| SECOND YEAR EXPERIENCE in HONORS
Our
goal is to help sophomores build on a positive first-year
experience in the Honors Program at Manoa.
The second-year
curriculum centers on two courses, designed to continue the
emphases in the First-Year Honors Experience
of inquiry-based learning, active learning, and students exploring
ideas and learning information through the process of research:
Advising for second-year
students parallels curriculum for them. This special advising
helps students make intelligent
choices about their academic careers
as they continue to explore options and discover opportunities during their
pivotal
second year. The advising also helps students link their academic goals with
personal and career goals, explore their academic major either to reaffirm
its value or discovery a new direction, take advantage
of campus resources, and continue
progress into the junior year and toward graduation.
Honors envisions this process
as a lively, collaborative association between advisor and
advisee in which both parties play an active role in constructing
a productive dialogue. Advising, then, becomes an “Advising Conversation” in
which the advisor challenges and supports the advisee, who is prompted to be
reflective about goals in a way that promotes engagement with and responsibility
for his or her education. This on-going Advising Conversation provides a format
in which students become comfortable and articulate talking about their various
goals with professionals. The Advising Conversation thus becomes a rehearsal
for discussions with an undergraduate major advisor and for establishing a
productive relationship with faculty mentors. |
