Honors College (HON)

The Honors Advisory Board is the student leadership organization of the Honors College where students develop valuable career skills and gain hands-on professional experience. This student-led group collaborates with the staff of the Honors College to host events for Honors students, manage Honors social media platforms, and create content that highlights the best that the Honors College has to offer. The Honors Advisory Board consists of three committees: Events, Marketing, and the Honors Herald. Each committee serves a separate function within the Honors Advisory board, and while students largely work within their own committees there are multiple opportunities for cross-committee collaboration. Students apply for specific positions within one of these committees and work to fulfill the responsibilities of their selected position. Appointments are for one year and all students who wish to return will need to reapply at the beginning of the following year. Each committee has four position tiers. This course is designed for the lowest level beginning leaders, as freshmen applicants are usually selected for entry-level Tier Four positions. Students can apply for higher tier leadership positions after a year of service in HAB. One of the principal goals of HON 100 is beginning leadership training, as upperclassmen and higher tier leaders train new HAB members in the skills they will need to one day assume ownership over HAB.

Students from all majors are part of the Pforzheimer Honors College, and therefore internships will be pursued in a wide range of fields. In order for a student to earn Honor credit for an internship, s/he must place the experiential learning into the context of the course of study and the Honors course completed if they are relevant to the internship by writing a paper of 8-10 pages submitted to the Dean of the Honors College.

The Honors Advisory Board is the student leadership organization of the Honors College where students develop valuable career skills and gain hands-on professional experience. This student-led group collaborates with the staff of the Honors College to host events for Honors students, manage Honors social media platforms, and create content that highlights the best that the Honors College has to offer. The Honors Advisory Board consists of three committees: Events, Marketing, and the Honors Herald. Each committee serves a separate function within the Honors Advisory board, and while students largely work within their own committees there are multiple opportunities for cross-committee collaboration. Students apply for specific positions within one of these committees and work to fulfill the responsibilities of their selected position. Appointments are for one year and all students who wish to return will need to reapply at the beginning of the following year. Each committee has four position tiers. This course is designed for Tier One and Tier Two leaders, as freshmen applicants are usually selected for entry-level Tier Four positions. Students can apply for higher tier leadership positions after a year of service in HAB. One of the principal goals of HON 499 is mentorship and leadership training, and upperclassmen and higher tier leaders train new HAB members in the skills they will need to one day assume ownership over HAB.

All Honors students must complete a senior Honors thesis/project in order to graduate from Honors. Those theses/projects are in the student's own subject area, and are supervised by faculty from all schools and colleges at Pace. The academic course/credits behind this work varies widely from discipline to discipline, with a wide variety of course numbers used. Students do not get transcript recognition as an Honors course for such work, even though they are doing it for Honors. This course provides transcript recognition for all Honors students' thesis completion (which was completed in their own varied fields under different headings).