Honors Credit Contract

• Student and Course Information

• Student's Name
• Banner ID - Student ID Number (800#)
  Must be 9 digits.   Currently Entered: 0 digits.
• Campus or Local Address
• Email
• Telephone

  Telephone - ### - ### ####
• Semester of Contracted Course
• Course Number and Title
• Instructor
• Instructor's Email

• Detailed Statement Of Method(s) Of Assessment That Will Be Used:

• Clearly define your topic and nature of the student's study. Give a detailed description of the study/project including approximate hours to be worked weekly, and the nature of the finished project. What will the student be doing that is substantially different from the “regular work” in the course?
• What does the student hope to accomplish? What are the student's objectives?
• How will the student conduct your research (surveys, lab experiments, library research, readings, etc.)?
• If the research method listed above included library research and/or readings, please include a bibliography. This does not have to be a complete/final bibliography.
• How will work be presented for grading? Examples of acceptable methods are: presentation of findings to a class, authored article, paper, exhibit, etc.
• Discuss how the assessment outcomes will be met:

• Honors Student Learning Outcomes:

  The goal of this assessment plan is to further embed regular assessment of student learning in all honors courses and work towards closing the loop in each of these areas. These Honors Program Learning Outcomes have been aligned with the Liberal Arts and Sciences Program Learning Outcomes to ensure consistency across the disciplines. Grading rubrics have been developed for each area and will be used to assess Honors courses each year with the aligned Liberal Arts and Sciences program learning outcomes.
  Professional Communication:
  Objective: Students will apply appropriate oral and written communication skills across settings, purposes, and audiences in an effort to build and maintain healthy and effective relationships.
  
  Basic Knowledge of Subject Field, Intellectual Rigor:
  Objective: Students will be challenged to think, perform, and grow to a level/standard provided by their individual field of student. Students will demonstrate basic knowledge and relevance of their field of study.
  
  Research/ Critical Thinking:
  Objectives: Students will use theoretical (or experimental) discovery to acquire new knowledge about a subject. Students will identify, analyze, and evaluate multiple arguments as they occur in the literature of the discipline and develop well-reasoned, evidence-based arguments. Students will use a variety of resources such as primary sources such as scholarly journal, books, and other sources from their discipline to inform their interpretation and hypothesis.

• Professional Communication:
  Students will be able to communicate effectively through a variety of methods (e.g. oral, written).
  
  Program Learning Outcomes:
  ● Students will present an easily identifiable, focused, original, and thought-provoking controlling purpose or thesis.
  ◦ Measurement example: Debates, presentations, essays
  
  ● Students will present and thoroughly discuss relevant information and/or images as support for the controlling purpose or thesis.
  ◦ Measurement example: Debates, presentations, essays
  
  ● Students will use language that is vivid, clear, appropriate, and grammatically correct; that displays syntactic sophistication; and that conforms to the conventions of professional communication within the field.
  ◦ Measurement example: Debates, presentations, essays, discussion forum posts
• Basic Knowledge of Subject Field, Intellectual Rigor:
  Students will be challenged to think, perform, and grow to a level/standard provided by their individual field of study. Students will demonstrate basic knowledge and relevance of their field of study.
  
  Program Learning Outcomes:
  ● Students will analyze, synthesize, integrate, and evaluate discipline-specific content utilizing knowledge and research.
  ◦ Measurement Examples: case studies, project based presentations, examinations
  
  ● Students will integrate and evaluate information through independent problem solving, critique of processes or arguments.
  ◦ Measurements Examples: case studies, project based presentations, examinations
• Research/ Critical Thinking:
  Students will investigate and study a variety of source material to acquire knowledge and draw conclusions. Students will identify, analyze, and evaluate multiple arguments as they occur in the literature of the discipline and develop well-reasoned, evidence-based arguments.
  
  Program Learning Outcomes:
  ● Students will formulate research questions, scholarly or creative problems with integration of fundamental principles and knowledge in a manner appropriate to the discipline.
  ◦ Measurement Examples: Research paper, presentation, lab report, process paper.
  
  ● Students will identify relevant and contrasting arguments in literature of the discipline.
  ◦ Measurement Example: Essay, exam discussion forum, process paper.
  
  ● Students will gather, select, and organize credible evidence in developing an argument and/or supporting a conclusion.
  ◦ Measurement Example: Essay, annotated bibliography, lab report, process paper.

• DUTIES AND OBLIGATIONS TO BE MET BY THE STUDENT:

  Please include a detailed timeline of the project. This should be a list of assignments, meetings with faculty, etc. Please include deadlines.

• Week 1 Activities
• Week 2 Activities
• Week 3 Activities
• Week 4 Activities
• Week 5 Activities
• Week 6 Activities
• Week 7 Activities
• Week 8 Activities
• Week 9 Activities
• Week 10 Activities
• Week 11 Activities
• Week 12 Activities
• Week 13 Activities
• Week 14 Activities
• Week 15 Activities
• • I will meet the terms of the contract as described above.
  • I am a student in good academic standing with a Cumulative GPA of 3.3 or above.
  • I have completed at least one semester’s work in a degree program at SUNY Delhi & the Honors Program.
  (We strongly suggest the completion of at least 2 semesters of academic work before.)
  • I am not taking more than three hours of independent study work this semester.
  • I will meet the terms of the contract as described above.
  • I am a student in good academic standing with a Cumulative GPA of 3.3 or above.
  • I have completed at least one semester’s work in a degree program at SUNY Delhi & the Honors Program.
  (We strongly suggest the completion of at least 2 semesters of academic work before.)
  • I am not taking more than three hours of independent study work this semester.

  I certify that the above statements are all true.