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Honors Media
A promotional video featuring the Honors Program
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Honor Bound
An excerpt from Sac State Magazine
...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
Each academic year, the Honors Program embraces so many different and talented students. While those in the program get to see and hear a little bit of what the others are creating and working on, there is so much more behind an Honors student than what their Honors peers and faculty can see. That’s why we wanted this year’s journal to showcase a wide variety of artistic and academic pursuits that would really reflect what a unique and talented group we have.
Because the Honors Program thrives on cultivating a life-long love of learning in its students both in and out of the classroom, we asked the students for the work they are most proud of, whether or not it was for an Honors class . . . or any class at all. Once we saw how diverse the students’ submissions were, we set out to design a multi-dimensional journal that would grasp its readers by the eyes, ears, and hearts. You will see everything from paintings to formal essays to song lyrics to a few words from a couple of our esteemed Honors faculty members.
We hope you find this journal both challenging and enjoyable. May it fill you with a new desire to explore and learn more about this world that is full of so much knowledge and beauty just waiting for those curious enough to go looking for it.
Wishing you a rich and rewarding future.
Rebecca Woolston and Lauren Coppage
2010-2011 CSUS Honors Program Journal Editors
"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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