HONORS PROGRAM
The Baruch College Honors Program is designed to immerse students in a challenging and stimulating intellectual environment during their undergraduate years. It emphasizes academic and cultural enrichment, as well as a strong sense of community and social responsibility.
The classroom experience stresses excellent teaching, academic rigor, and active learning. There is a stress upon primary source reading and upon assignments that develop communication and critical thinking abilities.
Outside the classroom, students are introduced to a rich array of cultural programming that is supported by the college. This includes artists, writers-in-residence, visiting performers, Baruch's Mishkin Gallery, and a broad range of lecture and panel presentations. In conjunction with some courses, students are exposed to the cultural and scientific resources of the city at large.
The Honors Program requires students to engage in community service, either at the college or in the outside community. Via service, students develop leadership skills and an awareness of the essential relationship between privilege and responsibility.
Students in the Honors Program are encouraged to think about life beyond Baruch via internships, networking with alumni, and pre-professional and graduate school workshops.
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BBA majors
- BUS 1000H*
- BPL 5100H
- 8 additional honors courses OR
- 6 additional honors courses plus honors thesis
*Students who entered the Honors Program after taking BUS 1000 are exempt from having to take BUS 1000H. However, they must replace BUS 1000H with another honors course.
BA and BS majors
- IDC 4050H
- 9 additional honors courses OR
- 7 additional honors courses plus honors thesis
Transfer students
Students who transferred to Baruch with more than 48 earned credits will only be required to complete eight honors classes. All other honors program requirements apply to these students.
Service to the community is considered to be an important component of a Scholar's responsibility to society. Scholars who are admitted to the Honors Program as entering freshmen must complete eight hours of community service in their freshman year and fifteen hours for each full year of enrollment thereafter. Those who are admitted to the program as continuing students must complete fifteen hours of service for each full year of enrollment in the Honors Program. Community service may be fulfilled either through a number of college-sponsored activities [Golden Key and Phi Eta Sigma Honor Societies, for example], or through outside agencies, such as New York Cares and the American Cancer Society. The Honors Office posts a number of service opportunities on its Blackboard site.
Cultural opportunities abound on the Baruch campus. Each year, Scholars are required to attend at least one cultural event per semester that is sanctioned or sponsored by the Baruch College Honors Program, or, in the case of University Scholars, the Macaulay Honors College. Because of the many co-curricular activities associated with the Honors College seminars, University Scholars are exempt from the Honors Program cultural requirement during their first two years at Baruch.
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Honors opportunities for students who need not be enrolled in the Baruch College Honors Program
The Baruch College Honors Program offers a number of honors courses each semester. Enrollment in some of them [BUS 1000H, BPL 5100H is restricted to students in the Honors Program and, in the case of the Honors College seminars [IDC 1001H, 3001H, 3002H, and 4001H], they are restricted to University Scholars.
Most honors courses are special sections of base curriculum classes that are otherwise offered without honors [for example PSY 1001H, ENG 2850H, ACC 2101H, and MGT 3120H. In order to enroll in an honors class at the 1000 or 2000 level, a student must have a cumulative GPA of at least 3.3.
In the case of honors classes at the 3000 level or higher, the requisite GPA is 3.4. If you are not in the Honors Program and need assistance enrolling in an honors class, please see Dr. Susan Locke, Director of the Honors Program.
Two honors courses, the Feit Seminars in the Humanities [see Professor Berggren in the English Department] and the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence seminars [see Professor Roslyn Bernstein in the English Department] require special permission to enroll.
For more information:
Feit Seminar: http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/wsas/special/archive.html
Harman Seminar: http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/wsas/harman/index.html
A full list of honors courses appears in the Schedule of Classes each semester.
The honors thesis is a two semester project, completed under the supervision of a faculty mentor. Students who successfully complete their theses are eligible to graduate with honors in the discipline in which the thesis is written.
Completion of an honors thesis is highly recommended for BA majors and for all students who are considering pursuing a doctoral degree.
Permission to write a thesis must be secured from the students chosen mentor, from the department chairperson, and from the Director of the Baruch College Honors Program, Dr. Susan Locke. The thesis application and a prospectus should be submitted by the end of the semester preceding the one in which the thesis will be undertaken.
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