I took this class through John Brown University, during my senior year of high school. This counted as dual-enrollment credit, here at Longwood University.
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Community
One of the reasons I am most proud to call myself an honors student is because of the sense of community within the program. Longwood overall has a tightly knit community that goes out of its way to evoke a welcoming and inclusive community, I believe that Honors takes this a step further. In the short time I have been a member of the CHC family, I have built relationships with both students and faculty that are very valuable to me. Longwood makes it a point to train up citizen leaders that will take initiative and extend love and help to people in surrounding communities. The sense of true community and genuine interest in helping not only students but surrounding areas as well is what I value most about Longwood.
Honors EDUC 245
The second Honors course I took at Longwood was Human Growth and Development with Dr. Cosby. This class was focused on investigating how children advance from infancy through adolescence. I loved this class and how hands-on all of the activities were. Each time we met there was some sort of activity for the day. Dr. Cosby did a wonderful job at engaging all of the students and making sure that concepts were grasped before we moved on. Our grades were comprised of quizzes, tests, class activities, daily attendance, and four projects. While this class was heavy in course work, each and every activity was applicable to what we had been learning throughout the semester. One of our four projects was to design an inquiry-based study on any topic we wanted relating to child development. Below I have attached my Inquiry-Based Project.
The topic I chose to research for my Inquiry-Based Project was the effects that having a terminally ill sibling has on child development. Designing three research questions and conducting research through reading scholarly, peer-reviewed articles, I was able to determine both the positive and the negative effects this has on a child throughout their developmental years. After research, I used the theories and theorists of child development and applied and compared them to my findings. I enjoyed this project because Dr. Cosby gave us the freedom of choosing a topic that interested us. This project allowed me to reflect on all the material I had learned throughout the semester and apply it to a modern day, real life. situation. Having teaching be my future profession, I gained many valuable skills in how to work with children in this particular situation.
Author: Payten Bovat
Title: Inquiry Based Project: Developmental Effects of Having a Terminally Ill Sibling
Date: April 9, 2019
Honors CTZN 110
The first Honors course I took at Longwood was CTZN 110 with Dr. Dudley-Shotwell. This course was labeled Bodies and Citizens and it was largely related to women and gender studies. I did not particularly enjoy this course as it was contrary to many of my beliefs, but after the conclusion of the semester I felt well-educated on many topics that I had not previously been exposed to. The formatting of this class was unique and not what I expected of a college course. I very much enjoyed that each class time we met there was student lead discussion on the articles we had annotated for that week. Our grades in the class were taken from our weekly annotations and class discussions. I appreciate that participation was taken into account when grades were given. Our ability to analyze and effectively communicate the main concepts of articles played a key role in our course grade.
As a final project for the class we were prompted to design a course syllabus on a topic that interested us. We were able to use a topic that we had discussed in class or choose one of our own. Below I have attached my final project on illegal immigrants and their effects on the American healthcare system. I loved doing this project because it prompted me to do a lot of research and educate myself.
Author: Payten Bovat
Title: Illegal Immigrants in the Healthcare System
Date: December 2018
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