the 尼斯贝特荣誉计划.

Other accepted students who chose the test-optional route but are similarly high achievers may be asked to write an essay or provide other information to be considered for the program.

后期进入者:这样做的学生 很好 once they have begun their studies at Converse are also considered for the program. 新生和万博地址II的学生必须至少获得3分.在万博地址花了12个小时才被邀请申请. 收到邀请后申请, 学生需要完成一份申请, request a letter of recommendation from a full-time professor at Converse, 并提交一份2-3页的写作样本. 如果申请被接受, the student may immediately begin participating in honors extracurricular activities and may take honors courses starting the next term. All students who 应用 should realize that Honors Program courses are not regularly offered in the evenings.

需求

完成尼斯比特荣誉课程并在毕业时获得认可, students must perform well in 学术 courses after entering the Honors Program. 要继续参加该计划，会员的平均绩点必须保持在3分以上.在荣誉课程中获得B-或更好的成绩. To graduate from the 尼斯贝特荣誉计划, all students must complete the following three courses:

• 新生荣誉研讨会(199H)(或, 如果学生以晚入校者的身份开始课程, 另一门荣誉课程来代替它.)
• 跨学科荣誉研讨会(299H课程)
• 青少年荣誉研讨会(秋季或春季)

此外，所有学生必须选择以下选项之一:

• 另外两门荣誉课程
• 一门额外的荣誉课程和一门独立学习的荣誉课程
• 一门额外的荣誉课程和一个荣誉模块
• 完成一篇荣誉论文

一般来说，所选的选项将包括6-8小时的课程作业.