C.W. Post Honors Program Challenges Students
to Make the World Their Classroom
Honors classes will take students to Africa, France
and Korea
Imagine studying the cathedrals of France-and then visiting
them in person. Or taking a course on the sustainable environment
of Africa-and then going on safari. Beginning in fall 2000, honors
students at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University in
Brookville, N.Y., will have those opportunities, as the Honors
Program enters a dynamic new phase in its 37-year history.
"The Honors Program has always challenged students to
strive higher and take
a leadership role in their own educations," says Joan Digby,
Ph.D., the program's director and president of the National Collegiate
Honors Council. "We are now building on that tradition.
Most of the students who come here have lived their entire lives
on Long Island and have very little experience with people and
places outside of the immediate New York region. There are many
educational opportunities out there in the country at large and
overseas. The Honors Program will bring those opportunities to
our students."
In the fall 2000, art professor Jacqueline Frank will teach
a course called Cathedrals in the Ile de France. She and her
students will study the art and architecture of these edifices,
as well as the social contexts of their evolutions. At the end
of the semester they will travel to Paris and several other major
French cities to visit the cathedrals they studied in class.
They will stay in French university centers.
In the spring 2001 semester, environmental science Professor
E. Mark Pires will
teach Culture, Environment and Development in Africa. Prof. Pires
worked for the Peace Corps in West Africa and spent time in Kenya.
The course will culminate in a trip to Africa that May.
Other study trips are in the works. Digby says she hopes to
put together an honors semester at Keimyung University in Taegu,
Korea, an institution with which Long Island University has a
long-standing exchange program. The six-month program would be
open to honors students from all NCHC-member institutions. There
are also plans to increase the number of international students
and returning adult students in Honors, and to have C.W. Post
research faculty share their work with Honors students.
For more information about the C.W. Post Honors Program, contact
Joan Digby at (516) 299-2840 or jdigby@liu.edu.
