Student Information
Becoming an Honors Student
The Cosumnes River Honors Program is designed specifically for academically accomplished students and for those students with the potential for high achievement. The program provides opportunities for intellectual growth, beyond those generally found in most undergraduate programs, through a series of special Honor Seminars. Designed to offer motivated students a chance to build for themselves an outstanding freshman and sophomore education, these special one-to three-unit classes have a limited enrollment. Prospective Honors Program students should possess the ability to think and work independently, to write clearly and purposefully, and to cooperate in the spirit of discovery and understanding.The Honors Seminars present advanced topics outside or beyond the general curriculum and are intended to challenge students with difficult work in a demanding environment. Wherever possible, these seminars make use of off-campus resources or activities that may enhance the seminar study.
Admission to the Honors Seminars and Program. The Honors Program encourages applications from all interested students and enrolls individuals into the program based on evidence of their potential to benefit from the Honors Seminars. We ask that students provide us with information that demonstrates their interest, motivation, preparation and potential for this form of study.
The One-Unit Seminars. These seminars of generally four to six weeks are intensive courses in which students confront and and attempt to resolve the questions that arise in a careful study of the movements, trends, controversies, and philosophies within the disciplines of the college. Students in the seminars are expected to research aspects of these issues and present their findings in papers for discussion. Field trips to attend cultural events or to do research are an integral part of the Honors Seminar experience. For current and upcoming seminars, see the One-Unit Seminars.
The Three-Unit Seminars. These courses are modeled on the new freshman/sophomore seminars at UC and Stanford. They provide the same opportunities for CRC students: experience in a small, rigorous seminar that challenges them to do bold, original, and creative thinking, confront recent theory and primary research, and express themselves in classroom exchanges and critical papers. These courses are also created to satisfy specific general education requirements at CRC, California State University campuses, and the University of California. For upcoming course information and general education applicability, please consult the Three-Unit Seminars page.