HONORS PROGRAM

• Honors Eligibility
• Honors Program Requirements
• Guidelines for Staying Active in the Honors Program
• Honors Program Application

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 Component
Class Name	Class Number	Section	Mode of Instruction
ACC 1100 - Fundamentals of Accounting	14892	02	Hybrid Asynchronous
ACC 1200 - Fundamentals of Accounting II	14857	03	Hybrid Asynchronous
ACC 1200 - Fundamentals of Accounting II	14862	06	Online Asynchronous
ACC 2100 - Intermediate Accounting I	14849	02	Online Asynchronous
ANT 3700 - Introduction to Anthropology	15083	04	In Person
ANT 3700 - Introduction to Anthropology	15082	09	In Person
ANT 3700 - Introduction to Anthropology	15102	11	Online Synchronous
ART 4800 - The Art of 3D Animation	15646	01	In Person
ART 6800 - Illustration	15608	01	Online Mix
ART 6800 - Illustration	15609	02	In Person
ART 6800 - Illustration	15604	W50	Online Asynchronous
ART 6900 - Illustration Style	15635	02	In Person
ART 7400 - Typography	15632	01	In Person
ART 7400 - Typography	15638	02	In Person
BA 1200 - Business Law I	14975	01	Hybrid Asynchronous
BA 1200 - Business Law I	14974	02	Hybrid Asynchronous
COH 1600 - Ptnt Engmnt & Tech Comm Hlth	15399	01	Online-Synchronous
COH 1600 - Ptnt Engmnt & Tech Comm Hlth	15398	02	Online-Synchronous
EDC 3100 - Social Science In Child Ed	15178	01	In Person
EDC 4000 - Edu Pract for Early Lang & Lit	15441	01	In Person
EDC 4000 - Edu Pract for Early Lang & Lit	15443	02	In Person
EDC 4200 - Child Lit & Lang Arts Child Ed	15216	01	In Person
HE 3800 - Women's Health Issues	14512	02	Online Asynchronous
HPE 1200 - Concepts of Wellness	14528	03	Hybrid Asynchronous
HS 5200 - Human Sexuality	15463	02	Online Asynchronous
PSY 2400 - Psy Disorders - Young Children	53796	04	Online Synchronous
RPE 1200 - Leadership in Recreation & PE	14537	01	In Person
RPE 4000 - Sport and American Society	14522	01	Online Asynchronous
RPE 700 - Intro to Sports Mgmnt	15531	01	Online Asynchronous
SOC 3100 - Introduction to Sociology	15045	01	In Person
SOC 3100 - Introduction to Sociology	15040	02	In Person
SOC 3100 - Introduction to Sociology	15058	06	In Person
SOC 3100 - Introduction to Sociology	15079	18	In Person
SOC 3200 - Urban Sociology	15030	01	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.

• Honors Experience Form

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 honors@kbcc.cuny.edu

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!

• Honors Program Deadlines - Students
• Honors Program Deadlines- Faculty

Please join us for the upcoming Honors Program activities and events listed below:

• Environmental and Sustainability Club Tree Planting Ceremony, Monday, October 5th, 9 am, In front of the A Building
• Honors Program and Phi Theta Kappa Orientation: Tuesday, October 6th, 3-4 pm (Zoom)
• Phi Theta Kappa General Assembly I: Transfer Scholars Network: Nomination to Application, Monday, October 19th, 10-11 am (Honors Lounge, M378)
• Phi Theta Kappa General Assembly II: Honors Community Outreach, Monday, October 19th, 10-12 pm: (Breezeway)
• Faculty Information Session: Come Learn More about Honors @ KCC, Tuesday, October 20th, 3-4 pm (Zoom)
• Columbia University Transfer Information Session, Monday, October 21st, 10-11 am (Honors Lounge, M378)
• Phi Theta Kappa General Assembly III: Kaplan Leadership Program: Application to Interview with Dr. Midori Yamamura (All Invited!), Wednesday, November 4th, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM (Honors Lounge, M378)
• Vassar Exploring Transfer Nomination Interviews, Monday, November 23rd, 10-11 am (Honors Office, M377)
• First Annual Honors Alumni Event: Getting into Your Dream School with Liam Lotz (Yale) and Urwa Faraz Malik (Cornell), Tuesday, December 1st 3 PM–5 PM (Zoom)
• Honors Community End-of-Term Luncheon / Honors Alumni: Getting into Your Dream School with Myat Khine Zhan (Brooklyn), Monday, December 7th 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM (In Person)

Ongoing Honors Activities: Please Check Your Email for Notices

• Honors Reading Circle with Professor Allaya Cooks-Campbell
• Phi Theta Kappa Outreach Club with Professor Cesar Castope
• Honors Journal Planning Team Meetings
• TSN Drop-In Hours with Professor Posey in M-377
• Macaulay Friedman Transfer Scholars Program Information Session
• Honors Scavenger Hunt at the MET

*Dates are subject to change

• Honors Program Scholarships
• Honors Photo Gallery
• Phi Theta Kappa
• Honors Journal

• Honors Academic Liaisons