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Want to learn more about The University of Alabama and the Honors College?

Register now. This program is an awesome program!

Rising Seniors Gain On-campus Experience in Honors

Honors Academy | July 19-24, 2015

Explore the Honors College at The University of Alabama with a week on campus, where you will be immersed in interactive workshops and activities presented by faculty, students and alumni. At Honors Academy, you will experience every aspect of the Honors College through sessions and activities focusing on our four pillars of academic success: Innovative Scholarship, Advanced Research, Cultural Interaction and Civic Engagement. Molding your academic career around these pillars allows you to create the undergraduate experience best tailored to your interests.

Do you want to be an engineer who finds a way to incorporate a love of art and music into your career? Do you want to study business while also learning skills that will help those in poverty? Are you a pre-med student with a passion for photography and international travel? This week is your opportunity to witness how fine-tuning your ideas about higher education can shape your future. We will show you how you can obtain “the small liberal arts college atmosphere” with the opportunities available at a large university. All majors in all colleges will be able to explore their interests during this week.

The $350 cost of the program includes all program-related activities, accommodations and meals. Students stay in individual bedrooms in suite-style dorm rooms at Ridgecrest Honors Residential Community on campus. This is only a fraction of the actual cost of the program; all applicants are, in effect, receiving a significant scholarship to attend the program.

http://honors.ua.edu/honorsacademy/

Sample Schedule & Curriculum

The objective of Honors Academy is to allow exceptional high school students access to the Honors Experience at The University of Alabama. To that end, we invite Honors faculty to present sample lectures and course content that engages and inspires students currently enrolled in Honors to display intellectual creativity, academic inquiry, community involvement and global curiosity. Students will be able to experience the following:

Possible Sessions/Workshops Taught by Honors Faculty

The Cuban Experience: Alabama in Cuba
Art to Life: Documenting the Progression of Alzheimer’s
Limits of Human Knowledge
The Mindset of War
SaveFirst – Poverty in America
Finding Financial Freedom
Bridge Builders of Alabama
Documenting Justice in Film-Making
The Legal Process: An Introduction to The Law and Our Court System
Creating A Wholehearted Life
Bricks to Books: Education Challenges from a Practical Perspective
Big Data & Society
The Idea of a University
Heroes of Faith and Justice in Modern Time
Diabetes and Obesity: An American Epidemic
21st Century Fantasy: The Weird
America’s Global Role
Religion & Politics
Laws of Leadership
Representations of the Human: Dante, Machiavelli, Nietzsche
Gossip: 21st Century Journalism?
Marketing Communication: Changing Minds, Changing Business
Issues & Trends in Healthcare
Classics & Western Culture
Sessions with Students in Honors Programs

University Fellows Experience Student Panel
Computer Based Honors Program Student Research Presentations
Alabama Action and Alabama Action Abroad Service Learning Programs
Recreational Activities

Visit to Bryant Denny Stadium, home of the Alabama Crimson Tide
Activities at University Recreation Center including intramural sports and fitness classes
Karaoke competition and talent show
World culture night
Campus scavenger hunt
Sample Day:

8:00 a.m. | Breakfast at Lakeside Dining Hall
9:30 a.m. | The Limits of Human Knowledge Session
11:00 a.m. | The Cuban Experience: Alabama in Cuba
12:30 p.m. | Lunch at Fresh Foods Company
1:30 p.m. | Computer Based Honors: A Look at World Class Undergraduate Research
2:30 p.m. | Bricks to Books: Educational Challenges from a Practical Perspective
3:30 p.m. | Laws of Leadership
4:30 p.m. | Tour of Bryant Denny Stadium and locker rooms
5:30 p.m. | Dinner at Lakeside Dining Hall
6:30 p.m. | Break
7:00 p.m. | Campus Scavenger Hunt Competition
12:00 midnight | Lights out

http://honors.ua.edu/honorsacademy/sample-schedule-curriculum/

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High school students might also consider UA Early College. It’s a great way to jump start your college experience, earn college credits before arriving on campus, and build up a UA GPA. Take classes during the summer on campus experience or online throughout the school year. The registration deadline is approaching quickly, so here’s the link.

Online courses are available for sophomores, juniors, and seniors in HS.

With UA Early College, you get ahead with college courses from a top-50 research university, while you are still in high school. And, you are surrounded by a support network whether you take courses online or on campus. Peer coaches are full-time UA students who mentor and guide you in the transition to college study. Your classes are taught by student-centered UA faculty. Academic advisers help you decide which courses are right for you.

Why choose UA Early College?

You can earn up to 30 hours of college credit, online or on campus
You choose flexible course options, online 24/7 or on campus during the summer
You may be eligible for a partial tuition scholarship (Call 1-877-823-8759 or email earlycollege@ua.edu for current tuition and scholarship information)
You use vibrant technology that includes video, podcast, web-conferencing, wiki, group projects, interactive modules, and discussion boards
You enter The University of Alabama as a freshman, still eligible for freshman scholarships and Honors College, even if you have Advanced Placement credit
Your credit transfers broadly to colleges and universities nationwide
If you earn 17 or more hours of credit with 2.5+ GPA through UA Early College, you are eligible for special benefits
Priority housing for entering freshmen at UA
UA Admission without submitting SAT or ACT scores

Apply Now!
DEADLINE: extended to Friday, April 3 for the on-campus session ONLY:

  • Sunday, April 19, The UA Campus (Tuscaloosa), 2:00-5:00 p.m.

DEADLINE for next 2015 sessions: April 17. Students & parents attend:

  • Tuesday, April 28, in Daphne, Alabama, 4:30-7:30 p.m.
  • Tuesday, April 28, online, students 4:30-6:30 p.m.; & students with parents 8:00-9:00 p.m.

http://uaearlycollege.ua.edu/prospective-students/

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Looking at the Rising Seniors program for D2

I highly recommend Early College. My UA student did EC the summer before she started UA and loved it!

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I didn’t see any information costs for EC on the site- normal tuition costs?

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You may be eligible for a partial tuition scholarship (Call 1-877-823-8759 or email earlycollege@ua.edu for current tuition and scholarship information).

Basically you pay in state tuition with the scholarship.

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I wanted to bump this thread for families of current high schoolers, as they think ahead to summer camps and to college.

The Honors Academy appears to be somewhat ‘defunct’, for loss of a better word (the link does not work, but see here, it is listed as ‘private’ under the HC’s programs - not sure what that means: http://honors.ua.edu/high-school-programs/capstone-leadership-academy/ ). If anyone has info on this, please update us and post here.

Early College is still there: http://uaearlycollege.ua.edu/

I’d like to add an additional program (FREE!) for select kids, UA’s Multi-cultural Journalism Camp (MJP), with applications due April 1: https://aspa.ua.edu/mjw/ This is not a new program, but it is seldom mentioned on CC, so thought I’d add it.

And finally, for Engineering disciplines, don’t forget SITE over the summer: http://site.eng.ua.edu/

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Anyone have experience with Honors Academy?

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(deleted- I think my original post was out of context. sorry)