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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 2024

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.

Honors Contract or Honors Enrichment

Class Name

Class Number / Section

Mode of Instruction

ACC 1100 - Fundamentals of Accounting I

4792 / Sect. 02

Hybrid Asynchronous

ANT 3700 - Introduction to Anthropology

4960 / Sect. 03

In Person

ANT 3700 - Introduction to Anthropology

4980 / Sect. 11

Online Synchronous

ART 4300 - 01 Digital Illustration

5106 / Sect. 01

In Person

ART 4800 - The Art of 3D Animation

5107 / Sect. 01

In Person

ART 6800 - Illustration

5655 / Sect. 01

Online Mix

ART 6800 - Illustration

5654 / Sect. 02

In Person

ART 6900 - Illustration Style

5085 / Sect. 01

In Person

ART 6900 - Illustration Style

21530 / Sect. 02

In Person

ART 7400 - Typography

5653 / Sect. 01

In Person

ART 7400 - Typography

5423 / Sect. 02

In Person

ART 9800 - History of Modern Sculpture

5100 / Sect. 01

Online Asynchronous

BA 1200 - Business Law I

4831 / Sect. 02

In Person

BA 1200 - Business Law I

4830 / Sect. 04

In Person

BA 1400 - Principles of Marketing

4834 / Sect. 04

Online Asynchronous

BA 6000 - 03 Introduction to Computer Concepts

4849 / Sect. 03

Online Asynchronous

CIS 3100 - Introduction to Database

 4457 / Sect. 01

Hybrid Asynchronous

CRJ 6600 - Constitutional Law

5034 / Sect. 01

Hybrid Asynchronous

CRJ 7000 - Corrections and Sentencing

5049 / Sect. S50

Online Asynchronous

CRJ 7200 - Minorities & Crmnl Justice Sys

5606 / Sect. 01

Online Asynchronous

CRJ 7200 - Minorities & Crmnl Justice Sys

5027 / Sect. S50

Online Asynchronous

CS 1200 - Introduction to Computing

4440 / Sect. 01

Hybrid Synchronous

CS 1200 - Introduction to Computing

4439 / Sect. 02

Online Synchronous

CS 1400 - Computers & Assembly Language

4408 / Sect. 01

Hybrid Asynchronous

ECO 1200 - Macroeconomics

4779 / Sect. 02

Hybrid Asynchronous

ECO 1200 - Macroeconomics

4775 / Sect. 03

Hybrid Asynchronous

ECO 1200 - Macroeconomics

4780 / Sect. 04

Online Asynchronous

ECO 1200 - Macroeconomics

4778 / Sect. 05

Online Asynchronous

EDC 2300 - Music & Mvmnt Wrkshp in Edu

4884 / Sect. 01

Hybrid Synchronous

EDC 2300 - Music & Mvmnt Wrkshp in Edu

4885 / Sect. 02

Online Synchronous

EDC 2400 - Teaching Emergent Bilinguals

5044 / Sect. 01

In Person

EDC 3100 - Social Science In Child Ed

4937 / Sect. 03

HyField

EDC 3200 - Infant/Toddler Development

4931 / Sect. 01

Online Synchronous

EDC 4000 - Edu Pract for Early Lang & Lit

5045 / Sect. 01

HyField

EDC 4000 - Edu Pract for Early Lang & Lit

5047 / Sect. 02

HyField

EDC 5000 - Fnds Disability & Inclusive Ed

41840 / Sect. 01

HyField

EDC 90A4 - Practicum In Teacher Dev

5605 / Sect. 02

HyField

EDC 90A4 - Practicum In Teacher Dev

5021 / Sect. 03

HyField

EDC 90A4 - Practicum In Teacher Dev

5604 / Sect. 04

HyField

HE 3800 - Women's Health Issues

4594 / Sect. 01

Online Asynchronous

HE 4200 - Health and Nutrition

4586 / Sect. 01

Online Asynchronous

HPE 1200 - Concepts of Wellness

4630 / Sect. 03

In Person

HPE 1200 - Concepts of Wellness

28177 / Sect. 06

Online Synchronous

HS 4000 - Drugs:The Individual & Society

4644 / Sect. 01

Online Asynchronous

HS 4100 - Global Health Issues

4632 / Sect. 02

Online Asynchronous

HS 5200 - Human Sexuality

4640 / Sect. 01

Online Asynchronous

HS 5200 - Human Sexuality

5542 / Sect. 02

Online Asynchronous

RPE 1100 - Intro to Rec & Physical Ed

4583 / Sect. 01

In Person

RPE 1100 - Intro to Rec & Physical Ed

4584 / Sect. 02

Online Asynchronous

RPE 1200 - Leadership in Recreation & PE

4591 / Sect. 01

Online Asynchronous

RPE 1200 - Leadership in Recreation & PE

4589 / Sect. 02

In Person

RPE 3100 - Thrptc Rec Dis I

4627 / Sect. 01

Hybrid Synchronous

RPE 4000 - Sport and American Society

4599 / Sect. 02

Hybrid Synchronous

RPE 4600 - Facilities Planning in Sports

4643 / Sect. 01

Online Asynchronous

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

4616 / Sect. 01

Online Synchronous

SOC 3100 - Introduction to Sociology

4991 / Sect. 03

In Person

SOC 3100 - Introduction to Sociology

4994 / Sect. 06

Hybrid Asynchronous

SOC 3100 - Introduction to Sociology

5016 / Sect. 15

Online Asynchronous

SOC 3100 - Introduction to Sociology

5015 / Sect. 16

Online Asynchronous

SOC 3100 - Introduction to Sociology

5010 / Sect. 19

Online Asynchronous

SOC 3100 - Introduction to Sociology

5009 / Sect. 22

In Person

SOC 3100 - Introduction to Sociology

4993 / Sect. 23

In Person

SOC 3100 - Introduction to Sociology

5008 / Sect. 24

Online Asynchronous

SOC 3100 - Introduction to Sociology

4985 / Sect. S50

In Person

SOC 3100 - Introduction to Sociology

4988 / Sect. S54

In Person

SOC 3100 - Introduction to Sociology

5601 / Sect. S56

Online Asynchronous

SOC 3200 - Urban Sociology

5024 / Sect. 02

In Person

 

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.

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!

Please check our website at the beginning of the
spring semester for upcoming Honors Program
activities & events.

Happy Holidays & Happy New Year!