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Show Honors Stir Student Challenge portunity for small number of students to gather with a professor profes-sor for weekly interdepartmental seminars. Honor students must also receive re-ceive at least a B grade in Honors classes to be able to count them as successfully com- , pleted. DR. J. D. WILLIAMS, Professor Profes-sor of Political Science, stated that a month ago, he would have stressed the familiar, traditional virtues of the Honors Program in eulogizing it; course enrichment, enrich-ment, the stimulus for scholarship, scholar-ship, interdisciplinary studies and the "greased" entry into Editor's note: This is the fourth in a series of articles on the Honors Program. One often hears the complaint that either a class is too difficult diffi-cult or else it is too easy, notes Honors student Michael Ownby. INSTRUCTORS are often faced with the problem of preparing pre-paring their lectures for the lowest low-est common denominator of student stu-dent ability, with the result that students who might otherwise be prepared to do more advanced ad-vanced work are left to coast through an entire quarter without with-out sufficient challenge. One solution to this ever-present problem is the University's Honors Program. HONORS SECTIONS are set up with professors who usually welcome the chance to work with better prepared students, since they can use more advanced ad-vanced texts and delve deeper into subjects. As Honors classes are usually smaller, they improve the teacher-student ratio. Also members mem-bers of Honors classes rise to the challenge of being placed in competition with other Honors students. ANOTHER valuable aspect of the Honors Program is the op- graduate school which it provides. pro-vides. "But in the wake of the University Uni-versity of California riots and the increasing use on our campus of teaching by television, notes Dr. Williams, one virtue of the Honors Program now looms above all the rest: Personal identity for the Honors student in a day of gross student alienation." aliena-tion." AS DR. WILLIAMS comments, 'Tall quarter found me teaching 430 students via closed circuit television. Today I know perhaps per-haps four or five of those students. stu-dents. Few if any of the 430 ever heard their name called in class. This quarter another 375 are in the same impersonal learning situation. "WHAT A contrast to sitting around a seminar table with my ten Honors students this quarter quar-ter where I can challenge them, be challenged by them, and enjoy en-joy that most prized luxury the college professor can ever have to know his students." "Students of the University unite and join the Honors Program Pro-gram you have nothing to lose but your anonymity!" |