The Casper College Honors Program offers qualifying students the opportunity to join with their peers in a challenging program tailored to meet their intelligence and strong motivation. Our curriculum includes four interdisciplinary seminars featuring timely and relevant topics such as, "Biomedical and Environmental Ethics," "Comparative Philosophical Traditions," and "Quest for American Identity." These seminars will satisfy many of the college general education requirements, thus reducing extra coursework. Field trips to cultural events and conferences will take your learning outside the classroom.
Numerous benefits accompany involvement in this program. For example, increased financial aid may be available for qualifying students. Furthermore, the Casper College honors program articulates with the University of Wyoming honors program.
PHILOSOPHY:
Casper College’s Honors Program is designed to promote a rigorous academic program for exceptionally talented and motivated students. Moved by the quest for truth, and with the goal of gaining a comprehensive view of the nature of thought, knowledge, and human understanding in an environment of creative interaction, honors students explore the fundamental ideas and values of human culture from a variety of disciplines. Moreover, students are challenged to develop and exercise their moral responsibilities, which include leadership, thoughtful self-governance, and social consciousness.
COMMUNITY:
The Casper College Honors Program embodies the belief that we discover ourselves within the rich network of participatory community. Unlike the standard approach to education, which all too often features huge classes in which the individual loses her or his identity while sitting passively, the CC Honors community promotes both self-awareness as well as the bonds of friendship forged through a shared commitment to ourselves, to others, and to the larger world. Animated by a common love of truth, CC Honors students also enjoy informal social gatherings, field trips to cultural events, conference attendance, fun outdoor activities, and simply hanging out with friends in the Honors lounge. So at Casper College, we offer a vibrant alternative to the alienation so commonly found in an approach that places numbers over people.
HIGHLIGHTS:
CC Honors Program students take four interdisciplinary seminars during the course of their program. These small, interactive classes feature timely and relevant topics of concern to American society and the world.
Topics such as “The Quest for American Identity,” “The History of Totalitarianism,” and “Biomedical and Environmental Ethics.”
Stimulating classes based on discussion and interaction.
Interesting field trips to cultural events and conferences as well as informal social gatherings and outdoor activities. Exciting travel-abroad opportunities.
BENEFITS:
Increased financial aid may be available for qualifying students.
Articulation agreement with University of Wyoming's honors program.
Small, stimulating, interactive classes taught by exceptional scholars committed to your success.
Travel abroad, service learning alternative spring break opporytunities.
Membership in a vibrant community premised on the values of academic achievement, leadership, and social consciousness.
ADMISSION:
High school GPA of 3.25 or higher.
Composite ACT score of 25 or higher; SAT of 1700 or better.
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A letter of recommendation from an instructor familiar with your work and promise.
Please check the Spring 2011 schedule for days and times. Also see Mr. Zoby for advising before registering.
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