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Susan E. Dinan,Dean
Honors College
Faculty
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Craig Carson,Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Nicole Rudolph,Associate Dean of Student Engagement
Benjamin Serby,Visiting Asistant Professor
Philosophy Of The College
荣誉学院旨在培养积极向上的学生，通过为他们提供知识视角和关键技能，使他们在生活的各个层面行使负责任的领导能力，以面对21世纪。为了实现这一目标，我们设立了一个密集的课程和课外项目，要求学生以正直、热情和认真的态度看待自己和他们的工作。从荣誉学院毕业的学生应该准备好站在艺术、科学、政府和学术专业的最前沿，决心以道德和智力的严谨行事，并能够把握自己的行为在更大范围内和为更大范围内的意义。
一个有意挑衅的课程和课程设计引导学院的学生不仅发现局限，而且发现清晰思考的可能性，并将思想转化为行动，在我们日益复杂的世界。他们受到公民理想价值的教育，但又意识到难以抗拒的现实的约束，他们被引导去发现自己的智力力量和灵活性，加深的信心和责任，以及领导和创新的能力——在某些情况下，是激情——他们将需要迎接21世纪的艰巨挑战。荣誉学院的使命是传授给学生们在进入大学之前几乎无法瞥见的宽广的视野和强烈的抱负。
Such goals are not achieved easily. They require a detailed and concrete plan articulated over four years. This plan is outlined below.
The Honors Curriculum
Honors courses are designed to prepare students to speak and write effectively, to reason accurately, to recognize and express differences in quality between the genuine and the specious, as they must if they are to achieve their potential and become leaders in society.
Although Honors students complete all the requirements for their major field of study within that department or school, the Honors courses form a continuous supplemental thread running through the four years of study. Honors students typically have about half of their courses in the Honors College in the freshman year. In subsequent years most students take one Honors course each semester. Some students, however, elect to take additional courses, and they are welcome to take as many as they wish.
Honors Curriculum Sequence and General Education Requirements
The Honors College program begins in the freshman year with a purposefully designed Honors sequence that satisfies Adelphi’s General Education requirements. The Honors curriculum introduces students to the body of knowledge and multiple theories and approaches to knowledge, along with their historical roots, that have most affected our present, in the arts, social thought, science, and humanities. First-year classes include The Modern Condition and the Art and Craft of Writing.
At some point after the freshman year, all Honors students take a full-year sequence titled the Human Condition. These two courses, fulfilling the General Education requirement in Humanities, examine great works of world literature, philosophy, history, art, and music from ancient and classical periods to the present, offering Honors students the opportunity to study a number of lengthy works in their entirety. This course requires students to examine the kinds of narration, themes, ideas that have preoccupied humanity across the centuries and across the globe, in different voices, and as different expressions of humanity’s aspirations and achievements.
在大二或大三期间，所有的阿德尔菲学生也要学习科学课程，以满足普通教育的要求。这些课程的目的是让学生在科学的哲学基础上有一个全面的基础。荣誉学院还尽可能快地让科学专业的学生参与到活跃的实验室工作中，确保学生对他们的学术工作迅速而切实地做出重要的原创智力贡献。
Honors College Seminars
The Honors College offers students seminars in the social sciences and the liberal arts.
The Social Science seminars in the Conditions of Social and Political Life fulfill the General Education requirement in the Social Sciences. These courses attempt to unveil for the students the perspective of political and ethical responsibility and to enlarge their grasp of human action. The courses are intended to inspire students to develop their own visions of society and social change, to begin a lifelong dedication to active engagement with the fundamental issues of human society and with energetic approaches to the complexity of these issues. The courses prepare students to think ever more reasonably and powerfully about social and political institutions and about issues of ethics and leadership that arise in this context.
Honors students are required to take an additional Honors seminar in some area of the liberal arts. The seminar topics are chosen from a greater variety of fields than those in the social science seminar. Although the seminars are often focused on a topic studied in a single discipline, the atmosphere and point of view of the seminar is interdisciplinary, as students from a wide variety of major fields bring their individual interests and knowledge to bear on the discussion.
The Senior Thesis
所有荣誉学生都必须完成毕业论文，这是一个为期一年的项目，旨在展示智力上的精通，并鼓励正直和责任，只有复杂的项目才能引出。通常，毕业论文来源于学生在大二或大三从事的研究项目或在校内外的独立工作。有时学生们会开始做一些全新的事情。学生必须最迟在大四九月中旬之前就某个话题与导师达成一致意见。
Throughout the year, students are supervised not only by their departmental adviser but also by Dean Nicole Rudolph.
In the spring, when the student and adviser are satisfied that the thesis is ready for presentation, the thesis is given to readers before whom the thesis is defended. The defense is meant to be both an exploration of the student’s achievement and a further intellectual challenge.
Honors students find that graduate and professional programs respond very positively to the senior thesis. Along with the diverse and interdisciplinary Honors curriculum, admissions committees often express particular praise for the thesis project.
The Cocurricular Cultural Program
The second major component through which the philosophy of an honors education is realized is the extracurricular and cocurricular program.
One of the most important tenets of the Honors College is that the Honors education is much more than a set of courses. A rich program of cocurricular and extracurricular activities provides an essential complement to the Honors curriculum. In order to transform students into adults with the highest aspirations and the broadest understanding, the Honors program brings the students into direct contact with diverse, innovative cultural activities.
Because of Adelphi’s proximity to Manhattan, the Honors College can offer an unparalleled series of events and activities in which the students confront the leading figures in cultural and intellectual life. Several times a semester, groups of students attend events off campus in Manhattan and the greater New York area.
The Earle Hall Facility
The third major component of the Honors College program is the building itself in which the College is housed.
Student residential rooms, classrooms, administrative offices, and student facilities are all located within one building. Students may access the space, with the exception of private offices, whenever they like by using their ID cards for entry. This comprehensive facility makes possible in a unique way the coherence and intensity required to achieve the rigorous aims of an honors education.
Although the students are not presented with an education that is meant to exist in isolation from society and the greater world, they nevertheless need to learn that the intellectual world is also real. The concentration of students and faculty in the Honors College creates an environment in which the life of the mind is the usual and expected order of business rather than the exception. Conversations and ideas flow from classroom to classroom and from classroom to residence rather than simply evaporating at the end of a period. The administrative offices draw students in for frequent conversation making contact with faculty a habit rather than an occasional formality. Public spaces provided with scholarly publications encourage the students to read and discuss serious issues between classes.