Full Description
Continuity and Innovation in Honors College Curricula is the second volume in the edited series Honors Education in Transition, which examines the proliferation of honors programs and colleges in American higher education. While honors education has become ubiquitous in American higher education, this transformation has happened without systematic attempts to align what honors means across institutions, and absent a universally agreed upon definitions of what honors is and what it might aspire to be in the future. This generates possibility and flexibility, while also creating rather serious challenges.
This book examines dynamic attempts to think creatively about curriculum, a hallmark of honors in higher education. The authors document and discuss innovative attempts ranging from service-learning to international education to innovative ways to blend disciplinary models of pedagogy with honors teaching. Throughout, their investigations are grounded in the present while turning a keen and perceptive eye to the future.
Contents
Foreword
James C. McKusick, University of Missouri, Kansas City
Chapter 1: Introduction: Curriculum at a Crossroads
Robert W. Glover, University of Maine
Katherine M. O'Flaherty, Arizona State University
Chapter 2: Innovative Methods in Community Engagement for Honors
Cecile Houry, Florida International University
Chapter 3: Praxis Labs: Theory + Action as a Foundation of a Modern Honors Education
Sylvia Torti, University of Utah
Martha Bradley-Evans, University of Utah
Chapter 4: The "College" as an Emergent Global Form: One Experience at Starting a
Transnational College-to-College Relationship
Catelijne Coopmans, Tembusu College, National University of Singapore
Gregory Clancey, Tembusu College, National University of Singapore
François G. Amar, Honors College, University of Maine
Chapter 5: The Playful Curriculum: Differentiating Honors Education Through the use of Simulation as a Scaffold for Open-ended Course Design
Abby Loebenberg, Arizona State University
Chapter 6: Up the Hill Backwards: Meeting the Challenges of Creating a Humanities Lab
Sarah Harlan-Haughey, University of Maine
About the Editors and Authors
Index
