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American Studies at Lee College: An Award-Winning Interdisciplinary Honors Program
John C. Britt, Lee College
American Studies is a team-taught seminar in American history and literature. Recently the
course was recognized by Two-Year College Association of the National Council of Teachers of
English as an outstanding program. Two student-authored anthologies garnered Certificates of
Commendation from the National Association for State and Local History.
Jazzed for Psychology:Many Variations on a Theme in a Community College Honors
Program
Jonathan W. Grimes, Community College of Baltimore County
Morgan P. Slusher, Community College of Baltimore County
We are all constantly caught up in the currents of psychology, but how do we help honors
students enter this flow The Community College of Baltimore County presents a diversified
program to bring honors students into this stream from many directions with courses of varied
content, style, and social relevance.
"Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there:" Jazz Studies as a Vital Curricular
Component in Honors Programs"
Kristen Stauffer Todd, Oklahoma Baptist University
Karen DeMent Youmans, Oklahoma Baptist University
The inclusion of fine arts components in honors programs certainly allows students the
opportunity for in-depth exploration into ways humans have visually and audibly responded to
the world around them. This presentation examines the manner in which students enrolled in the
Honors Program at Oklahoma Baptist University are afforded opportunities for closer readings of
fine arts visual and aural iconography through special sections of core fine arts courses and with
colloquia in a wide variety of musical subjects.
Roundtable Discussions
Sponsored by Texas A & M University
Friday, October 22
3:30 PM – 4:40 PM
Muehlebach Tower Main Level, Salon 3
Gen, T&L
Honors, Sans Grades
Brenna Hall, Southern Utah University *
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