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HONORS COLLEGE
Nadia Yevstigneyeva, M.D., Assistant Director (727) 712-5247
Email: honorscollege@spcollege.edu
Fax: (727) 712-5834
http://www.spcollege.edu/honorscollege
Honors College Campus Advisors:
Danielle Kelly, CLW, (727) 791-2511
Jeff Schering, CLW
Sandra DeCarlo, SE, (727) 394-6130
Maria Drew, SPG, (727) 341-4772
Melissa Mari, TS, (727) 712-5764
Honors College Campus Advisors:
Jimmy Chang, CLW, (727) 791-2714
Tom Derzypolski, SPG, (727) 341-4698
The Honors College is a member of the State, Regional and National Collegiate Honors Councils. The Honors College is an intellectual learning community encompassing honor students, student honorary groups, honors courses, honors programs, interdisciplinary honors program, seminars, service-learning projects, independent study, graduation recognition events, honors scholarships and many other attributes and challenging activities. The Honors College provides a unique opportunity for greater intellectual depth and personal growth for our students. The Honors College provides experience for students searching for AA, AS, and Bachelor degrees at our college.
HONORS COLLEGE MISSION
The mission of The Honors College is to provide an exemplary education and build an intellectual community that encourages creativity, intellectual understanding, leadership qualities, and critical thinking skills for our most talented and motivated students. We achieve this by developing unique educational opportunities and activities to challenge and enhance academic depth and personal growth through:
- Excellent, highly developed, and enriched honors courses and programs, honors curricula, honors seminars and symposia.
- Outstanding faculty to teach Honors courses.
- Assistance with applying for scholarships.
- Transfer opportunities to selective, nationally renowned colleges and universities.
- An outstanding learning environment, facilities and special services.
- A variety of leadership and service-learning opportunities and varied cultural and social activities
HONORS COLLEGE
(College Rule 6Hx23-4.65) (2006)
For academically outstanding and motivated students, St. Petersburg College offers specially enriched honors courses. These specially enriched sections present a more varied and challenging curriculum by which selected students can satisfy some of the general education requirements and achieve and enhance maximum development of their academic ability and talent. Continuation in the Honors College is contingent on maintaining high academic, ethical and service-learning excellence.
- Admission for high school graduates to the Honors College is based on the following requirements:
be in the top ten percent (10%) of their high school graduating class OR have earned a high school cumulative grade point average of 3.5 or higher on a 4.00 scale OR
achieved a score of 1200 or higher on the SAT; OR
achieved a composite score of 26 or higher on the ACT; OR
achieved a score of no less than 100 on the English and Reading portions and 72 on the college Math portion of the College placement test; AND
have a satisfactory written essay on the special topic (for high school students, SPC current and transfer students).
Admission for the SPC current and transfer students to the Honors College is based on the following requirements:
have earned college cumulative grade point average of 3.5 or higher with at least 12 credits of college coursework; OR
be an active member of Phi Theta Kappa (for SPC current and transfer students); OR
present a recommendation for admission to the Honors Program from a counselor or an instructor who is familiar with their academic work (for SPC current and transfer students); AND
have a satisfactory written essay on the special topic (for high school students, SPC current and transfer students).
Admission of SPC collegiate high school students and early admission high school students to the Honors College is based on the following requirements:
have earned college cumulative grade point average of 3.5 or higher with at least 12 credits of college coursework; AND
present a recommendation for admission to the Honors Program from a counselor or an instructor who is familiar with their academic work; AND
have a satisfactory written essay on the special topic.
Continuation in the Honors College is based on the following requirements:
have earned a grade point average of 3.3 or greater in honors courses and be enrolled in 3 credit hours of honors courses for each semester;
have earned college cumulative grade point average of 3.25 or greater by the end of the academic year; AND
be involved in service-learning projects and/or in one extra-curricular activity each semester.
HONORS COLLEGE BENEFITS FOR STUDENTS
- Enrichment of college studies with specially designed courses and challenging curriculum
- Small classes (average class size is 15-18); class ratio 1:16
- Priority Registration: early and easy registration
- Honors College academic advising
- Faculty mentoring opportunities
- Opportunity to receive Honors College merit scholarships
- Research experience
- Service-Learning Projects
- Co-op experience
- Study Abroad Programs
- Variety of extra-curricular activities such as symposiums, seminars, field trips, etc.
- Student Ambassador Program
- Internship opportunities
- Designation of each honors course on the student’s transcript
- Ability to earn Honors Diploma, Honors Certificate, medallion and awards
- Acknowledgement during the graduation ceremony
- Special arrangements for transferring to universities and colleges, with opportunities for scholarships
- Preparation for the graduate school
TYPES OF HONOR COURSES TO BE OFFERED IN THE 2009-2010 ACADEMIC YEAR
- Honors courses - in-class and online
- Interdisciplinary studies program (IDS)
- Honors Freshman Cornerstone Seminar
- Honors Capstone Seminar
- Honors Service-Learning course
ENROLLMENT INTO HONORS
Students do not have to be accepted into the Honors College to enroll in honors courses or honors interdisciplinary studies program, but they must meet course criteria or have program director approval.
CURRENT HONOR COURSES OFFERED
° ENC 1121H Honors Composition I ° ENC 1122H Honors Composition II ° ENL 2012H Honors British Literature I (to 1800) ° HUM 2210H Honors Western Humanities I (Ancient through Renaissance) ° HUM 2233H Honors Western Humanities II (Baroque to the Present) ° HUM 2270H Honors Humanities (East-West Synthesis) ° IDH 2029H Honors College Cornerstone Seminar ° INR 2002H Honors International Relations ° LIT 2110H Honors World Literature I (Ancient through Renaissance) ° LIT 2120H Honors World Literature II (Renaissance to the Present) ° MAC 2311H Honors Calculus with Analytic Geometry I ° MGF 1108H Honors Mathematical Ideas and Explorations ° PHI 1010H Honors Introduction to Philosophy ° PHI 1602H Honors Studies in Applied Ethics ° PHY 2048H Honors Physics I ° PHY 1048LH Honors Physics Laboratory I ° POS 2050H Honors American Government ° PSY 1020H Honors General Psychology ° SPC 1017H Honors Introduction to Speech Communication ° SPC 1608H Honors Public Speaking ° SPN 1120H Honors Elementary Spanish I ° SPN 1121H Honors Elementary Spanish II ° STA 2023H Honors Elementary Statistics ° WOH 2040H Honors The Twentieth Century
HONORS INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES PROGRAM – CLEARWATER CAMPUS
IDS 1101H: ENC 1121H (Honors Composition I), HUM 2210H (Honors Western Humanities I), SPC 1017H (Honors Introduction to Speech Communication)
IDS 1102H: LIT 2120H (Honors World Literature II), HUM 2233H (Honors Western Humanities II) and AMH 2020H (Honors History of the United States from 1865)
IDS 2103H: POS 2050H (Honors American Government) and AMH 2010H (Honors History of the United States to 1865) OR
IDS 2106H: POS 2050H (Honors American Government), ECO 2013H (Honors Macroeconomics) and AMH 2010H (Honors History of the United States to 1865)
HONORS COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPS
There are several types of Trustees Honors College Scholarships designed for the various levels of achievement for students enrolled in the Honors College. Students must have applied for scholarships to be eligible. Qualification criteria for Honors College scholarships include students’ academic scores, involvement in extracurricular activities and/or service-learning project, and other academic achievements.
Visit the Honors College to learn more about course offerings, honors faculty, course syllabi, and honors news.