<p>I was admitted into the Honors Program for next year, but after reading the brochure and other info, I still do not have a clear idea of what it is. Do honors kids have classes just for them? Are there separate graduation requirements? Will it interfere with my major? And do students get special privileges?</p>
<p>I would like to double major in physics and CS but do not know if this will be too much work combined with the honors program. Thanks!</p>
<p>My D has the same questions. She would like to major in Math (also interested in economics and CS).</p>
<p>Also, just wondering, did your acceptance letter specify you were admitted to the Honors Program? D’s letter offered admission to College of Arts and Sciences but did not explicitly say she was accepted into the Honors Program. It did mention she would get four years of housing. We are assuming she was accepted into the Honors Program as there was a Honors College brochure and an invite to Honors Day on April 14th. At other schools where she was accepted into the Honors Program it was specified in the actual acceptance letter or in an accompanying letter. We just thought it was odd that it didn’t mention the Honors Program in the actual acceptance letter…</p>
<p>schmoopiez, I hadn’t even noticed that the Honors Program wasn’t mentioned in the letter my daughter got. Hope the envelope stuffer wasn’t having a bad day! If you call to ask, let me know. As of now BC’s cost seems prohibitive, but the Honors Program is a big plus for me. Not sure my daughter finds it as appealing. We’re still planning to go to the April 14 event. Hope we don’t get turned away as party crashers!</p>
<p>you can read about the Honors curriculum for A&S on the attached link</p>
<p>[A&S</a> Honors Program! - Boston College](<a href=“http://www.bc.edu/content/bc/schools/cas/honors/about_a_s_honorsprogram.html]A&S”>http://www.bc.edu/content/bc/schools/cas/honors/about_a_s_honorsprogram.html)</p>
<p>kimisizer, based on what I read, Honors Program students do have their own small (15 member) classes and a separate curriculum to satisfy the core requirements of BC. They take a special course each semester that actually counts as two courses. Presumably classes in your major would be same as for anyone with that major.</p>
<p>So basically all we get are specially designed history classes? </p>
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<p>Dear kimisizer : Read through the curriculum link at : </p>
<p>[A&S</a> Honors Program! - Boston College](<a href=“http://www.bc.edu/content/bc/schools/cas/honors/about_a_s_honorsprogram/curriculum.html]A&S”>http://www.bc.edu/content/bc/schools/cas/honors/about_a_s_honorsprogram/curriculum.html)</p>
<p>Below, we have reproduced the overview of the freshman and sophomore curriculum. Reading through this material, do you conclude that these are specially designed history classes?</p>
<p>Freshman and Sophomore Year
In your first two years you will take a course called The Western Cultural Tradition. This is a four-semester, six-credit course, equal to two of the five courses BC students take each semester. It is taught in seminar fashion. The course content reflects the fact that the course fulfills the BC core requirements in literature and writing, philosophy, theology, and social science. Though individual instructors vary their reading lists, there is broad agreement about the central texts. The first year deals with the classical tradition. It begins with Greek literature and philosophy, Latin literature, the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, and continues through representative texts of the late Roman Empire and early Christianity, Thomas Aquinas, Dante, and medieval epic and romantic poetry and drama. The second year begins with Renaissance authors, continues with the religious and political theorists of the 17th century, the principal Enlightenment figures, the English and continental Romantics, major 19th-century writers such as Hegel and Kierkegaard and Dostoevsky and Nietzsche, and ends with the seminal cultural theories of Darwin and Marx and Freud.</p>
<p>This course is not a survey of the history of ideas taught out of anthologies. It is rigorously text-centered, and the function of class discussion and the frequent writing assignments is to teach you to understand and dissect arguments and presuppositions and to relate disparate evidence into coherent hypotheses about the works that have been central in the development of our contemporary intellectual tradition.</p>