A promotional video featuring the Honors Program
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An excerpt from Sac State Magazine
Honor Bound
...With its academically challenging environment, small classes and extracurricular activities, the honors program is designed to fill a gap, says history professor George Craft, who helped develop it. “Numerous programs have been created for student-athletes and disadvantaged students but not for students looking for something like this.” In addition to a curriculum created especially for them—with a culturally rich, worldly emphasis—the program’s first students found a built-in social and academic network and their own home-away-from-home in the form of a student lounge.
The students come from all over California and—in the case of German exchange student Chrissy Griesse—overseas, and are pursuing a variety of majors. Unlike the honors programs at some other universities, Sac State’s is general education-focused and will fulfill most of the University’s general education requirement. For each of the first four semesters, students will take sets of three courses followed by an upper-division component of nine to 12 units. The classes are structured to provide a global perspective, which faculty members hope will encourage study abroad......Click here to read the whole article
Honors Journal
"The lifeblood of language is being threatened by the onslaught of a market economy that devalues art. Deep in recession, the twenty-first century needs artists more than ever. This Honors Journal is in part a call to resuscitate language. In part a howl to the artist in threat of demise. And in part a plea to the readers of this Journal to allow language to live."
Brianna Marron, 2008-2009 Honors Journal Editor
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