<p>Hello, i am transferring to Maryland this semester, and i recently got admitted to its honors program. Can anyone here that has expereince with its honors p. tell me some of the things it offers? and overall is it a well run department?</p>
<p>someone plz respond dont be jerks now i need your help.</p>
<p>I don't know how smoothly it's run as I'm just entering it this fall...but it offers Honors Seminars (special courses on a wide variety of subjects capped at 20 students), and many Honors sections of regular classes (where all instruction/discussion is done by/with professors, not TAs.</p>
<p>have u signed up for honors seminars?</p>
<p>I signed up for a seminar called "Novels and Who We Are," it consists of reading, discussing, and writing about novels and our responses.</p>
<p>Since I recall that you've got a late orientaion--here are the seminars that still have open seats:</p>
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Life, The Multiverse and Everything: Developing an Individual Cosmovision Western Intellectual Heritage: The Hero and Society Contemporary Drama From Around the World Understanding India Do Not Enter: Outsiders in 20th Century American Drama Science and Pseudoscience: An Investigative Approach Nuclear Physics and Society Mathematics and Art Making Public Policy in America Cervante's Don Quixote and the Western Tradition Re-examining the Harlem Renaissance The Kinesiological Bases of Sport Tools of Fiction: Literature and/as Creative Writing The Body and Literature World Popular Folk Music & Politics Beyond the Hype of Medical Miracles: Stem Cells, Gene Therapy, and other Cutting-Edge Medical Research The University as a Cultural Institution Health Policy The Beat Begins: American Culture in the 1950's Stock Market African American Art Theory: Exploration and Expressions of Identity Art, Math, Programming and Research in the World of Digital Images and Photography Engineering Ethics Globalization Mind Your Manners: Civility and Social Reform in American Literature and Culture Applied Ethics and Public Policy History of Evolutionary Thought Visual Rhetoric Life on Earth: How Biology Built Planet Earth (and vice versa) Fire Safety - From Buildings to Spacecraft Through the Child Darkly: The Child and Literature The Impact of Plato's Symposium on Western Thought Writing Workshop Alternatives to Violence Congressional Elections: Campaigning for Congress
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<p>So as you can see, there's a huge variety of subjects covered.</p>
<p>hi abe--
please don't call me a jerk because i don't check this message board every day :)</p>
<p>somebodynew answered pretty well what honors has to offer academically. in addition, there are a few dedicated honors dorms (two of which are two of the nicest on campus) and a lot of activities/lectures/etc. which are only open to honors students.</p>
<p>as far as being well-run, because honors isn't an academic department or college, there isn't a lot of administrative work or red tape or university employees to deal with. the people that work for the honors program are always available and generally very helpful.</p>
<p>the professors are great. i've taken 3 honors seminars and in each of them the professor has been knowledgable and actually interested in the subject--which makes sense when you think that they chose the topic and developed the course themselves. i can understand how dull it must be for a professor to teach "intro to modern US history" for the history department when his main interests really lie in the area of mid-20th century lifestyle....but then, his course on "american culture in the 1950s" would be right up his alley and fun for him to teach.
not just any faculty member is allowed to teach an honors course, and from what i've seen they really do enjoy the privilege.</p>
<p>hope that helped somewhat. :)</p>
<p>thx lindz i appreaciate your candid response. right off the gecko i noticed how well managed the honors program is, they have a whole building for themselves! but yea, i hope to make the best of its privilages. im taking an honors seminar this fall, whats even sweeter is they are accepting the honors classes at my prior institution. the only trepidation i have is that these seminars will be extremly hard, i know they are probably not, but agian i am always apprehend the unknown. anyways thx for the enlightening post and GL :)</p>