Honors Courses
Within this site I have included a highlight from each honors course I have taken. Use the drop-down menu above to navigate through my experience with these honors courses, or follow any of the links below.
Longwood Seminar – included opportunity for bonding with Honors family through a service trip
American Literature – focused on plays, novels, and poems about Virginia and/or written by Virginian authors; included field trips
Human Growth and Development – interactive, discussion based class through which teacher candidates learned by teaching the class
Intro to the Teaching Profession – small class (7 students) and One-Week Practicum embedded
Modern Western Civilizations – lectures based on primary documents rather than a typical textbook
The Appreciation of Music – focused on music in politics as well as politics in music due to the fact that Longwood University hosted the United States’ only Vice Presidential Debate during the semester the class was offered
Introduction to Ethics – learned and applied philosophical schools of thought to our own and others’ codes of ethics
Children’s Literature – learned how to write for scholarly journals and submitted research to international journal Bookbird
Conflict in Virginia Places and Past – traveled to northern neck plantation homes, Monument Avenue, Robert Russa Moton Museum, Jamestowne, etc. to study how monuments, museums, etc. perpetuate history and impact public memory as well as public emotions and relationships among groups of people in Virginia and elsewhere
Survey of Exceptional Children – focused on special education procedures and strategies to help students overcome challenges they may face in their endeavors to learn in the classroom
